The Telegraph YouTube Stats

@telegraph · News & Politics · Updated Nov 10, 2026

The Telegraph channel overview

The Telegraph (@telegraph) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 6.2M subscribers and 4.5B total views across 37K videos, an average of 122K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 31K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 51K views. Over the last 12 months, The Telegraph published 57 videos (39% Shorts), and 9 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Telegraph make?

Returbe estimates The Telegraph's YouTube ad revenue at $31K – $122K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.75 to $6.98, typically $3.49, 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 $3.5K.

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Upload schedule

The Telegraph publishes about 61.9 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (43% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 10, 2026.

The Telegraph's best outlier videos

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

• Why Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields won’t lower energy bills | Unpacked376K views · Oct 26, 20267.4× typical views
• Can I shoot down a drone?65K views · Nov 6, 20265.5× typical views
• Russell Brand verdict: how did we get here?65K views · Nov 5, 20265.5× typical views
• Former soldier shoots down drones with British Army shotgun263K views · Nov 6, 20265.2× typical views
• Moment woman saves baby koala from python’s grip59K views · Nov 6, 20265× typical views
• Andy Cole interview: How a professional footballer became a kidney transplant patient244K views · Nov 1, 20264.8× typical views
• Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang's affair and spy scandal54K views · Nov 9, 20264.6× typical views
• Spain: How horror Toledo train crash unfolded | Unpacked37K views · Oct 29, 20263.1× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Ed Miliband's 2015 appearance on Russell Brand's show resurfaces827 views · Nov 10, 20260.1× typical views
• What to watch for signs that the US will restart the Iran war1.2K views · Nov 10, 20260.1× typical views
• Does Trump understand the threat of Iran having an S-400 weapons system?8K views · Nov 9, 20260.7× typical views
• Russell Brand: What his conviction means for other powerful men29K views · Nov 9, 20262.5× typical views
• Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang's affair and spy scandal54K views · Nov 9, 20264.6× typical views
• "I believe there will be a civil war in the Democratic Party" | The Right Track Show1.9K views · Nov 9, 20260.2× typical views
• Pope Francis criticises Javier Milei's austerity measures in Buenos Aires2K views · Nov 9, 20260.2× typical views
• Train crash near Cairo leaves seven dead and over 100 injured1.3K views · Nov 9, 20260.1× typical views
• Trump targets Iran’s borders as China and Russia rearm Tehran and Houthis | Iran: the Latest57K views · Nov 9, 20261.1× typical views
• Energised England hammer Australia | Telegraph Rugby Podcast8.8K views · Nov 9, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 71K videos from 1.3K channels in this niche. 17.2% 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (118K subs, best video 74.6×), Onda Cero (422K subs, best video 364.1×), M6 Info (317K subs, best video 32.2×), OKDIARIO (292K subs, best video 98.1×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 21.1×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 63.5×).

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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 The Telegraph or YouTube.