France Culture YouTube Stats

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

France Culture channel overview

France Culture (@franceculture) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 920K subscribers and 211M total views across 11K videos, an average of 20K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 17K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 12K views. Over the last 12 months, France Culture published 123 videos (30% Shorts), and 15 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, France Culture gained 4K subscribers and 3.8M views, about 221K views a day.

How much does France Culture make?

Returbe estimates France Culture's YouTube ad revenue at $5.8K – $23K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.74 to $2.97, typically $1.49, 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 $1.5K.

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

France Culture publishes about 133.6 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (20% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

France Culture's best outlier videos

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

• "Naza" : pourquoi ce film DÉRANGE autant en ISRAËL179K views · Oct 16, 202614.5× typical views
• "Nous avions les images de Gaza, mais pas le récit du CRIME" : filmer l’IMMONTRABLE avec NAZA141K views · Oct 13, 202611.4× typical views
• Face à la crise, un impôt de solidarité nationale ?137K views · Oct 22, 202611.1× typical views
• ÉTATS-UNIS : pourquoi les MIDTERMS sont un danger pour TRUMP132K views · Oct 31, 202610.7× typical views
• Voici comment l’école finlandaise est devenue une référence en matière de bien-être des élèves149K views · Oct 20, 20266.8× typical views
• La CORRUPTION du CLAN TRUMP au cœur des élections de mi mandat80K views · Nov 2, 20266.5× typical views
• EL NIÑO : une BOMBE CLIMATIQUE aux effets GÉOPOLITIQUES79K views · Oct 27, 20266.4× typical views
• École contre vie sociale : le choc des injonctions, analysé par Marcel Gauchet129K views · Oct 29, 20265.9× typical views

Latest videos

4 of France Culture's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Du lycée à la rue : comment les MÉDIAS racontent la COLÈRE SOCIALE2.3K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Les compétences : le facteur clé de la soutenabilité de notre modèle social2.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Catherine Pégard, ministre de la Culture : quel AVENIR pour la CULTURE française ?2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Et si votre futur livre préféré était écrit par une IA ?6.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Déserts médicaux : ce médecin a continué d'exercer après sa retraite24K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Pourquoi avait-on peur des FEMMES qui LISENT ?15K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• TRUMP, MACRON : pourquoi l’HYPERPRÉSIDENCE pose un problème16K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• Les droits de douane ne sont pas un bon outil pour créer de l’emploi4.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• 📖 Philippe Jaenada (prix Goncourt 2026) nous partage son amour pour Maigret2.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Pourquoi ces MUSICIENS jouent-ils dans les MANIFESTATIONS ?13K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18% 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 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 France Culture or YouTube.