Guardian News YouTube Stats

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

Guardian News channel overview

Guardian News (@guardiannews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2014. It has 4.1M subscribers and 3.6B total views across 22K videos, an average of 162K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 99K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 28K views. Over the last 12 months, Guardian News published 163 videos (15% Shorts), and 38 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Guardian News gained 10K subscribers and 22M views, about 1.4M views a day.

How much does Guardian News make?

Returbe estimates Guardian News's YouTube ad revenue at $68K – $271K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.36 to $5.42, typically $2.71, 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 $2.7K.

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

Guardian News publishes about 177.1 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (24% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Guardian News's best outlier videos

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

• Utah police dog survives injury after leaping from overpass5.1M views · Oct 16, 2026181.2× typical views
• Obama mocks Trump and Hegseth while rallying for El-Sayed: 'Not serious people'1.7M views · Oct 25, 2026162.4× typical views
• Iguazu Falls in South America hits record 10 times normal water flow3.7M views · Oct 16, 2026129.6× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed calls out Vance and Trump shortly before winning Michigan race911K views · Nov 4, 202686.9× typical views
• How the blue wave conquered the midterms in three minutes951K views · Nov 4, 202633.8× typical views
• Katie Zacharia holds awkward debut briefing as Trump's press secretary605K views · Oct 13, 202621.5× typical views
• Why Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil after losing the election219K views · Oct 30, 202620.9× typical views
• Dashcam footage shows moment business jet crashes into Florida neighbourhood541K views · Nov 2, 202619.2× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Flash flooding washes through Georgia-Tennessee border353 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Trump signs order to make Oval Office a national monument17K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Peru airport officials seize over 3,000 tarantulas hidden in socks15K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Democratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats Karen Bass to win Los Angeles mayoral race11K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Russian and Ukrainian officials thank Melania Trump for brokering ceasefire18K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• 'Justice has been served' for Russell Brand's victims, prosecutor says28K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• How Milei is using economic warfare against the Falklands | Explainer17K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• People and politicians across the world react to the US midterm results363K views · Nov 5, 202612.9× typical views
• Trump speaks about White House ballroom and Iran war’s unpopularity after midterm losses57K views · Nov 4, 20262× typical views
• Bangladesh garment factories close as workers clash with police during wage protests5.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 822 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 Guardian News or YouTube.