Financial Times YouTube Stats

@financialtimes · News & Politics · Updated Nov 8, 2026

Financial Times channel overview

Financial Times (@financialtimes) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2009. It has 1.5M subscribers and 233M total views across 12K videos, an average of 20K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 99K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 106K views. Over the last 12 months, Financial Times published 44 videos (32% Shorts), and 9 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Financial Times make?

Returbe estimates Financial Times's YouTube ad revenue at $4.3K – $17K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.96 to $7.83, typically $3.91, 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 $3.9K.

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

Financial Times publishes about 25 videos a month. Based on its last 44 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (18% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Financial Times's best outlier videos

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

• How to cure an ailing antibiotics business? | FT Rethink65K views · Sep 9, 20266.9× typical views
• A renewable energy revolution? | FT Rethink64K views · Jul 11, 20266.8× typical views
• Uber adds hotel booking with Expedia in ‘super app’ push | FT Tech62K views · Jul 11, 20266.6× typical views
• Is shock the new reality? | FT Rethink53K views · Aug 10, 20265.6× typical views
• The global energy order after Hormuz | FT Film594K views · Oct 11, 20265.6× typical views
• Zelenskyy on Trump's relationship with Putin | FT Interview557K views · Oct 18, 20265.3× typical views
• The AI factory: the rewiring of India's tech industry | FT Film527K views · Jul 11, 20265× typical views
• Are graduates prepared for the AI era? | FT Working It522K views · Sep 9, 20264.9× typical views

Latest videos

13 of Financial Times's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Do investors like Democrats or not? | FT #shorts2.9K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• What next for the Democrats? | Martin Wolf on the US midterms | FT185K views · Nov 7, 20261.7× typical views
• Could Trump’s midterm rout pull down Farage? | FT #shorts4.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Democrats need to decide what to do with their power | FT #shorts3.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Can Europe’s youth bring change? | FT #shorts2.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Is the AI bubble about to burst? | FT #shorts14K views · Nov 6, 20261.5× typical views
• Is Elon Musk election day’s biggest loser? | FT #shorts24K views · Nov 5, 20262.6× typical views
• Do the US midterm results mean the end of Maga? | FT #shorts4.4K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• France’s colonial battle to control African money | FT #shorts6.2K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Why have screens replaced socialising? | FT #shorts5.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 63K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 16.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K 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 Financial Times or YouTube.