Sky News YouTube Stats

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

Sky News channel overview

Sky News (@skynews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 9.4M subscribers and 6B total views across 79K videos, an average of 76K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 38K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 25K views. Over the last 12 months, Sky News published 543 videos (33% Shorts), and 97 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Sky News gained 10K subscribers and 29M views, about 1.7M views a day.

How much does Sky News make?

Returbe estimates Sky News's YouTube ad revenue at $131K – $522K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.68 to $6.72, typically $3.36, 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 $3.4K.

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

Sky News publishes about 584.4 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (35% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Sky News's best outlier videos

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

• AI progress is speeding up dramatically - here’s why you should care1.7M views · Sep 23, 202669.1× typical views
• Brace for turbulence: What next for Trump after disastrous midterms?978K views · Nov 4, 202639.3× typical views
• The PHP internet crisis could just be the beginning730K views · Oct 22, 202629.3× typical views
• Anthropic's finances are wilder than you think680K views · Oct 26, 202627.3× typical views
• How Russian military used Oleshky ceasefire to bring in troops, hardware and supplies587K views · Nov 1, 202623.6× typical views
• Star Trek and X-Men actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died | Sky News558K views · Oct 29, 202622.5× typical views
• Has Trump stopped supporting Ukraine? | Michael Clarke analysis555K views · Oct 19, 202622.3× typical views
• Part of Brighton's ruined West Pier collapses as UK hit by Storm Austen286K views · Oct 23, 202621.7× typical views

Latest videos

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

• 'Britain's worst childminder' confronted by Sky News as she's taken to prison323 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Trump speaks after announcing new White House chief of staff7.5K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• How detectives built the Russell Brand case | Episode 171.5K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Who in Trump's team will survive the midterms fallout?3.7K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Thomas Markle Snr arrested in Florida over child sexual abuse images7.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday service | Full Sky News coverage0 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Mornings with Jones and Melbourne | Saturday 7 November0 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• The Wrap with Anna Botting | Friday 6 November2 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• What can Andy Burnham learn from Donald Trump?5K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Two dead after bus carrying schoolchildren crashes in France7.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 822 channels in this niche. 18% 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 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 Sky News or YouTube.