David Pakman YouTube Stats

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

David Pakman channel overview

David Pakman (@thedavidpakmanshow) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2009. It has 3.7M subscribers and 4B total views across 45K videos, an average of 88K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 148K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 269K views. Over the last 12 months, David Pakman published 251 videos (45% Shorts), and 31 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, David Pakman gained 10K subscribers and 56M views, about 3.1M views a day.

How much does David Pakman make?

Returbe estimates David Pakman's YouTube ad revenue at $158K – $634K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.64 to $6.56, typically $3.28, 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 $3.3K.

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Upload schedule

David Pakman publishes about 272.6 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (20% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

David Pakman's best outlier videos

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

• Is that a promise, Ted? #shorts583K views · Nov 1, 202615.9× typical views
• Trump's White House is imploding before the midterms #shorts508K views · Oct 20, 202613.9× typical views
• There's a reason he won't mention 3.7% #shorts408K views · Oct 18, 202611.1× typical views
• Republicans lost big, and Leavitt's excuse is unbelievable #shorts390K views · Nov 4, 202610.7× typical views
• Trump has bizarre series of glitches at Texas rally #shorts389K views · Oct 29, 202610.6× typical views
• Trump accidentally makes the best case for voting blue #shorts358K views · Nov 3, 20269.8× typical views
• Mike Johnson has officially entered conspiracy territory #shorts346K views · Oct 19, 20269.5× typical views
• Fox asks Trump ONE SIMPLE QUESTION. Trump IMPLODES1.9M views · Nov 4, 20266.9× typical views

Latest videos

8 of David Pakman's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• DeSantis admits Republicans are facing political extinction #shorts1.7K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• What a wild thing to say #shorts5K views · Nov 7, 20260.1× typical views
• Pete Hegseth hit with stunning impeachment threat #shorts8.5K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• Americans are preparing for something TERRIFYING280K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• Trump sued for $10 BILLION. Now THIS is happening444K views · Nov 7, 20261.7× typical views
• Is Trump preparing to simply WALK AWAY?484K views · Nov 7, 20261.8× typical views
• Trump is finally facing CONSEQUENCES91K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Pete Hegseth faces IMPEACHMENT vote in stunning development176K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Sorry guys, it's over for you224K views · Nov 6, 20260.8× typical views
• The Trump era winds down as accountability returns63K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× 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 David Pakman or YouTube.