Dave Jorgenson YouTube Stats

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

Dave Jorgenson channel overview

Dave Jorgenson (@davejorgenson) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 460K subscribers and 333M total views across 386 videos, an average of 863K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 640K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 100K views. Over the last 12 months, Dave Jorgenson published 68 videos (87% Shorts), and 8 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Dave Jorgenson gained 7K subscribers and 15M views, about 855K views a day.

How much does Dave Jorgenson make?

Returbe estimates Dave Jorgenson's YouTube ad revenue at $2.7K – $9.4K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.07 to $0.24, typically $0.13, 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 $130.

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Upload schedule

Dave Jorgenson publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 68 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (37% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Dave Jorgenson's best outlier videos

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

• 20 years later, how does Idiocracy hold up?2.5M views · Sep 1, 20265.4× typical views
• Directing Rep Haley Stevens (D-MI) on CNN2.4M views · Nov 2, 20265.2× typical views
• Can the ‘blue wave’ wipe out the Electoral College?2M views · Nov 5, 20264.4× typical views
• What did and didn’t happen on 9/111.9M views · Sep 9, 20264.2× typical views
• What’s going on with Macklemore & Ed Sheeran?1.9M views · Sep 17, 20264.1× typical views
• The historic firsts of the 2026 election1.7M views · Nov 4, 20263.8× typical views
• How platforms censored the ‘Musk’ documentary1.5M views · Sep 29, 20263.3× typical views
• Republican gerrymandering backfired.1.5M views · Nov 4, 20263.2× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Dave Jorgenson's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How President Trump reacted to the ‘blue wave’1.3M views · Nov 6, 20262.9× typical views
• Is the job market as bad as it seems?21K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Can the ‘blue wave’ wipe out the Electoral College?2M views · Nov 5, 20264.4× typical views
• The historic firsts of the 2026 election1.7M views · Nov 4, 20263.8× typical views
• Republican gerrymandering backfired.1.5M views · Nov 4, 20263.2× typical views
• Trump sent 1,000 election monitors to 50 states569K views · Nov 3, 20261.2× typical views
• What are voter roll purges?472K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• Directing Rep Haley Stevens (D-MI) on CNN2.4M views · Nov 2, 20265.2× typical views
• There’s not enough money to fill potholes in the U.S.133K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• The science behind potholes33K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.8% 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.4×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×).

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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 Dave Jorgenson or YouTube.