CBC News YouTube Stats

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

CBC News channel overview

CBC News (@cbcnews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2014. It has 4.8M subscribers and 3.4B total views across 49K videos, an average of 69K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 29K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 25K views. Over the last 12 months, CBC News published 354 videos (33% Shorts), and 61 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, CBC News gained 0 subscribers and 39M views, about 2.3M views a day.

How much does CBC News make?

Returbe estimates CBC News's YouTube ad revenue at $91K – $363K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.4 to $5.6, typically $2.8, 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 $2.8K.

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

CBC News publishes about 376.9 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (27% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

CBC News's best outlier videos

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

• A reasonable person's guide to how AI destroys humanity | About That2.2M views · Sep 15, 202674.4× typical views
• Florida crash: How did this private jet fall out of the sky? | About That2.2M views · Nov 3, 202672.7× typical views
• PHP flaw: How AI just hacked an unhackable part of the internet | About That1.1M views · Oct 23, 202636× typical views
• Midterms ‘bluenami’: The exact moment Trump lost control of Congress | About That835K views · Nov 5, 202628.2× typical views
• Did human error cause Spain's deadly high-speed train crash? | About That821K views · Oct 30, 202627.7× typical views
• What does Alberta’s independence referendum result mean? | About That862K views · Oct 20, 202614.7× typical views
• Exposing global bank scammers stealing your money | Marketplace405K views · Oct 23, 202613.7× typical views
• Inside Anthropic’s trillion-dollar IPO gamble | About That360K views · Oct 29, 202612.2× typical views

Latest videos

4 of CBC News's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why this Texas mayor is all in on data centres1.2K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Breaking down the federal budget | The Current443 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles out after midterm defeat5.3K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• AI stocks slowly recover after plunging day after U.S. midterm election267 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Meghan Markle's father arrested for possession of child pornography1.6K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Undercover: Testing restaurant accessibility | Marketplace1 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Going undercover to test restaurant accessibility: Marketplace3.2K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• He left his gang for God. It cost him his finger.4.8K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Carney's big federal budget bets | Front Burner6.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Poilievre answers questions at news conference in Brampton3.7K views · Nov 6, 20260× 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×).

Channels similar to CBC News

• Global News4.9M subscribers · 25K typical views
• TODAY5.1M subscribers · 9.6K typical views
• NowThis Impact5.3M subscribers · 24K typical views
• Brian Tyler Cohen5.3M subscribers · 498K typical views
• 60 Minutes4.2M subscribers · 109K typical views
• PBS NewsHour5.4M subscribers · 35K typical views
• Megyn Kelly4.2M subscribers · 100K typical views
• More Perfect Union4.2M subscribers · 1.2M typical views
• Good Morning America5.5M subscribers · 10K typical views
• Guardian News4.1M subscribers · 28K typical views
• LiveNOW from FOX5.6M subscribers · 103K typical views
• Tucker Carlson5.8M subscribers · 685K typical views

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 CBC News or YouTube.