The Atlantic YouTube Stats

@theatlantic · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

The Atlantic channel overview

The Atlantic (@theatlantic) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2006. It has 995K subscribers and 252M total views across 2.3K videos, an average of 110K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 88K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 37K views. Over the last 12 months, The Atlantic published 51 videos (57% Shorts), and 14 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Atlantic make?

Returbe estimates The Atlantic's YouTube ad revenue at $3.7K – $15K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.98 to $3.91, typically $1.96, 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 $2K.

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

The Atlantic publishes about 55.4 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (24% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

The Atlantic's best outlier videos

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

• Things Are Going to Get Ugly588K views · Nov 5, 202683.8× typical views
• Trump Is Closing From Behind502K views · Oct 29, 202671.5× typical views
• Susan Collins Didn’t Stand a Chance174K views · Nov 5, 202624.8× typical views
• The Unlikeliest Democratic Win of All140K views · Nov 5, 202619.9× typical views
• How Republicans Lost Their Grip on Power | The David Frum Show127K views · Nov 7, 202618.1× typical views
• Trump Learns His Orbán Lesson95K views · Nov 6, 202613.5× typical views
• Is an AI Recession Coming? | The David Frum Show457K views · Oct 24, 202612.5× typical views
• What Republicans Today Could Learn From George W. Bush81K views · Oct 29, 202611.5× typical views

Latest videos

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

• How Republicans Lost Their Grip on Power | The David Frum Show127K views · Nov 7, 202618.1× typical views
• What Do the Tech Overlords Do Now?13K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Trump Learns His Orbán Lesson95K views · Nov 6, 202613.5× typical views
• What Voters May Be Expecting From Democrats3.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Things Are Going to Get Ugly588K views · Nov 5, 202683.8× typical views
• The Limits of Elon Musk’s Fortune39K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• The Repudiation of Donald Trump37K views · Nov 5, 20265.3× typical views
• Did Democrats Win—Or Did Trump Lose?17K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Susan Collins Didn’t Stand a Chance174K views · Nov 5, 202624.8× typical views
• The Unlikeliest Democratic Win of All140K views · Nov 5, 202619.9× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.9% 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 (117K subs, best video 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 26.4×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×).

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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 Atlantic or YouTube.