The Christo Files YouTube Stats

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

The Christo Files channel overview

The Christo Files (@thechristofiles) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2024. It has 337K subscribers and 17M total views across 65 videos, an average of 258K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 376K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 444K views. Over the last 12 months, The Christo Files published 19 videos (68% Shorts), and 2 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Christo Files make?

Returbe estimates The Christo Files's YouTube ad revenue at $464 – $1.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.82 to $7.28, typically $3.64, 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 $3.6K.

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 Christo Files publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 37 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (62% of uploads), usually around 04:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Christo Files's best outlier videos

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

• How I caught an Illegal Russian Spy4.9M views · Mar 12, 202611× typical views
• Russian Bot Farms Were NOT Destroyed by Data Center Strikes298K views · Oct 15, 20263.3× typical views
• How Google Translate Exposed Russia's Secret Army1.3M views · Jul 10, 20262.9× typical views
• How Russia & China Plan to Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink #SpaceX #Starlink #News #china #ElonMusk232K views · Jul 10, 20262.5× typical views
• Russia "Ordered" a World Cup Win. It Still Lost. #worldcup #russia #novichok #investigation #news108K views · Jul 20, 20261.2× typical views
• Putin Caught Using Pirated Windows to Vote #russia #election #putin107K views · Sep 18, 20261.2× typical views
• Russia's Assassination Attempt on US soil #spy #news #russia106K views · Oct 13, 20261.2× typical views
• Russia's Balloon Popping Spy #russia #ukraine #canada #balloon #fyp #spy #funny #news105K views · Aug 11, 20261.1× typical views

Latest videos

4 of The Christo Files's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Unmasking the FSB Agents Tied to WSJ Reporter’s Arrest in Russia #news #spy #investigation #russia23K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Russian Bot Farms Were NOT Destroyed by Data Center Strikes298K views · Oct 15, 20263.3× typical views
• From TV Actor to Planning Murders #news #fbi #russia43K views · Oct 14, 20260.5× typical views
• Russia's Assassination Attempt on US soil #spy #news #russia106K views · Oct 13, 20261.2× typical views
• Inside Russia's AI Propaganda Machine247K views · Oct 8, 20260.6× typical views
• Putin Caught Using Pirated Windows to Vote #russia #election #putin107K views · Sep 18, 20261.2× typical views
• Russia’s Top Secret Programs: Hidden Under One Roof440K views · Sep 8, 20261× typical views
• Can Russian AI Predict the Future? #putin #russia #election #AI #chatgpt69K views · Sep 7, 20260.8× typical views
• How Russia Cheated The Sochi Olympics #investigation #spy #putin #news #olympics #russia #steroids33K views · Sep 4, 20260.4× typical views
• This Russian Spy Forgot How to Be a Spy #spy #russia #investigation #news #putin #intelligence19K views · Sep 3, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 996 channels in this niche. 17.1% 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 64.4×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 224.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 36.3×), France 3 Grand Est (241K subs, best video 99.5×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1375.8×), Onda Cero (421K subs, best video 140.7×).

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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 Christo Files or YouTube.