Big Think Clips YouTube Stats

@bigthinkclips · Science & Education · Updated Nov 11, 2026

Big Think Clips channel overview

Big Think Clips (@bigthinkclips) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2025. It has 353K subscribers and 53M total views across 137 videos, an average of 384K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 234K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 55K views. Over the last 12 months, Big Think Clips published 51 videos, and 18 of them (35%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Big Think Clips make?

Returbe estimates Big Think Clips's YouTube ad revenue at $1.8K – $6.2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, 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 $6.5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Big Think Clips publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (33% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 11, 2026.

Big Think Clips's best outlier videos

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

• Your phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state | Arthur Brooks8.3M views · Aug 13, 2026149.9× typical views
• The paradox at the heart of AI and science | Terence Tao2.5M views · Sep 3, 202645.1× typical views
• You can progress more in 6 minutes than you would in a month | Daniel Coyle1.9M views · Sep 8, 202634.8× typical views
• This is why highly empathic people feel drained all the time | Lisa Damour1.3M views · Aug 19, 202624.3× typical views
• Happy couples don't solve their problems | John & Julie Gottman1.1M views · Aug 25, 202620.4× typical views
• The science of stress, coping, and recovery, in 22 minutes | Lisa Damour1M views · Aug 18, 202618.8× typical views
• The 3 ways stupidity spreads throughout a society | Jonny Thomson901K views · Jul 28, 202616.2× typical views
• How power, conformity, and social media erode critical thinking | Jonny Thomson614K views · Jul 29, 202611.1× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Big Think Clips's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Earth may be rarer than astronomers hope | Paul Davies11K views · Nov 11, 20260.2× typical views
• Meaning is the missing ingredient in the physics of life | Paul Davies47K views · Nov 10, 20260.8× typical views
• Gaslighting, lovebombing, and future faking work together as a system | Ramani Durvasula43K views · Nov 5, 20260.8× typical views
• Narcissists understand your emotions and still choose to ignore them | Ramani Durvasula22K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• Narcissists hide behind charity, sadness, and rule following | Ramani Durvasula153K views · Nov 3, 20262.7× typical views
• We’ve engineered away friction and it's made us worse | Luke Burgis31K views · Oct 29, 20260.6× typical views
• Free will: The real casualty of the algorithm | Luke Burgis38K views · Oct 28, 20260.7× typical views
• The hard part of belonging begins after you’ve found your people | Luke Burgis29K views · Oct 27, 20260.5× typical views
• The 3 ways the universe could end, and a wildcard | Ethan Siegel24K views · Oct 22, 20260.4× typical views
• You are one perspective inside a giant mind | Jack Symes30K views · Oct 21, 20260.5× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.6K videos from 720 channels in this niche. 13.1% 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: MemeBlaze HFY (1.5K subs, best video 49.1×), Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 92×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 22.5×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 522.1×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 115.4×), Peace of Men (1.8K subs, best video 139.4×).

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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 Big Think Clips or YouTube.