Veritasium YouTube Stats

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

Veritasium channel overview

Veritasium (@veritasium) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2010. It has 21M subscribers and 4.7B total views across 547 videos, an average of 8.6M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 4.8M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 10M views. Over the last 12 months, Veritasium published 84 videos (62% Shorts), and 11 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Veritasium gained 0 subscribers and 48M views, about 2.5M views a day.

How much does Veritasium make?

Returbe estimates Veritasium's YouTube ad revenue at $164K – $565K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.94 to $6.65, typically $3.6, 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 $3.6K.

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Upload schedule

Veritasium publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (27% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Veritasium's best outlier videos

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

• What happens if you cut the green rope?52M views · Jan 15, 202625.2× typical views
• I waterproofed myself with aerogel!63M views · Feb 1, 20247.3× typical views
• Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED57M views · Feb 8, 20246.5× typical views
• The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology65M views · Dec 31, 20256.4× typical views
• The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong13M views · Jul 13, 20266.4× typical views
• Can something go faster than it’s pushed?12M views · Apr 9, 20265.9× typical views
• I call this the 'No, You Don't' Law44M views · Apr 10, 20245.1× typical views
• The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History44M views · Apr 22, 20225× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Why do deserts get cold at night?49K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• I finally saw quantum physics with my own eyes...5.9M views · Nov 4, 20260.6× typical views
• These ponds help support half the people on Earth466K views · Nov 2, 20260.2× typical views
• What happens if I lower this weight into the water?3.2M views · Oct 30, 20261.5× typical views
• Why doesn't your heart get tired like other muscles do?1.4M views · Oct 27, 20260.7× typical views
• No device could prove Einstein wrong... until now7.7M views · Oct 23, 20260.7× typical views
• Is there something faster than light?1.3M views · Oct 22, 20260.6× typical views
• When you lose weight where does it go?1.4M views · Oct 15, 20260.7× typical views
• Fiber Optics are so much cooler than I thought15M views · Oct 12, 20261.5× typical views
• What is edge dislocation?4.4M views · Oct 9, 20262.2× 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 Veritasium or YouTube.