Lindsay Ellis YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Lindsay Ellis is creating video essays and other nondescript content. You can find her latest miniseries “It’s Lit!” at PBS.org. Enjoy these hottest of takes on Disney, Transformers, and Musicals. All hail the Algorithm. For access to her very old videos, join her Patreon for a list of private link
| Subscribers | 1.4M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 174M |
| Videos | 132 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 1.8M |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2013-10-10 |
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Sheeran’s non-complicity merch | 6.2× | 800K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-09-16 |
| How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams) | 4.3× | 8.3M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2019-05-20 |
| The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) | 2.9× | 5.9M | 2018-03-28 |
| Trash Disney Rebrands | Nebula Original | 2.8× | 355K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-04-18 |
| I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil | 2.6× | 5.3M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-09-21 |
| Hercules, Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess: a Video Essay | 2.5× | 5.2M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2016-10-04 |
| That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast | 2.4× | 4.8M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2018-07-31 |
| Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding | Video Essay | 2.3× | 4.7M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2018-02-02 |
| We Need to Talk About Game of Thrones I Guess | 2.2× | 4.5M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2019-06-28 |
| Why is Cats? | 2.1× | 5.4M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2020-04-03 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil | 2.6× | 5.3M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-09-21 |
| Ed Sheeran’s non-complicity merch | 6.2× | 800K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-09-16 |
| Did Disney Really Steal Aladdin? | 0.5× | 1.5M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-03-30 |
| What happened to the South Park guys? | 1× | 133K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2026-03-02 |
| Watch the video here on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-bodycam-youtube | 0.9× | 124K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-12-19 |
| Bluey adults! Only on Nebula and only for adults. https://nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-bluey-adults | 0.6× | 91K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-12-10 |
| The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel | 1.7× | 3.6M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-08-26 |
| Comparing and contrasting Disney’s flop eras, now on Nebula | 1.2× | 151K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-07-22 |
| Trash Disney Rebrands | Nebula Original | 2.8× | 355K (as of 2026-11-09) | 2025-04-18 |
| Did Yoko Break Up The Beatles? | 0.7× | 3.3M (as of 2026-11-09) | 2024-07-05 |
Repeatable pattern
How, why or what titles. 10 of the last 99 uploads use it, with a median of 1.2× the channel's usual views. Example: "How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)".
Content map
What the last 99 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 9 | 133K | 1× |
| Under 20 minutes | 35 | 796K | 0.7× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 49 | 1.9M | 0.9× |
| Over 60 minutes | 6 | 4.3M | 1.7× |
Levers to test
- Titles of this kind ran at 1.2× the channel's usual views across 10 uploads, against 0.8× for all uploads. Test the same title shape on your topic.
- Over 60 minutes did best here, at 1.7× against 0.7× for under 20 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 0.3 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 Lindsay Ellis have?
Lindsay Ellis has about 1.4M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Lindsay Ellis upload?
About 0.3 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Lindsay Ellis?
"Ed Sheeran’s non-complicity merch" reached 6.2× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Lindsay Ellis 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 Lindsay Ellis on YouTube.