David Shapiro YouTube Stats

@daveshap · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 7, 2026

David Shapiro channel overview

David Shapiro (@daveshap) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2016. It has 193K subscribers and 21M total views across 714 videos, an average of 29K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 78K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 71K views. Over the last 12 months, David Shapiro published 16 videos, and 1 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does David Shapiro make?

Returbe estimates David Shapiro's YouTube ad revenue at $5.3K – $21K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $16, typically $8, 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 $8K.

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Upload schedule

David Shapiro publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 16 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (19% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

David Shapiro's best outlier videos

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

• The Last 5 Years of Labor250K views · Oct 29, 20263.5× typical views
• You Are The Next Horse166K views · Oct 26, 20262.3× typical views
• Does AI Actually Understand? YES!134K views · Oct 28, 20261.9× typical views
• A Day in 2041 - Post-Labor Living100K views · Oct 27, 20261.4× typical views
• The Rise of the Automated Economy98K views · Nov 1, 20261.4× typical views
• Anthropic Buys MITHRIL MEDICINE75K views · Nov 2, 20261.1× typical views
• Microsoft Just Offered 60,000 Buyouts71K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• No. Capitalism 2.0 Is Coming.61K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views

Latest videos

3 of David Shapiro's last 16 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude2K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• What is "Weight Space Programming"???29K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Sam Altman doesn't understand economics24K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• No. Capitalism 2.0 Is Coming.61K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• ELI5: Post-Labor Economics58K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• Anthropic Buys MITHRIL MEDICINE75K views · Nov 2, 20261.1× typical views
• The Rise of the Automated Economy98K views · Nov 1, 20261.4× typical views
• Microsoft Just Offered 60,000 Buyouts71K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• The AI "Bubble" Is Bursting RIGHT NOW!56K views · Oct 30, 20260.8× typical views
• The Last 5 Years of Labor250K views · Oct 29, 20263.5× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 899 channels in this niche. 11.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.5K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (89K subs, best video 172.7×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.2×), Sprunki Land (39K subs, best video 95.2×), Tech Meets East (21K subs, best video 11.9×), Fun Universe (57K subs, best video 98.3×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 131.3×).

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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 David Shapiro or YouTube.