The Sun's Battle Plans analysis links reported territorial gains to an effort to prevent Russian forces from encircling defended cities.
On YouTube, The Sun has 6,550,000 subscribers and 5,783,966,747 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 9,318,073 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 433 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 15 of 126 in category "News networks and broadcasters". On Instagram, @thesun has 582,072 followers.
YouTube: The numbers today
no significant change in the last month
▲ 43,224,043 in the last 30 days
Instagram: The numbers today
@thesun · The account on Instagram
Place on Instagram
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category News networks and broadcasters | |
|---|---|---|
| By Instagram followers | 1,036 of 2,442 | 46 of 74 |
Ranked among the channels whose Instagram account is on Trari.
Instagram followers: News networks and broadcasters
Latest posts
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| Post | Type | Posted | Views | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Walliams sex scandal from ‘grooming’ teens to ‘demanding naked pics’… | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 8,694 | 62 | 0 |
| Gemma Collins looks totally different as she reveals very glamorous new look | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 73,750 | 462 | 100 |
| Will hardliner Stephen Miller help Trump recover from his midterm losses — or… | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 2,321 | 7 | 0 |
| Strictly's Oti slams ‘uncomfortable to watch’ judging and blames Shirley Ballas | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 50,640 | 423 | 22 |
| Chloe Burrows drops huge hint about new Love Island host after Maya Jama quits. | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 148,784 | 1,719 | 37 |
| Russell Brand faces new charges as cops probe two ‘rapes’. | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 18,296 | 175 | 0 |
| David Walliams has rejected claims that he is a sexual predator in an explosive… | Carousel | November 10, 2026 | - | 546 | 0 |
| David Walliams unmasked as the celeb accused of preying on young girls. | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 42,281 | 449 | 0 |
Of the 15 latest posts: 10 Reels, 3 carousels and 2 photos.
As of November 11, 2026
YouTube: What happened lately
November 11, 2026 8.6x its usual first day EXPOSED: Ukraine 'triggers Vivaldi 2.0’ as counte… The video opened at a pace of 506,315 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (58,892).
The Sun's military analysis examines dispersed Gripen operations, planned aircraft supplies to Ukraine and NATO's position around the Balti…
The Sun's compilation moves from reported attacks on Russian logistics to Ukraine's own damaged infrastructure and need for protection.
The video drawing the most views now
EXPOSED: Ukraine 'triggers Vivaldi 2.0’ as counter-attack shatters Russian spearhead | Battle Plans
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 267,989
- Video views, pace per day
- 506,315
- Views in its first 9 hours
- 267,989
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category News networks and broadcasters | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 433 of 5,393 | 15 of 126 |
| By views gained this week | 714 of 5,274 | 43 of 126 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 649 of 5,043 | 31 of 121 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.6% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category News networks and broadcasters
Views gained this week in the category News networks and broadcasters
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 6,550,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 6,550,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 5,741,712,674 views → November 11, 2026: 5,783,966,747 views · average: 1,457,037 views a day
YouTube: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LIVE: Pope Leo continues his visit to Argentina | November 11, 2026 | 11:54:56 | 4,713 | - | 4,713 (2 hours) | 11 | 0 |
LIVE: Spain mourns victims of horror train crash with state… | November 10, 2026 | 3:51:48 | 10,599 | 25,415 | 10,599 (7 hours) | 14 | 0 |
EXPOSED: Ukraine 'triggers Vivaldi 2.0’ as counter-attack s… | November 10, 2026 | 24:38 | 267,989 | 506,315 | 267,989 (9 hours) | 7,730 | 374 |
Hackers just exposed the real cost of Putin’s war | November 10, 2026 | 9:52 | 71,909 | 107,627 | 71,909 (12 hours) | 902 | 169 |
LIVE: Justice secretary answers questions on government’s e… | November 10, 2026 | - | 9,133 | 12,746 | 9,133 (13 hours) | 45 | 0 |
LIVE: Israel's newly-elected parliament sworn in | November 10, 2026 | 1:47:56 | 19,154 | 25,320 | 19,154 (14 hours) | 153 | 14 |
LIVE: G7 foreign ministers meet in France | November 10, 2026 | 45:42 | 4,389 | 5,788 | 4,389 (14 hours) | 5 | 1 |
The future of war is subterranean, Ukraine’s underground ba… | November 10, 2026 | 8:46 | 42,922 | 56,221 | 42,922 (14 hours) | 818 | 52 |
LIVE: Hegseth holds a briefing at the Pentagon | November 10, 2026 | 1:00:10 | 4,615 | 6,017 | 4,615 (14 hours) | 9 | 1 |
LIVE: G7 foreign ministers meet in France | November 10, 2026 | 4:18:46 | 6,248 | 7,892 | 6,248 (15 hours) | 9 | 1 |
Zelensky challenges Putin to meet in Antarctic | November 10, 2026 | 0:52 short | 16,488 | 20,486 | 16,488 (15 hours) | 306 | 88 |
LIVE: Students and teachers in France call for another day … | November 10, 2026 | 3:56:38 | 7,947 | 9,728 | 7,947 (16 hours) | 10 | 0 |
US ‘evacuates aircraft from second RAF base after threat fr… | November 10, 2026 | 0:30 short | 14,444 | 17,609 | 14,444 (16 hours) | 114 | 51 |
LIVE: Newly-elected Israeli lawmakers arrive at the Knesset | November 10, 2026 | 1:44:42 | 8,436 | 10,141 | 8,436 (16 hours) | 11 | 2 |
LIVE: Kemi Badenoch delivers keynote speech | November 10, 2026 | 1:17:11 | 4,676 | 5,614 | 4,676 (16 hours) | 12 | 9 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 20.6 in the category: 18.6
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.5 in the category: 2.3
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 34,047 views
- short vs long
- 2 short (up to 3 minutes), 12 long
average views per short video: 15,466
average views per long video: 37,799
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YouTube: Most watched Shorts
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|---|---|---|---|
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YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video taking offEXPOSED: Ukraine 'triggers Vivaldi 2.0’ as counte… The video opened at a pace of 506,315 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (58,892).
- Video taking offRussell Brand sentenced to ten-and-a-half-years i… The video opened at a pace of 136,046 views a day, 5.7 times a normal first day on this channel (23,850).
- Video taking offRussell Brand's wife supports rapist husband in c… The video opened at a pace of 78,255 views a day, 3.3 times a normal first day on this channel (23,850).
- Video taking off'So glad Finland and Sweden are on our side' | Ba… The video opened at a pace of 571,092 views a day, 9.4 times a normal first day on this channel (60,664).
- Video taking offUkrainian drones DECIMATE Russian troops as 11k a… The video opened at a pace of 289,408 views a day, 4.8 times a normal first day on this channel (60,664).
- Video taking offUkraine's Flamingo missiles set Putin's proton pl… The video opened at a pace of 226,811 views a day, 3.9 times a normal first day on this channel (58,107).
- Video taking offUkraine ramps up massive strikes on Russian oil a… The video opened at a pace of 482,477 views a day, 8.1 times a normal first day on this channel (59,677).
- Video taking offSecret Russian location bombed by Ukrainian speci… The video opened at a pace of 209,887 views a day, 3.5 times a normal first day on this channel (59,677).
- MilestoneEXPOSED: Putin’s blown-up dam backfires as Ukrain… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Video taking offPilots of horror Learjet crash pictured as tech t… The video opened at a pace of 758,024 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (57,131).
- Video taking offEXPOSED: Russia loses 2,250 troops in a day as de… The video opened at a pace of 434,973 views a day, 7.6 times a normal first day on this channel (57,131).
- Video taking offDesperate Putin takes fuel from frontline troops … The video opened at a pace of 416,777 views a day, 7.3 times a normal first day on this channel (57,131).
Stories
The Sun's Battle Plans analysis links reported territorial gains to an effort to prevent Russian forces from encircling defended cities.
The Sun's military analysis examines dispersed Gripen operations, planned aircraft supplies to Ukraine and NATO's position around the Balti…
The Sun's compilation moves from reported attacks on Russian logistics to Ukraine's own damaged infrastructure and need for protection.
The report pairs footage of fires in Oryol and Saratov with Zelenskyy's warning of planned Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and bri…
Jerome Starkey's wider battlefield review also examines reported Russian aircraft losses, Kyiv's energy damage and the fate of a proposed U…
The newspaper's compilation shows industrial fires in Russia before turning to frontline drone strikes and propeller-plane interceptions ov…
The Sun's Battle Plans Exposed examines a pipeline assault near Kupiansk alongside strikes on Russian supply routes and reported casualty i…
In The Sun's interview, the financier argues that pressure on Russia's oil industry could help secure a mutual halt to aerial attacks.
The Sun's report pairs an aviation expert's reading of the dashcam recording with emergency radio calls and Ron DeSantis's account of the c…
The report adds photographs and a friend's tribute to coverage of the Learjet crash that killed nine people in Palm Beach County.
The Sun's Wes O'Donnell examines Sky Sentinel, a turret designed to counter Russian drones without the cost of guided missiles.
The new compilation presents the aircraft claim through maps and satellite imagery, alongside footage of burning fuel tankers and a drone i…
The footage-led roundup moves from a nighttime oil-hub fire to frontline drone strikes, damage in Kramatorsk and evacuees arriving in Belar…
Philip Ingram argues Ukraine has regained the tactical initiative, pairing strategic analysis with footage of drone evacuations and unmanne…
The combat-footage compilation also includes automated air defences over Kyiv and an F-16 intercepting a drone.
Jerome Starkey's Frontline bulletin draws nearly half a million views in nine hours, with reporting that extends to evacuations in Oleshky.
Its battlefield compilation adds footage of captured reconnaissance troops and automated weapons to reporting on attacks inside Russia.
Security analyst Luke Coffey explains how the short-range system could help counter cruise missiles and jet-powered drones.
The week's most-watched upload connects underground fighting with airport disruption and pressure on Russia's oil industry.
The Sun's Battle Plans Exposed links the Zaporizhzhia fighting to a wider argument about terrain, drones and battlefield initiative.
Footage from Voronezh leads a wider Ukraine war compilation that also follows soldiers through underground gas pipes near Kupiansk.
The Sun's Battle Plans Exposed examines how strikes on radar networks could make occupied Crimea harder for Russia to defend.
The report identifies the target as the Proton plant, which it says supplies components for Russian missile systems.
Jerome Starkey's Frontline briefing connects attacks on Russian infrastructure with underground fighting in Ukraine, drawing an unusually f…
The Sun's military analysis examines reported armor stockpiles and why drones have not made tanks obsolete.
A reported Neptune missile strike and Joseph Jarnecki's analysis of digital infrastructure feature among fifteen new uploads.
The former intelligence officer's weekly map session drew more than 380,000 views in eleven hours, and one viewer offered a theory about a …
His look at a week of deep strikes inside Russia led a day when four of The Sun's Ukraine videos ran far ahead of the paper's usual start.
A second fast-moving episode of the war series arrived while the tabloid's channel, and most big news broadcasters around it, drew fewer vi…
A Sunday cluster of war and terror-plot reports carries the tabloid's channel, with Putin's northern plan out in front by a wide margin.




















































