Anton Petrov YouTube Stats

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

Anton Petrov channel overview

Anton Petrov (@whatdamath) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2011. It has 1.7M subscribers and 603M total views across 4.6K videos, an average of 132K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 369K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 251K views. Over the last 12 months, Anton Petrov published 29 videos, and 4 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Anton Petrov make?

Returbe estimates Anton Petrov's YouTube ad revenue at $36K – $124K 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.

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Upload schedule

Anton Petrov publishes about 30.4 videos a month. Based on its last 29 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (55% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Anton Petrov's best outlier videos

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

• Human Neurons Grew Inside a Living Mouse Brain With Bizarre Results1.1M views · Oct 17, 20264.4× typical views
• Mitochondria Are Not Just Powerhouses, They're Running the Entire Body1M views · Oct 10, 20264× typical views
• The Secret Second Heart That Controls Your Longevity956K views · Oct 27, 20263.8× typical views
• Why a 1960 Science Paper Predicted End of Humanity on Nov 13, 2026845K views · Oct 24, 20263.4× typical views
• Out of Body Experience Experiment Makes Some Strange Discoveries650K views · Oct 17, 20262.6× typical views
• China’s Telescope Scanned 140,000 Signals. This One Stood Out.564K views · Oct 17, 20262.2× typical views
• A Massive New Crater Just Appeared on the Moon446K views · Oct 17, 20261.8× typical views
• The Truth About Age Reversal and Extreme Longevity404K views · Oct 24, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Anton Petrov's last 29 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Universe Will Not Get Destroyed by False Vacuum After All138K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Something Bizarre Has Been Hiding Behind the Milky Way205K views · Nov 6, 20260.8× typical views
• This Supernova Left Behind a Star That Shouldn't Exist132K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• The Hidden Cells in Your Brain That Don't Belong to You201K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• JWST Found the Surprising Source of the Universe's Oldest FRB Signal126K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• JWST Stared into Empty Space and Saw... Something378K views · Nov 2, 20261.5× typical views
• How Did We Miss This Massive Object in Our Backyard?323K views · Nov 1, 20261.3× typical views
• The Bizarre Secret Hiding Inside Cockroach DNA259K views · Oct 31, 20261× typical views
• A Totally New Type of Planet Found Around a Dead Star166K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Why This 1,800km Cloud on Mars Shouldn’t Exist192K views · Oct 29, 20260.8× 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 Anton Petrov or YouTube.