CBS News YouTube Stats

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

CBS News channel overview

CBS News (@cbsnews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 7.1M subscribers and 6.9B total views across 157K videos, an average of 44K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 16K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 24K views. Over the last 12 months, CBS News published 446 videos (4% Shorts), and 95 of them (21%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, CBS News gained 10K subscribers and 51M views, about 2.5M views a day.

How much does CBS News make?

Returbe estimates CBS News's YouTube ad revenue at $180K – $720K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.95 to $7.81, typically $3.9, 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 $3.9K.

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

CBS News publishes about 470.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (32% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

CBS News's best outlier videos

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

• Man dies after jumping into tiger's enclosure3.3M views · Oct 12, 2026138.5× typical views
• What comes next as Democrats win House, Senate1.3M views · Nov 5, 202652.1× typical views
• New "48 Hours" true-crime investigations | Full Episodes992K views · Dec 20, 202541.3× typical views
• Esports: Inside the relentless training of professional gaming stars1.6M views · Dec 24, 201837.6× typical views
• Israel faces historic election as crowds gather in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu888K views · Oct 26, 202637× typical views
• Doctor on Christina Applegate's MS misdiagnosis850K views · Oct 20, 202635.4× typical views
• Jackson pulls ahead of Collins in Senate race, new Maine poll shows786K views · Oct 27, 202632.7× typical views
• True-crime stories about couples and broken trust | “48 Hours" Full Episodes801K views · Oct 24, 202532.4× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Iowa post office shooting suspect identified as 39 year old USPS employee #shorts4.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Watch: Protesters build fake arch in protest over Trump’s planned D C monument #shorts2.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Parts of Georgia and Tennessee underwater amid torrential rain #shorts1.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Watch: Dangerous flooding hits Georgia, Tennessee7.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Political twists and turns of the 2026 midterms6.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Pete Hegseth doubles down on Iran war in new video despite election losses55K views · Nov 6, 20262.3× typical views
• The new voice of Boston Logan Airport on winning contest: "I am so honored"6.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Trump lawyers try to appeal convictions in his Stormy Daniels "hush money" case38K views · Nov 6, 20261.6× typical views
• 2 women go farthest in Navy SEAL training than ever before17K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Markets fall after post-midterms surge, Trump says he's not firing Hegseth, more | The Takeout24K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 810 channels in this niche. 17.3% 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: M6 Info (315K subs, best video 67.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.6×), ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 49.1×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 97.8×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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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 CBS News or YouTube.