Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube Stats

@jimmykimmellive · Comedy & Memes · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Jimmy Kimmel Live channel overview

Jimmy Kimmel Live (@jimmykimmellive) is a YouTube channel in the Comedy & Memes niche created in 2006. It has 22M subscribers and 16B total views across 8.2K videos, an average of 1.9M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.8M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 558K views. Over the last 12 months, Jimmy Kimmel Live published 83 videos (5% Shorts), and 26 of them (31%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Jimmy Kimmel Live gained 0 subscribers and 77M views, about 4.5M views a day.

How much does Jimmy Kimmel Live make?

Returbe estimates Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube ad revenue at $257K – $1.1M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.18 to $4.91, typically $2.55, 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 $2.5K.

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

Jimmy Kimmel Live publishes about 52.1 videos a month. Based on its last 83 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (27% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Jimmy Kimmel Live's best outlier videos

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

• Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down Midterm Election Results, Trump Loses Bigly & Assistant Natalie Stops By!14M views · Nov 4, 202625.1× typical views
• Trump Blames Everyone But Himself for Huge Midterm Loss & the White House Lashes Out at Jimmy Kimmel8.6M views · Nov 5, 202615.5× typical views
• Trump’s New Press Secretary Has Disastrous First Day & Guillermo Booted from Dancing with the Stars!7.8M views · Oct 14, 202614× typical views
• Trump Comments on Nicki Minaj’s “Beautiful Ass," Obama Roasts Trump & Midterm Shenanigans6.8M views · Oct 27, 202612.2× typical views
• The White House is Mad at Jimmy Kimmel AGAIN, Trump’s Press Secretary Mess & Fox News Betrays Him6.1M views · Oct 16, 202611× typical views
• Jimmy Kimmel Threatened by FCC Chairman Robert De Niro, Trump Renames A.I. & Guillermo Dances to NY6M views · Oct 1, 202610.7× typical views
• Mayor Zohran Mamdani on His Relationship with Trump, People in Sewers & New Public Restrooms5.8M views · Sep 29, 202610.3× typical views
• Trump Complains About Jimmy Kimmel, Throws Fit Over Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize & Guillermo-Mania!5.7M views · Oct 13, 202610.2× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Jimmy Kimmel Live's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Adam Driver on Being in the Upcoming X-Men Movie & New Movie Paper Tiger with Miles Teller68K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Sam Nivola on Loving the Movie Swingers, Finding Out About White Lotus Storyline & New Show Phony18K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Mike D 5D – Switch Up13K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Trump Rants & Raves About the Least Important Things Ever & All the Promises He’s Failed to Fulfill2.6M views · Nov 6, 20264.7× typical views
• Does ANYONE under 30 know how to set a clock?252K views · Nov 5, 2026
• Timothy Simons on Major Soup Fail, Getting into Politics Doing VEEP & His Epic Search for Cigarettes123K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Miles Teller on Tom Cruise Talking About Top Gun 3, MLB All-Star Game in Philly & Paper Tiger180K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Jimmy’s message for Donald Trump…2M views · Nov 5, 2026
• Trump Blames Everyone But Himself for Huge Midterm Loss & the White House Lashes Out at Jimmy Kimmel8.6M views · Nov 5, 202615.5× typical views
• Pod Save America Hosts on Midterm Results, Trump’s Final Two Years & 2028 Presidential Candidates1.7M views · Nov 4, 20263× typical views

The Comedy & Memes niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 12K videos from 795 channels in this niche. 17.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 46K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.2 to $5.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Adictos Al Trap (216K subs, best video 44.7×), Patrick Custer (32K subs, best video 404.4×), gningbo (84K subs, best video 2014.8×), EpsilonnEdit (18K subs, best video 47.9×), Theo Rogan Shorts (436K subs, best video 21.2×), MySt3Ry (22K subs, best video 33.3×).

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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 Jimmy Kimmel Live or YouTube.