Daily Kos YouTube Stats

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

Daily Kos channel overview

Daily Kos (@dailykos) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2015. It has 37K subscribers and 38M total views across 4.6K videos, an average of 8.3K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.7K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.9K views. Over the last 12 months, Daily Kos published 76 videos (17% Shorts), and 12 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Daily Kos make?

Returbe estimates Daily Kos's YouTube ad revenue at $1.5K – $5.9K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.66 to $6.63, typically $3.32, 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 $3.3K.

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

Daily Kos publishes about 82.6 videos a month. Based on its last 76 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (30% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Daily Kos's best outlier videos

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

• Man compares Trump rally to Jonestown massacre on Fox News277K views · Oct 29, 2026149.4× typical views
• Cornyn says Trump knew about Elon Musk screwing Ukraine45K views · Oct 21, 202624.3× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed Doesn't Hold Back on Trump and JD Vance82K views · Oct 29, 202616.5× typical views
• 'Donald Trump is an idiot': Dr. Abdul El-Sayed cuts to the chase27K views · Oct 28, 202614.5× typical views
• Trump gets hilariously heckled in Mississippi16K views · Oct 27, 20268.8× typical views
• GOP lawmaker lies about attacking journalist after getting mocked during townhall12K views · Oct 16, 20266.6× typical views
• Pete Buttigieg rains on Fox News' Haley Stevens parade11K views · Nov 3, 20266.1× typical views
• Fox News' Jesse Watters whines after Democrats sweep to victory on election night11K views · Nov 4, 20265.7× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Daily Kos's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• ‘They beat Vivek like a drum’: Ron DeSantis throws GOP under the bus229 views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed lays out plan for Democratically controlled Congress626 views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed says our civil rights bind us all together1K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• One Mississippi, Two Mississippi ... Wait.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Mayor Mamdani dunks on JD Vance while giving blueprint for Blue wave Dems1.9K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• Episode 35: The Great Republican Ass-Whooping345 views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Did Democrats Win Nevada With a Ouija Board?994 views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Republicans Have an INSANE Andrew Tate Excuse1.4K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Donald Trump pretends D.C. was a post apocalyptic nightmare before he arrived567 views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed laughs at JD Vance during acceptance speech1.5K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 49.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 57.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 28.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 108.9×), 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 Daily Kos or YouTube.