Infowars Said YouTube Ban Would Make It Stronger. Actually, It's Been Crushed.

Two weeks after getting kicked off most major social platforms, Alex Jones’ empire is gasping for air. One bright spot? Twitter.

WILL SOMMER
08.24.18 4:51 AM ET

Infowars host Alex Jones is struggling to replace the audience he lost after being banned from YouTube, according to viewership totals published on the video sites still willing to host him.

Jones and his allies initially reacted to Infowars being banned from Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, and a host of other tech platforms in early August by claiming that the bans would only draw more attention to Infowars. After the bans, the Infowars app surged in both the Apple and Google app stores, nearly reaching the top of Apple’s “news” category. Infowars cited the app’s growing popularity as proof that the conspiracy outlet could outwit “globalist tech gatekeepers.”

Link to tweet

Two weeks later, though, the Infowars app is set to slip out of the top 30 news apps, and Infowars is nowhere near replacing its lost YouTube viewership.

Infowars currently hosts its videos on Real.Video, a niche video hosting site that promises that content on the platform is “protected under free speech” and prominently features other channels promoting militias or dubious nutrition ideas. Infowars videos on Real.Video regularly receive only a few hundred or thousand views.

By comparison, Infowars posts on YouTube regularly received at least five figures in terms of viewership. Infowars videos on YouTube earned more than 500,000 views a day on average, according to social-media analytics site SocialBlade, while Infowars’ main YouTube channel received more than 17 million views in the 30 days before its ban.

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