Jim Acosta YouTube Stats

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

Jim Acosta channel overview

Jim Acosta (@jimacosta) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2011. It has 368K subscribers and 55M total views across 1.9K videos, an average of 30K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 67K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 28K views. Over the last 12 months, Jim Acosta published 41 videos (20% Shorts), and 9 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Jim Acosta make?

Returbe estimates Jim Acosta's YouTube ad revenue at $5.6K – $22K 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

Jim Acosta publishes about 44.5 videos a month. Based on its last 41 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (54% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Jim Acosta's best outlier videos

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

• Timothy Snyder Told Me What Trump Plans After Nov. 3565K views · Oct 24, 202620.2× typical views
• Biden’s Top Pollster Just Told Me What’s Coming273K views · Oct 24, 20269.8× typical views
• Trump’s “Anonymous” insider told me what could swing the midterms | It's not what you think225K views · Oct 26, 20268× typical views
• She Worked With Stephen Miller. She Told Me What Comes Next190K views · Nov 7, 20266.8× typical views
• If Trump Seizes the Ballots, Then What?160K views · Oct 24, 20265.7× typical views
• A Texas Congresswoman Told Me What Republicans Have Planned Next109K views · Oct 29, 20263.9× typical views
• 3 Insiders Told Me What Trump Might Try Next106K views · Oct 25, 20263.8× typical views
• Trump Just Dropped a Big Hint About JD Vance’s 2028 Run | Daily Update93K views · Nov 5, 20263.3× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Jim Acosta's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Doctor Rob Davidson: Trump’s Favorite Test Is NOT an IQ Test812 views · Nov 7, 2026
• She Worked With Stephen Miller. She Told Me What Comes Next190K views · Nov 7, 20266.8× typical views
• “Give Him Hell”: Jim Acosta’s Message to Democrats1.6K views · Nov 7, 2026
• Ex-White House Aide: “I’ve Seen Stephen Miller’s Tirades”9.2K views · Nov 7, 2026
• We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way, Hegseth.1.8K views · Nov 7, 2026
• You’re Not Keeping the Plane | Steve Schmidt13K views · Nov 6, 2026
• LIVE: • Steve Schmidt Told Me the 2 Demands Dems Must Make Day 1169K views · Nov 6, 2026
• Did Trump Just Let Slip Hegseth’s Fate?36K views · Nov 6, 20261.3× typical views
• George Conway Says Dems Can’t Rule Out Impeachment | Jim Acosta0 views · Nov 6, 2026
• Will Right-Wing Media Recover from the Midterm Blowout? Juliet Jeske Watches So We Don't Have To.3.9K views · Nov 6, 2026

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.8% 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 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.5×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×).

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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 Jim Acosta or YouTube.