CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] YouTube Stats

@cncf · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] channel overview

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] (@cncf) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2016. It has 141K subscribers and 18M total views across 15K videos, an average of 1.2K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 332 views, and a typical video (the median) gets 519 views. Over the last 12 months, CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] published 114 videos (27% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] gained 0 subscribers and 110K views, about 6.5K views a day.

How much does CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] make?

Returbe estimates CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]'s YouTube ad revenue at $629 – $2.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.13 to $12.53, typically $6.26, 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 $6.3K.

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Upload schedule

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] publishes about 105.4 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (22% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]'s best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]'s biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Building an Enterprise Control Plane for Platform APIs with kcp - Amine Hadri & Florian Blampey2K views · Oct 15, 20262× typical views
• OpenTelemetry Beyond Observability: Security, CI/CD, and Network Management - Antoine Toulme, Cisco1.5K views · Oct 25, 20261.5× typical views
• Beyond Software Estimates: Measured Per-Pod... - Jedrzej Wasiukiewicz & Markus Lehtonen, Intel1.5K views · Oct 25, 20261.5× typical views
• Stop Giving Every Team a Cluster: Building a Self-Service IDP with kcp - Pritesh Kiri, Harness1.3K views · Oct 15, 20261.3× typical views
• Meet Rani Chowdary Mandepudi - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America1.2K views · Oct 25, 20261.2× typical views
• Meet Qasim Sarfraz - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America1.2K views · Oct 2, 20261.2× typical views
• Meet Kevin Klues - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America1.2K views · Oct 16, 20261.2× typical views
• Meet Decheng Dai - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America1.2K views · Oct 17, 20261.2× typical views

Latest videos

0 of CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]'s last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Meet Diana Zawadzki - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America124 views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• Merge Forward Meeting - November 2026334 views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Meet Felicitas Pojtinger - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America415 views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• CNCF On-Demand: Governing & Understanding AI Agent Decisions613 views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• The Linkerd Story: The People Behind the Service Mesh Premiere Announcement655 views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Meet Lu Zhang - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America541 views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Production AI Insights Live | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026287 views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• How Community Involvement Accelerates Your Open Source Career132 views · Nov 3, 20260× typical views
• Meet Muhammed Yunas Chirayath - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America143 views · Nov 3, 20260× typical views
• Meet Adam Gordon Bell - Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America609 views · Nov 2, 20260.6× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.7K videos from 717 channels in this niche. 11.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.2K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 177.6×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 85.2×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.1×).

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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 CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] or YouTube.