Face the Nation YouTube Stats

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

Face the Nation channel overview

Face the Nation (@facethenation) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2012. It has 826K subscribers and 486M total views across 16K videos, an average of 31K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 36K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 16K views. Over the last 12 months, Face the Nation published 160 videos (1% Shorts), and 35 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, Face the Nation gained 2K subscribers and 4.6M views, about 306K views a day.

How much does Face the Nation make?

Returbe estimates Face the Nation's YouTube ad revenue at $20K – $80K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.79 to $7.15, typically $3.58, 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 $3.6K.

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

Face the Nation publishes about 173.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (19% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Face the Nation's best outlier videos

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

• JD Vance on White House corruption concerns408K views · Oct 15, 202625.6× typical views
• What's next as Israel sees no clear winner with 88% of votes counted384K views · Oct 29, 202624.1× typical views
• A stunning rebuke: Texas turns blue197K views · Nov 5, 202612.3× typical views
• What to expect from Congress after Democrats win both House and Senate187K views · Nov 5, 202611.7× typical views
• Rep. Turner says Rubio's explanation was "absolutely not" sufficient about Ukraine Starlink slowdown170K views · Oct 18, 202610.7× typical views
• Alberta's voting on whether to pursue separation from Canada. Here's why.149K views · Oct 19, 20269.3× typical views
• Sen. Bernie Sanders says GOP rhetoric about El-Sayed "should appall every decent American"145K views · Nov 1, 20269.1× typical views
• What's next as Mississippi, Alaska Senate races still too close to call138K views · Nov 6, 20268.7× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Face the Nation's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• President Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller | Full Coverage26K views · Nov 6, 20261.6× typical views
• President Trump is replacing Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller. Here's what to know.3.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Key takeaway from Texas Latino voters: Anger over aggressive ICE operations6.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Voters pass 44 ballot measures to restrict data centers on Election Day2.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• What's next as Mississippi, Alaska Senate races still too close to call138K views · Nov 6, 20268.7× typical views
• Stocks plunge over AI restriction fears as Democrats win control of Congress9.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Nail-biting Senate race in Mississippi34K views · Nov 5, 20262.1× typical views
• Who will be the next House Speaker?11K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Iran war cost GOP political power in midterms, Trump acknowledges17K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• A stunning rebuke: Texas turns blue197K views · Nov 5, 202612.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 844 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.

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 24.2×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 Face the Nation or YouTube.