BBC Politics YouTube Stats

@bbcpolitics · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

BBC Politics channel overview

BBC Politics (@bbcpolitics) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 903K subscribers and 414M total views across 4.5K videos, an average of 92K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 27K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 40K views. Over the last 12 months, BBC Politics published 118 videos (44% Shorts), and 11 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, BBC Politics gained 3K subscribers and 4.8M views, about 303K views a day.

How much does BBC Politics make?

Returbe estimates BBC Politics's YouTube ad revenue at $14K – $55K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.47 to $5.88, typically $2.94, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $2.9K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

BBC Politics publishes about 128.2 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (28% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

BBC Politics's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are BBC Politics's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Slavoj Žižek: "Only when you are really desperate, you act"637K views · Oct 22, 202616.1× typical views
• Why didn't the Budget deal with the benefits bill? #BBCQT #BBCNews211K views · Oct 30, 202611.4× typical views
• Nigel Farage asked about comments describing Kemi Badenoch as "a Nigerian scammer". #BBCNews109K views · Oct 27, 20265.9× typical views
• "I'm warning you, things are fracturing and they're turning nasty"95K views · Oct 20, 20265.2× typical views
• New Trump-Zelensky clash could "trigger" the US President and what does it mean for Musk?178K views · Oct 15, 20264.5× typical views
• Christiane Amanpour and Alastair Campbell debate Trump envoy calling Putin a "humanitarian"177K views · Oct 22, 20264.5× typical views
• ‘You’ll find unsavoury things said by all parties’ - Nigel Farage74K views · Oct 15, 20264× typical views
• We need an "honest discussion" about Brexit, Andy Burnham says. #Brexit #BBCNews65K views · Oct 26, 20263.5× typical views

Latest videos

7 of BBC Politics's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• "I have never seen Donald Trump look so alone - I almost felt sorry for him"1.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Naomi Klein on 'End Times Fascism' and why wealth is "deranging for our elites"1.4K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Businesses should publish salaries in job adverts now, PM Andy Burnham says. #BBCNews4K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Should the UK government pay reparations for slavery? #BBCQT #BBCNews5.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• 'When will the government stop the narrative about immigrants?' #BBCQT #BBCNews4K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• PM Andy Burnham says Russell Brand's crimes were 'horrific' as he pays tribute to victims. #BBCNews5.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says policing system needs to change to cope with modern criminals.3.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Conservative MP Nick Timothy defends his Muslim prayer event comments | BBC Political Thinking15K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Do the US midterms mean the end of 'Trumpism'? | BBC Question Time76K views · Nov 5, 20261.9× typical views
• "He won't blame himself" | Marjorie Taylor Greene criticises Trump after Republican midterm losses25K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 822 channels in this niche. 18% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with BBC Politics or YouTube.