Ben Shapiro YouTube Stats

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

Ben Shapiro channel overview

Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2016. It has 7M subscribers and 4.9B total views across 11K videos, an average of 438K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 126K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 180K views. Over the last 12 months, Ben Shapiro published 120 videos (52% Shorts), and 5 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, Ben Shapiro lost 10K subscribers and 13M views, about 1.1M views a day.

How much does Ben Shapiro make?

Returbe estimates Ben Shapiro's YouTube ad revenue at $53K – $213K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.47 to $5.89, typically $2.95, 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 $3K.

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

Ben Shapiro publishes about 130.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (22% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Ben Shapiro's best outlier videos

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

• So, What the Hell Happened Last Night?719K views · Nov 4, 20264× typical views
• Someone has to do it 🙂‍↕️232K views · Oct 29, 20263.3× typical views
• Netflix Is Collapsing. Here's Why.596K views · Oct 20, 20263.3× typical views
• This Red Baron Worker Got Harassed on Camera. Then America Showed Up.566K views · Oct 30, 20263.2× typical views
• The Ilhan Omar Case Just Got More Damning. Here's the Update.539K views · Oct 22, 20263× typical views
• I'm all for this202K views · Oct 27, 20262.9× typical views
• Can't say I'm the most optimistic...178K views · Nov 4, 20262.6× typical views
• This One Clip Explains Why France Is Burning456K views · Oct 20, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The celebrity gloating has begun895 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Why the Market Crashed Days After the Election15K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Communism is in style, apparently3.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Reopen the mental institutions 💀9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• They're going to take it too far 😑79K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• Talarico's Real Agenda Begins251K views · Nov 5, 20261.4× typical views
• What actually cost Republicans the election41K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Is this a trend or just selective mating?25K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Not exactly what we were hoping for #kalshipartner59K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Here's What the GOP Must Do Next.275K views · Nov 4, 20261.5× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 821 channels in this niche. 18.1% 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 Ben Shapiro or YouTube.