The Damage Report YouTube Stats

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

The Damage Report channel overview

The Damage Report (@thedamagereport) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2010. It has 1.4M subscribers and 1.7B total views across 36K videos, an average of 47K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 124K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 100K views. Over the last 12 months, The Damage Report published 224 videos (14% Shorts), and 11 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Damage Report gained 10K subscribers and 19M views, about 1.1M views a day.

How much does The Damage Report make?

Returbe estimates The Damage Report's YouTube ad revenue at $68K – $274K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.97 to $7.86, typically $3.93, 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 $3.9K.

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 Damage Report publishes about 243.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (21% of uploads), usually around 22:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

The Damage Report's best outlier videos

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

• REPORT: Good News For Democrats In Mississippi813K views · Nov 6, 20268.1× typical views
• Democrats Get STUNNING News As Early Voting Data Revealed490K views · Oct 28, 20264.9× typical views
• Elon Musk PANICS Over GOP Downfall With Unhinged Declaration457K views · Nov 3, 20264.6× typical views
• Lauren Boebert SHELL SHOCKED As Election Slips Away435K views · Nov 6, 20264.3× typical views
• Trump ROCKED As Canadian Prime Minister Reveals Stunning Trade Demand Shift421K views · Oct 27, 20264.2× typical views
• Haley Stevens ERUPTS In Stunning Rant After Sudden Shift Blows Up In Her Face417K views · Nov 3, 20264.2× typical views
• Trump UNRAVELS After Fox Host Fact Checks Him Live365K views · Nov 4, 20263.6× typical views
• Democrats Get STUNNING News As Data Revealed38K views · Nov 2, 20263.6× typical views

Latest videos

9 of The Damage Report's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Laura Loomer LOSES Control As Election Results Prove Stunning Truth6K views · Nov 7, 20260.6× typical views
• Elon Musk LOSES IT With Unhinged Declaration3.1K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• Lauren Boebert SHELL SHOCKED As Election Slips Away435K views · Nov 6, 20264.3× typical views
• Trump DESPERATE to Keep Tacky Oval Office as GOP Flees15K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• REPORT: Good News For Democrats In Mississippi813K views · Nov 6, 20268.1× typical views
• More BAD NEWS For Elon Musk155K views · Nov 6, 20261.6× typical views
• Richard Ojeda STOMPS Pete Hegseth's Fake Tough Guy Shtick24K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• BREAKING: Stephen Miller Seizes Power As Trump Fires Susie Wiles28K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• MAGA's Reaction to Blue Wave is the Icing on the Cake of the Midterms60K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Reality Hits Mike Johnson Like a Ton of Bricks238K views · Nov 6, 20262.4× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% 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 Damage Report or YouTube.