Business Insider follows Sudan's war money to a thirty-fivefold start
On its own, the day-old report is drawing close to a fifth of the views the entire channel collects in a typical day.
Business InsiderStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 355,088 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (10,093).
The Smuggled Resource Funding Sudan's Civil War
This one started fast. "The Smuggled Resource Funding Sudan's Civil War" went up on Business Insider's channel a day ago, and its first day ran at roughly thirty-five times the pace a new upload there usually opens with.
That gap matters on a channel this big. Most new Business Insider videos begin modestly and settle into the long tail of a huge back catalog. This one is already carrying close to a fifth of the channel's usual daily views by itself.
The title leaves the resource unnamed and points straight at the money behind a war that has been fought since April 2023 between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. It is not the easiest subject for a first-day crowd, which makes the start all the more unusual.
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- Channel
- Business Insider
- Subscribers
- 10,600,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,908,499
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 228,008 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 355,088
The numbers
The figures below show how far this report's first day ran ahead of a typical Business Insider opening.
