Politics Weekly YouTube Stats

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

Politics Weekly channel overview

Politics Weekly (@politicsweekly) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2026. It has 8.7K subscribers and 2.7M total views across 151 videos, an average of 18K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 7.3K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 6.1K views. Over the last 12 months, Politics Weekly published 88 videos (41% Shorts), and 14 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Politics Weekly gained 1.6K subscribers and 849K views, about 50K views a day.

How much does Politics Weekly make?

Returbe estimates Politics Weekly's YouTube ad revenue at $1.8K – $7.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.94 to $7.76, typically $3.88, 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 $3.9K.

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

Politics Weekly publishes about 61.9 videos a month. Based on its last 88 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (20% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Politics Weekly's best outlier videos

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

• “There’s no such thing as democracy” Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty794K views · Oct 3, 2026129.9× typical views
• What will Trump do if Republicans lose the midterms? | Politics Weekly America332K views · Oct 23, 202654.4× typical views
• The tragedy of Andy Burnham according to Varoufakis | Radical thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty108K views · Oct 7, 202617.6× typical views
• How the Left gets ready for the AI crash according to Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking71K views · Oct 10, 202611.7× typical views
• How the left should talk to Trump voters according to Naomi Klein | Radical Thinking64K views · Oct 14, 202610.4× typical views
• Are Republicans about to lose the Senate? | Politics Weekly America56K views · Oct 9, 20269.2× typical views
• Can James Talarico flip Texas for the Democrats? | Politics Weekly America48K views · Oct 2, 20267.9× typical views
• Why did a Democrat try and sabotage El-Sayed in Michigan? | Politics Weekly America42K views · Nov 3, 20266.8× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Politics Weekly's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• All politics is identity politics549 views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• How Gen Z muslims are taking on the establishment | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking9.5K views · Nov 7, 20261.6× typical views
• “Donald has just suffered the greatest narcissistic injury of his life” | Politics Weekly America17K views · Nov 6, 20262.8× typical views
• Mary Trump sounds the alarm about her uncle2.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• How will Trump respond to epic failure? | Politics Weekly America17K views · Nov 6, 20262.7× typical views
• Dems must disavow Israel4.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Blue wave sweeps the US3.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• How Democrats flipped deep-red Texas | Politics Weekly America261 views · Nov 5, 20260× typical views
• Trump's end begins now | Politics Weekly America1.8K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• How many Trump-endorsed candidates flopped? | Politics Weekly America784 views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.8% 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 27.5×), 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 Politics Weekly or YouTube.