Conversations with Bill Kristol YouTube Stats

@conversationsfcg · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Conversations with Bill Kristol channel overview

Conversations with Bill Kristol (@conversationsfcg) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2014. It has 79K subscribers and 14M total views across 410 videos, an average of 33K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 58K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 22K views. Over the last 12 months, Conversations with Bill Kristol published 24 videos (8% Shorts), and 6 of them (25%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Conversations with Bill Kristol make?

Returbe estimates Conversations with Bill Kristol's YouTube ad revenue at $603 – $2.4K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.99 to $7.96, typically $3.98, 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 $4K.

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Upload schedule

Conversations with Bill Kristol publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 32 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (41% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Conversations with Bill Kristol's best outlier videos

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

• David Axelrod on the 2026 Midterms: How Big a Wave?391K views · Oct 8, 202617.5× typical views
• Anne Applebaum: Trump's Predatory Foreign Policy201K views · Oct 28, 20269× typical views
• Doug Sosnik on Two Very Different Elections: 2026 and 2028143K views · Sep 8, 20266.4× typical views
• Eric Edelman: Trump and the American Military82K views · Sep 8, 20263.7× typical views
• Ron Brownstein: What's Going To Happen in November?79K views · Jul 10, 20263.5× typical views
• Robert Kagan on Trump’s Foreign Policy and the New World Disorder76K views · Dec 12, 20253.4× typical views
• Ron Brownstein: The Trump Coalition Crumbles63K views · Nov 6, 20262.8× typical views
• A.B. Stoddard on Trump’s Psyche—and The Implications for 202861K views · May 11, 20262.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Conversations with Bill Kristol's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Ron Brownstein: The Trump Coalition Crumbles63K views · Nov 6, 20262.8× typical views
• Anne Applebaum: Trump's Predatory Foreign Policy201K views · Oct 28, 20269× typical views
• Steve Rosen: New Military Challenges in the Age of AI, Drones, and Cyberattacks21K views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• David Axelrod on the 2026 Midterms: How Big a Wave?391K views · Oct 8, 202617.5× typical views
• Phillips O'Brien on Ukraine, Iran, and What's Next61K views · Oct 8, 20262.7× typical views
• Doug Sosnik on Two Very Different Elections: 2026 and 2028143K views · Sep 8, 20266.4× typical views
• Eric Edelman: Trump and the American Military82K views · Sep 8, 20263.7× typical views
• Don Kettl: The Trump Administration and the Politicization of the Civil Service11K views · Aug 9, 20260.5× typical views
• Ryan Goodman: The Trump Administration, the Supreme Court, and the Rule of Law8.4K views · Aug 9, 20260.4× typical views
• Ron Brownstein: What's Going To Happen in November?79K views · Jul 10, 20263.5× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 999 channels in this niche. 16.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K 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 Conversations with Bill Kristol or YouTube.