Linus Tech Tips YouTube Stats

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

Linus Tech Tips channel overview

Linus Tech Tips (@linustechtips) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2008. It has 17M subscribers and 10B total views across 8K videos, an average of 1.3M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.9M views. Over the last 12 months, Linus Tech Tips published 23 videos (13% Shorts), and 1 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Linus Tech Tips make?

Returbe estimates Linus Tech Tips's YouTube ad revenue at $175K – $698K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.77 to $15.09, typically $7.55, 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 $7.5K.

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Upload schedule

Linus Tech Tips publishes about 23.9 videos a month. Based on its last 23 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (43% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Linus Tech Tips's best outlier videos

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

• My F-You To Sam Altman5.9M views · Nov 3, 20263.1× typical views
• There’s a Secret (Better) Netflix for Millionaires5.3M views · Oct 24, 20262.8× typical views
• Pros Try Fake AI Photoshop3.2M views · Oct 17, 20261.7× typical views
• This is an Official Sony Product2.5M views · Oct 17, 20261.3× typical views
• Apple Made a MacBook for ME2.4M views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• Finishing What we Started Seven Years Ago2.1M views · Oct 10, 20261.1× typical views
• How to Switch to Linux2.1M views · Oct 27, 20261.1× typical views
• I Doubled My GPU’s Memory (in a guy's basement)2.1M views · Nov 1, 20261.1× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Linus Tech Tips's last 23 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• “Tesla Hater” Finally Tries Full Self Driving1.2M views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• My F-You To Sam Altman2.1M views · Nov 5, 2026
• Good PC Deals Still Exist!1M views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• My F-You To Sam Altman5.9M views · Nov 3, 20263.1× typical views
• GTA 6 on PC May be Coming Sooner than We Thought1.2M views · Nov 2, 20260.6× typical views
• I Doubled My GPU’s Memory (in a guy's basement)2.1M views · Nov 1, 20261.1× typical views
• Ep. 35 - Best Tech for a Deserted Island...198K views · Oct 30, 2026
• I was wrong about Augmented Reality1.6M views · Oct 29, 20260.8× typical views
• Apple Made a MacBook for ME2.4M views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• Pros Try AI-Cloned Engineering Tools1.8M views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 899 channels in this niche. 11.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.5K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (89K subs, best video 172.7×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.2×), Sprunki Land (39K subs, best video 95.2×), Tech Meets East (21K subs, best video 11.9×), Fun Universe (57K subs, best video 98.3×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 131.3×).

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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 Linus Tech Tips or YouTube.