The Ezra Klein Show YouTube Stats

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

The Ezra Klein Show channel overview

The Ezra Klein Show (@ezrakleinshow) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2018. It has 599K subscribers and 112M total views across 571 videos, an average of 196K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 282K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 601K views. Over the last 12 months, The Ezra Klein Show published 66 videos (76% Shorts), and 15 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Ezra Klein Show gained 16K subscribers and 9.1M views, about 538K views a day.

How much does The Ezra Klein Show make?

Returbe estimates The Ezra Klein Show's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $90K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.41 to $5.62, typically $2.82, 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

The Ezra Klein Show publishes about 35.8 videos a month. Based on its last 66 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (21% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

The Ezra Klein Show's best outlier videos

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

• Trump Is ‘Repatrimonializing’ Government | The Ezra Klein Show636K views · Sep 13, 202618.4× typical views
• Trump’s Trade-War Miscalculation | The Ezra Klein Show509K views · Oct 22, 202614.7× typical views
• How Jon Ossoff Broke Through Trump’s ‘White Noise’ | The Ezra Klein Show450K views · Oct 24, 202613× typical views
• Bill Gates: Relying on A.I. Self-Regulation Is ‘Insane’ | The Ezra Klein Show430K views · Sep 29, 202612.4× typical views
• No, Really — Is A.I. a Bubble? | The Ezra Klein Show411K views · Oct 17, 202611.9× typical views
• Why Bill Gates Thinks A.I. Will Take Away Jobs | The Ezra Klein Show213K views · Sep 30, 20266.1× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed Responds to Right-Wing Vitriol | The Ezra Klein Show198K views · Sep 26, 20265.7× typical views
• Nate Silver’s Predictions for the Midterms | The Ezra Klein Show170K views · Oct 27, 20264.9× typical views

Latest videos

15 of The Ezra Klein Show's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This Is What the Big Tent Looks Like | The Ezra Klein Show128K views · Nov 5, 20263.7× typical views
• Is This the End of Trumpism? | The Ezra Klein Show76K views · Nov 5, 20262.2× typical views
• Blue Wave, Big Tent | The Ezra Klein Show717K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed on ’Speaking Truth to Pain’ | The Ezra Klein Show81K views · Nov 4, 20262.3× typical views
• What America Means to Abdul El-Sayed | The Ezra Klein Show70K views · Nov 4, 20262× typical views
• James Talarico’s ‘Love My Neighbor’ Politics | The Ezra Klein Show68K views · Nov 4, 20262× typical views
• The Story Behind Musk’s ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Theory | The Ezra Klein Show65K views · Nov 1, 20261.9× typical views
• Elon Musk’s $450 Million Political Gamble | The Ezra Klein Show34K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• Musk, Trump and the ‘Ayn Randian Superman’ | The Ezra Klein Show36K views · Oct 30, 20261× typical views
• Elon Musk’s Endgame | The Ezra Klein Show760K views · Oct 30, 20261.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 840 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 The Ezra Klein Show or YouTube.