The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow YouTube Stats

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

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow channel overview

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (@thezerohourwithrjeskow) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2012. It has 57K subscribers and 7.8M total views across 4.4K videos, an average of 1.8K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.8K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 460 views. Over the last 12 months, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow published 50 videos (24% Shorts), and 8 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow gained 0 subscribers and 2.6K views, about 264 views a day.

How much does The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow make?

Returbe estimates The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow's YouTube ad revenue at $10 – $38 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.54 to $6.14, typically $3.07, 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 $3.1K.

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 Zero Hour with RJ Eskow publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 43 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (26% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow's best outlier videos

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

• PROF. WOLFF: Trump Dollars, Petrodollars & Other Gangster Loot17K views · Mar 31, 202616.7× typical views
• IRAN: END OF EMPIRE? (w/Richard Wolff)9.2K views · Mar 25, 20269.2× typical views
• Petrodollar Gangsterism (w/Richard Wolff)8.1K views · Apr 7, 20268.1× typical views
• Another Billionaire Scam to Slash Social Security (w/Dean Baker)2.2K views · Sep 3, 20262.2× typical views
• NUCLEAR TERROR? EH...1.4K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• OMENS OF DOOM IN DAVOS1.3K views · Jan 26, 20261.3× typical views
• The Fauci and the Furious (w/Richard Wolff)1.3K views · Aug 13, 20261.3× typical views
• Schumer & Jeffries Must Go! (w/India Walton, Sam Rosenthal)947 views · Mar 26, 20260.9× typical views

Latest videos

4 of The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• NUCLEAR TERROR? EH...1.4K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views
• She Fought Racism in the Deep South. We Need Her Now. (w/Keri Leigh Merritt)932 views · Oct 25, 20260.9× typical views
• BREAKING ICE w/SONALI KOLHATKAR (author interview)406 views · Sep 15, 20260.4× typical views
• Have scientists cracked the code that makes us us?1.2K views · Sep 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Another Billionaire Scam to Slash Social Security (w/Dean Baker)2.2K views · Sep 3, 20262.2× typical views
• Looks Like ICE'll Take Anybody292 views · Sep 3, 20260.1× typical views
• ARE MOST AMERICANS ANTI-AMERICAN? Polls Are In #shorts #polls1.5K views · Sep 2, 20260.3× typical views
• Can This Shirt Save You From Our AI Future?!?368 views · Sep 1, 20260.1× typical views
• Anatol Lieven: 'Mutual Delusion' Drives Ukraine War562 views · Aug 19, 20260.6× typical views
• The Fauci and the Furious (w/Richard Wolff)1.3K views · Aug 13, 20261.3× 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.

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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 Zero Hour with RJ Eskow or YouTube.