Crypto YouTube views drop sharply in 2026

Major crypto-focused YouTube channels registered sharp declines in monthly viewership in 2026 while keeping large cumulative subscriber totals. Data from public YouTube pages and vidIQ show 30-day view counts for six prominent channels down 26.9% to 78.7% versus January 2025.

Coin Bureau, the largest by subscribers at 2.72 million, drew about 1.24 million views in the last 30 days, roughly 41,000 per day, a 74.8% drop from January 2025 levels. Crypto Banter had 1.18 million subscribers and about 1.06 million views in the same window, near 35,000 per day and down 77.9%. CryptosRUs, with 803,000 subscribers, recorded 652,000 views over 30 days and lost about 2,000 subscribers in that period, a 78.7% decline. Bitcoin University’s 278,000 subscribers corresponded to roughly 211,000 views in 30 days, down 74.6%.

Altcoin Daily and Benjamin Cowen showed smaller declines. Altcoin Daily had 1.65 million subscribers and about 1.79 million views in the last 30 days, a 62.4% fall from January 2025, averaging near 60,000 views per day. Benjamin Cowen’s channel, with roughly 1 million subscribers, recorded about 1.8 million views over 30 days, a 26.9% drop and a net gain of about 2,000 subscribers in the same window. Estimated monthly AdSense earnings based on current traffic ranged from approximately $1,770 for Bitcoin University to about $12,210 for Benjamin Cowen, with Altcoin Daily near $11,210, Coin Bureau around $2,060, Crypto Banter near $5,460 and CryptosRUs about $4,490.

The data highlight a gap between cumulative subscriber counts and current view velocity. Daily averages derived from 30-day windows show some channels converting subscribers into current views at higher rates than others. Recent public uploads illustrate the difference: a Benjamin Cowen Bitcoin video reached roughly 112,000 views after four days, several Altcoin Daily uploads reached tens of thousands of views within a day or two, while some Crypto Banter uploads registered low-thousands of views after one to two days. Coin Bureau’s most recent 30-day views are below half of its subscriber base.

Compared with the January 2025 baseline, four of the six sampled channels are down roughly three-quarters in 30-day views. Benjamin Cowen is the outlier with the smallest decline. In May, Benjamin Cowen wrote on X that crypto YouTube channels collectively averaged about 3 million to 4 million views per day in 2021 and that 2026 levels were markedly lower.

The analysis is based on public page metrics and third-party analytics. Some historical comparisons are affected by retrieval issues on older records. The available figures show that large legacy subscriber totals remain while monthly and daily view counts in 2026 are lower and uneven across creators.