Nick Shirley YouTube Stats

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

Nick Shirley channel overview

Nick Shirley (@nickshirley) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2015. It has 2M subscribers and 387M total views across 970 videos, an average of 399K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 291K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 827K views. Over the last 12 months, Nick Shirley published 58 videos (81% Shorts), and 9 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Nick Shirley gained 0 subscribers and 1.5M views, about 127K views a day.

How much does Nick Shirley make?

Returbe estimates Nick Shirley's YouTube ad revenue at $11K – $45K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.27 to $5.06, typically $2.53, 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 $2.5K.

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Upload schedule

Nick Shirley publishes about 25 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (17% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Nick Shirley's best outlier videos

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

• Nick Shirley finds Nick Shirley in McDonald’s833K views · Sep 9, 202612.3× typical views
• This doesn’t make any sense…486K views · Sep 18, 20267.2× typical views
• Don’t Let America Become A Learing Center350K views · Nov 5, 20265.2× typical views
• The US just TOOK Greenland317K views · Sep 19, 20264.7× typical views
• Elon Musk and Nick Shirley after exposing fraud…303K views · Sep 26, 20264.5× typical views
• I got attacked at the airport…269K views · Sep 24, 20264× typical views
• Portland streets are INSANE 🧟‍♂️266K views · Oct 5, 20263.9× typical views
• 🚨FRAUDSTERS AND POLITICIANS FACE PRISON TIME250K views · Oct 3, 20263.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Nick Shirley's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Don’t Let America Become A Learing Center350K views · Nov 5, 20265.2× typical views
• Corrupt NGO calls the police on me64K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History758K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views
• Brazilians HATE Nationalism33K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Brazilians HATE America86K views · Oct 28, 20261.3× typical views
• Tourist gets lost in protest looking for women in Brazil 🇧🇷46K views · Oct 27, 20260.7× typical views
• Communist win Brazil Election26K views · Oct 27, 20260.4× typical views
• Lula Declared Winner of Brazil Election 💀57K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views
• Brazil Has Fallen... Communist Take Over The Country622K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views
• Brazil Right Wing Attempted to take back the country…19K views · Oct 26, 20260.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 814 channels in this niche. 18% 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: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 51×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 114.3×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 48.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 24.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 104.6×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×).

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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 Nick Shirley or YouTube.