Lenny's Podcast YouTube Stats

@lennyspodcast · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Lenny's Podcast channel overview

Lenny's Podcast (@lennyspodcast) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2006. It has 651K subscribers and 24M total views across 1.9K videos, an average of 13K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 60K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 57K views. Over the last 12 months, Lenny's Podcast published 44 videos (32% Shorts), and 3 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Lenny's Podcast make?

Returbe estimates Lenny's Podcast's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $5.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.93 to $15.72, typically $7.86, 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 $7.9K.

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Upload schedule

Lenny's Podcast publishes about 19.6 videos a month. Based on its last 44 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (39% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Lenny's Podcast's best outlier videos

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

• How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al | Katie Dill (Stripe)598K views · Oct 8, 202610.5× typical views
• Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)594K views · Aug 9, 202610.4× typical views
• How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)286K views · Oct 8, 20265× typical views
• OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux161K views · Oct 8, 20262.8× typical views
• 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abel119K views · Sep 8, 20262.1× typical views
• Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)83K views · Oct 17, 20261.5× typical views
• AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)81K views · Sep 8, 20261.4× typical views
• Hire for Unlearning Rate, Not Learning Rate6.7K views · Oct 19, 20261.3× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Lenny's Podcast's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The #1 Mistake Brands are Making with UGC961 views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• A UGC masterclass from the 22-year-old who built Wispr Flow’s growth machine | Hector Serrano54K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• Why Design Partners Don't Work2.6K views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• Your cold email isn't a sales pitch4.8K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• The Design Partner Trap5K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• Does your product need to be 10x better?5.5K views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views
• AI Progress Is Smooth Until It Crosses a Threshold3.1K views · Oct 26, 20260.6× typical views
• How to find product-market fit (but, actually) | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)72K views · Oct 26, 20261.3× typical views
• What Happens When AI Beats The Expert?3.3K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Why Anthropic Takes AI Risk So Seriously3.7K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 11K videos from 926 channels in this niche. 11.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (89K subs, best video 180.8×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 319.4×), Sprunki Land (39K subs, best video 95.2×), Fun Universe (57K subs, best video 93.3×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 141.9×), Pro Picks (21K subs, best video 41.4×).

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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 Lenny's Podcast or YouTube.