Curious Droid YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Space, Technology, Discovery. Welcome fellow Curious Droids. I'm Paul Shillito, founder and presenter of Curious Droid — the guy with some of the loudest shirts on YouTube and a huge curiosity about aerospace history, robotics, transportation technology and other fascinating subjects. I also create
| Subscribers | 1.1M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 259M |
| Videos | 274 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 391K |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2011-08-25 |
Niches: Tech Explained.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs? | 35× | 5M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2023-01-03 |
| What Is a Neutron Bomb? | 20× | 2.8M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-02-28 |
| What Happens to You 6ft from an Exploding Atomic Bomb? | 19× | 2.7M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-08-29 |
| The Device that Won WW2 - The Cavity Magnetron | 16× | 2.2M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2023-08-27 |
| MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century | 14× | 2M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2021-09-30 |
| Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5? | 9.7× | 1.4M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2024-06-18 |
| How Small Can You Make a Nuclear Weapon? | 8.2× | 1.2M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2025-09-12 |
| How Pratt & Whitney Changed Aviation | 7.3× | 1M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2022-11-18 |
| Why is Older NASA Launch Film Footage Still the Best? | 5.5× | 779K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2023-05-16 |
| If Oppenheimer Didn’t Invent the Atomic Bomb, Who Did? | 5.2× | 740K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2023-07-23 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Could We Really Stop A Big Asteroid Hitting The Earth? | 0.9× | 139K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-10-03 |
| What Happens to You 6ft from an Exploding Atomic Bomb? | 19× | 2.7M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-08-29 |
| How Pershing II Changed Nukes Forever | 1.5× | 210K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-07-23 |
| Strange Lights, Weird Gravity, What did NASA Find Before Apollo? | 0.2× | 39K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-07-06 |
| The Secret US Army Moon Base Plans | 0.3× | 53K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-06-19 |
| How Tiny Cameras Changed Our Lives. | 0.5× | 83K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-05-24 |
| Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible? | 1.7× | 235K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-04-30 |
| B-52 vs B1-B Survival of the Fitness, and Oldest | 0.6× | 88K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-03-22 |
| What Is a Neutron Bomb? | 20× | 2.8M (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-02-28 |
| DeadHand - Russia's Doomsday Weapon From Beyond the Grave. | 0.7× | 104K (as of 2026-11-01) | 2026-01-26 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Curious Droid, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 2 | 55K | - |
| Under 20 minutes | 95 | 201K | 1.4× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 3 | 235K | 1.7× |
Levers to test
- The channel posted about 1.3 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.
These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does Curious Droid have?
Curious Droid has about 1.1M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Curious Droid upload?
About 1.3 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Curious Droid?
"Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs?" reached 35× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Curious Droid audience?
No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.
Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open Curious Droid on YouTube.