Tom Scott YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. Contact me: https://www.tomscott.com/contact/ • • • This channel is a production of Pad 26 Limited, registered in England and Wales, № 11662641. Registered office: Amel
| Subscribers | 6.8M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 2B |
| Videos | 764 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 1.4M |
| Country | - |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2006-05-17 |
Niches: Sports Stories.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| I tried using AI. It scared me. | 6.3× | 8.5M | 2023-02-13 |
| After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos. | 5.5× | 12M | 2024-01-01 |
| This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world | 5× | 12M | 2022-10-17 |
| I thought this rotating house was impossible. | 3.8× | 8.3M | 2023-07-10 |
| I rode the world's fastest train. | 3.7× | 7.8M | 2023-04-03 |
| This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway. | 3.1× | 6.6M | 2023-02-27 |
| I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator. | 3× | 6.6M | 2023-10-09 |
| Spherical houses weren't a great idea. | 2.9× | 6.9M | 2023-09-25 |
| Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height? | 2.7× | 6.1M | 2022-11-21 |
| there’dn’t’ve | 2.3× | 5.4M | 2023-10-16 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| This machine breaks things. | 1.3× | 1.8M | 2026-10-26 |
| Clocks are so much more interesting than I thought. | 0.8× | 1.1M | 2026-10-19 |
| Why robots still can't pick strawberries | 1.6× | 2.2M | 2026-10-12 |
| In this arcade, you drop metal balls on rich people. | 1× | 1.8M | 2026-10-05 |
| When I blow this whistle, a swimming pool appears. | 1.8× | 2.4M | 2026-09-28 |
| Can I get into the Top 100 of tiddlywinks in one day? | 1× | 1.4M | 2026-09-21 |
| Thomas, a tank engine, is not Thomas the Tank Engine. | 1.5× | 2.1M | 2026-09-14 |
| Flying a plane badly, on purpose. | 1.5× | 2.1M | 2026-09-07 |
| This Mars rover's cool. But have you seen its wheels? | 1.4× | 1.9M | 2026-08-31 |
| How do you keep 8,995 codebreakers secret? | 1.1× | 1.5M | 2026-08-24 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Tom Scott, 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 | 1 | 3.3M | - |
| Under 20 minutes | 74 | 2.2M | 1× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 25 | 1.4M | 1× |
Levers to test
- The channel posted about 4.2 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 Tom Scott have?
Tom Scott has about 6.8M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Tom Scott upload?
About 4.2 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Tom Scott?
"I tried using AI. It scared me." reached 6.3× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Tom Scott 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 Tom Scott on YouTube.