Channels
98
18 far-left · 20 left · 24 center · 9 right · 25 far-right
Study Statistics
The corpus, in numbers
98 channels. 203 videos. 258.5 hours of commentary. 112M views. 8,844 findings clustered into 126 themes — twelve at the top level, the rest hierarchical refinements of those.
Overview
Videos
203
Findings
8,844
Themes
126
12 at the top level
Total reach
112M
views
Likes
2.24M
Comments
370K
Hours of content
258.5
Channels
How the corpus distributes across audience size and political leaning.
Channels by political leaning
18.8%
20.8%
25.0%
9.4%
26.0%
Far LeftLeftCenterRightFar Right
Top voices on the left
- Brian Tyler Cohen
- Views
- 2,413,157,131
- Videos
- 5
- Findings
- 766
- MSNBC
- Views
- 188,497,292
- Videos
- 20
- Findings
- 473
- The Daily Show
- Views
- 178,836,265
- Videos
- 5
- Findings
- 40
- PPod Save America
- Views
- 108,371,096
- Videos
- 4
- Findings
- 203
- GGeopolitical Economy Report
- Views
- 22,115,604
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 69
Top voices in the center
- PPA Election HQ
- Views
- 3,197,532,624
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 572
- LLastWeekTonight
- Views
- 130,848,138
- Videos
- 7
- Findings
- 46
- Washington Post
- Views
- 107,279,852
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 523
- PPBS NewsHour
- Views
- 62,454,632
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 232
- CNN@CNN
- Views
- 6,100,688
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 4
Top voices on the right
- The Daily Wire
- Views
- 2,254,099,960
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 686
- Ben Shapiro
- Views
- 1,331,316,120
- Videos
- 2
- Findings
- 544
- Fox News
- Views
- 355,012,549
- Videos
- 4
- Findings
- 241
- Michael Knowles
- Views
- 346,272,108
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 546
- BBlazeTV
- Views
- 190,710,978
- Videos
- 1
- Findings
- 218
Videos
When commentary was published, how long it ran, and which videos drove the most attention.
Publishing timeline
Total views
- Shorts10.5%
- 1–10m11757.6%
- 10–30m00.0%
- 30–60m7436.5%
- 60m+ / Live115.4%
Where videos came from
Top videos by views
- Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)LastWeekTonight
- Views
- 13,791,349
- Likes
- 196,717
- Comments
- 13,995
- Elon Musk and DOGE team give behind the scenes look at their missionFox News
- Views
- 11,049,087
- Likes
- 191,403
- Comments
- 31,996
- Jon Stewart on Trump’s Inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi Salute | The Daily ShowThe Daily Show
- Views
- 10,443,695
- Likes
- 239,413
- Comments
- 24,566
- Trump’s Reelection: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)LastWeekTonight
- Views
- 8,473,613
- Likes
- 173,502
- Comments
- 23,812
- Lawrence: Trump humiliated globally while Musk live-tweets Trump's Oval Office 'stupidity festival'MSNBC
- Views
- 5,857,571
- Likes
- 107,793
- Comments
- 17,444
- Jon Stewart On Whether Dems' "Trump Is a Fascist" Accusations Are Warranted | The Daily ShowThe Daily Show
- Views
- 5,693,919
- Likes
- 149,084
- Comments
- 16,465
Engagement
Daily views, likes, and comments — Far Left to Far Right. The skew tells you who actually showed up to consume the conversation.
Views
- Total
- 106,912,288
- Max
- 13,791,349
- Avg
- 581,045
- Median
- 22,163
Likes
- Total
- 2,001,804
- Max
- 239,413
- Avg
- 10,879
- Median
- 861
Comments
- Total
- 319,110
- Max
- 31,996
- Avg
- 1,734
- Median
- 107
Keywords
The top channel-level keywords (from YouTube channel metadata) shared across multiple voices.
- news 14 16.5%
- political 7 8.2%
- daily 6 7.1%
- show 6 7.1%
- live 5 5.9%
- podcast 4 4.7%
- channel 4 4.7%
- politics 4 4.7%
- commentary 4 4.7%
- youtube 4 4.7%
- subscribe 3 3.5%
- analysis 3 3.5%
- hosts 3 3.5%
- independent 3 3.5%
- indepth 3 3.5%
- breaking 3 3.5%
- culture 3 3.5%
- english 2 2.4%