Politicon YouTube Stats

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

Politicon channel overview

Politicon (@politicon) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2015. It has 495K subscribers and 146M total views across 4.4K videos, an average of 33K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 64K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 12K views. Over the last 12 months, Politicon published 53 videos (57% Shorts), and 12 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Politicon make?

Returbe estimates Politicon's YouTube ad revenue at $4.5K – $18K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.23 to $4.91, typically $2.46, 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.

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

Politicon publishes about 57.6 videos a month. Based on its last 53 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (26% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Politicon's best outlier videos

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

• Trump’s About to Get More Depressed: Carville & Hunt on the Democratic Blowout615K views · Nov 4, 202650.7× typical views
• Carville: Haley Stevens’ Political Career Is OVER560K views · Nov 1, 202646.2× typical views
• Carville: Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff Should Alarm Every American341K views · Nov 6, 202628.2× typical views
• James Carville: We Won! Now Subpoena Everyone184K views · Nov 5, 202615.2× typical views
• Carville and McKinnon on the Final Stretch: What Number Disgraces Trump?132K views · Oct 28, 202610.9× typical views
• Haley Stevens Is OVER243K views · Nov 1, 20267.4× typical views
• Give HIM a Cut197K views · Nov 2, 20266× typical views
• Axelrod & McKinnon: What Happens After Election Night68K views · Oct 29, 20265.6× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Trump Can't Hide1.8K views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Go Work the Polls409 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• One Mississippi, Two Mississippi931 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• Trump’s Answer to a Midterm Shellacking? Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff2.9K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• 354: A New Era2.6K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• Democrats, Saddle Up3.6K views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Miller: The Cruelty Is the Point3.8K views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Carville: Trump's New Chief Of Staff137K views · Nov 6, 20264.2× typical views
• Is Stephen Miller Compromised?37K views · Nov 6, 20261.1× typical views
• Carville: Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff Should Alarm Every American341K views · Nov 6, 202628.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.9% 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.4×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×).

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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 Politicon or YouTube.