Strict Scrutiny YouTube Stats

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

Strict Scrutiny channel overview

Strict Scrutiny (@strictscrutinypodcast) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2023. It has 94K subscribers and 7.9M total views across 411 videos, an average of 19K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 19K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 20K views. Over the last 12 months, Strict Scrutiny published 54 videos (50% Shorts), and 3 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, Strict Scrutiny gained 300 subscribers and 200K views, about 20K views a day.

How much does Strict Scrutiny make?

Returbe estimates Strict Scrutiny's YouTube ad revenue at $917 – $3.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.36 to $5.42, typically $2.71, 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 $2.7K.

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Upload schedule

Strict Scrutiny publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (43% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

Strict Scrutiny's best outlier videos

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

• Where was Susan Collins when this happened?95K views · Oct 28, 202615× typical views
• Justice Kagan was WILD in this oral argument34K views · Oct 20, 20265.4× typical views
• Is this the best John Roberts can do?26K views · Aug 18, 20264× typical views
• Has Justice Thomas just considered going to therapy?18K views · Sep 1, 20262.9× typical views
• They're just making stuff up now.17K views · Oct 13, 20262.7× typical views
• The Supreme Court Is Coming For Everything52K views · Sep 28, 20262.6× typical views
• The Case for Packing the Supreme Court50K views · Sep 3, 20262.5× typical views
• Alito’s New Book: We Read It So You Don’t Have To48K views · Oct 13, 20262.4× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Strict Scrutiny's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This hearing did not go well for the government15K views · Nov 3, 20262.3× typical views
• Being sleazy is NOT a crime1.5K views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• Trump’s Attacks On The Midterms Keep Getting Dumber24K views · Nov 2, 20261.2× typical views
• Where was Susan Collins when this happened?95K views · Oct 28, 202615× typical views
• This lawsuit is pure BULLSH*T5.1K views · Oct 27, 20260.8× typical views
• This is the WORST political ad of ALL TIME4.8K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views
• Trump’s Legal Chaos Is Getting WORSE41K views · Oct 26, 20262.1× typical views
• How Dobbs has changed healthcare for EVERYONE4.1K views · Oct 21, 20260.6× typical views
• Justice Kagan was WILD in this oral argument34K views · Oct 20, 20265.4× typical views
• The Strict Scrutiny hosts react to Trump's failed Press Secretary6.2K views · Oct 19, 20261× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 813 channels in this niche. 17.2% 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.

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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 Strict Scrutiny or YouTube.