CNN YouTube Stats

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

CNN channel overview

CNN (@cnn) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2005. It has 20M subscribers and 22B total views across 189K videos, an average of 119K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 293K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 524K views. Over the last 12 months, CNN published 703 videos (69% Shorts), and 117 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, CNN gained 100K subscribers and 446M views, about 26M views a day.

How much does CNN make?

Returbe estimates CNN's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4M – $5.6M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.61 to $6.43, typically $3.22, 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 $3.2K.

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

CNN publishes about 762.5 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (53% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

CNN's best outlier videos

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

• 'Back up, you creep': Hillary Clinton on what she could've said during 2016 debate6.1M views · Nov 3, 202645.1× typical views
• Haiti hired US mercenaries to fight its gangs. Here's how it's going14M views · Oct 18, 202626.1× typical views
• Trump calls polls ‘rigged,’ except the ones he likes2.9M views · Oct 29, 202621.9× typical views
• Katie Zacharia's rise and fall as White House press secretary2.8M views · Oct 16, 202621.1× typical views
• Speaker Johnson reacts as CNN projects Dems will flip House2.6M views · Nov 4, 202619.3× typical views
• ‘Shove that ballroom up your a**’: protester interrupts Trump rally2.4M views · Oct 27, 202618.1× typical views
• Anderson Cooper on Trump's latest attack on El-Sayed2.2M views · Oct 28, 202616.3× typical views
• Stevens’ chief of staff quits after GOP endorsement2M views · Nov 2, 202615× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Police release Russell Brand interview footage3.2K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Funeral held for soccer player who died after on-field collision4.8K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Global stocks reel after $2.5 trillion wiped off US markets71K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Democrats near historic levels of power in the House225K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Midterm voters look ahead to 2028 election43K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Philadelphia foster mother charged with murder in death of 10-year-old girl7.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Is 'fashion slop' killing personal style?801 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Judge halts Trump arch construction26K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• GOP senator discusses possibility of Hegseth impeachment103K views · Nov 6, 20260.8× typical views
• Tucker Carlson blasts Trump, praises Vance132K 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 CNN or YouTube.