Today in Focus YouTube Stats

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

Today in Focus channel overview

Today in Focus (@todayinfocuspodcast) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2025. It has 130K subscribers and 8.8M total views across 589 videos, an average of 15K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 10K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 24K views. Over the last 12 months, Today in Focus published 78 videos (56% Shorts), and 5 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Today in Focus gained 1K subscribers and 838K views, about 52K views a day.

How much does Today in Focus make?

Returbe estimates Today in Focus's YouTube ad revenue at $1.4K – $5.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.19 to $4.77, typically $2.39, 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 $2.4K.

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

Today in Focus publishes about 54.3 videos a month. Based on its last 78 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (26% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Today in Focus's best outlier videos

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

• Media frenzy at Russell Brand trial447K views · Oct 15, 202689.4× typical views
• Russian lab worker 'possibly' died of plague36K views · Oct 6, 20267.1× typical views
• NAZA's directors on the consequences of speaking out in Israel132K views · Oct 16, 20265.4× typical views
• Brazil: how did Lula beat far-right Bolsonaro? | The Latest84K views · Oct 26, 20263.5× typical views
• Botched execution: shock as US woman survives two lethal injections15K views · Oct 1, 20263.1× typical views
• Pilot stabbed on Israel-bound flight | The Latest57K views · Sep 30, 20262.3× typical views
• Disaster averted: co-pilot reportedly stabs captain on Israel-bound flight11K views · Sep 30, 20262.2× typical views
• Plague outbreak? Russian lab worker dies in Siberia | The Latest38K views · Oct 6, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

1 of Today in Focus's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Tech stock crash: end of AI?430 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Could the AI bubble burst after Democrats' midterms sweep? | The Latest1.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• How North Korea Built a Billion-Dollar Hacking Empire1.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Transatlantic slave trade: calls for reparations gain momentum1K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Slavery reparations movement gains momentum | The Latest3.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Meet the spymaster behind the UAE’s AI ambitions1.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• What's behind the Democratic landslide?5.3K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• Democrats’ midterms triumph deals devastating blow to Trump | The Latest20K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Cyber-attack: first fridges, what next?2.2K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• Why are fridges being hacked and what could be next? | The Latest24K views · Nov 3, 20261× 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.

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 26.1×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 93.4×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1379×).

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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 Today in Focus or YouTube.