Channel 4 News YouTube Stats

@channel4news · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Channel 4 News channel overview

Channel 4 News (@channel4news) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 4.3M subscribers and 2.5B total views across 27K videos, an average of 93K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 50K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 93K views. Over the last 12 months, Channel 4 News published 264 videos (64% Shorts), and 26 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Channel 4 News gained 10K subscribers and 23M views, about 1.4M views a day.

How much does Channel 4 News make?

Returbe estimates Channel 4 News's YouTube ad revenue at $45K – $182K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.2 to $4.78, typically $2.39, 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 $2.4K.

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

Channel 4 News publishes about 286.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (24% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Channel 4 News's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Channel 4 News's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Elon Musk unveils new Tesla ‘flying car’3M views · Oct 16, 202691.9× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed and Ilhan Omar face Islamophobia ahead of midterms329K views · Oct 23, 202610.2× typical views
• Footballer dies after on-field collision265K views · Nov 3, 20268.2× typical views
• London's Oxford Street becomes pedestrianised #OxfordStreet #Pedestrian #Shopping #London233K views · Oct 26, 20267.2× typical views
• Water boss asked why profits shouldn't pay for £3.6 billion Lake Windermere sewage plan227K views · Oct 22, 20267× typical views
• Plane crash kills nine in Florida227K views · Nov 2, 20267× typical views
• 'Well known' man loses injunction case227K views · Nov 3, 20267× typical views
• Fire devastates Adolf Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat #AdolfHitler #EaglesNest #Germany #Tourism226K views · Oct 24, 20267× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Hegseth claims Iran war "courageous and historic"4.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Rescue teams recover more bodies in Ukrainian village - one week after Russia strikes730 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Seven arrested and police van set on fire in Bonfire Night violence across Scotland3K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Met Police chief backs plans plans to create police ‘super forces’2.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Global tech stocks plunge after US midterms amid AI slowdown fears2.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 'Mortgage rates are crippling' - how interest rates rises are impacting homeowners320 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Flight threats are 'hybrid aggression', warns Spain's Foreign Minister4.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• How SEX WORK became ASPIRATIONAL - investigative journalist Patricia Nilsson623 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Huntingdon train stabbing: timeline of mass attack2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 'We know what's behind the 4% interest rate rise' - Bank of England Governor3.8K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 811 channels in this niche. 17.6% 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.

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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 Channel 4 News or YouTube.