LastWeekTonight YouTube Stats

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

LastWeekTonight channel overview

LastWeekTonight (@lastweektonight) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2014. It has 10M subscribers and 5B total views across 1.2K videos, an average of 4.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.9M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 779K views. Over the last 12 months, LastWeekTonight published 62 videos (53% Shorts), and 9 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, LastWeekTonight gained 0 subscribers and 41M views, about 2.4M views a day.

How much does LastWeekTonight make?

Returbe estimates LastWeekTonight's YouTube ad revenue at $116K – $464K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.15 to $4.6, typically $2.31, 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 $2.3K.

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

LastWeekTonight publishes about 19.6 videos a month. Based on its last 62 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (42% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

LastWeekTonight's best outlier videos

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

• The Republican Party & The Far Right: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)7.7M views · Oct 26, 20269.9× typical views
• Midterms 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)6.5M views · Nov 2, 20268.4× typical views
• The Secret Service: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)5.9M views · Oct 5, 20267.6× typical views
• UnitedHealthcare & UnitedHealth Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)5.6M views · Sep 21, 20267.2× typical views
• Generic Drugs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)4.9M views · Oct 12, 20266.3× typical views
• Brazil Elections 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)4.8M views · Sep 28, 20266.2× typical views
• Subscriptions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)4.1M views · Aug 24, 20265.3× typical views
• Kimberly Guilfoyle #lastweektonight3.4M views · Oct 12, 20263.2× typical views

Latest videos

12 of LastWeekTonight's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The $100 Bill #lastweektonight699K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Republicans & James Talarico #lastweektonight1.3M views · Nov 3, 20261.2× typical views
• Republicans & Abdul El-Sayed #lastweektonight1.5M views · Nov 3, 20261.4× typical views
• Midterms & Trump #lastweektonight1.8M views · Nov 2, 20261.7× typical views
• Midterm Elections #lastweektonight1.1M views · Nov 2, 20261.1× typical views
• Midterms 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)6.5M views · Nov 2, 20268.4× typical views
• S13 E28: Midterm Elections & The $100 Bill: 11/1/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver1M views · Nov 2, 20261.3× typical views
• Mike Collins & Marshall Rawson #lastweektonight1.1M views · Oct 29, 20261.1× typical views
• The Republican Party & Bo French #lastweektonight1.6M views · Oct 27, 20261.5× typical views
• The Republican Party & The Far Right #lastweektonight1.7M views · Oct 26, 20261.6× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 810 channels in this niche. 17.3% 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 LastWeekTonight or YouTube.