3Blue1Brown YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
My name is Grant Sanderson. Videos here cover a variety of topics in math, or adjacent fields like physics and CS, all with an emphasis on visualizing the core ideas. The goal is to use animation to help elucidate and motivate otherwise tricky topics, and for difficult problems to be made simple wit
| Subscribers | 8.8M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 794M |
| Videos | 247 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 1.1M |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2015-03-03 |
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order from chaos | 20× | 14M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2023-12-15 |
| The medical test paradox (well "paradox") | 16× | 11M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2024-01-15 |
| The Newton art puzzle | 15× | 10M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2023-12-29 |
| The inscribed square problem | 6.5× | 4.4M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2024-12-24 |
| Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 | 5.2× | 12M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2024-04-01 |
| How word vectors encode meaning | 5.1× | 3.5M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2024-04-11 |
| A beautiful international math olympiad problem | 4.1× | 2.8M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2024-01-03 |
| Zooming out by powers of 10 | 4× | 2.7M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2025-03-26 |
| Large Language Models explained briefly | 3.9× | 8.5M | 2024-11-20 |
| A bizarre probability fact | 3.7× | 2.6M | 2024-11-12 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| There's never been a better time to go into math | 1.2× | 2.8M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-10-16 |
| The Phone Number puzzle | 1.1× | 749K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-09-25 |
| The last IMO problem AI could not solve | 1.1× | 746K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-09-18 |
| The last IMO problem AI could not solve | 1.3× | 3.1M (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-09-18 |
| The jumping pegs puzzle | 0.8× | 573K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-08-18 |
| The 64 sugar cubes puzzle | 0.5× | 351K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-07-24 |
| But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2 | 0.4× | 924K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-07-16 |
| 100 random chords, how many intersections? | 0.8× | 618K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-06-16 |
| Measuring the entropy of English | 0.7× | 510K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-06-12 |
| What's the perfect encoding? How do you know? | 0.3× | 251K (as of 2026-11-11) | 2026-06-10 |
Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of 3Blue1Brown, 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 | 71 | 816K | 1.2× |
| Under 20 minutes | 4 | 1.1M | 0.5× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 24 | 2.4M | 1.1× |
| Over 60 minutes | 1 | 1.6M | 0.7× |
Levers to test
- Shorts did best here, at 1.2× against 0.5× for under 20 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 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 3Blue1Brown have?
3Blue1Brown has about 8.8M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does 3Blue1Brown upload?
About 2 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from 3Blue1Brown?
"Order from chaos" reached 20× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the 3Blue1Brown 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 3Blue1Brown on YouTube.