Guardian Australia YouTube Stats

@guardianaustralia · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Guardian Australia channel overview

Guardian Australia (@guardianaustralia) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2015. It has 166K subscribers and 137M total views across 4.2K videos, an average of 32K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 129K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 13K views. Over the last 12 months, Guardian Australia published 87 videos (70% Shorts), and 15 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Guardian Australia gained 7K subscribers and 6.4M views, about 379K views a day.

How much does Guardian Australia make?

Returbe estimates Guardian Australia's YouTube ad revenue at $5K – $20K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.3 to $1.2, typically $0.61, 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 $610.

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Upload schedule

Guardian Australia publishes about 73.9 videos a month. Based on its last 87 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (28% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Guardian Australia's best outlier videos

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

• Abdul El-Sayed victory speech after history making win in Michigan Senate race2.5M views · Nov 4, 2026280.1× typical views
• 12-year-old wins top Australian prize for young slam poets812K views · Oct 26, 202691.8× typical views
• Helen Haines has lost both legs but ‘heart and mind are in good shape’, husband says99K views · Oct 21, 202611.1× typical views
• Victoria's election will be historic, no matter who wins. Here's why138K views · Oct 22, 202610.2× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed mocks Trump during final rally of his senate campaign82K views · Nov 3, 20269.1× typical views
• James Talarico victory speech after ending 38-year drought for Democrats in Texas74K views · Nov 4, 20268.4× typical views
• David Shoebridge on Mehreen Faruqi's comments51K views · Oct 5, 20265.8× typical views
• John Ossoff victory speech delivers searing rebuke of Donald Trump50K views · Nov 4, 20265.6× typical views

Latest videos

14 of Guardian Australia's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Back to Back Barries: Dissecting the One Nation voting blocks30K views · Nov 6, 20262.2× typical views
• "Lawyer Up": the Democrat's plans for Trump officials5.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Blue wave hits historically red states across America in midterm elections2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Alan Jones on trial: The journalist who broke the story speaks | Week 137.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Victoria election 2026: could Labor's loyal heartland flip to One Nation?31K views · Nov 5, 20262.3× typical views
• US midterm elections 2026: is this the end of Trump? – Decoding America34K views · Nov 4, 20262.5× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed victory speech after history making win in Michigan Senate race2.5M views · Nov 4, 2026280.1× typical views
• James Talarico victory speech after ending 38-year drought for Democrats in Texas74K views · Nov 4, 20268.4× typical views
• John Ossoff victory speech delivers searing rebuke of Donald Trump50K views · Nov 4, 20265.6× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed mocks Trump during final rally of his senate campaign82K views · Nov 3, 20269.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.6% 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 Guardian Australia or YouTube.