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October 23, 2026 3.4x its usual first day Trump’s Trade-War Miscalculation | The Ezra Klein… The video opened at a pace of 49,009 views a day, 3.4 times a normal first day on this channel (14,460).

Video taking off 7.5x its usual first day

The man who wrote OpenAI's safety reports tells Ezra Klein why he quit

David Robinson's first interview since resigning moves from a 'frenetic' lab culture to nuclear and aviation safety, and the comments thank…

Channel: The Ezra Klein Show · Story of October 8, 2026

This week on the channel +3.5M views this week

Greige, the Cybertruck and Debbie Millman ask why the world looks drab

After Bill Gates's A.I. warnings, Ezra Klein turned to beauty and a brand designer who once remade the Burger King logo.

Channel: The Ezra Klein Show · Story of October 7, 2026

Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Bill Gates's A.I. warning lifts a quiet Ezra Klein channel

The Microsoft co-founder's conversation drew more than a thousand comments within hours, while the rest of the show's catalog and most of i…

Channel: The Ezra Klein Show · Story of September 30, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed | The Ezra Klein Show

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

329,289

Video views, pace per day

451,306

Views in its first 13 hours

329,289

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.9% on this channel, 0.2% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Chrystia Freeland's Book Recommendations | The Ezra Klein S…	October 23, 2026	2:38 short	1,968	3,209	1,968 (10 hours)	60	2
What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed | …	October 23, 2026	1:11:59	329,289	451,306	329,289 (13 hours)	5,494	1,425
Trump’s Trade-War Miscalculation | The Ezra Klein Show	October 22, 2026	2:56 short	253,703	223,903	136,849	8,071	511
The Biggest Winner of Trumpism? China. | The Ezra Klein Show	October 22, 2026	1:46 short	18,092	10,172	12,802	603	51
Trumpism Is Backfiring | The Ezra Klein Show	October 20, 2026	1:16:44	362,359	35,141	205,390	4,712	1,349
Paul Kedrosky and Azeem Azhar's Book Recommendations | The …	October 19, 2026	2:31 short	7,711	424	4,584	147	0
Why the Anthropic and OpenAI I.P.O.s Are Unusual | The Ezra…	October 18, 2026	2:06 short	100,136	1,817	56,938	1,314	150
No, Really — Is A.I. a Bubble? | The Ezra Klein Show	October 17, 2026	2:35 short	373,895	9,806	103,016	6,152	287
Sherry Turkle's Book Recommendations | The Ezra Klein Show	October 16, 2026	2:10 short	13,902	354	2,249	507	6
Can A.I. Care for You? | The Ezra Klein Show	October 16, 2026	2:55 short	9,254	113	4,405	258	16
Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate. | The Ezra Klein Show	October 16, 2026	1:06:55	452,909	9,416	184,838	2,938	866
A.I. Is Making Us Antisocial | The Ezra Klein Show	October 15, 2026	1:54 short	11,178	42	6,410	309	8
Social Media Wanted Attention. A.I. Wants Our Attachment | …	October 14, 2026	1:15:05	159,579	2,176	88,313	1,643	567
David Robinson's Book Recommendations| The Ezra Klein Show	October 13, 2026	2:59 short	21,860	1,349	5,092	407	7
Arvind Narayanan's Book Recommendations | The Ezra Klein Sh…	October 12, 2026	1:44 short	9,873	34	4,473	178	4

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

15.4 in the category: 42.4

comments per 1,000 views

2.5 in the category: 4.9

a video's usual first day on this channel

27,874 views

short vs long

11 short (up to 3 minutes), 4 long
average views per short video: 74,688
average views per long video: 326,034

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 23, 2026Video taking offTrump’s Trade-War Miscalculation | The Ezra Klein… The video opened at a pace of 49,009 views a day, 3.4 times a normal first day on this channel (14,460).
2. October 23, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 772,826 views a day, 3 times a normal day (254,038).
3. October 19, 2026Video taking offWhy the Anthropic and OpenAI I.P.O.s Are Unusual … The video opened at a pace of 45,879 views a day, 3.2 times a normal first day on this channel (14,460).
4. October 18, 2026Video taking offNo, Really — Is A.I. a Bubble? | The Ezra Klein S… The video opened at a pace of 61,178 views a day, 4.3 times a normal first day on this channel (14,216).
5. October 10, 2026Video taking offThe Case for a ‘Normal’ A.I. Future | The Ezra K… The video opened at a pace of 129,782 views a day, 3.5 times a normal first day on this channel (37,548).
6. October 8, 2026Video taking offWhat This OpenAI Insider Saw That Made Him Quit |… The video opened at a pace of 283,410 views a day, 7.5 times a normal first day on this channel (37,548).Read the story
7. October 4, 2026MilestoneBill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
8. October 2, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 780,926 views a day, 2.3 times a normal day (333,289).
9. September 30, 2026Video taking offBill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like… The video opened at a pace of 427,818 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (37,548).Read the story