World Science Festival YouTube Stats

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

World Science Festival channel overview

World Science Festival (@worldsciencefestival) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2008. It has 1.4M subscribers and 256M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 174K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 214K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 209K views. Over the last 12 months, World Science Festival published 32 videos (25% Shorts), and 2 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does World Science Festival make?

Returbe estimates World Science Festival's YouTube ad revenue at $5.1K – $17K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.38 to $11.59, typically $6.28, 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 $6.3K.

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

World Science Festival publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 38 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (34% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

World Science Festival's best outlier videos

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

• Could special relativity be wrong?131K views · Oct 19, 20267.2× typical views
• The Uncomfortable Truth About AI “Reasoning” | World Science Festival712K views · Jun 10, 20263.4× typical views
• String Theory in 2037 | Brian Greene & Edward Witten617K views · Jan 11, 20263× typical views
• AI Just Changed Mathematics Forever | World Science Festival599K views · Oct 8, 20262.9× typical views
• Exploring the Deep Mysteries of Physics | World Science Festival507K views · Aug 9, 20262.4× typical views
• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained | World Science Festival491K views · Oct 10, 20262.4× typical views
• Greatest Mysteries of Gravity | Brian Greene & Kip Thorne | World Science Festival484K views · Dec 12, 20252.3× typical views
• What changed in the 100 years between these equations?39K views · Oct 12, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

12 of World Science Festival's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Has AI cracked a Half-Century-Old Problem in Physics? | World Science Festival325K views · Nov 7, 20261.6× typical views
• Did Einstein believe that black holes are real?17K views · Nov 3, 20261× typical views
• Are There Problems Beyond the Reach of AI | World Science Festival268K views · Oct 31, 20261.3× typical views
• AI and the Hard Problem of Consciousness | World Science Festival178K views · Oct 30, 20260.9× typical views
• Does space mean emptiness? How do you describe it?13K views · Oct 22, 20260.7× typical views
• Could special relativity be wrong?131K views · Oct 19, 20267.2× typical views
• The Gamble That's Revolutionizing Astronomy | World Science Festival209K views · Oct 17, 20261× typical views
• Will AI Destroy Mathematics? | World Science Festival331K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views
• What changed in the 100 years between these equations?39K views · Oct 12, 20262.2× typical views
• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained | World Science Festival491K views · Oct 10, 20262.4× 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 World Science Festival or YouTube.