Guardian Podcasts YouTube Stats

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

Guardian Podcasts channel overview

Guardian Podcasts (@theguardianpodcasts) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2014. It has 99K subscribers and 15M total views across 236 videos, an average of 65K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 25K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.9K views. Over the last 12 months, Guardian Podcasts published 8 videos (13% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Guardian Podcasts gained 1.1K subscribers and 66K views, about 5.5K views a day.

How much does Guardian Podcasts make?

Returbe estimates Guardian Podcasts's YouTube ad revenue at $354 – $1.4K 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

Guardian Podcasts publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (33% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Guardian Podcasts's best outlier videos

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

• 2026 Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry explained | Science Weekly5.1K views · Oct 12, 20262.7× typical views
• Why we can’t help but watch bad things | Science Weekly4.9K views · Oct 18, 20262.6× typical views
• AI Viruses + Elizabeth Holmes | Science Weekly2.6K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• Asa Butterfield performs The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry14K views · May 25, 20251× typical views
• Nathaniel Parker performs Anthem for Doomed Youth Poem by Wilfred Owen9.6K views · May 24, 20251× typical views
• Susan Wokoma performs What If This Road by Sheenagh Pugh4.1K views · May 23, 20251× typical views
• Toby Jones performs Portrait of a Romantic by ASJ Tessimond7.7K views · May 27, 20251× typical views
• Stephen Mangan performs I See You Dancing, Father by Brendan Kennelly8.6K views · May 22, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Guardian Podcasts's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• "I'm competing for clicks with people who will do or say literally anything for clicks" - John Green450 views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Chinese politics vs Western politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty772 views · Nov 5, 2026
• How Latinos will decide who wins in Texas | Stateside1.2K views · Nov 2, 20260.6× typical views
• ‘It’s a theatre and we’re pawns’: taking the stand as an expert witness | Science Weekly648 views · Nov 1, 20260.3× typical views
• How could Trump ‘steal’ the midterm elections? | Stateside Podcast1.1K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views
• AI Viruses + Elizabeth Holmes | Science Weekly2.6K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• Why we can’t help but watch bad things | Science Weekly4.9K views · Oct 18, 20262.6× typical views
• 2026 Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry explained | Science Weekly5.1K views · Oct 12, 20262.7× typical views
• Toby Jones performs Portrait of a Romantic by ASJ Tessimond7.7K views · May 27, 20251× typical views
• Asa Butterfield performs The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry14K views · May 25, 20251× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 55K videos from 822 channels in this niche. 18% 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 24.9×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 Guardian Podcasts or YouTube.