Hillsdale Digital YouTube Stats

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

Hillsdale Digital channel overview

Hillsdale Digital (@hillsdalecollege) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2009. It has 752K subscribers and 170M total views across 803 videos, an average of 212K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 29K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 18K views. Over the last 12 months, Hillsdale Digital published 59 videos (19% Shorts), and 17 of them (29%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Hillsdale Digital gained 1K subscribers and 682K views, about 40K views a day.

How much does Hillsdale Digital make?

Returbe estimates Hillsdale Digital's YouTube ad revenue at $2K – $7.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.97 to $7.88, typically $3.94, 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 $3.9K.

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Upload schedule

Hillsdale Digital publishes about 22.8 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (45% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Hillsdale Digital's best outlier videos

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

• Revolutionary America | Feature Film from Hillsdale Studios1.1M views · Jul 2, 202665× typical views
• Who Is Funding Antifa? | Seamus Bruner215K views · Jun 12, 202612.2× typical views
• How Big Pharma Poisoned America | Gerald Posner211K views · Aug 13, 202611.9× typical views
• Why Trump is a Counter-Revolution | Victor Davis Hanson192K views · Oct 13, 202610.9× typical views
• Master Craftsman: C.S. Lewis Taught Me the Best Way to Live | Scott Wadsworth183K views · Oct 20, 202610.3× typical views
• Can We Escape the Trans Madness? | Miriam Grossman159K views · Aug 6, 20269× typical views
• Race, Excellence, and America's Future | Heather Mac Donald150K views · Jul 16, 20268.5× typical views
• A Parallel Food System Already Exists. Are You In It? | Joel Salatin118K views · Sep 3, 20266.7× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Hillsdale Digital's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• What Happens When Autonomy Clashes with Conscience?771 views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Comply or Leave: The Fight Over Doctors' Conscience | Do No Harm, Ep. 24.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• CCA II - “The Economics of College Sports”0 views · Nov 4, 20260× typical views
• Why Is Conscience Critical to Medicine?1.9K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• What Good is Medicine For?1.8K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• What is a Physician? | Do No Harm, Ep. 113K views · Oct 29, 20260.8× typical views
• Yugoslav-Born Economist: No Legos Under Socialism | Ivan Pongracic12K views · Oct 28, 20260.7× typical views
• Medicine: The First Sign of Civilization317 views · Oct 27, 20260.1× typical views
• Why Be an Electrician?6.9K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• AI vs China: Why U.S. Leadership Matters2.2K views · Oct 23, 20260.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 844 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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.

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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 Hillsdale Digital or YouTube.