Dr Ben Miles YouTube Stats

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

Dr Ben Miles channel overview

Dr Ben Miles (@drbenmiles) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2014. It has 2.7M subscribers and 1.1B total views across 435 videos, an average of 2.5M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.6M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.6M views. Over the last 12 months, Dr Ben Miles published 56 videos (86% Shorts), and 6 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 15 days, Dr Ben Miles gained 30K subscribers and 30M views, about 2M views a day.

How much does Dr Ben Miles make?

Returbe estimates Dr Ben Miles's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $79K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.35 to $1.19, typically $0.65, 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 $650.

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Upload schedule

Dr Ben Miles publishes about 10.9 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (32% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Dr Ben Miles's best outlier videos

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

• Scientists Cure Cancer By Injecting Frog Bacteria15M views · Jul 19, 20268.7× typical views
• Scientists Create Perfect Urinal, Win Ig Nobel Prize12M views · Sep 15, 20266.9× typical views
• Scientists Discover Alzheimer’s Immunity10M views · Aug 25, 20265.9× typical views
• China Catches First Reusable Rocket8M views · Aug 2, 20264.6× typical views
• Scientists Create World First AI-Designed Virus6M views · Aug 19, 20263.4× typical views
• Scientists Discover Brain-Eating Fungi Infecting Humans5.3M views · Oct 22, 20263× typical views
• China Launches Nuclear Battery That Lasts 5000 Years4.9M views · Jul 16, 20262.9× typical views
• Scientists Just Created Superfast Healing Gel4.6M views · Oct 16, 20262.6× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Scientists Detect Cancer 475 Days Early391K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Scientists Just Cured Paranoia with Ultrasound526K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• This Startup Just Raised $200M to Build Military Super-Dogs175K views · Nov 1, 20260.1× typical views
• This Fusion Company Just Ordered 10,000km of Magnetic Tape1.9M views · Oct 29, 20261.1× typical views
• Scientists Discover Gut Bacteria Stops Heart Disease1.8M views · Oct 27, 20261× typical views
• This Fusion Startup Is Building an “Impossible” Reactor607K views · Oct 26, 20260.3× typical views
• Scientists Discover Brain-Eating Fungi Infecting Humans5.3M views · Oct 22, 20263× typical views
• Why This Volcano Keeps Erupting319K views · Oct 20, 20260.2× typical views
• Scientists Just Created Superfast Healing Gel4.6M views · Oct 16, 20262.6× typical views
• The Secret to Mind Control - Nobel Prize 2026 EXPLAINED2.1M views · Oct 14, 20261.3× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 323 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.9K 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 23.1×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 281×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.4×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 70.5×).

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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 Dr Ben Miles or YouTube.