Free Media YouTube Stats

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

Free Media channel overview

Free Media (@reasonfreemedia) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2024. It has 20K subscribers and 2.9M total views across 475 videos, an average of 6.1K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 7.5K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 8.4K views. Over the last 12 months, Free Media published 58 videos (36% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 9 days, Free Media gained 200 subscribers and 57K views, about 6.4K views a day.

How much does Free Media make?

Returbe estimates Free Media's YouTube ad revenue at $308 – $1.2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.6 to $6.4, typically $3.2, 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 $3.2K.

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Upload schedule

Free Media publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (27% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Free Media's best outlier videos

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

• This exposé in the Atlantic is ABSURD31K views · Aug 14, 20266.2× typical views
• France in FLAMES as protests turn VIOLENT20K views · Oct 21, 20262.4× typical views
• Don’t Blame Libertarians—Rightwingers Need to OWN Their Political Failures!17K views · Sep 29, 20262× typical views
• Protests at Cornell, Jane Doe Audio RELEASED16K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views
• Far-Left Dems THREATEN Elon Musk, “NATIONALIZE” SpaceX13K views · Oct 27, 20261.6× typical views
• Nikole Hannah-Jones ADMITS Failing NYC Schools "BETRAYED" Daughter13K views · Sep 22, 20261.6× typical views
• Lindsay Clancy defenders have LOST IT?!13K views · Sep 3, 20261.6× typical views
• Ilhan Omar Immigration FRAUD Alleged!13K views · Oct 15, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Free Media's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This is DEEPLY cynical778 views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Midterm Fallout: All Hail Our They/Them Overlords6K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• JD Vance BLAMES Trump’s Iran War for Midterm DISASTER!9.3K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• This is DIRTY politics1.8K views · Nov 1, 20260.4× typical views
• We love a good Halloween costume2.5K views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• You Can See Everything But Did You Want to See This???8.7K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• This is how much the Dems HATE Elon Musk2.6K views · Oct 28, 20260.5× typical views
• Far-Left Dems THREATEN Elon Musk, “NATIONALIZE” SpaceX13K views · Oct 27, 20261.6× typical views
• Vivek Ramaswamy, Elizabeth Holmes, Jesus6.4K views · Oct 22, 20260.8× typical views
• Elissa Slotkin, Kara Swisher Vow REVENGE Against MAGA If Dems Win10K views · Oct 21, 20261.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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 72.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 147.4×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 52.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 Free Media or YouTube.