A former BND chief's aide in custody as Germany's spy scandal widens
The short euronews report on a charge of aiding and abetting treason ran far ahead of everything else the channel posted the same day.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 35,706 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (2,256).
Former BND chief's aide arrested as Germany's biggest spy scandal widens
Among the news broadcasters closest to euronews in size, it is the only one running above its usual pace right now. The other five are all below theirs, and a short report from Germany is doing much of the work.
"Former BND chief's aide arrested as Germany's biggest spy scandal widens" passed 20,000 views in its first eleven hours. For a euronews Short, which usually ends its first day with a couple of thousand, that is a long way from routine.
The BND is Germany's foreign intelligence service, and the man at the center of the report once ran the office of one of its former heads. He has been taken into custody on charges of aiding and abetting treason. According to the description, he is accused of obtaining classified BND documents and passing them on in exchange for payment, beginning in 2010. The title calls the case Germany's biggest spy scandal and says it is still widening.
The comment section is small, but it filled faster than a Short here usually does.
The channel's other reports from the same day drew a fraction of the audience. One covered the death of Maricarmen, the 87-year-old who withstood four eviction attempts and became a symbol of Spain's housing protests. Another followed Marco Rubio in Athens, urging Europe to carry more of its own defense burden.
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- Channel
- euronews
- Subscribers
- 2,580,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,821,413
- Channel views, pace per day
- 712,559 (on a normal day: 495,432)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 23,732 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 35,706
The numbers
The figures show a Short running well past what this channel's Shorts usually manage on their first day.
