StarTalk Plus YouTube Stats

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

StarTalk Plus channel overview

StarTalk Plus (@startalkplus) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2021. It has 358K subscribers and 53M total views across 521 videos, an average of 102K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 146K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 114K views. Over the last 12 months, StarTalk Plus published 63 videos (43% Shorts), and 10 of them (16%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, StarTalk Plus gained 8K subscribers and 3.3M views, about 273K views a day.

How much does StarTalk Plus make?

Returbe estimates StarTalk Plus's YouTube ad revenue at $28K – $97K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.86 to $9.81, typically $5.31, 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 $5.3K.

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 Plus publishes about 34.8 videos a month. Based on its last 62 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (19% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

StarTalk Plus's best outlier videos

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

• The Sun Loses Over 5 Million Tons Every Second532K views · Sep 22, 202630.9× typical views
• The Sun Is Ringing Like an Instrument and You Can't Hear It474K views · Sep 26, 202627.6× typical views
• Why Time Speeds Up as You Get Older1.1M views · Oct 2, 20269.5× typical views
• Your Brain Deletes Your Dreams On Purpose122K views · Oct 3, 20267.1× typical views
• What Actually Happens When AI Sees an Image?666K views · Oct 14, 20265.8× typical views
• Geoffrey Hinton: The AI Bubble Isn’t What You Think639K views · Oct 30, 20265.6× typical views
• Geoffrey Hinton Says AI Already Thinks. What Comes Next?590K views · Oct 21, 20265.2× typical views
• Why AI Hides What It Can Really Do, with Geoffrey Hinton534K views · Oct 26, 20264.7× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Darwin’s Tree of Life Was Just a Metaphor. Here’s What Life Really Looks Like29K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• Are Humans Just a Lucky Accident? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Betül Kaçar117K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• AI Already Conscious? Geoffrey Hinton Says the Question Is Wrong237K views · Nov 3, 20262.1× typical views
• The Biggest Gap in Biology: How Did the First Proteins Evolve?81K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• There Is No Tree of Life8.4K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Life Isn’t Built on Solid Ground10K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• Life Is an Electron Looking for Rest5.3K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Geoffrey Hinton: The AI Bubble Isn’t What You Think639K views · Oct 30, 20265.6× typical views
• Why Did Life Only Start Once?7.1K views · Oct 29, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Isn’t There an Orchard of Life on Earth?337K views · Oct 29, 20263× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 323 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.8K 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 23.1×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 281×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.4×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 70.5×).

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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 Plus or YouTube.