TechCrunch YouTube Stats

@techcrunch · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

TechCrunch channel overview

TechCrunch (@techcrunch) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2005. It has 678K subscribers and 221M total views across 11K videos, an average of 21K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.2K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.2K views. Over the last 12 months, TechCrunch published 72 videos (4% Shorts), and 10 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, TechCrunch gained 1K subscribers and 312K views, about 18K views a day.

How much does TechCrunch make?

Returbe estimates TechCrunch's YouTube ad revenue at $1.7K – $6.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.93 to $15.73, typically $7.86, 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 $7.9K.

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

TechCrunch publishes about 78.2 videos a month. Based on its last 72 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (38% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

TechCrunch's best outlier videos

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

• What Are Founders Getting Wrong? Benchmark’s Five Partners Reveal All | Disrupt 202617K views · Oct 15, 202614.5× typical views
• Going Viral Is the Easy Part: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on Keeping the Momentum | Disrupt 202617K views · Oct 16, 202614.2× typical views
• Databricks on Why Enterprise AI Deals Die After the Pilot (And How to Fix It) | Disrupt 202613K views · Oct 16, 202611.4× typical views
• Everyone Can Build Software. What Happens Now? Replit's CEO Amjad Masad Has an Idea | Disrupt 20268K views · Oct 16, 20266.9× typical views
• Blackstone N1’s Jas Khaira on Building the Next Generation of AI Giants | Disrupt 20267.5K views · Oct 15, 20266.4× typical views
• NVIDIA’s Nader Khalil & Sydney Sykes on Building AI Startups Worth Betting On | Disrupt 20266.1K views · Oct 16, 20265.2× typical views
• How to Raise a Pre-Seed Round With No Product | Disrupt 20266K views · Oct 16, 20265.1× typical views
• Is $10M ARR the New Early-Stage Baseline? How Startups Win the First 90 Days | Disrupt 20265K views · Oct 16, 20264.3× typical views

Latest videos

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

• After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years? | Equity Podcast40 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• VC’s Gender Gap is Closing (But Not Fast Enough) with Paige Hendrix Buckner546 views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits. | Equity Podcast1.9K views · Nov 4, 20261.6× typical views
• Anthropic’s IPO filing puts the AI business model to the test | Equity Podcast2.8K views · Oct 30, 20262.4× typical views
• Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming 'vulnpocalypse' | Equity Podcast1.5K views · Oct 28, 20261.2× typical views
• Licube Makes the Lithium Isotopes Fusion Needs | Startup Battlefield 20261.5K views · Oct 27, 20261.3× typical views
• Satlyt Turns Satellites Into Virtual Data Centers | Startup Battlefield 20261.1K views · Oct 27, 20261× typical views
• Flox Intelligence Keeps Animals Off Runways and Rails | Startup Battlefield 2026969 views · Oct 27, 20260.8× typical views
• Laplace Intelligence: World Models for Cities & Ports | Startup Battlefield 2026782 views · Oct 27, 20260.7× typical views
• Veritas: Authenticating Luxury With Microchips | Startup Battlefield 2026702 views · Oct 27, 20260.6× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.9K videos from 730 channels in this niche. 11.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 177.6×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 81.1×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×).

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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 TechCrunch or YouTube.