Numberphile YouTube Stats

@numberphile · Updated Nov 9, 2026

Numberphile channel overview

Numberphile (@numberphile) is a YouTube channel created in 2011. It has 4.8M subscribers and 743M total views across 832 videos, an average of 893K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 282K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 217K views. Over the last 12 months, Numberphile published 37 videos (16% Shorts), and 4 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Numberphile make?

Returbe estimates Numberphile's YouTube ad revenue at $6.1K – $21K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.2 to $7.47, typically $3.95, 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 $4K.

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

Numberphile publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 37 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (30% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 9, 2026.

Numberphile's best outlier videos

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

• Blind Ranking Numbers (James Grime)514K views · Sep 22, 20265.6× typical views
• No More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI1.2M views · Oct 19, 20265.3× typical views
• SOLVED: Navier-Stokes cracked by AI - Numberphile1.1M views · Oct 10, 20264.9× typical views
• Blind Ranking Numbers (Terence Tao)302K views · Oct 27, 20263.3× typical views
• The Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - Numberphile445K views · Oct 10, 20262.1× typical views
• A New Math Meme - Numberphile427K views · Oct 19, 20262× typical views
• Blind Ranking Numbers (Matt Parker)178K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views
• The Biggest Gaps Between Primes - Numberphile415K views · Oct 10, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Meat Pies and Math Essentials (with Terence Tao) - Numberphile3.6K views · Nov 9, 20260× typical views
• Blind Ranking Numbers (Tom Crawford)80K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Who's Richer, Mario or Sonic? - Numberphile154K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• Blind Ranking Numbers (Daniel Litt)87K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• Blind Ranking Numbers (Terence Tao)302K views · Oct 27, 20263.3× typical views
• Squaring the Triangle - Numberphile337K views · Oct 26, 20261.6× typical views
• The End of Mathematical Mountain Climbing - Numberphile226K views · Oct 19, 20261× typical views
• A New Math Meme - Numberphile427K views · Oct 19, 20262× typical views
• No More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI1.2M views · Oct 19, 20265.3× typical views
• SOLVED: Navier-Stokes cracked by AI - Numberphile1.1M views · Oct 10, 20264.9× typical views

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 Numberphile or YouTube.