StarTalk YouTube Stats

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

StarTalk channel overview

StarTalk (@startalk) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2010. It has 6M subscribers and 1.2B total views across 1.9K videos, an average of 603K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 860K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.4M views. Over the last 12 months, StarTalk published 60 videos (70% Shorts), and 8 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, StarTalk gained 20K subscribers and 12M views, about 1M views a day.

How much does StarTalk make?

Returbe estimates StarTalk's YouTube ad revenue at $86K – $296K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.9 to $9.96, typically $5.39, 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 $5.4K.

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

StarTalk publishes about 25 videos a month. Based on its last 60 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (22% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

StarTalk's best outlier videos

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

• Steven Spielberg Asks Why Atoms Don't Collapse1.5M views · Oct 18, 202617.1× typical views
• Humans Are Basically Complicated Worms 🪱942K views · Sep 24, 202610.9× typical views
• Why Can't We Enter Another Dimension? 👀596K views · Oct 6, 20266.9× typical views
• Did AI Solve One of Math’s Hardest Problems?8.7M views · Oct 1, 20266.1× typical views
• The Periodic Table Had a Missing Element497K views · Sep 13, 20265.7× typical views
• Are We Too Small to Understand the Universe? 🌌433K views · Sep 27, 20265× typical views
• Why Do Our Brains Look Like the Universe 🧠395K views · Oct 1, 20264.6× typical views
• The Biggest El Niño in Recorded History5.4M views · Oct 9, 20263.8× typical views

Latest videos

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

• It’s Not As Simple As Putting Data Centers in Space381K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• What is a Multiverse?15K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Could there be more than one universe?18K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Could another Earth exist? 🌌28K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• StarTalk is 6 MILLION Strong! 🚀91K views · Oct 29, 20261.1× typical views
• Forget ghosts! Your own biology is the real horror story 💀93K views · Oct 28, 20261.1× typical views
• Multiverses, In Theory… with Janna Levin188K views · Oct 28, 20260.1× typical views
• What If Our Big Bang Wasn't the Only One?55K views · Oct 27, 20260.6× typical views
• Introducing… In Theory with Janna Levin585K views · Oct 27, 20260.4× typical views
• Is Low Testosterone Being Oversold? ft. Doc Noc65K views · Oct 26, 20260.7× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 322 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.1K 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 19.1×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 278×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.6×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 69.9×).

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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 StarTalk or YouTube.