WIRED YouTube Stats

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

WIRED channel overview

WIRED (@wired) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2005. It has 13M subscribers and 5B total views across 4.3K videos, an average of 1.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 344K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 731K views. Over the last 12 months, WIRED published 62 videos (45% Shorts), and 8 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, WIRED gained 0 subscribers and 18M views, about 1.1M views a day.

How much does WIRED make?

Returbe estimates WIRED's YouTube ad revenue at $102K – $349K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.07 to $10.53, typically $5.7, 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 $5.7K.

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

WIRED publishes about 21.7 videos a month. Based on its last 63 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (35% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

WIRED's best outlier videos

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

• Yes, Physics Says You Can Run Through a Wall1.4M views · Aug 5, 202626.6× typical views
• Does Green Day Do Weddings?694K views · Aug 14, 202613.3× typical views
• Pumped Diesel In Your Car Instead of Gas? Watch This634K views · Oct 6, 202612.2× typical views
• America Used To Be Great at Taxing The Rich...614K views · Oct 1, 202611.8× typical views
• Anthropologist Answers Evolution Questions3.8M views · Sep 15, 20265.2× typical views
• We Asked Green Day If They Support AI...247K views · Aug 15, 20264.7× typical views
• Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop2.4M views · Sep 25, 20263.3× typical views
• Child Psychologist Answers Parenting Questions2.4M views · Sep 8, 20263.3× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Historian Answers Gilded Age Questions188K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• Dwayne Wade: Underrated?26K views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• Udonis' Ball Knowledge Is Unmatched59K views · Oct 30, 20261.1× typical views
• Historian Debunks The Biggest Witchcraft Myths187K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Why Was Ethan Hawke at Taylor Swift's Wedding?70K views · Oct 29, 20261.4× typical views
• ‘NBA on Prime’ Crew Answer The 50 Most Searched NBA Questions506K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• Ex-FBI Agent Dispels Common Body Language Myths47K views · Oct 28, 20260.9× typical views
• Ethan Hawke & Betty Gilpin Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions149K views · Oct 28, 20260.2× typical views
• The Legend of Herobrine17K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• Folklore Expert Answers Ghost Story Questions590K views · Oct 27, 20260.8× 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 WIRED or YouTube.