The Daily Signal reached 1 million followers on YouTube Friday, capping off an incredible year of growth for its video content.
In 2025 alone, The Daily Signal has added over 600,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel and increased its annual video views by over 400%.
“We have provided original, smart conservative commentary and reporting, and our rapidly growing audience has shown there was a hunger for that type of video content,” says Tim Kennedy, digital media manager for The Daily Signal.
Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson started a new video series for The Daily Signal in 2025, which has been tremendously popular.
The series, called “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words,” features the renowned historian’s analysis of the news in videos 10 minutes or shorter, perfect for a busy audience. That series has just under 100 million views on YouTube this year—and millions more on other social media platforms.
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Daily Signal national correspondent Tony Kinnett, who helms the popular “Tony Kinnett Cast” and “Top News in 10” shows, has also played an outsized role in the channel growth.
“The Tony Kinnett Cast,” which airs every weekday at 7 p.m. ET, features Kinnett’s provocative analysis of the national news that matters for conservatives—and it’s found a huge audience, reaching over 16 million viewers this year.
“It’s all due to our incredible community. When we took the show from a local program on WIBC in Indianapolis to a nationally syndicated program out of The Daily Signal, we weren’t expecting the level of support we received from our YouTube subscribers,” says Kinnett.
“Maybe it’s uncouth to focus as much on our livestream chats and comment section as we do, but I’m afraid I don’t care. I’d rather pay attention to our audience than some ratings tracker in New York or Los Angeles any day.”
The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel also features two other weekly shows, “The Signal Sitdown,” and “Problematic Women.”
“The Signal Sitdown” features politics editor Bradley Devlin’s interviews with top Washington, D.C., insiders. Devlin’s interviews have been featured in places as varied as the Washington Post and President Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed. This year, “The Signal Sitdown” guest list included White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, Sens. Rand Paul and Eric Schmitt and more.
“Problematic Women” is a show for and by young conservative women who don’t fit the radical lLeft’s mold, providing viewers with unique pro-American takes on pop culture, policy debates, and politics—because it is “not wrong to be right.”
This year, The Daily Signal has focused extensively on YouTube because it’s the social media platform most used by adults in the United States, according to Pew Research Center. Eighty-five percent of adults, and a whopping 93% of 18–29-year-olds use YouTube. It’s not just for cat videos: one-third of Americans say they use YouTube to get news.
“Since founding The Daily Signal in 2014, we’ve operated with the goal of reaching Americans across a variety of platforms, recognizing they have a limited amount of time to consume the news and a deep distrust of legacy media,” said Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal.
“I’m incredibly proud of our team for achieving this milestone and can’t wait to continue building on this success in 2026.”
The YouTube milestone caps off an incredible year of social media growth for The Daily Signal. The Daily Signal began 2025 with 2 million followers across YouTube, X, Facebook, Truth Social, Rumble, and Instagram, and has already tripled that number to 6 million followers across platforms.