The Golden Hour YouTube Stats

@goldenhourpodcast · Comedy & Memes · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Golden Hour channel overview

The Golden Hour (@goldenhourpodcast) is a YouTube channel in the Comedy & Memes niche created in 2018. It has 399K subscribers and 163M total views across 1K videos, an average of 161K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 71K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 56K views. Over the last 12 months, The Golden Hour published 56 videos (59% Shorts), and 5 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Golden Hour gained 1K subscribers and 1.5M views, about 87K views a day.

How much does The Golden Hour make?

Returbe estimates The Golden Hour's YouTube ad revenue at $1.6K – $6.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.1 to $0.4, typically $0.21, 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 $210.

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

The Golden Hour publishes about 10.9 videos a month. Based on its last 37 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (32% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Golden Hour's best outlier videos

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

• Terrible Casting...1.2M views · Oct 30, 2026133.3× typical views
• You still talk to Brian Cullen?399K views · Oct 17, 202643.5× typical views
• Chris is getting incendiary again...88K views · Nov 3, 20269.6× typical views
• That's NOT Professional!85K views · Oct 3, 20269.2× typical views
• Erik made an impression on Pedro Pascal...29K views · Oct 16, 20263.1× typical views
• HOW DID IT GO DOWN!?19K views · Jun 21, 20262.1× typical views
• INSANE Reveal on this TikTok16K views · Aug 10, 20261.7× typical views
• No one makes this drastic of a decision with Indian food on the way13K views · Jul 28, 20261.4× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Sleeping thing? What sleeping thing?3.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Wolf's a Gangster...2.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Chris is getting incendiary again...88K views · Nov 3, 20269.6× typical views
• Terrible Casting...1.2M views · Oct 30, 2026133.3× typical views
• Nine Fans in China | The Golden Hour #208 w/ Chris D'Elia & Erik Griffin59K views · Oct 30, 2026
• You still talk to Brian Cullen?399K views · Oct 17, 202643.5× typical views
• Erik made an impression on Pedro Pascal...29K views · Oct 16, 20263.1× typical views
• That's NOT Professional!85K views · Oct 3, 20269.2× typical views
• Erik didn't vibe with his first therapist...9.5K views · Sep 24, 20261× typical views
• They Caught Tupac's Killer Before GTA 69.1K views · Sep 24, 20261× typical views

The Comedy & Memes niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 12K videos from 804 channels in this niche. 17.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 47K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.2 to $5.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Adictos Al Trap (216K subs, best video 39.9×), Patrick Custer (32K subs, best video 404.4×), gningbo (84K subs, best video 2014.8×), Theo Rogan Shorts (436K subs, best video 22.1×), EpsilonnEdit (18K subs, best video 41.9×), WearTheGag (89K subs, best video 63.7×).

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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 The Golden Hour or YouTube.