Video taking off 21x its usual first day

October 7, three years on, sets the tone for Mike Graham's Wednesday stream

The full morning recording, three hours of The Mike Graham Show followed by Littlewood and Cox, drew far more viewers than these daily streams usually do, while a Meghan Markle rant from the same day ran well ahead too.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 109,968 views a day, 21 times a normal first day on this channel (5,254).

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Every weekday, Mike Graham's channel posts its whole morning as a single long recording, and most of those recordings begin quietly. As we reported here, Tuesday's followed that pattern, and a full stream usually ends its first day at around 5,000 views. Wednesday's passed 90,000 in its first 17 hours.

The date matters to the people watching. The broadcast went out on 7 October, the third anniversary of the attacks in Israel in 2023, and that is what much of the comment section is about. Viewers call it a somber day, thank Mike for marking it, and praise a guest named Chris for what he said. Some write about their own family connections to the places that were attacked.

The rest of the morning carried the channel's usual mix. The description lays it out as three hours of The Mike Graham Show and then two hours of Littlewood and Cox. Viewers single out energy analyst Kathryn Porter on power, a barrister guest, and an interview about vehicle tracking that one viewer from Chester went back to look up.

It was not the only upload to run ahead of the channel's usual. "Mike Graham's Meghan Markle MELTDOWN," his daily rant, also drew roughly ten times a normal first day. In it he goes back over the Oprah Winfrey interview, Prince Harry's interview with Tom Bradby and the claim about Archie, and he calls the whole saga "an utter horror show."

All of this came on a day when the channel's overall daily views sat well below their normal pace, so most of the morning's attention went to these two videos.

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The facts
Subscribers
184,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
1,652,883
Channel views, pace per day
59,178 (on a normal day: 183,316)
Video published
October 7, 2026
Video views so far
93,066 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
109,968

The numbers

A daily stream that usually starts in the low thousands had one of its strongest openings here, set against a quieter channel overall.

the video's first day
usual first day here
5,254
this video
109,968
subscribers
184,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
total views
47,446,251
views per day
59,178
typical day: 183,316
the video
views
93,066
likes
5,315
comments
42
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
TYT's The Conversation
189,000
Mike Graham’s UKLIVE - Th…
184,000
Claus Kellerman POV
184,000
Isabel Brown
181,000
Mallen Baker
180,000
Brittany Page
176,000
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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