Sam Ellis YouTube Stats

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

Sam Ellis channel overview

Sam Ellis (@samellis) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2023. It has 999K subscribers and 74M total views across 169 videos, an average of 438K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 646K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 836K views. Over the last 12 months, Sam Ellis published 28 videos (39% Shorts), and 5 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Sam Ellis make?

Returbe estimates Sam Ellis's YouTube ad revenue at $2K – $8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.92 to $7.68, typically $3.84, 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 $3.8K.

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Upload schedule

Sam Ellis publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 41 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (51% of uploads), usually around 04:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Sam Ellis's best outlier videos

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

• FOUND: Cartel member playing Padel999K views · Aug 4, 202644.6× typical views
• UPDATE on FIFA turmoil105K views · Aug 5, 20264.7× typical views
• Why these Irish cartel bosses are still free2.9M views · Apr 11, 20263.5× typical views
• Why there's a FIFA civil war74K views · Jul 30, 20263.3× typical views
• The Trump family’s corruption is backfiring2.6M views · Oct 8, 20263.1× typical views
• Why Japanese baseball is so unique 56K views · Aug 7, 20262.5× typical views
• Why India and China suck at football1.3M views · Aug 9, 20261.6× typical views
• America’s deadly miscalculation in Iran1.2M views · Sep 8, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Why Albania is protesting Jared Kushner3.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Trump family corruption is backfiring9.6K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Albania built 175,000 bunkers9.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• Why the UAE is untouchable11K views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• The UAE is too powerful to punish13K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views
• How the UAE got too powerful to punish907K views · Oct 24, 20261.1× typical views
• The Trump family’s corruption is backfiring2.6M views · Oct 8, 20263.1× typical views
• America’s deadly miscalculation in Iran1.2M views · Sep 8, 20261.5× typical views
• Why China is building stadiums everywhere471K views · Sep 8, 20260.6× typical views
• How a loophole brought Japanese baseball to the U.S.16K views · Aug 13, 20260.7× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 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.

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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 Sam Ellis or YouTube.