NOVA PBS Official YouTube Stats

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

NOVA PBS Official channel overview

NOVA PBS Official (@novapbs) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2006. It has 1.6M subscribers and 290M total views across 1.6K videos, an average of 180K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 159K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 100K views. Over the last 12 months, NOVA PBS Official published 63 videos (56% Shorts), and 11 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, NOVA PBS Official gained 20K subscribers and 4.4M views, about 242K views a day.

How much does NOVA PBS Official make?

Returbe estimates NOVA PBS Official's YouTube ad revenue at $23K – $80K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.03 to $10.4, typically $5.64, 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 $5.6K.

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

NOVA PBS Official publishes about 28.2 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (41% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

NOVA PBS Official's best outlier videos

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

• Giant exploding sinkholes? #sinkhole #crater #geology816K views · Sep 18, 202662.4× typical views
• New Dwarf Planet Hiding in Our Solar System? | NOVA | PBS2.8M views · Oct 27, 202628.6× typical views
• A.I. Revolution | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS2.4M views · Mar 28, 202413.7× typical views
• Space and Time Might Be an Illusion | NOVA | PBS1.1M views · Sep 1, 202610.7× typical views
• That time the U.S. nuked space #nuclear #nuclearweapons #space #satellite #documentary96K views · Oct 13, 20267.4× typical views
• How to Build Your Own Heat-Regulating Hogan | NOVA | PBS668K views · Oct 12, 20266.7× typical views
• The Secret of the Mona Lisa Smile: Mystery Solved? | NOVA | PBS401K views · Sep 8, 20264× typical views
• The Moon is a planet? #planet #dwarfplanet #moon #space #podcast52K views · Oct 28, 20264× typical views

Latest videos

12 of NOVA PBS Official's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How did dinosaurs flirt? #evolution #dinosaur #animals #documentary #science4.1K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Interview: All of Physics in One Book with Hakeem Oluseyi | Particles of Thought22K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Have you ever heard a mouse sing? #mice #singing #animals #communication #science6.5K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• The Arctic Has a Hidden Leak | NOVA | PBS308K views · Nov 4, 20263.1× typical views
• The chilling truth about quantum computers #physics #quantum #quantumcomputing #qubits #science13K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• Spooky Truth about Quantum Computers | What the Physics?!100K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• Strength in numbers #evolution #ants #documentary #science #nature8.8K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• The Moon is a planet? #planet #dwarfplanet #moon #space #podcast52K views · Oct 28, 20264× typical views
• New dwarf planet in our Solar System? #space #astronomy #dwarfplanet #telescope #science34K views · Oct 28, 20262.6× typical views
• New Dwarf Planet Hiding in Our Solar System? | NOVA | PBS2.8M views · Oct 27, 202628.6× 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 NOVA PBS Official or YouTube.