CityNews YouTube Stats

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

CityNews channel overview

CityNews (@citynews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2011. It has 603K subscribers and 767M total views across 96K videos, an average of 8K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 480 views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.7K views. Over the last 12 months, CityNews published 617 videos (5% Shorts), and 87 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, CityNews gained 1K subscribers and 9.8M views, about 615K views a day.

How much does CityNews make?

Returbe estimates CityNews's YouTube ad revenue at $30K – $119K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.71 to $6.84, typically $3.42, 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 $3.4K.

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

CityNews publishes about 670.2 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (50% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

CityNews's best outlier videos

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

• How democrats were able to take control of the U.S. House and Senate356K views · Nov 4, 202675.8× typical views
• World leaders react to U.S. midterm results348K views · Nov 5, 202673.9× typical views
• Toronto man billed for impossible road trip949K views · Oct 19, 202662.9× typical views
• Ford government says thousands of OSAP applications came from single IP address193K views · Nov 3, 202641.1× typical views
• Suspect identified in Bridle Path home invasion176K views · Nov 1, 202637.5× typical views
• What would happen if Democrats grab control of House and Senate?152K views · Nov 3, 202632.2× typical views
• Residents in a West End building being hit with levy after levy for building issues131K views · Oct 29, 202627.9× typical views
• Suspect identified in violent Bridle Path home invasion108K views · Oct 31, 202623× typical views

Latest videos

0 of CityNews's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Cost of provincial referendum projected at $84M: Elections Alberta0 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Judge sentences Kenyan cult leader to 200 years in prison for murder of children2 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Housing advocates react to Carney Government's pledge to end homelessness125 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Cancer patient fights Ford government after being denied U.S. treatment22 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Woman killed in North York stabbing405 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Chow searching for solution after Ford rules out new funding deal for Toronto122 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Quebec minister of domestic security addresses teen cyclist killed39 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Quebec paramedic students face graduation delays amid labour dispute48 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Laval teen pushes for safer streets after being hit by truck90 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Honouring First Nations, Inuit & Métis heroes on National Indigenous Veterans day251 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 840 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 24.2×), 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 CityNews or YouTube.