Formula of the Ancients YouTube Stats

@formula_of_the_ancient · Science & Education · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Formula of the Ancients channel overview

Formula of the Ancients (@formula_of_the_ancient) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2015. It has 3.8K subscribers and 3.2M total views across 22 videos, an average of 144K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 139K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 43K views. Over the last 12 months, Formula of the Ancients published 23 videos, and 7 of them (30%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Formula of the Ancients make?

Returbe estimates Formula of the Ancients's YouTube ad revenue at $1.2K – $4.2K 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.

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Upload schedule

Formula of the Ancients publishes about 10.9 videos a month. Based on its last 23 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (35% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Formula of the Ancients's best outlier videos

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

• Africa HID 6 Places That SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED888K views · Oct 8, 202620.9× typical views
• 6 RIDDLES of Africa that SCIENCE CANNOT explain714K views · Sep 8, 202616.8× typical views
• MADAGASCAR — THE EIGHTH Continent, 3 BILLION YEARS Old589K views · Oct 8, 202613.8× typical views
• 7 IMPOSSIBLE Discoveries of Indonesia That Break History256K views · Oct 10, 20266× typical views
• SIX SECRETS OF YEMEN THAT ARE REWRITING HUMAN HISTORY173K views · Oct 8, 20264.1× typical views
• 6 Anomalies of NAMIBIA That SCIENCE Still CANNOT Explain143K views · Oct 25, 20263.4× typical views
• In Colombia, THEY FOUND WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO BE SEEN135K views · Oct 8, 20263.2× typical views
• 6 MYSTERIES OF MEXICO THAT SCIENCE STILL CAN’T EXPLAIN68K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Formula of the Ancients's last 23 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 5 STRANGE Settlements of THAILAND That Should NOT Exist155 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• 6 Secrets Of CHINA Science Still CANNOT Explain21K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• 6 Mysteries of the USA That STONE and EARTH Kept SECRET6.8K views · Nov 2, 20260.2× typical views
• 7 MYSTERIES Of EGYPT That SAQQARA Returned To SCIENCE4.5K views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• 6 MYSTERIES Of MEXICO That BREAK Everything We Knew About The Aztecs1.9K views · Oct 28, 20260× typical views
• 6 Anomalies of NAMIBIA That SCIENCE Still CANNOT Explain143K views · Oct 25, 20263.4× typical views
• 6 MYSTERIES Of Amazonia That Should NOT Exist67K views · Oct 24, 20261.6× typical views
• 5 PLACES in ICELAND That LAVA Built Without HUMANS5.9K views · Oct 24, 20260.1× typical views
• 6 MYSTERIES OF MEXICO THAT SCIENCE STILL CAN’T EXPLAIN68K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views
• Beneath Africa, They Found What Had Been Hidden for 75 000 Years11K views · Oct 17, 20260.3× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.2K videos from 466 channels in this niche. 12.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (52K subs, best video 377.1×), ClipazoPodcast (29K subs, best video 25.5×), The Scale Room (1.4K subs, best video 351.4×), Yorp (10K subs, best video 24.4×), Past the Blue (36K subs, best video 16.3×), The Why Side (48K subs, best video 189.4×).

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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 Formula of the Ancients or YouTube.