DER SPIEGEL YouTube Stats

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

DER SPIEGEL channel overview

DER SPIEGEL (@derspiegel) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 2.4M subscribers and 2.7B total views across 14K videos, an average of 195K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 166K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 622K views. Over the last 12 months, DER SPIEGEL published 59 videos (73% Shorts), and 9 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does DER SPIEGEL make?

Returbe estimates DER SPIEGEL's YouTube ad revenue at $41K – $164K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.38 to $5.53, typically $2.77, 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 $2.8K.

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

DER SPIEGEL publishes about 63 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (21% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

DER SPIEGEL's best outlier videos

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

• »Junge Frau, ich rede doch gerade mit Ihnen!« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts218K views · Oct 25, 20268.6× typical views
• »Aber Drogen verkaufst du nicht?« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts201K views · Oct 26, 20267.9× typical views
• Die letzten Bomben des Krieges | SPIEGEL TV Shorts196K views · Oct 9, 20267.7× typical views
• Im Verhör: »Brüder tun das füreinander« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts135K views · Oct 11, 20265.3× typical views
• Krawall am Hamburger Hauptbahnhof | SPIEGEL TV Shorts130K views · Oct 22, 20265.1× typical views
• Cannabis-Konsum in der Deutschen Bahn | SPIEGEL TV Shorts127K views · Oct 22, 20265× typical views
• »Asiatische Hornissen vermehren sich von Jahr zu Jahr im Faktor 10 bis 15« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts126K views · Nov 2, 20265× typical views
• »Wir sind seit 1914 im Krieg« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts116K views · Oct 20, 20264.6× typical views

Latest videos

7 of DER SPIEGEL's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• »Sieg trotz allem Schrecken« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts1.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Die Angst vor Strippenziehern im Hintergrund | SPIEGEL TV Shorts5.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Linke demonstrieren gegen Linke | SPIEGEL TV Shorts30K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• Der Albtraumjob – unterwegs mit deutschen Fernfahrern (1999) | SPIEGEL TV Classic302K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Was bedeutet das Wahl-Beben für Trump? Spitzengespräch mit Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | DER SPIEGEL241K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• Ihr Mut kostete sie das Leben | SPIEGEL TV Shorts20K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Angst in den eigenen Reihen: Elifs Eralp Kampf um die linke Macht in Berlin | SPIEGEL TV267K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• US-Midterm-Wahl 2026: Die gespalteten Staaten von Amerika | DER SPIEGEL267K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• Zwischen Feuersturm und Bombenhagel | SPIEGEL TV Shorts9.4K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• »Asiatische Hornissen vermehren sich von Jahr zu Jahr im Faktor 10 bis 15« | SPIEGEL TV Shorts126K views · Nov 2, 20265× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 814 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 51×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 114.3×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 48.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 24.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 104.6×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×).

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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 DER SPIEGEL or YouTube.