The Daily Beast YouTube Stats

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

The Daily Beast channel overview

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2008. It has 743K subscribers and 275M total views across 3.9K videos, an average of 71K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 20K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 15K views. Over the last 12 months, The Daily Beast published 106 videos (60% Shorts), and 11 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, The Daily Beast gained 7K subscribers and 10M views, about 645K views a day.

How much does The Daily Beast make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate The Daily Beast's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.07 to $0.26, typically $0.14, 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 $140.

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Upload schedule

The Daily Beast publishes about 97.8 videos a month. Based on its last 65 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (17% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Daily Beast's best outlier videos

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

• Why Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Hated By Everybody161K views · Oct 14, 202610.9× typical views
• Natalie Harp's 'Pointed Weapon' at Susie Wiles108K views · Oct 17, 20267.3× typical views
• How Don Jr. May Have Gotten Revenge Against Kimberly Guilfoyle98K views · Oct 16, 20266.6× typical views
• 'Megalomaniac' Trump Has Made People the 'Worst Versions of Themselves'97K views · Oct 18, 20266.6× typical views
• Why Trump Is Helpless To Oppose the Midterm Results92K views · Nov 4, 20266.3× typical views
• The One Looming Fear That ‘Plagues’ Trump81K views · Oct 5, 20265.5× typical views
• The 'Greek Tragedy' of Kimberly Guilfoyle63K views · Oct 18, 20264.3× typical views
• Why Susie Wiles May Soon Be ‘Toast’ To Trump50K views · Oct 17, 20263.4× typical views

Latest videos

5 of The Daily Beast's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• BREAKING: Trump Gives Total Power to Stephen Miller37K views · Nov 6, 2026
• Why 'Weak' JD Vance Won't Become President8K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• The Real Texas 'Underdog' Who Humiliated Trump4.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• What The Blue Wave Means For Trump's Iran War38K views · Nov 5, 20262.6× typical views
• Why Trump Is Helpless To Oppose the Midterm Results92K views · Nov 4, 20266.3× typical views
• Why The Next Generation's American Dream Is Slipping Away8.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.6× typical views
• Tech Bros Couldn't Care Less About The Damage Data Centers Do7.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• The Only Qualification You Need To Be Trump's Lawyer18K views · Nov 2, 20261.2× typical views
• Why The Real Crisis In America Has Nothing To Do With Politics7.3K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Trump's White House Is Quickly Turning Into a Bloodbath19K views · Nov 1, 20261.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 844 channels in this niche. 18.2% 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 27.3×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 Daily Beast or YouTube.