Real Engineering YouTube Stats

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

Real Engineering channel overview

Real Engineering (@realengineering) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2013. It has 5.1M subscribers and 734M total views across 297 videos, an average of 2.5M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.6M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 704K views. Over the last 12 months, Real Engineering published 20 videos (30% Shorts), and 2 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Real Engineering make?

Returbe estimates Real Engineering's YouTube ad revenue at $1K – $3.6K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.58 to $5.4, typically $2.93, 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 $2.9K.

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

Real Engineering publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 36 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (47% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Real Engineering's best outlier videos

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

• The Forbidden Alloy of WW23.8M views · Jul 2, 20267× typical views
• The Plane That's 38% Nose2.6M views · Oct 8, 20263.7× typical views
• Why America’s Tank Failed in Ukraine1.7M views · Mar 12, 20262.4× typical views
• How We Built The ISS1.5M views · Dec 12, 20252.1× typical views
• How American Tanks are being Destroyed in Ukraine1M views · Mar 30, 20261.8× typical views
• The Insane Engineering of the V-22 Osprey1.1M views · May 11, 20261.6× typical views
• How NASA Discovered a Military Base under Greenland993K views · Apr 11, 20261.4× typical views
• The V-22’s prototype was even more dangerous584K views · May 13, 20261.1× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Real Engineering's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Rise and Fall of the Concorde554K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• The Plane That's 38% Nose2.6M views · Oct 8, 20263.7× typical views
• How We Could Reach Proxima Centauri B in 20 Years645K views · Sep 8, 20260.9× typical views
• NASA’s Next Monster Telescope737K views · Sep 8, 20261× typical views
• The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane662K views · Aug 9, 20260.9× typical views
• Sagrada Familia - Full Documentary458K views · Aug 9, 20260.7× typical views
• Reading StarCloud’s Whitepaper So You Don’t Have To736K views · Jul 10, 20261× typical views
• The Forbidden Alloy of WW23.8M views · Jul 2, 20267× typical views
• This isn’t the original Statue of Liberty103K views · Jul 1, 20260.2× typical views
• $1 vs $50 Phone Charger. What’s the difference?170K views · Jun 23, 20260.3× 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 Real Engineering or YouTube.