The Daily Show YouTube Stats

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

The Daily Show channel overview

The Daily Show (@thedailyshow) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2016. It has 14M subscribers and 10B total views across 9.5K videos, an average of 1.1M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.3M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.3M views. Over the last 12 months, The Daily Show published 121 videos (57% Shorts), and 14 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Daily Show gained 0 subscribers and 188M views, about 11M views a day.

How much does The Daily Show make?

Returbe estimates The Daily Show's YouTube ad revenue at $449K – $1.8M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.17 to $4.67, typically $2.34, 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 $2.3K.

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 Daily Show publishes about 130.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (19% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Daily Show's best outlier videos

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

• Someone get this Trumper a calculator #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #MAGA6.2M views · Oct 17, 20268.6× typical views
• Is JD Vance suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE?5.7M views · Oct 20, 20267.9× typical views
• Jordan Klepper finds out Texans have more in common with James Talarico than they'd like to admit.5.4M views · Oct 26, 20267.5× typical views
• Haley Stevens Flips Against El-Sayed & the Media Goes Poll-Crazy | The Daily Show8.5M views · Nov 3, 20266.3× typical views
• Trump Gets Roasted by Obama & Transfixed by Nicki Minaj's Ass | The Daily Show8.4M views · Oct 27, 20266.3× typical views
• Can Trump supporters define communism? #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #MAGA4.1M views · Oct 23, 20265.8× typical views
• Paris Protests Erupt Over High Fuel Costs & Trump Cuts Diesel Deal with Russia | The Daily Show7.3M views · Oct 20, 20265.4× typical views
• Jon weighs in on Trump's surreal "I Had It Cleaned" speech at The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool3.7M views · Nov 3, 20265.1× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Voters Stay Misinformed with AI, Elon Floats Flying Car & Robot Bodyguards Kick Ass | The Daily Show36K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Teddy Schleifer on Elon Musk’s $500M Election Flop | The Daily Show201K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• GOP Turns on Trump & Rep. Constantino Blasts "A**holes" | The Daily Show1.8M views · Nov 6, 20261.4× typical views
• Trump is responding to the midterms by addressing America's biggest issue: the ballroom #DailyShow681K views · Nov 5, 20260.9× typical views
• Good news for JD Vance: he's got name recognition. The bad news? His name is JD826K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• "Democrats didn't just win the midterms yesterday; they made the midterms their bitch" #dailyshow74K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Trump Reacts to Midterm Defeat by Focusing on the Ballroom | The Daily Show932K views · Nov 5, 20260.7× typical views
• Erica Chenoweth on the 3.5% Rule & Nonviolent Resistance | The Daily Show246K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Midterm Blowout: Dems Batter GOP & Elon Musk Is Out $500 Million | The Daily Show3.1M views · Nov 5, 20262.3× typical views
• This MAGA voter supports the "war in Iraq"? Someone tell him he's about 10 seasons behind on America273K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 810 channels in this niche. 17.3% 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: M6 Info (315K subs, best video 67.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.6×), ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 49.1×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 97.8×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.9×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×).

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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 Show or YouTube.