Quanta Magazine YouTube Stats

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

Quanta Magazine channel overview

Quanta Magazine (@quantasciencechannel) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2015. It has 1.2M subscribers and 81M total views across 199 videos, an average of 408K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 233K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 43K views. Over the last 12 months, Quanta Magazine published 25 videos (28% Shorts), and 9 of them (36%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Quanta Magazine make?

Returbe estimates Quanta Magazine's YouTube ad revenue at $102 – $350 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.18 to $10.91, typically $5.91, 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 $5.9K.

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

Quanta Magazine publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 37 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (49% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Quanta Magazine's best outlier videos

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

• Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics: 20251.9M views · Jan 11, 202644.4× typical views
• Why Navier-Stokes Pushes Math and Physics to the Edge972K views · Oct 8, 202622.7× typical views
• Biggest Breakthroughs in Mathematics: 2025823K views · Jan 11, 202619.2× typical views
• Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience: 2025487K views · Apr 11, 202611.4× typical views
• Sperm’s Secret Messages: Beyond DNA667K views · Aug 21, 20267.9× typical views
• Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science: 2025299K views · Mar 12, 20267× typical views
• Intelligence Without Brains: A Radical New Idea192K views · Jul 10, 20264.5× typical views
• The 17-Year-Old Student Who Solved a Major Math Mystery173K views · Aug 9, 20264× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Physics Has a Time Problem10K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why2.3K views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why39K views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why14K views · Oct 8, 20260.3× typical views
• Why Navier-Stokes Pushes Math and Physics to the Edge972K views · Oct 8, 202622.7× typical views
• Did Intelligence Evolve Twice?49K views · Oct 1, 20260.6× typical views
• Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why21K views · Sep 8, 20260.5× typical views
• How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why3.2K views · Sep 8, 20260.1× typical views
• What Is Math For in the Age of AI? - Live from ICM 2026 | PODCAST: The Joy of Why47K views · Sep 8, 20261.1× typical views
• The Strange Geometry of Hyperbolic Surfaces168K views · Sep 3, 20262× 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 Quanta Magazine or YouTube.