VICE News YouTube Stats

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

VICE News channel overview

VICE News (@vicenews) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2013. It has 9.3M subscribers and 3.5B total views across 7K videos, an average of 501K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 62K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 130K views. Over the last 12 months, VICE News published 54 videos (89% Shorts), and 4 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, VICE News gained 0 subscribers and 4.8M views, about 252K views a day.

How much does VICE News make?

Returbe estimates VICE News's YouTube ad revenue at $10K – $42K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.7 to $6.79, typically $3.39, 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 $3.4K.

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

VICE News publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (27% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

VICE News's best outlier videos

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

• How America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” ft. Timothy Snyder | Shane Smith Has Questions869K views · Oct 15, 20266.7× typical views
• Behind the Hacks: The Origins of Anonymous | Cyberwar | Vice News2.8M views · Feb 14, 20245.6× typical views
• When AI acts on its own. #gemini #tech #ai59K views · Sep 11, 20265× typical views
• Swimming between Iranian warships and a fifth of the world's oil.57K views · Aug 22, 20264.9× typical views
• Who is Rigging Crypto?41K views · Aug 25, 20263.5× typical views
• They used AI to clone his boss's face.31K views · Oct 1, 20262.7× typical views
• Catching Frauds on Camera30K views · Aug 26, 20262.6× typical views
• Did America really give Iran its first nuclear reactor?28K views · Aug 17, 20262.4× typical views

Latest videos

11 of VICE News's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Nate Silver: Why the Midterms Look Blue9.6K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• Who Actually Draws Your Congressional District?5.8K views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• What If the Polls Are Wrong Like 2016? | Nate Silver22K views · Oct 29, 20261.9× typical views
• Everyone Is Rigging Election Maps. It Could Backfire. | Nate Silver122K views · Oct 29, 20260.9× typical views
• Trump's Turn to Russia 🇷🇺13K views · Oct 21, 20261.1× typical views
• Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game14K views · Oct 21, 20261.2× typical views
• The U.S. Is Committing Superpower Suicide23K views · Oct 21, 20261.9× typical views
• How America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” ft. Timothy Snyder | Shane Smith Has Questions869K views · Oct 15, 20266.7× typical views
• What does Russia want? #shanesmith #vicenews #russia9.5K views · Oct 2, 20260.8× typical views
• They used AI to clone his boss's face.31K views · Oct 1, 20262.7× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 811 channels in this niche. 17.3% 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: M6 Info (315K subs, best video 67.7×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 27.6×), ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 41.9×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 95.5×), OKDIARIO (290K subs, best video 94.6×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1378.8×).

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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 VICE News or YouTube.