Rick Strom YouTube Stats

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

Rick Strom channel overview

Rick Strom (@therickstromshow) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2011. It has 120K subscribers and 57M total views across 918 videos, an average of 63K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 73K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 48K views. Over the last 12 months, Rick Strom published 80 videos (73% Shorts), and 15 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, Rick Strom gained 7K subscribers and 3.6M views, about 277K views a day.

How much does Rick Strom make?

Returbe estimates Rick Strom's YouTube ad revenue at $4K – $16K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.41 to $1.63, typically $0.82, 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 $820.

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

Rick Strom publishes about 75 videos a month. Based on its last 80 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (21% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Rick Strom's best outlier videos

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

• SHE’S AMAZING.2.6M views · Oct 11, 202648.2× typical views
• Racism Ended This Team's Season, and Potentially Their Careers876K views · Nov 3, 202618.3× typical views
• LAME AF.559K views · Oct 13, 202610.5× typical views
• THEY’RE LOSING IT.370K views · Oct 22, 20266.9× typical views
• WHAT DID HE SAY?!352K views · Oct 21, 20266.6× typical views
• WHAT A WASTE.281K views · Oct 17, 20265.3× typical views
• BAN HIM.271K views · Oct 21, 20265.1× typical views
• ASSAULT.262K views · Oct 12, 20264.9× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Rick Strom's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This UFC Bigot is a Much Bigger Coward Than You Thought16K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• BIGOTRY.13K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• FUTURE PRESIDENT.15K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Did They Really Think NO ONE Would Do Anything About This?44K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• LOSER.5.8K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• RACIST A-HOLE LOSES!27K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• WHAT A NIGHT.29K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• MAGA Candidate Doesn't Even Bother to Take His White Hood & Robe Off21K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• GRONK SUPPORTS FASCISM?43K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• DUMB AS ROCKS.7K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 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.

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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 Rick Strom or YouTube.