SmarterEveryDay YouTube Stats

@smartereveryday · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

SmarterEveryDay channel overview

SmarterEveryDay (@smartereveryday) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2006. It has 12M subscribers and 1.3B total views across 398 videos, an average of 3.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.7M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.3M views. Over the last 12 months, SmarterEveryDay published 6 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, SmarterEveryDay gained 0 subscribers and 834K views, about 49K views a day.

How much does SmarterEveryDay make?

Returbe estimates SmarterEveryDay's YouTube ad revenue at $5.5K – $19K 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.

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

Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (49% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Sep 26, 2026.

SmarterEveryDay's best outlier videos

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

• Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 3117.5M views · Nov 3, 20255.6× typical views
• The PROBLEM with Capitalism - Smarter Every Day 3162.9M views · Jul 26, 20262.2× typical views
• How to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean - Smarter Every Day 2606.4M views · Jul 30, 20212× typical views
• INSIDE a Nuclear Reactor Core - Smarter Every Day 3172M views · Sep 26, 20261.6× typical views
• Why Do Spinning Things Do This? - Smarter Every Day 3121.3M views · Jan 11, 20261× typical views
• I Went Into a Nuclear Plant and It Changed How I Think About Radiation - Smarter Every Day 3091.8M views · Jul 13, 20251× typical views
• Pompeii Changed How I Think About The Roman Empire - Smarter Every Day 3102.1M views · Sep 7, 20251× typical views
• I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 3084.6M views · Jun 8, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

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

• INSIDE a Nuclear Reactor Core - Smarter Every Day 3172M views · Sep 26, 20261.6× typical views
• The PROBLEM with Capitalism - Smarter Every Day 3162.9M views · Jul 26, 20262.2× typical views
• They Call it "The Taco Turn" and it's Genius - Smarter Every Day 3151.3M views · May 31, 20261× typical views
• What Everyone Sees... But I Don't (The Johari Window) - Smarter Every Day 3141.1M views · Apr 11, 20260.8× typical views
• Everything About Disc Golf Aerodynamics - Smarter Every Day 313942K views · Mar 6, 20260.7× typical views
• Why Do Spinning Things Do This? - Smarter Every Day 3121.3M views · Jan 11, 20261× typical views
• Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 3117.5M views · Nov 3, 20255.6× typical views
• Pompeii Changed How I Think About The Roman Empire - Smarter Every Day 3102.1M views · Sep 7, 20251× typical views
• I Went Into a Nuclear Plant and It Changed How I Think About Radiation - Smarter Every Day 3091.8M views · Jul 13, 20251× typical views
• I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 3084.6M views · Jun 8, 20251× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 322 channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.3K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 25×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 18.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 276.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 184×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 69.2×).

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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 SmarterEveryDay or YouTube.