Teddy bears for a hospital ward: Campbell's 2016 story returns to The Feed

The twelve-year-old who sews for sick children came back as a Short and a full film, while a 2015 documentary on ice drew more daily viewers than either.

Channel: SBS The Feed Story of October 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The 12-year-old boy sewing hope for sick children

SBS The Feed reached into its own archive for its two uploads. Both tell the story of Campbell, a twelve-year-old who spends his spare time sewing teddy bears for children at his local hospital. It first aired in 2016. The Short came first, on October 1, and the longer version followed a day later. It has two chapters: why he makes the bears, and what it is like to have a dad with cancer. The description sums up his outlook in one line, about a boy who looks at sadness and tries to turn it the other way up.

Both films have stayed small, in the low thousands. The video drawing the most daily viewers right now is another archive piece, "Ice towns: Australia's crystal meth epidemic," a documentary filmed in 2015 about the drug's toll on Australian communities. It went back up 26 days ago and has passed 23,000 views.

Overall it was a slow stretch. The channel ran at roughly half its usual daily pace, and subscribers held at 405,000. Several of the documentary channels around it were also below their normal level, The Atlantic among them. Its sister channel SBS Dateline was the exception, running well above its usual pace.

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The videos drawing views on SBS The Feed right now

The 12-year-old sewing hope for kids #shorts #sewing #hope1,666 views · 2026-10-01 Ice towns: Australia's crystal meth epidemic23,064 views Pauline Hanson: Racist or not? #shorts #paulinehanson #onenation2,953 views

The numbers

Here is how SBS The Feed's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

American Experience | PBS

1,246,895

PBS Documentaries

1,003,259

The Atlantic

833,873

Chronicle - Medieval Hist…

733,754

SBS Dateline

345,586

American Masters PBS

308,612

the fifth estate

307,090

Royalty TV

258,474

SBS The Feed

149,964

subscribers

405,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

209,028,796

views per day

13,486

typical day: 24,017

this week's videos (first-day views)

The 12-year-old sewing hope for kids #s…

1,111

The 12-year-old boy sewing hope for sic…

647

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

the fifth estate

1,000,000

The Atlantic

982,000

Chronicle - Medieval Hist…

896,000

SBS Dateline

791,000

American Experience | PBS

578,000

PBS Documentaries

439,000

SBS The Feed

405,000

American Masters PBS

264,000

Royalty TV

233,000

As of October 8, 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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