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October 23, 2026 4.8x the video's usual pace Media frenzy at Russell Brand trial The video ran that day at 61,780 views a day, 4.8 times its usual pace (12,836).

Video surging 19x the video's usual pace

"Normal people" will decide Russell Brand's trial, says Guardian editor Aaron Sharp

On Today in Focus, Lucy Hough and Sharp look at the daily podcasts, YouTube updates and courtroom sketches that have grown up around the ca…

Channel: Today in Focus · Story of October 20, 2026

This week on the channel +223K views this week

Siberia's unanswered lab questions anchor Today in Focus's week

Lucy Hough speaks with Madeleine Finlay about quarantine measures and uncertainty surrounding a laboratory worker's death.

Channel: Today in Focus · Story of October 13, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Who should be the next 007? | The Latest

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

9,726

Video views, pace per day

14,954

Views in its first 11 hours

9,726

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

0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.8% on this channel, 0.0% 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
Who should be the next 007? | The Latest	October 23, 2026	10:14	9,726	14,954	9,726 (11 hours)	23	14
Who should be the next 007?	October 23, 2026	1:11 short	1,980	3,039	1,980 (11 hours)	20	5
PHP: Pretty Huge Problem with the internet	October 22, 2026	0:56 short	1,988	942	1,630	16	0
PHP explained: what’s behind the code flaw causing website …	October 22, 2026	9:23	14,136	5,065	12,238	37	2
‘Disgraceful’: climate campaigners condemn Jackdaw gasfield…	October 21, 2026	9:28	6,789	415	5,325	17	9
‘Climate vandalism’: Jackdaw gasfield approval condemned	October 21, 2026	1:04 short	1,327	157	1,118	16	7
Australian MP loses leg after being attacked with car	October 20, 2026	0:59 short	1,804	193	1,334	27	-
What we know so far about attack on Australian MP Helen Hai…	October 20, 2026	9:41	11,844	401	8,822	32	1
Are the French protests a gift for the far right?	October 19, 2026	1:00 short	5,626	128	3,866	47	5
France protests escalate with riots, looting and 2,400 arre…	October 19, 2026	10:46	30,834	381	21,912	45	14
NAZA co-director explains how the Israeli military uses AI …	October 17, 2026	0:46 short	3,160	52	1,855	81	4
Girls is back: Lena Dunham reboots seminal series	October 16, 2026	1:11 short	6,030	-19	1,556	24	2
Girls: Lena Dunham revives cult series a decade on | The La…	October 16, 2026	11:25	8,331	64	5,717	11	2
NAZA's directors on the consequences of speaking out in Isr…	October 16, 2026	44:17	108,857	3,401	40,094	1,396	222
‘I couldn't breathe’: Russell Brand trial hears from first …	October 15, 2026	8:24	25,567	120	17,080	67	-

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

7.8 in the category: 16.7

comments per 1,000 views

1.2 in the category: 2.5

a video's usual first day on this channel

4,208 views

short vs long

7 short (up to 3 minutes), 8 long
average views per short video: 3,130
average views per long video: 27,010

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Sydney Sweeney naked ad controversy: what’s she playing at?…	September 14, 2026	11:05	635,434
Why has Brooklyn Beckham gone nuclear? | The Latest	January 20, 2026	12:46	168,607
Horror floods leave trail of devastation in Nepal and Tibet…	August 27, 2026	9:21	98,492
NAZA's directors on the consequences of speaking out in Isr…	October 16, 2026	44:17	89,891
Marina Hyde on Epstein’s enablers: will they get away with …	February 6, 2026	9:37	71,933

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Why does Trump really want Greenland?	January 21, 2026	1:54	1,729,159
Who is Trump's Secretary of War?	December 12, 2025	0:45	572,078
Canada invited to be EU 'associate member': what does it me…	September 17, 2026	1:47	125,241
On the ground in decimated Nepal flood zone	August 28, 2026	1:14	55,656
Nigel Farage versus Count Binface	July 10, 2026	1:13	43,889

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

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

1. October 23, 2026Video surgingMedia frenzy at Russell Brand trial The video ran that day at 61,780 views a day, 4.8 times its usual pace (12,836).
2. October 22, 2026Video surgingMedia frenzy at Russell Brand trial The video ran that day at 72,148 views a day, 12 times its usual pace (6,246).
3. October 22, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 119,394 views a day, 3.3 times a normal day (35,812).
4. October 21, 2026Video surgingMedia frenzy at Russell Brand trial The video ran that day at 30,204 views a day, 8.4 times its usual pace (3,584).
5. October 20, 2026Video surgingMedia frenzy at Russell Brand trial The video ran that day at 24,463 views a day, 19 times its usual pace (1,264).Read the story
6. October 7, 2026Video taking offPlague outbreak? Russian lab worker dies in Siber… The video opened at a pace of 39,210 views a day, 7.6 times a normal first day on this channel (5,149).
7. October 6, 2026Video taking offWhy did the US rush to withdraw bombers from UK a… The video opened at a pace of 38,486 views a day, 6.3 times a normal first day on this channel (6,078).