The Rest Is Politics YouTube Stats

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

The Rest Is Politics channel overview

The Rest Is Politics (@restispolitics) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2022. It has 700K subscribers and 196M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 132K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 84K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 0 views. Over the last 12 months, The Rest Is Politics published 55 videos (73% Shorts), and 4 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Rest Is Politics make?

Returbe estimates The Rest Is Politics's YouTube ad revenue at $35K – $141K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.25 to $0.97, typically $0.49, 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 $490.

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Upload schedule

The Rest Is Politics publishes about 36.9 videos a month. Based on its last 43 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (26% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

The Rest Is Politics's best outlier videos

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

• The pretending is over folks322K views · Oct 15, 20266× typical views
• Rory finally addresses THAT MEME.233K views · Sep 30, 20264.3× typical views
• The cheesy grits haven't won Rory over.178K views · Nov 2, 20263.3× typical views
• Alastair and Rory debrief on Michael Gove stepping in for Rory on the show last week 🤣165K views · Oct 15, 20263.1× typical views
• Andy Burnham says what Keir Starmer never would on Brexit.135K views · Sep 30, 20262.5× typical views
• "Trump has been on Putin's side from the beginning"132K views · Oct 23, 20262.5× typical views
• What would happen if the Europeans were to lock Trump up?130K views · Oct 6, 20262.4× typical views
• Rory sits down with Alastair for a moving conversation about his new book...126K views · Oct 16, 20262.3× typical views

Latest videos

12 of The Rest Is Politics's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• "Trump wants Republicans to do badly without him"46K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• Can the Democrats capitalise on midterms success?14K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Rory Stewart regrets wearing MAGA hat at Trump rally93K views · Nov 4, 20261.7× typical views
• “It was mesmerising”109K views · Nov 3, 20262× typical views
• Trump fans think he was late to a rally because he was "praying".73K views · Nov 3, 20261.4× typical views
• The cheesy grits haven't won Rory over.178K views · Nov 2, 20263.3× typical views
• "How coarse and disgusting American politics has become."116K views · Nov 2, 20262.2× typical views
• Why Americans vote for Trump99K views · Oct 30, 20261.8× typical views
• Lula's 'persevilience'26K views · Oct 29, 20260.5× typical views
• Rory criticises Labour's "muddled messaging" in the lead up to the budget.13K views · Oct 29, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 840 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 24.2×), 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 Rest Is Politics or YouTube.