DL Hughley YouTube Stats

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

DL Hughley channel overview

DL Hughley (@dlhughleytv) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2016. It has 370K subscribers and 63M total views across 1.4K videos, an average of 45K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 63K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 0 views. Over the last 12 months, DL Hughley published 66 videos (82% Shorts), and 5 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, DL Hughley gained 4K subscribers and 2.1M views, about 213K views a day.

How much does DL Hughley make?

Returbe estimates DL Hughley's YouTube ad revenue at $5.2K – $21K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.58 to $2.3, typically $1.16, 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 $1.2K.

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

DL Hughley publishes about 54.3 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (19% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

DL Hughley's best outlier videos

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

• Dear Stephen A. Smith Pt. 2496K views · Oct 27, 202631.2× typical views
• Dear Stephen A. Smith Pt. 3194K views · Oct 27, 202612.2× typical views
• Dear Stephen A. Smith Pt. 1150K views · Oct 27, 20269.4× typical views
• The Witches Are Out!125K views · Oct 8, 20267.9× typical views
• Stephen A Smith. Apology Tour…122K views · Oct 16, 20267.7× typical views
• Ben Crump wasn’t playing checkers… he was playing CHESS. ♟️👏🏾45K views · Oct 2, 20262.8× typical views
• Welp!!! Make sure you watch in 30 mins 😂😂😂45K views · Oct 22, 20262.8× typical views
• Watch The Full Episode @DLHughleyTV42K views · Nov 5, 20262.6× typical views

Latest videos

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

• They Never Get the Truth From Us… Here’s Why4.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Let’s Hold Them Accountable!!3.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Watch The Full Episode @DLHughleyTV42K views · Nov 5, 20262.6× typical views
• November 4, 202617K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• Watch Full Episode!! @DLHughleyTV #shorts12K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Poor People Love Billionaires!9.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• Your Vote aka “Boat” Matters!8.7K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• When Corruption Stops Being a Disqualifier #shorts17K views · Nov 2, 20261.1× typical views
• Remembering Nolan Wells, Kohen Wiley and Tamie Rice.. Demanding Justice #shorts8.3K views · Oct 31, 20260.5× typical views
• A 3-Year-Old Too Good for the Team? #shorts19K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 829 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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.

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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 DL Hughley or YouTube.