Parks and Recreation YouTube Stats

@parksandrecreation · Comedy & Memes · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Parks and Recreation channel overview

Parks and Recreation (@parksandrecreation) is a YouTube channel in the Comedy & Memes niche created in 2012. It has 626K subscribers and 1.1B total views across 1.6K videos, an average of 703K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 437K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 133K views. Over the last 12 months, Parks and Recreation published 58 videos (21% Shorts), and 9 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, Parks and Recreation gained 2K subscribers and 17M views, about 1.7M views a day.

How much does Parks and Recreation make?

Returbe estimates Parks and Recreation's YouTube ad revenue at $38K – $158K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.81 to $3.35, typically $1.75, 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 $1.8K.

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

Parks and Recreation publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (26% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Parks and Recreation's best outlier videos

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

• The Quick Way Andy Lost His Weight | Parks and Recreation2.4M views · Oct 23, 202618.3× typical views
• Ron Swanson Meets His Dream Match | Parks and Recreation1.4M views · Aug 11, 202610.4× typical views
• Ron HATES London (But Found a Small Love in Europe) | Parks and Recreation1.3M views · Oct 16, 20269.5× typical views
• The Unexpected Besties on Parks and Recreation920K views · Aug 18, 20266.9× typical views
• Shauna Fumbling Every Eligible Man in Pawnee | Parks and Recreation780K views · Sep 29, 20265.8× typical views
• Why can't he yell at kids? | Parks and Recreation1.8M views · Oct 17, 20265.4× typical views
• They Stripped his FREEDOM! | Parks and Recreation1.7M views · Oct 24, 20265.1× typical views
• How Ben Wyatt Created the World's Most Confusing Game | Parks and Recreation582K views · Sep 9, 20264.4× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Parks and Recreation's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Ron Swanson Gets Way Too Excited During a Shoe Shine | Parks and Recreation9.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Andy Can Member Things | Parks and Recreation206K views · Nov 4, 20260.6× typical views
• The ULTIMATE Ron Swanson vs Chris Traeger Showdown | Parks and Recreation128K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• Side Characters Who CARRIED Parks and Recreation101K views · Nov 1, 20260.8× typical views
• WHO left the door open! | Parks and Recreation18K views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• Nobody Does Halloween Like Pawnee | Parks and Recreation160K views · Oct 30, 20261.2× typical views
• Put those Cabbages away Connie! | Parks and Recreation362K views · Oct 28, 20261.1× typical views
• Every Pawnee Council Member is a Different Kind of Chaos | Parks and Recreation89K views · Oct 27, 20260.7× typical views
• April getting her sh*t together over the course of 20 minutes | Parks and Recreation86K views · Oct 25, 20260.6× typical views
• They Stripped his FREEDOM! | Parks and Recreation1.7M views · Oct 24, 20265.1× typical views

The Comedy & Memes niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 12K videos from 804 channels in this niche. 17.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 47K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.2 to $5.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Adictos Al Trap (216K subs, best video 39.9×), Patrick Custer (32K subs, best video 404.4×), gningbo (84K subs, best video 2014.8×), Theo Rogan Shorts (436K subs, best video 22.1×), EpsilonnEdit (18K subs, best video 41.9×), WearTheGag (89K subs, best video 63.7×).

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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 Parks and Recreation or YouTube.