Veritasium YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
An element of truth - videos about science, education, and anything else we find interesting.
| Subscribers | 21M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 4.7B |
| Videos | 547 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 5.1M |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2010-07-21 |
Niches: Space & Science.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can you swim in shade balls? | 31× | 65M | 2025-08-19 |
| What happens if you cut the green rope? | 25× | 52M | 2026-01-15 |
| Testing the US Military’s worst idea | 11× | 23M | 2025-08-14 |
| Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate | 7.7× | 16M | 2025-10-09 |
| The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong | 6.4× | 13M | 2026-07-13 |
| Why do all animals jump to about the same height? | 6× | 12M | 2025-07-24 |
| Can something go faster than it’s pushed? | 5.9× | 12M | 2026-04-09 |
| The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology | 5.7× | 65M | 2025-12-31 |
| How to solve any maze | 4.7× | 9.7M | 2025-09-18 |
| The Most Radioactive Place On Earth | 4.6× | 9.6M | 2026-04-19 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| When you lose weight where does it go? | 0.6× | 1.4M | 2026-10-15 |
| The Absurd Engineering Behind the Internet | 1.5× | 15M | 2026-10-12 |
| What is edge dislocation? | 2.1× | 4.4M | 2026-10-09 |
| How Dangerous Are Non-Stick Pans? | 0.7× | 1.7M | 2026-10-01 |
| We're trying something new... | 0.1× | 1.4M | 2026-09-30 |
| What happens to these balloons when you open the valve? | 0.7× | 1.6M | 2026-09-24 |
| The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine | 1.9× | 22M | 2026-09-21 |
| Heating A Ball Just By Squeezing It | 0.4× | 970K | 2026-09-18 |
| The Scariest Chart In Engineering | 0.7× | 1.6M | 2026-09-10 |
| The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe | 3.9× | 7.9M | 2026-09-06 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Veritasium, 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 | 60 | 4.2M | 2× |
| Under 20 minutes | 2 | 3.3M | 0.3× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 38 | 11M | 1× |
Levers to test
- Shorts did best here, at 2× against 1× for 20 to 60 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 6.3 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 Veritasium have?
Veritasium has about 21M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Veritasium upload?
About 6.3 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Veritasium?
"Can you swim in shade balls?" reached 31× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Veritasium 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 Veritasium on YouTube.