Johnny Harris YouTube Stats

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

Johnny Harris channel overview

Johnny Harris (@johnnyharris) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2011. It has 8M subscribers and 1.3B total views across 523 videos, an average of 2.4M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.4M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 3.4M views. Over the last 12 months, Johnny Harris published 50 videos (58% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Johnny Harris gained 20K subscribers and 6.2M views, about 366K views a day.

How much does Johnny Harris make?

Returbe estimates Johnny Harris's YouTube ad revenue at $17K – $68K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.47 to $5.89, typically $2.95, 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 $3K.

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

Johnny Harris publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (33% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 15, 2026.

Johnny Harris's best outlier videos

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

• How a nuclear bomb really works8.5M views · Feb 17, 202616.6× typical views
• I went to Greenland, here's why the US wants it7.8M views · Jan 7, 202615.2× typical views
• Is Fascism Back?7.9M views · Feb 26, 20262.3× typical views
• The Modern Middle East, Explained7.8M views · Mar 13, 20262.3× typical views
• How the Suez Canal changed history1.1M views · Mar 21, 20262.1× typical views
• The price of being poor1M views · Apr 1, 20262× typical views
• The REAL reason the US can’t beat Iran6.5M views · Jul 16, 20261.9× typical views
• Why Hacking is the Future of War4.7M views · Feb 14, 20241.9× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Johnny Harris's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The REAL reason China built so much5.7M views · Oct 15, 20261.7× typical views
• What I've been working on all year1.2M views · Oct 8, 20260.3× typical views
• The world's most extreme places, explained769K views · Sep 24, 20260.2× typical views
• I don't get democracy3.7M views · Sep 10, 20261.1× typical views
• How Money Actually Works3.7M views · Aug 13, 20261.1× typical views
• Meta glasses? Woof.144K views · Aug 3, 20260.3× typical views
• I can put stuff on a page. Iz makes it work.46K views · Aug 2, 20260.1× typical views
• Not ~the headlines~ again40K views · Aug 1, 20260.1× typical views
• Can’t wait to show you this journey with @drewbinsky34K views · Jul 31, 20260.1× typical views
• I pushed Google Docs to its limit339K views · Jul 30, 20260.7× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 812 channels in this niche. 17.6% 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 49.1×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 114.3×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 48.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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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 Johnny Harris or YouTube.