CrashCourse YouTube Stats

@crashcourse · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

CrashCourse channel overview

CrashCourse (@crashcourse) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2006. It has 17M subscribers and 2.3B total views across 1.7K videos, an average of 1.3M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 84K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 74K views. Over the last 12 months, CrashCourse published 54 videos (19% Shorts), and 2 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, CrashCourse gained 100K subscribers and 10M views, about 588K views a day.

How much does CrashCourse make?

Returbe estimates CrashCourse's YouTube ad revenue at $59K – $201K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.33 to $11.42, typically $6.18, 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 $6.2K.

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Upload schedule

CrashCourse publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (54% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

CrashCourse's best outlier videos

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

• Statistical Thinking in Science: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #2273K views · Jan 27, 20263.7× typical views
• Crash Course Astronomy Marathon • Full Series234K views · Sep 17, 20263.2× typical views
• Evaluating Sources & Fact Checking: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #6202K views · Mar 10, 20262.7× typical views
• What Happens When Science Clashes with the Public?: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #7184K views · Mar 17, 20262.5× typical views
• Why Does the US Only Have Two Major Parties?: Crash Course US Government #2159K views · Sep 29, 20262.1× typical views
• Why Are US Politics Today So Divisive?: Crash Course US Government #1157K views · Sep 22, 20262.1× typical views
• Why Don’t More People Vote?: Crash Course US Government #4154K views · Oct 13, 20262.1× typical views
• How old is the Earth?: Crash Course Geology #17144K views · Sep 3, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The Quest for Stardust: Crash Course Lecture43K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Is Gerrymandering Getting Worse?: Crash Course US Government #777K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• How Geologists Can Tell if the World is Warming : Crash Course Geology #2375K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• How Big of a Problem is Voter Fraud?: Crash Course US Government #685K views · Oct 27, 20261.2× typical views
• How do we Mine Minerals?: Crash Course Geology #2291K views · Oct 22, 20261.2× typical views
• Is the Electoral College Broken?: Crash Course US Government #5135K views · Oct 20, 20261.8× typical views
• What is Geothermal Energy?: Crash Course Geology #2195K views · Oct 15, 20261.3× typical views
• Why Don’t More People Vote?: Crash Course US Government #4154K views · Oct 13, 20262.1× typical views
• Where Does Campaign Money Really Come From?: Crash Course US Government #3125K views · Oct 6, 20261.7× typical views
• How Often do Asteroids Hit the Earth?: Crash Course Geology #20105K views · Oct 1, 20261.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 322 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.1K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 25×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 19.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 278×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.6×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 69.9×).

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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 CrashCourse or YouTube.