The Reason Roundtable YouTube Stats

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

The Reason Roundtable channel overview

The Reason Roundtable (@reasonroundtable) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2023. It has 10K subscribers and 1.7M total views across 595 videos, an average of 2.9K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 8K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 6.2K views. Over the last 12 months, The Reason Roundtable published 52 videos (46% Shorts), and 4 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 9 days, The Reason Roundtable gained 100 subscribers and 38K views, about 4.2K views a day.

How much does The Reason Roundtable make?

Returbe estimates The Reason Roundtable's YouTube ad revenue at $281 – $1.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.6 to $6.41, typically $3.21, 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

The Reason Roundtable publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (47% of uploads), usually around 22:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

The Reason Roundtable's best outlier videos

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

• France's Welfare State Is Finally Imploding37K views · Oct 19, 20265.9× typical views
• California's Wealth Tax Is Already Backfiring25K views · Oct 26, 20264× typical views
• Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?23K views · Oct 5, 20263.7× typical views
• Did the Midterm Elections Just Kill MAGA?22K views · Nov 4, 20263.5× typical views
• Is AI Really an Existential Threat?14K views · Sep 14, 20262.3× typical views
• AOC Is Rewriting the American Revolution9K views · May 13, 20261.8× typical views
• Trump Wants the FCC to Punish His Enemies9.5K views · Aug 31, 20261.5× typical views
• What Do Libertarians Have to Gain from the Midterms?8.6K views · Nov 2, 20261.4× typical views

Latest videos

6 of The Reason Roundtable's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Did the Midterm Elections Just Kill MAGA?22K views · Nov 4, 20263.5× typical views
• What Do Libertarians Have to Gain from the Midterms?8.6K views · Nov 2, 20261.4× typical views
• California's Wealth Tax Is Already Backfiring25K views · Oct 26, 20264× typical views
• France's Welfare State Is Finally Imploding37K views · Oct 19, 20265.9× typical views
• Republicans Are Trying to Rebrand Socialism6.4K views · Oct 12, 20261× typical views
• Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?23K views · Oct 5, 20263.7× typical views
• Trump's Iran War Is Losing With Everyone (Even Republicans)7.3K views · Sep 29, 20261.2× typical views
• Does CNN Deserve to be Banned from the White House?6.2K views · Sep 21, 20261× typical views
• Is AI Really an Existential Threat?14K views · Sep 14, 20262.3× typical views
• Why Public Schools Lost 1.4 Million Students7.7K views · Sep 8, 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 The Reason Roundtable or YouTube.