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Jesse Michels YouTube Stats

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

Subscribers

759K

+7K in 17 days

Total views

114M

+3.5M in 17 days

Videos

497

5.4 / month

Est. monthly earnings

$17K – $57K

RPM $3.06–$10.48

Avg. views (last 30)

453K

Typical views

881K

median per video

Avg. video length

2 h 41 min

Channel age

15 years

since Sep 1, 2011

Jesse Michels channel overview

Jesse Michels (@jessemichels) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2011. It has 759K subscribers and 114M total views across 497 videos, an average of 230K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 453K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 881K views. Over the last 12 months, Jesse Michels published 53 videos (66% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Jesse Michels gained 7K subscribers and 3.5M views, about 207K views a day.

Oct 20, 2026752K → 759K subscribersNov 6, 2026

How much does Jesse Michels make?

Returbe estimates Jesse Michels's YouTube ad revenue at $17K – $57K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.06 to $10.48, typically $5.68, 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 $5.7K.

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

Jesse Michels publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (24% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

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Jesse Michels's best outlier videos

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

Latest videos

10 of Jesse Michels's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 345 channels in this niche. 10.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.6K 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×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 288.8×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194×), Disasters Explained (28K subs, best video 78.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does Jesse Michels have?

Jesse Michels has 759K subscribers on YouTube and 114M total views across 497 videos (Returbe data, updated Nov 6, 2026).

How much does Jesse Michels make on YouTube?

Returbe estimates Jesse Michels's YouTube ad revenue at $17K – $57K per month, based on recent views and an RPM of about $3.06–$10.48 per 1,000 views for this niche and audience. Sponsorships, merch and memberships are not included.

How often does Jesse Michels upload?

Jesse Michels uploads about 5.4 videos a month, most often on Wednesday. The last upload was on Nov 6, 2026.

What is Jesse Michels's best performing video?

""These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes Documentary)" is Jesse Michels's biggest outlier: 1M views, 4.6× the channel's typical views.

What channels are similar to Jesse Michels?

Channels similar to Jesse Michels include The Rest Is Science, The Space Race, The Science Fact, Mundo Increíble, Terra X Lesch & Co.

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 Jesse Michels or YouTube.

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Jesse Michels YouTube Stats: 759K Subscribers, Earnings & Outliers · Returbe