A febrile moment, from Washington: Simon Marks lifts James O'Brien's LBC

Their talk about Trump's White House summit with tech chiefs drew about ten times the views of anything else LBC posted the same day, the Manchester City scandal included.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 543,725 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (44,135).

'A febrile moment for American democracy' | Simon Marks

"'A febrile moment for American democracy' | Simon Marks" is the latest of the regular transatlantic check-ins on LBC, the London talk radio station. Marks, the Washington-based correspondent, joins James O'Brien to go through the week in US politics. Fifteen hours after it went up, it had passed 430,000 views. A new LBC upload usually gathers something like 44,000 in its whole first day.

The hook, according to the description, is the White House summit at which Donald Trump announced a deal on AI with tech chiefs including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The president called it a "morally binding" self-regulation agreement, while he continues to resist calls for stronger safeguards.

The comments show the conversation ranged further. Viewers keep returning to two letters, "S.I.", which they say the president used when he meant AI. Several compare self-regulation with how the banks once policed themselves. Others bring up Jack Smith's Senate hearing and Senator Eric Schmitt, a sign that the segment covered more than the tech story.

The rest of LBC's day stayed close to home. Andrew Marr and Iain Dale's panel took on the Manchester City ruling, and Tom Swarbrick debated pensions. Marr also spoke with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their book on billionaires and the end of days, so Musk turned up twice in one day of uploads. Of those videos, the Marks segment is the one carrying the channel, which is running close to twice its normal daily pace.

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The numbers

One Washington segment pushed the whole channel well above its everyday level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

44,135

this video

543,725

subscribers

1,530,000

total views

1,799,030,838

views per day

2,863,327

typical day: 1,560,083

the video

views

429,940

likes

6,796

comments

1,145

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

People

1,550,000

LBC

1,530,000

ETimes

1,530,000

TalkTV

1,470,000

news.com.au

1,390,000

Times Radio

1,300,000

As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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