diff --git a/server/models/video/video-channel.ts b/server/models/video/video-channel.ts
index de80887c0a7..b7ffbd3b136 100644
--- a/server/models/video/video-channel.ts
+++ b/server/models/video/video-channel.ts
@@ -347,11 +347,11 @@ export class VideoChannelModel extends Model {
       }
 
       const query = `
-SELECT          Count(DISTINCT("VideoChannelModel"."id")) AS "count"
+SELECT          COUNT(DISTINCT("VideoChannelModel"."id")) AS "count"
 FROM            "videoChannel"                            AS "VideoChannelModel"
 INNER JOIN      "video"                                   AS "Videos"
 ON              "VideoChannelModel"."id" = "Videos"."channelId"
-AND             ("Videos"."createdAt" > Now() - interval '${days}d')
+AND             ("Videos"."publishedAt" > Now() - interval '${days}d')
 INNER JOIN      "account" AS "Account"
 ON              "VideoChannelModel"."accountId" = "Account"."id"
 INNER JOIN      "actor" AS "Account->Actor"
diff --git a/server/tests/api/server/stats.ts b/server/tests/api/server/stats.ts
index 04063c38188..304181a6d5e 100644
--- a/server/tests/api/server/stats.ts
+++ b/server/tests/api/server/stats.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import {
   doubleFollow,
   flushAndRunMultipleServers,
   follow,
-  getMyUserInformation,
   ServerInfo,
   unfollow,
   updateCustomSubConfig,
@@ -31,6 +30,7 @@ const expect = chai.expect
 
 describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
   let servers: ServerInfo[] = []
+  let channelId
   const user = {
     username: 'user1',
     password: 'super_password'
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
 
   it('Should have the correct active channel stats', async function () {
     const server = servers[0]
-    const videoChannelProperties = { name: 'second_channel', displayName: 'My second channel' }
 
     {
       const res = await getStats(server.url)
@@ -155,7 +154,12 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
     }
 
     {
-      await addVideoChannel(server.url, server.accessToken, videoChannelProperties)
+      const channelAttributes = {
+        name: 'stats_channel',
+        displayName: 'My stats channel'
+      }
+      const resChannel = await addVideoChannel(server.url, server.accessToken, channelAttributes)
+      channelId = resChannel.body.videoChannel.id
 
       const res = await getStats(server.url)
       const data: ServerStats = res.body
@@ -165,10 +169,7 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
     }
 
     {
-      const resChannel = await getMyUserInformation(server.url, server.accessToken)
-      const videoChannel = server.videoChannel = resChannel.body.videoChannels.find(v => v.name === videoChannelProperties.name)
-
-      await uploadVideo(server.url, server.accessToken, { fixture: 'video_short.webm', channelId: videoChannel.id })
+      await uploadVideo(server.url, server.accessToken, { fixture: 'video_short.webm', channelId })
 
       const res = await getStats(server.url)
       const data: ServerStats = res.body
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
         playlistAttrs: {
           displayName: 'playlist for count',
           privacy: VideoPlaylistPrivacy.PUBLIC,
-          videoChannelId: server.videoChannel.id
+          videoChannelId: channelId
         }
       })
 
@@ -242,8 +243,8 @@ describe('Test stats (excluding redundancy)', function () {
     {
       const res = await getStats(servers[0].url)
       const data: ServerStats = res.body
-      expect(data.totalLocalVideoFilesSize).to.be.greaterThan(300000)
-      expect(data.totalLocalVideoFilesSize).to.be.lessThan(400000)
+      expect(data.totalLocalVideoFilesSize).to.be.greaterThan(500000)
+      expect(data.totalLocalVideoFilesSize).to.be.lessThan(600000)
     }
   })