The Bulwark YouTube Stats

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

The Bulwark channel overview

The Bulwark (@bulwarkmedia) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2018. It has 1.8M subscribers and 1.3B total views across 15K videos, an average of 89K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 114K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 312K views. Over the last 12 months, The Bulwark published 288 videos (70% Shorts), and 69 of them (24%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Bulwark gained 30K subscribers and 42M views, about 2.5M views a day.

How much does The Bulwark make?

Returbe estimates The Bulwark's YouTube ad revenue at $135K – $540K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.23 to $4.9, typically $2.45, 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 $2.5K.

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

The Bulwark publishes about 312.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (21% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Bulwark's best outlier videos

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

• This has never happened before378K views · Nov 3, 202635.6× typical views
• Sarah Matthews reacts to Karoline Leavitt blaming the media for the GOP’s devastating midterm losses306K views · Nov 4, 202628.8× typical views
• Fox News hosts spiral after MAGA's election defeat304K views · Nov 5, 202628.7× typical views
• Sarah Longwell: "Goodbye, Greg Abbott…We love when bad things happen to bad people."256K views · Nov 4, 202624.2× typical views
• Senator Ron Johnson is not taking the election results well237K views · Nov 5, 202622.4× typical views
• Shame on Haley Stevens219K views · Oct 29, 202620.6× typical views
• Former Susan Collins voters aren't angry. They're disappointed.208K views · Oct 24, 202619.6× typical views
• JD Vance is making sh*t up187K views · Oct 30, 202617.7× typical views

Latest videos

18 of The Bulwark's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Michael Steele's message to Republicans577 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Trump names Stephen Miller as new White House chief of staff4.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Michael Steele: A Total and Complete Schlonging | Bulwark Daily23K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Even Clavicular Hates JD Vance7.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• New Dem Congressman: MAGA Voters Share Our Values5K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Laura Loomer Is Crashing Out104K views · Nov 6, 20269.8× typical views
• Elon Musk Loses $80 Billion as Tesla Pulls the Plug on the Cybertruck | Receipts Live149K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• The Trio: Laura Loomer Is Not Taking This Election Well348K views · Nov 6, 20261.1× typical views
• Swing state Dems put up insane numbers34K views · Nov 6, 20263.2× typical views
• Republicans lost from sea to shining sea23K views · Nov 6, 20262.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 The Bulwark or YouTube.