BBC World Service YouTube Stats

@bbcworldservice · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

BBC World Service channel overview

BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2019. It has 2.3M subscribers and 401M total views across 3.3K videos, an average of 123K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 38K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 23K views. Over the last 12 months, BBC World Service published 94 videos (36% Shorts), and 21 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, BBC World Service gained 10K subscribers and 9.1M views, about 698K views a day.

How much does BBC World Service make?

Returbe estimates BBC World Service's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $93K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.12 to $4.48, typically $2.24, 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 $2.2K.

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 World Service publishes about 95.6 videos a month. Based on its last 94 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (21% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

BBC World Service's best outlier videos

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

• Finding Nazi photos of Auschwitz - BBC World Service #shorts1.7M views · Oct 13, 2026188× typical views
• Unveiling the face of Crazy Horse - BBC World Service #shorts1.1M views · Oct 26, 2026123× typical views
• Shadowmen: Russian operatives who say they're sabotaging Putin’s war – BBC World Service Docs633K views · Oct 18, 202627× typical views
• How grey water is saving one of Brazil's driest regions - BBC World Service #shorts203K views · Nov 2, 202622.4× typical views
• 'I sing in Quechua as a form of resistance' - BBC World Service #shorts191K views · Nov 1, 202621.1× typical views
• Pakistan: Politics, petrol prices and free speech - World Questions podcast, BBC World Service424K views · Oct 18, 202618.1× typical views
• What airport security staff actually see - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service378K views · Oct 15, 202616.1× typical views
• Are human interpreters still necessary? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service372K views · Oct 23, 202615.9× typical views

Latest videos

8 of BBC World Service's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Democrats win big in midterms - The President’s Path podcast, BBC World Service6.8K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• Should politicians be paid more? - BBC World Service #shorts940 views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Are elective limb-lengthening surgeries safe? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service16K views · Nov 7, 20260.7× typical views
• The downfall of Russell Brand - BBC World Service3.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Why are Afghans caught in a cycle of migration? - The Global Jigsaw podcast, BBC World Service12K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Rising seas, extreme weather: Can Bangkok adapt? - BBC World Service #shorts6.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Is ‘ferritin face’ a real thing? - BBC World Service3.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Is 'ferritin face' a real thing? - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service23K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• Can AI help solve hikikomori isolation? - BBC World Service #shorts4.6K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Midterm elections: How the Democrats beat President Trump’s Republicans - BBC World Service5.4K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 61K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.4×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×).

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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 World Service or YouTube.