Hank Green YouTube Stats

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

Hank Green channel overview

Hank Green (@hankschannel) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2009. It has 3.2M subscribers and 1.5B total views across 1.3K videos, an average of 1.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 692K views. Over the last 12 months, Hank Green published 36 videos (17% Shorts), and 5 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Hank Green make?

Returbe estimates Hank Green's YouTube ad revenue at $25K – $87K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.66 to $5.68, typically $3.08, 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 $3.1K.

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

Hank Green publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 36 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (28% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Hank Green's best outlier videos

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

• Sorry in advance for the last one1.5M views · Nov 2, 202614.2× typical views
• Saturn Isn't Just a Planet5.5M views · Sep 8, 20267.9× typical views
• The Theranos Trap4.3M views · Oct 24, 20266.2× typical views
• AI is Proving Things No One Understands*2.4M views · Oct 27, 20263.5× typical views
• Unfortunately, You Need to Know What the Jevons Paradox is2.2M views · Jul 10, 20263.2× typical views
• How Big of a Deal is this Cancer Vaccine?2M views · Sep 8, 20262.9× typical views
• RFK Jr's Mask is Slipping1.8M views · Oct 29, 20262.7× typical views
• The Most Important Thing that Ever Happened1.8M views · Sep 8, 20262.6× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Hank Green's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The D that Changed My Life333K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• How Montana solved gerrymandering140K views · Nov 5, 20261.3× typical views
• The Scam that Broke Polls1.2M views · Nov 5, 20261.8× typical views
• Sorry in advance for the last one1.5M views · Nov 2, 202614.2× typical views
• Identifying Halloween Candies from CT Scans314K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Halloween is the Best American Holiday347K views · Oct 31, 20260.5× typical views
• I Was Wrong About Fiber1.2M views · Oct 30, 20261.7× typical views
• RFK Jr's Mask is Slipping1.8M views · Oct 29, 20262.7× typical views
• What is a nation?24K views · Oct 29, 20260.2× typical views
• AI is Proving Things No One Understands*2.4M views · Oct 27, 20263.5× 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 Hank Green or YouTube.