Video taking off 17x its usual first day

Trump's red-state tour and GOP soft spots: Brooks and Atkins Stohr on PBS NewsHour

The Friday analysis segment, cut from the full broadcast, drew far more viewers on its own than the whole episode it came from.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 285,864 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (17,220).

Brooks and Atkins Stohr on GOP vulnerabilities in the midterms

PBS NewsHour's Friday politics conversation is one of the oldest habits in television news, and this week's edition traveled much farther than usual. Geoff Bennett sat down with David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe to talk through the week. Their main subject was the midterms: President Trump on the campaign trail in a run of reliably Republican states, and where the party looks vulnerable heading into November. They also turned to the administration's strategy on artificial intelligence.

Posted as its own clip, the segment came close to 300,000 views in its first day. A new NewsHour video usually ends its first day at a small fraction of that, and the likes climbed at a similar pace. The full Friday broadcast, where the conversation sits about halfway through, started strongly too, but the standalone cut left it well behind.

It was a busy weekend across the channel. A report on Gov. Kathy Hochul naming New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in a Cornell University rape case drew a large audience. So did a live stream of lava pouring from Hawaii's Kīlauea, and Ben Tracy's Tipping Point report on Colorado River cuts coming to Arizona, Nevada and California. Even so, an hour of two columnists talking politics led them all.

The channel's daily views ran at about double their usual pace, a weekend carried by elections, water and a volcano.

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The facts

Channel: PBS NewsHour
Subscribers: 5,380,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 13,497,434
Channel views, pace per day: 2,745,768 (on a normal day: 1,373,114)
Video published: October 2, 2026
Video views so far: 321,228 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day: 205,291

The numbers

Several videos started fast at once, and the political conversation ran furthest ahead of a usual first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

17,220

this video

285,864

subscribers

5,380,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,260,493,909

views per day

2,745,768

typical day: 1,373,114

the video

views

321,228

likes

4,117

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

5,620,000

5,610,000

5,380,000

5,280,000

5,240,000

5,190,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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