PBS NewsHour YouTube Stats

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

PBS NewsHour channel overview

PBS NewsHour (@pbsnewshour) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2009. It has 5.4M subscribers and 3.3B total views across 64K videos, an average of 52K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 55K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 35K views. Over the last 12 months, PBS NewsHour published 147 videos (30% Shorts), and 25 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does PBS NewsHour make?

Returbe estimates PBS NewsHour's YouTube ad revenue at $96K – $382K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.77 to $7.07, typically $3.53, 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 $3.5K.

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

PBS NewsHour publishes about 159.7 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (30% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

PBS NewsHour's best outlier videos

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

• Capehart and Continetti on closing messages and midterm predictions745K views · Oct 30, 202621.1× typical views
• WATCH: Zelenskyy says Trump relationship is 'emotional'131K views · Nov 2, 202611× typical views
• WATCH: Obama calls out Trump for 'supergluing gold medallions,' says 'these are not serious people'310K views · Oct 29, 20268.8× typical views
• Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the early signals to watch on Election Night293K views · Nov 3, 20268.3× typical views
• News Wrap: Judge investigating if Trump officials misled court about D.C. golf course plan282K views · Oct 30, 20268× typical views
• WATCH: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan speaks at election night watch party267K views · Nov 4, 20267.6× typical views
• A look at the midterm races that remain undecided260K views · Nov 5, 20267.4× typical views
• Final results show no clear winner in Israeli election84K views · Oct 31, 20267.1× typical views

Latest videos

10 of PBS NewsHour's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at aerospace summit at NASA's Kennedy Space Center0 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Newsom commutes sentences of all CA death row inmates #shorts747 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• PBS News Hour full episode, Nov. 5, 2026147K views · Nov 6, 20264.2× typical views
• On 'Settle In,' D.L. Hughley recounts his confrontation with Bill Cosby14K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• State lawmakers seek greater control over what universities can teach15K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Refugee influx and foreign aid cuts strain South Sudan's health care system8.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Newsom plans to commute all of California's death sentences30K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Rep. Garcia says voters gave Democrats a mandate to pursue accountability23K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• After midterms, world leaders await Trump's next move in Iran38K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• News Wrap: Head of Justice Department's civil rights division resigns120K views · Nov 5, 20263.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 811 channels in this niche. 17.6% 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 49.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 57.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 28.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 108.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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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 PBS NewsHour or YouTube.