NBC News YouTube Stats

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

NBC News channel overview

NBC News (@nbcnews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 12M subscribers and 11B total views across 103K videos, an average of 104K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 47K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 32K views. Over the last 12 months, NBC News published 687 videos (49% Shorts), and 143 of them (21%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, NBC News gained 0 subscribers and 99M views, about 5.8M views a day.

How much does NBC News make?

Returbe estimates NBC News's YouTube ad revenue at $343K – $1.4M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.21 to $4.84, typically $2.42, 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 $2.4K.

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

NBC News publishes about 745.2 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (46% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

NBC News's best outlier videos

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

• Tesla unveils new flying car model2.1M views · Oct 16, 202665.7× typical views
• Search for survivors after high-rise collapse1.3M views · Oct 23, 202640.8× typical views
• Catastrophic floods prompt evacuations1.1M views · Oct 23, 202636× typical views
• Steve Kornacki breaks down final NBC News poll before midterm elections938K views · Nov 2, 202629.5× typical views
• IDF helmet cam shows gunfight with Palestinian gunmen787K views · Oct 24, 202627.4× typical views
• Catastrophic floods force evacuations across the West865K views · Oct 25, 202627.2× typical views
• ‘This is not a hoax’: Tech ethicist Tristan Harris warns AI takeover ‘no longer a hypothetical’827K views · Sep 15, 202626× typical views
• Influencer James O’Keefe charged with unlawful voting677K views · Oct 29, 202623.6× typical views

Latest videos

8 of NBC News's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano sends lava fountains into the sky355 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman wins L.A. mayoral race8.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Protesters rally against Trump’s proposed D.C. arch1K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Wall Street left reeling after tech stock sell-off1K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Multiple people dead in Brooklyn fire864 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Urgent rescues in the Southeast after severe flooding2.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Steve Kornacki reacts to viral moments during the midterm election236K views · Nov 6, 20267.4× typical views
• Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoral race, NBC News projects57K views · Nov 6, 20261.8× typical views
• NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Full Episode - Nov. 5182K views · Nov 6, 20265.7× typical views
• Top Story with Tom Llamas - Nov. 5 | NBC News NOW42K views · Nov 6, 20261.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 812 channels in this niche. 17.2% 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: M6 Info (315K subs, best video 71.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.6×), ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 42.1×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 95.5×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.8×).

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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 NBC News or YouTube.