StarTalk YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Science meets pop culture on StarTalk! Astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities & scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe. Keep Looking Up!
| Subscribers | 6M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 1.2B |
| Videos | 1.9K |
| Average views per video (est.) | 905K |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2010-12-22 |
Niches: Space & Science, Health & Wellness.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Spielberg Asks Why Atoms Don't Collapse | 19× | 1.5M (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-18 |
| Humans Are Basically Complicated Worms 🪱 | 15× | 1.1M (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-09-24 |
| Why Can't We Enter Another Dimension? 👀 | 7.7× | 585K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-06 |
| Cats just debunked the Flat Earth theory😼 | 6.5× | 526K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-07-30 |
| The Periodic Table Had a Missing Element | 6.3× | 509K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-09-13 |
| Are We Too Small to Understand the Universe? 🌌 | 6.1× | 462K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-09-27 |
| Did AI Solve One of Math’s Hardest Problems? | 5.4× | 8.7M (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-01 |
| Why Do Our Brains Look Like the Universe 🧠 | 5.3× | 400K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-01 |
| 💡Physics Dad joke alert! | 4.6× | 375K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-07-24 |
| We are currently living inside the Sun's gigantic magnetic embrace ☀️ | 3.5× | 280K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-08-19 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forget ghosts! Your own biology is the real horror story 💀 | 0.9× | 75K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-28 |
| Multiverses, In Theory… with Janna Levin | 0.1× | 152K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-28 |
| What If Our Big Bang Wasn't the Only One? | 0.6× | 49K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-27 |
| Introducing… In Theory with Janna Levin | 0.6× | 512K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-27 |
| Is Low Testosterone Being Oversold? ft. Doc Noc | 0.8× | 61K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-26 |
| The Science of Looksmaxxing, with Doc Noc | 1.2× | 907K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-24 |
| Introducing IN THEORY, a new StarTalk limited series with theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin | 0.6× | 45K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-22 |
| A Trillion Is a Lot… Chuck Needs a Minute 💀 | 1.1× | 86K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-22 |
| You Probably Don’t Realize How Big A Trillion Is | 0.7× | 1.3M (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-22 |
| Is Chemistry the Same Throughout the Universe? With Kate the Chemist | 0.6× | 557K (as of 2026-11-02) | 2026-10-20 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 99 uploads of StarTalk, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 99 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 64 | 94K | 1.2× |
| Under 20 minutes | 8 | 2.2M | 1.3× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 18 | 1.2M | 1× |
| Over 60 minutes | 9 | 858K | 1.1× |
Levers to test
- The channel posted about 23.4 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 StarTalk have?
StarTalk has about 6M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does StarTalk upload?
About 23.4 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from StarTalk?
"Steven Spielberg Asks Why Atoms Don't Collapse" reached 19× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the StarTalk 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 StarTalk on YouTube.