FRONTLINE PBS | Official YouTube Stats

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

FRONTLINE PBS | Official channel overview

FRONTLINE PBS | Official (@frontline) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 4.8M subscribers and 1B total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 797K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 234K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 138K views. Over the last 12 months, FRONTLINE PBS | Official published 57 videos (44% Shorts), and 12 of them (21%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, FRONTLINE PBS | Official gained 120K subscribers and 11M views, about 532K views a day.

How much does FRONTLINE PBS | Official make?

Returbe estimates FRONTLINE PBS | Official's YouTube ad revenue at $35K – $139K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.87 to $7.49, typically $3.74, 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 $3.7K.

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

FRONTLINE PBS | Official publishes about 15.2 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (38% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

FRONTLINE PBS | Official's best outlier videos

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

• Israeli Election, Explained727K views · Oct 31, 202643.4× typical views
• Why did President Trump want to fire this Federal Reserve official?370K views · Jun 29, 202622.1× typical views
• How much did the U.S. government know about Osama bin Laden before 9/11?250K views · Sep 8, 202614.9× typical views
• The Madoff Affair (full documentary) | FRONTLINE11M views · Apr 16, 202114.3× typical views
• Honoring the Dead at Ground Zero After 9/11191K views · Sep 11, 202611.4× typical views
• Investigating the Online Scam Epidemic | Scammed (full documentary) | FRONTLINE + Associated Press1.4M views · Sep 30, 202610.3× typical views
• Examining U.S.-Saudi Ties | The Crown Prince & the President (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)1.2M views · Jul 1, 20268.9× typical views
• The Untouchables (full documentary) | FRONTLINE4.7M views · Feb 23, 20225.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of FRONTLINE PBS | Official's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Inside the Deadly 1993 Firefight in Somalia | Ambush in Mogadishu (full documentary) | FRONTLINE103K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Has Our America Gotten Better?13K views · Nov 2, 20260.8× typical views
• Israeli Election, Explained727K views · Oct 31, 202643.4× typical views
• Inside Major Corporate Accounting Scandals | Bigger Than Enron (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)500K views · Oct 27, 20263.6× typical views
• What’s at Stake in Israel’s Consequential Election?13K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views
• How did Haiti's Gangs Become so Powerful?21K views · Oct 23, 20261.2× typical views
• What TPS’ End Means for Haitians | Haiti Deportation Crisis (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)600K views · Oct 21, 20264.3× typical views
• The Kenscoff Massacre: What a Gang Attack Reveals About Haiti Today | FRONTLINE (PBS)109K views · Oct 20, 20260.8× typical views
• U.S. Voters Share Their Views & Lives | American Voices 2026 (full documentary)| FRONTLINE (PBS)613K views · Oct 14, 20264.4× typical views
• Americans Reflect on the State of the Country Ahead of the Midterms | FRONTLINE (PBS)21K views · Oct 13, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 811 channels in this niche. 17.6% 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 49.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 57.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 28.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 108.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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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 FRONTLINE PBS | Official or YouTube.