Professor Dave Explains YouTube Stats

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

Professor Dave Explains channel overview

Professor Dave Explains (@professordaveexplains) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2015. It has 4.5M subscribers and 568M total views across 2.2K videos, an average of 262K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 242K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 191K views. Over the last 12 months, Professor Dave Explains published 30 videos, and 5 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Professor Dave Explains make?

Returbe estimates Professor Dave Explains's YouTube ad revenue at $14K – $47K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, 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 $6.5K.

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Upload schedule

Professor Dave Explains publishes about 19.6 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (43% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Professor Dave Explains's best outlier videos

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

• Mayim Bialik is Absolutely Worthless841K views · Nov 4, 20264.4× typical views
• Reacting to Elephant Graveyard's Doomsday Cult Masterpiece791K views · Oct 8, 20264.1× typical views
• Terrence Howard vs. The Universe716K views · Oct 8, 20263.7× typical views
• Delusional Conspiracy Bro is Big Mad704K views · Oct 8, 20263.7× typical views
• I Visited Hasan Piker and Destiny Lost His Mind585K views · Oct 29, 20263.1× typical views
• This is What Bad Faith Debate Looks Like (Destiny Israel Fact Check)568K views · Oct 8, 20263× typical views
• Piers! Meyer! Dillahunty! Dibble! Ark! Chaos!397K views · Oct 31, 20262.1× typical views
• Destiny Will Never Stop Shilling For Israel383K views · Oct 24, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Professor Dave Explains's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Apollo 10: The Dress Rehearsal39K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Depression Part 1: Typical Antidepressants (SSRIs and SNRIs)47K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Mayim Bialik is Absolutely Worthless841K views · Nov 4, 20264.4× typical views
• Present Active Participle14K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• Piers! Meyer! Dillahunty! Dibble! Ark! Chaos!397K views · Oct 31, 20262.1× typical views
• I Visited Hasan Piker and Destiny Lost His Mind585K views · Oct 29, 20263.1× typical views
• Introduction to Latin Participles18K views · Oct 27, 20260.1× typical views
• More Elephant Graveyard Awesomeness368K views · Oct 25, 20261.9× typical views
• No, Fauci Didn't Lie About Miscarriages and Vaccines83K views · Oct 24, 20260.4× typical views
• How Billionaires Bought Fake Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic72K views · Oct 24, 20260.4× 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 Professor Dave Explains or YouTube.