Taking Off YouTube Stats

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

Taking Off channel overview

Taking Off (@takingoff) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2018. It has 279K subscribers and 82M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 54K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 164K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 119K views. Over the last 12 months, Taking Off published 56 videos (73% Shorts), and 13 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Taking Off make?

Returbe estimates Taking Off's YouTube ad revenue at $42K – $168K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.25 to $4.99, typically $2.5, 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 $2.5K.

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

Taking Off publishes about 46.7 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (21% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Taking Off's best outlier videos

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

• Learjet 60 Crashes Near West Palm Beach1.2M views · Nov 1, 202686.7× typical views
• What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash2.5M views · Nov 2, 202620.7× typical views
• Nepal Shocking Helicopter Footage209K views · Nov 3, 202615.2× typical views
• What’s Big Deal Floatplane Takeoff Under Portland Bridge?185K views · Oct 12, 202613.4× typical views
• Italian Chinook Crash in Bosnia During ROUTINE Training!117K views · Oct 29, 20268.5× typical views
• Propeller Strikes Officer Walking Away From Plane in Somalia104K views · Nov 4, 20267.5× typical views
• Learjet Crash: Who Picks Routes in Weather?89K views · Nov 3, 20266.5× typical views
• Tesla Roadster Nearly 9 Years of Delays, Then a Jump Over a Semi86K views · Oct 16, 20266.2× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Taking Off's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• John Denver Crash: What They Got WRONG36K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Propeller Strikes Officer Walking Away From Plane in Somalia104K views · Nov 4, 20267.5× typical views
• R44 Helicopter Crashes off Key Biscayne With 3 Aboard18K views · Nov 4, 20261.3× typical views
• Learjet Crash: Who Picks Routes in Weather?89K views · Nov 3, 20266.5× typical views
• Nepal Shocking Helicopter Footage209K views · Nov 3, 202615.2× typical views
• What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash2.5M views · Nov 2, 202620.7× typical views
• Two Helicopters Collide: What the NTSB Just Revealed90K views · Nov 1, 20260.8× typical views
• Learjet 60 Crashes Near West Palm Beach1.2M views · Nov 1, 202686.7× typical views
• Mechanic Warned About This Helicopter Before It Crashed33K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Charter Helicopter Crashes Near Joshimath in India5.8K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× 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 Taking Off or YouTube.