Fireship YouTube Stats

@fireship · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Fireship channel overview

Fireship (@fireship) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2017. It has 4.3M subscribers and 799M total views across 860 videos, an average of 929K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.8M views. Over the last 12 months, Fireship published 54 videos, and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Fireship gained 20K subscribers and 16M views, about 950K views a day.

How much does Fireship make?

Returbe estimates Fireship's YouTube ad revenue at $95K – $382K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $16, typically $8, 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 $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

Fireship publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (30% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

Fireship's best outlier videos

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

• Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not6.7M views · Oct 12, 20263.7× typical views
• Did OpenAI actually build AGI? GPT-6 Astra first look4.2M views · Sep 4, 20262.3× typical views
• OpenAI's biggest math breakthrough is getting ugly...3.5M views · Sep 11, 20261.9× typical views
• An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM...3M views · Sep 21, 20261.7× typical views
• PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious3M views · Oct 5, 20261.6× typical views
• I built the same game with Astra and Fable 5.1... only one was fun3M views · Sep 9, 20261.6× typical views
• Anthropic researchers are quitting... and now we know why2.8M views · Sep 15, 20261.5× typical views
• Did the AI bubble just pop?2.6M views · Oct 28, 20261.4× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The worst week in cybersecurity history... so far1.9M views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• Did the AI bubble just pop?2.6M views · Oct 28, 20261.4× typical views
• China just dropped a new frontier model... and nobody can explain how2.4M views · Oct 26, 20261.3× typical views
• The most vulnerable week in internet history...1.9M views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
• The last real programmers are dying out...1.7M views · Oct 22, 20261× typical views
• Did Google just dethrone OpenAI and Anthropic?2M views · Oct 20, 20261.1× typical views
• The runtime wars are over... and Node won1.2M views · Oct 15, 20260.7× typical views
• OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy...1.8M views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views
• Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not6.7M views · Oct 12, 20263.7× typical views
• A $6.3 billion open-weight model just got embarrassed by the French...1.7M views · Oct 7, 20260.9× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.7K videos from 719 channels in this niche. 11.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.3K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 178.2×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 87.9×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.2×).

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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 Fireship or YouTube.