3Blue1Brown YouTube Stats

@3blue1brown · Science & Education · Updated Nov 10, 2026

3Blue1Brown channel overview

3Blue1Brown (@3blue1brown) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2015. It has 8.8M subscribers and 793M total views across 247 videos, an average of 3.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2.4M views. Over the last 12 months, 3Blue1Brown published 23 videos (70% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does 3Blue1Brown make?

Returbe estimates 3Blue1Brown's YouTube ad revenue at $8.2K – $28K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.26 to $7.76, typically $4.21, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $4.2K.

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Upload schedule

3Blue1Brown publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (24% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

3Blue1Brown's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are 3Blue1Brown's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Bacteria Grid Puzzle Solution1.2M views · Mar 21, 20262× typical views
• Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle1.1M views · Feb 16, 20261.8× typical views
• Why you can't comb a hairy ball, and why we care3.7M views · Jan 31, 20261.5× typical views
• The lattice bacteria puzzle839K views · Feb 18, 20261.4× typical views
• Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle.837K views · Apr 16, 20261.4× typical views
• The last IMO problem AI could not solve3.1M views · Sep 18, 20261.3× typical views
• The ladybug clock puzzle757K views · Jan 16, 20261.3× typical views
• The Phone Number puzzle749K views · Sep 25, 20261.3× typical views

Latest videos

3 of 3Blue1Brown's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Sphere Intersection Puzzle296K views · Oct 25, 20260.5× typical views
• There's never been a better time to go into math2.8M views · Oct 16, 20261.2× typical views
• The Phone Number puzzle749K views · Sep 25, 20261.3× typical views
• The last IMO problem AI could not solve744K views · Sep 18, 20261.2× typical views
• The last IMO problem AI could not solve3.1M views · Sep 18, 20261.3× typical views
• The jumping pegs puzzle573K views · Aug 18, 20261× typical views
• The 64 sugar cubes puzzle351K views · Jul 24, 20260.6× typical views
• But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2923K views · Jul 16, 20260.4× typical views
• 100 random chords, how many intersections?618K views · Jun 16, 20261× typical views
• Measuring the entropy of English510K views · Jun 12, 20260.9× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.2K videos from 657 channels in this niche. 12.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 263.7×), MemeBlaze HFY (1.4K subs, best video 47.5×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 486.2×), Live Wild (1K subs, best video 72.1×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 88×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with 3Blue1Brown or YouTube.