Freddy McKinney YouTube Stats

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

Freddy McKinney channel overview

Freddy McKinney (@freddymckinney) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2014. It has 659K subscribers and 107M total views across 482 videos, an average of 222K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 3.4M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.7M views. Over the last 12 months, Freddy McKinney published 71 videos (7% Shorts), and 2 of them (3%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Freddy McKinney make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Freddy McKinney's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.35 to $11.48, typically $6.22, 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

Freddy McKinney publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 17 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (35% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Sep 17, 2026.

Freddy McKinney's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Extreme Tornado Chase Ever12M views · Feb 1, 20267.1× typical views
• The most chaotic storm chase ever - Gary, South Dakota1.5M views · Nov 21, 20255.8× typical views
• The Greatest Tornado I Have Ever Chased - Trailer531K views · Jan 28, 20262.1× typical views
• The Scariest Night of My Life: The Enderlin EF53.3M views · Sep 17, 20261.9× typical views
• The Most Intense Tornado Chase Of 20261.8M views · Apr 27, 20261.1× typical views
• We Nearly Drove Into This Tornado253K views · Dec 27, 20251× typical views
• I Rescued A Family From This Tornado21M views · Nov 6, 20251× typical views
• I Got Too Close To This Tornado418K views · Sep 7, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Freddy McKinney's last 17 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Scariest Night of My Life: The Enderlin EF53.3M views · Sep 17, 20261.9× typical views
• Extreme Oklahoma Tornado Chase - We Caught TWINS!1.5M views · Jun 21, 20260.9× typical views
• The Most Intense Tornado Chase Of 20261.8M views · Apr 27, 20261.1× typical views
• The Most Dangerous Tornado Misconceptions960K views · Mar 26, 20260.6× typical views
• These Tornadoes Almost Took My Life907K views · Feb 25, 20260.5× typical views
• The Most Extreme Tornado Chase Ever12M views · Feb 1, 20267.1× typical views
• The Greatest Tornado I Have Ever Chased - Trailer531K views · Jan 28, 20262.1× typical views
• The Beautiful Side of Tornadoes171K views · Jan 19, 20260.7× typical views
• We Nearly Drove Into This Tornado253K views · Dec 27, 20251× typical views
• This tornado threw sheet metal at me106K views · Dec 4, 20250.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 354 channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.7K 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 340.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 27.5×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 301.1×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 193.5×), Disasters Explained (28K subs, best video 78.6×).

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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 Freddy McKinney or YouTube.