Daily Stoic YouTube Stats

@dailystoic · Self-improvement & Motivation · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Daily Stoic channel overview

Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) is a YouTube channel in the Self-improvement & Motivation niche created in 2016. It has 2.1M subscribers and 228M total views across 5.1K videos, an average of 44K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 17K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 60K views. Over the last 12 months, Daily Stoic published 85 videos (85% Shorts), and 6 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, Daily Stoic gained 10K subscribers and 1.5M views, about 100K views a day.

How much does Daily Stoic make?

Returbe estimates Daily Stoic's YouTube ad revenue at $4K – $15K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.37 to $5.02, typically $2.74, 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 $2.7K.

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Upload schedule

Daily Stoic publishes about 69.5 videos a month. Based on its last 85 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (16% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Daily Stoic's best outlier videos

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

• What Marcus Aurelius Teaches About Waking Up Early67K views · Oct 18, 20265.5× typical views
• The Secret to Never Getting Upset56K views · Oct 16, 20264.6× typical views
• Stop Doing These Five Things41K views · Oct 20, 20263.4× typical views
• Five Stoic Strategies For Dealing With Jerks41K views · Oct 26, 20263.4× typical views
• Sometimes Even to Live Is an Act of Courage40K views · Oct 30, 20263.3× typical views
• Five Habits That Make You Weak40K views · Oct 23, 20263.3× typical views
• 3 Things the Stoics Want You to Stop Doing36K views · Oct 1, 20263× typical views
• Seven Stoic Don'ts32K views · Oct 6, 20262.7× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The Most Important Task in Life Is Knowing What You Control2.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Who Are the Three Greatest Stoic Philosophers With Davina McCall7.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Three Life Changing Ideas From The Stoics7.7K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• The Election Results Are In. Now What?20K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• You Don't Have to Have an Opinion on Everything2.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• It's Possible to Live Well Even in a Palace6.1K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Everything In Life Has A Cost6.4K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• How To Stay Calm When The World Feels Out Of Control41K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• Three Things People Get Wrong About The Stoics6K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• Stoicism, Democracy, and Personal Responsibility, | Stacey Abrams15K views · Nov 2, 20260.2× typical views

The Self-improvement & Motivation niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3K videos from 185 channels in this niche. 16.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.6K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $11.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: T21 (3.7K subs, best video 45.1×), XYT WORLD (4.9K subs, best video 1158.3×), The Mental Health Space (5.8K subs, best video 16.9×), MOTIVATIONAL SD (13K subs, best video 98.4×), The Stoic Scroll (9.3K subs, best video 40.8×), stoic physiology (18K subs, best video 9.4×).

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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 Stoic or YouTube.