Sam Bentley YouTube Stats

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

Sam Bentley channel overview

Sam Bentley (@itssambentley) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2019. It has 419K subscribers and 43M total views across 443 videos, an average of 97K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 305K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 221K views. Over the last 12 months, Sam Bentley published 57 videos (81% Shorts), and 9 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Sam Bentley gained 19K subscribers and 4.8M views, about 281K views a day.

How much does Sam Bentley make?

Returbe estimates Sam Bentley's YouTube ad revenue at $3.9K – $16K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.6 to $2.37, typically $1.19, 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 $1.2K.

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

Sam Bentley publishes about 11.9 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (25% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Sam Bentley's best outlier videos

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

• Bringing dead coral back to life!2.1M views · Oct 19, 202623.2× typical views
• How did this land survive a wildfire?956K views · Aug 31, 202610.8× typical views
• Giving leftover paint a second life!619K views · Oct 26, 20267× typical views
• Good News in October (you might have missed!)399K views · Oct 30, 20264.5× typical views
• We launched a Floating Garden in Bristol!391K views · Sep 18, 20264.4× typical views
• Good News in September (you might have missed!343K views · Sep 27, 20263.9× typical views
• How Erin Brockovich is taking on AI data centers!325K views · Jun 5, 20263.7× typical views
• This plant replaces duck down and plastic in our clothes!308K views · Aug 21, 20263.5× typical views

Latest videos

16 of Sam Bentley's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Good News you might have missed from the Netherlands!182K views · Nov 5, 20262.1× typical views
• Can you guess which is real and fake?162K views · Nov 2, 20261.8× typical views
• Good News in October (you might have missed!)399K views · Oct 30, 20264.5× typical views
• Stop doomscrolling, here's good news from October189K views · Oct 29, 20260.9× typical views
• Scotland's natural wonder saved from destruction!89K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• Giving leftover paint a second life!619K views · Oct 26, 20267× typical views
• Pushchair designed for parents in wheelchairs69K views · Oct 22, 20260.8× typical views
• Bringing dead coral back to life!2.1M views · Oct 19, 202623.2× typical views
• Good news to get you through October!189K views · Oct 17, 20262.1× typical views
• Stop doomscrolling, here's some good news720K views · Oct 16, 20263.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 64.4×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 224.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 36.3×), France 3 Grand Est (241K subs, best video 99.5×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1375.8×), Onda Cero (421K subs, best video 140.7×).

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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 Sam Bentley or YouTube.