Mark Rober YouTube Stats

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

Mark Rober channel overview

Mark Rober (@markrober) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2011. It has 86M subscribers and 20B total views across 276 videos, an average of 73M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 25M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 32M views. Over the last 12 months, Mark Rober published 42 videos (83% Shorts), and 9 of them (21%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Mark Rober gained 1.5M subscribers and 512M views, about 27M views a day.

How much does Mark Rober make?

Returbe estimates Mark Rober's YouTube ad revenue at $2M – $6.9M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.57 to $1.96, typically $1.07, 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 $1.1K.

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Upload schedule

Mark Rober publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (37% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 30, 2026.

Mark Rober's best outlier videos

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

• 3 Levels of Elephant Toothpaste361M views · Nov 22, 202537.2× typical views
• pride comes before flop227M views · Feb 11, 202623.4× typical views
• The SECRET to Fighting Laundry Stains #TidePartner127M views · Mar 17, 202613× typical views
• Ronaldo vs My Goalie Robot42M views · Nov 28, 20254.3× typical views
• I Discovered a Lost Plane38M views · Jul 10, 20263.9× typical views
• Tennis Ball Cannon vs Human Strength32M views · May 14, 20263.3× typical views
• Testing Every Seat on a Log Ride30M views · Apr 3, 20263.1× typical views
• Help Me Pass Ronaldo in Subscribers!30M views · Dec 5, 20253.1× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Mark Rober's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Beat Me, Win $100832K views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• The Insane Science Hidden in These Toys2.7M views · Oct 28, 20260.3× typical views
• I Solved Every Board Game21M views · Oct 24, 20260.6× typical views
• Can You Scientifically Measure Fun?1.9M views · Oct 21, 20260.2× typical views
• 4 Levels of Satisfying Crunches1.1M views · Oct 9, 20260.1× typical views
• You Have Spiders on Your Face RIGHT NOW!2.9M views · Sep 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Last Cheater Standing Wins $10,00032M views · Sep 19, 20261× typical views
• Chivalry or Engineering?6.2M views · Sep 18, 20260.6× typical views
• Why Do People Pass Out On Roller Coasters?8.9M views · Aug 28, 20260.9× typical views
• Why the Moon Never Changes8.1M views · Aug 14, 20260.8× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 322 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.1K 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×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 19.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 278×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.6×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 69.9×).

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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 Mark Rober or YouTube.