The Sun YouTube Stats

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

The Sun channel overview

The Sun (@thesun) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2007. It has 6.5M subscribers and 5.8B total views across 33K videos, an average of 174K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 149K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 186K views. Over the last 12 months, The Sun published 217 videos (13% Shorts), and 16 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Sun gained 0 subscribers and 27M views, about 1.6M views a day.

How much does The Sun make?

Returbe estimates The Sun's YouTube ad revenue at $92K – $366K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.9 to $7.61, typically $3.8, 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 $3.8K.

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 Sun publishes about 235.7 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (19% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

The Sun's best outlier videos

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

• Dashcam shows moment plane crashes into road 'like a missile' #florida #jet #crash231K views · Nov 2, 20267.7× typical views
• Biggest ever refinery strike rocks Russia as Storm Shadow double tap takes out Putin missile factory1.1M views · Oct 30, 20266× typical views
• EXPOSED: Putin’s blown-up dam backfires as Ukraine smashes Zaporizhzhia assault | Battle Plans1M views · Oct 27, 20265.5× typical views
• Moscow under attack as Russian oil on brink of bankruptcy and Ukrainian soldiers fight underground1M views · Oct 23, 20265.5× typical views
• Putin’s presidential jet plant in flames after ruthless Ukraine drone blitz873K views · Oct 26, 20264.7× typical views
• EXPOSED: Ukraine's successful counterattack accelerates in Donetsk | Battle Plans859K views · Oct 20, 20264.6× typical views
• Pilots of horror Learjet crash pictured as tech tycoon, wife & kids among 9 killed847K views · Nov 3, 20264.6× typical views
• Russia moves HUGE stash of new tanks to Nato border but if Putin invades his men will be massacred!790K views · Oct 22, 20264.3× typical views

Latest videos

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

• See inside Finland's giant underground bunkers where civilians will shelter if Russia invades2.6K views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• LIVE: New Zealand PM reacts as results of general election revealed0 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• Ukraine's Flamingo missiles set Putin's proton plant ablaze as drones strike oil refinery77K views · Nov 7, 20260.4× typical views
• Ukraine ramps up massive strikes on Russian oil and shatters Moscow's Air Force382K views · Nov 6, 20262.1× typical views
• LIVE: Crowds gather at Plaza Independencia ahead of Pope Leo’s arrival5.2K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Thomas Markle hauled away in cuffs after FBI swoop over ‘hoard of child sex abuse images and videos’22K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Putin testing our nerve with plane bomb threat terror, says expert41K views · Nov 6, 20261.4× typical views
• Patriots have always been a sticking between Trump & Zelensky | Mark Cancian23K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Secret Russian location bombed by Ukrainian special forces180K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Is a Russian 'manosphere' group behind bomb threats on European flights?12K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 60K videos from 999 channels in this niche. 16.9% 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 59.6×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 36.3×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 140.9×), 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 The Sun or YouTube.