The Duran YouTube Stats

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

The Duran channel overview

The Duran (@theduran) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2016. It has 551K subscribers and 285M total views across 3.8K videos, an average of 75K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 268K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 267K views. Over the last 12 months, The Duran published 50 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, The Duran gained 1K subscribers and 2.8M views, about 236K views a day.

How much does The Duran make?

Returbe estimates The Duran's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $60K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2 to $8, typically $4, 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 $4K.

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 Duran publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 46 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (17% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

The Duran's best outlier videos

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

• France Protests Spiral Out of Control as EURO Crisis Looms518K views · Oct 8, 20261.9× typical views
• Secret Plan to Destroy BRICS and Crash China w/ Ryan Perkins467K views · Sep 9, 20261.7× typical views
• 500 Locomotives Destroyed, Warehouses Gone; Front Lines Crumble417K views · Sep 19, 20261.6× typical views
• Russia's Sky Campaign Isolating Kiev and Odessa381K views · Sep 30, 20261.4× typical views
• Dobropillia Falls; Kramatorsk Cauldron Looms; Ukraine Out of Air Defense366K views · Oct 18, 20261.4× typical views
• Kiev Cut Off, Bridges Targeted; EU's Last Card, Seize $200B Russian Assets361K views · Oct 3, 20261.4× typical views
• Putin's Dark Valdai Speech; Kaliningrad Warning; Khrushchev Playbook Returns353K views · Oct 2, 20261.3× typical views
• Russia Will Use "Full Force"; Kiev Bridge Panic as Merz Rushes to Zelensky331K views · Oct 5, 20261.2× typical views

Latest videos

1 of The Duran's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Merz Fixated on Defeating Russia; CDU Eyes Wüst as AfD Weidel Rises169K views · Oct 25, 20260.6× typical views
• US Diplomats Exit Middle East; Trump Hints Iran Strikes; Russia Urges Restraint192K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Putin Rejects Oslo Plan; Russia Escalates Kiev Bridge Destruction214K views · Oct 22, 20260.8× typical views
• France and the Hollowing Out of Europe308K views · Oct 21, 20261.2× typical views
• Desperate Maneuvers To Get Russia To Stop304K views · Oct 20, 20261.1× typical views
• Graham 500% Sanctions Collapse; Zelensky Wants €155B287K views · Oct 19, 20261.1× typical views
• Dobropillia Falls; Kramatorsk Cauldron Looms; Ukraine Out of Air Defense366K views · Oct 18, 20261.4× typical views
• Russia Hypersonic Dominance. Zelensky Blames Trump For Defeat228K views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• Kaliningrad Blockade Plan Returns; Baltics Ignore Russia’s Warning267K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views
• MBS Runs Out of Options; Burnham Blames Iran224K views · Oct 15, 20260.8× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 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 26.1×), 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 Duran or YouTube.