DeFranco News Clips YouTube Stats

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

DeFranco News Clips channel overview

DeFranco News Clips (@defranconews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2017. It has 1.6M subscribers and 1.7B total views across 2.3K videos, an average of 718K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 779K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 753K views. Over the last 12 months, DeFranco News Clips published 75 videos (100% Shorts), and 2 of them (3%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, DeFranco News Clips gained 10K subscribers and 30M views, about 1.7M views a day.

How much does DeFranco News Clips make?

Returbe estimates DeFranco News Clips's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $4.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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

DeFranco News Clips publishes about 54.3 videos a month. Based on its last 75 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (21% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

DeFranco News Clips's best outlier videos

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

• Chinese Spy Busted After Surveiling Son of Taiwanese President in US2.6M views · Oct 5, 20263.5× typical views
• Tiger Mauls Visitor to UK Park After he JUMPS Into the Enclosure2.5M views · Oct 12, 20263.3× typical views
• A Sperm Whale Rammed And Sank A Yacht In The South Pacific1.9M views · Oct 1, 20262.6× typical views
• Cat Food Found to Be Toxic With Lead, Mercury, And Other Poisons1.8M views · Oct 2, 20262.4× typical views
• “You Think Cornell Was Bad… Wait for Us.” High School Football Group Chat Leaks1.6M views · Oct 6, 20262.1× typical views
• Russia Is Ground Zero For Potential Plague Outbreak1.6M views · Oct 5, 20262.1× typical views
• French Students Hate School So Much They’re Protesting to Fix It1.5M views · Oct 6, 20262× typical views
• Courts FURIOUS at Trump for Cutting Down 400 Trees After Being Told Not To1.5M views · Oct 13, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

8 of DeFranco News Clips's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Democratic Socialism Is On the Rise, LA Latest City to Elect DSA Mayor106K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Fintech Bank Collapse Leads to Paraguay’s President Resignation755K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• KPOP Supergroup NewJeans Had to Sign Atrocious Contracts318K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• These Supreme Court Justices Won’t Step Down and Republicans Are Panicking914K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• America Voted Blue In Overwhelming Numbers, Rebuking Trump1.3M views · Nov 4, 20261.7× typical views
• The AI Sloppening Is Coming For Games480K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• America Secretly Attacked Iran, and It’s not the First Time528K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• The Insane Midterm Election Chaos You Missed...972K views · Nov 3, 20261.3× typical views
• Mamdani Threatens to Sue ICE670K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views
• Why NASDAQ Is Facing a $2 Trillion Wipeout1.1M views · Oct 30, 20261.5× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18% 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 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 DeFranco News Clips or YouTube.