Newsthink YouTube Stats

@newsthink · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Newsthink channel overview

Newsthink (@newsthink) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2017. It has 1.2M subscribers and 185M total views across 272 videos, an average of 680K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 202K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 81K views. Over the last 12 months, Newsthink published 29 videos (7% Shorts), and 5 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Newsthink make?

Returbe estimates Newsthink's YouTube ad revenue at $8K – $27K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.93 to $9.76, typically $5.37, 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 $5.4K.

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Upload schedule

Newsthink publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (22% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Newsthink's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Talented Man in AI1.7M views · May 31, 202621.1× typical views
• The Greatest Mathematician of Our Time920K views · Feb 4, 202611.3× typical views
• The Fall of Bill Gates639K views · Feb 7, 20267.9× typical views
• The CIA’s Most Valuable Spy534K views · Nov 24, 20256.6× typical views
• The Scientist Who Lost Everything256K views · Aug 31, 20263.1× typical views
• How Jensen Huang Outsmarted Everyone220K views · Nov 14, 20252.7× typical views
• The Greatest Engineer in AI220K views · Jul 27, 20262.7× typical views
• The Strangest Man in Mathematics180K views · Mar 10, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

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

• How Tesla Fumbled Its Lead34K views · Oct 31, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Isaac Newton Left Science46K views · Oct 19, 20260.6× typical views
• The Strange Life of Schrödinger88K views · Oct 1, 20261.1× typical views
• The Scientist Only Einstein Believed81K views · Sep 20, 20261× typical views
• The Scientist Who Lost Everything256K views · Aug 31, 20263.1× typical views
• The Professor Who Started the AI Revolution45K views · Aug 4, 20260.6× typical views
• The Greatest Engineer in AI220K views · Jul 27, 20262.7× typical views
• The Engineer Who No Longer Codes24K views · Jun 23, 20260.3× typical views
• How Elon Musk Became the World’s First Trillionaire56K views · Jun 12, 20260.7× typical views
• The Most Talented Man in AI1.7M views · May 31, 202621.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 Newsthink or YouTube.