Official W5 YouTube Stats

@officialw5 · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Official W5 channel overview

Official W5 (@officialw5) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2017. It has 319K subscribers and 78M total views across 706 videos, an average of 110K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 6.2K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2.2K views. Over the last 12 months, Official W5 published 58 videos (40% Shorts), and 9 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Official W5 gained 1K subscribers and 207K views, about 12K views a day.

How much does Official W5 make?

Returbe estimates Official W5's YouTube ad revenue at $946 – $3.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.82 to $7.28, typically $3.64, 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 $3.6K.

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

Official W5 publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (28% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Official W5's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Official W5's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 'A very violent, horrible death': Who murdered Lynda Shaw? | From the Archives155K views · Jun 22, 202669.5× typical views
• Kristen Deyell murdered in Mexico: W5 investigates potential ‘El Chapo’ links | From the Archives90K views · Sep 16, 202640.2× typical views
• Canadians win massive defamation suit against alleged cult leader | W5 Investigates20K views · Nov 3, 20269.1× typical views
• Canadians say airlines refuse to pay after bag tag switching leads to false drug accusations15K views · May 28, 20266.6× typical views
• Security weaknesses found in W5 report will be ‘identified and addressed quickly,' Transport Canada13K views · May 26, 20265.9× typical views
• Alleged cult leader convinced dozens of Canadians to move to Florida, claiming Canada was unsafe9.5K views · Nov 4, 20264.2× typical views
• 'Sometimes you feel hopeless because no one can help you': Canadian motorists stuck with lemons | W58.7K views · Sep 2, 20263.9× typical views
• Meet the man with no identity: 1986 investigation by W5 | From the Archives7.2K views · Sep 18, 20263.2× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Official W5's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• She says she's a psychic and spiritual leader, but can Liani Shanti's claims be believed? | W5510 views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• Is a $56 million verdict enough to stop an alleged cult leader from making new attacks online?2.2K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• What Lies Beneath: The danger of cross bores under homes | From the Archives2.3K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• “Fake Filtered Cult Leader” | W5 Investigates0 views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• Why did this alleged cult leader tell women they were victims of sexual abuse?2.4K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• Alleged cult leader convinced dozens of Canadians to move to Florida, claiming Canada was unsafe9.5K views · Nov 4, 20264.2× typical views
• Canadians win massive defamation suit against alleged cult leader | W5 Investigates20K views · Nov 3, 20269.1× typical views
• Maritime Monster: Nova Scotia farmer grows super squash in 1973 | From the Archives2.2K views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
• Dawson City, Yukon: The intransigent town with a ‘gold fever’ in 1991 | From the Archives2.2K views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views
• Is a future ice age inevitable for humanity? Here’s what scientists said in 1976 | From the Archives2K views · Sep 28, 20260.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $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 Official W5 or YouTube.