The Free Press YouTube Stats

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

The Free Press channel overview

The Free Press (@thefreepress) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2022. It has 484K subscribers and 76M total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 59K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 11K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 20K views. Over the last 12 months, The Free Press published 78 videos (79% Shorts), and 22 of them (28%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, The Free Press gained 1K subscribers and 1.2M views, about 98K views a day.

How much does The Free Press make?

Returbe estimates The Free Press's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $5.3K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.38 to $1.52, typically $0.77, 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 $770.

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 Free Press publishes about 57.6 videos a month. Based on its last 76 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (28% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

The Free Press's best outlier videos

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

• Greta Thunberg Is Running Out of Causes1.5M views · Oct 14, 2026166.8× typical views
• Has Sweden Fixed Europe's Immigration Problem271K views · Sep 25, 202630.3× typical views
• Why France Burned171K views · Oct 21, 202619.1× typical views
• Journalist Catches Abdul El-Sayed Off Guard138K views · Oct 9, 202615.4× typical views
• Why Is LA Not Furious?137K views · Sep 19, 202615.3× typical views
• How the New Middle East Was Made | Bari Weiss and Simon Sebag Montefiore262K views · Oct 9, 202612.9× typical views
• Teachers Forced to Sign Anti-Zionist Pledge106K views · Oct 14, 202611.8× typical views
• The French Republic is Under Attack84K views · Oct 19, 20269.3× typical views

Latest videos

7 of The Free Press's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• ICE Is Set to Deport Dozens of Afghans. They Fear ‘Certain Death.’2.2K views · Nov 7, 20260.2× typical views
• LA Needs Nithya Raman to Work Out15K views · Nov 5, 20261.7× typical views
• Who Will Run for President in 2028?14K views · Nov 5, 20261.6× typical views
• The GOP Blame Game Has Begun3K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Is MAGA Cooked?2.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• How Will the Democrats Use Their New Majority?3.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Reacting to midterm victory speeches26K views · Nov 5, 20262.9× typical views
• We Got Every Midterm Wrong17K views · Nov 5, 20260.9× typical views
• How Talarico Took Texas6K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Olivia Reingold at Abdul El-Sayed Rally on Election Day29K views · Nov 3, 20263.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 16.8% 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 58.1×), M6 Info (315K subs, best video 94.9×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.5×), UKLIVE | Home of The Mike Graham Show (187K subs, best video 50.2×), ITV News In Full (33K subs, best video 59.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379.3×).

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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 Free Press or YouTube.