Fireship YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
High-intensity ⚡ code tutorials and tech news to help you ship your app faster. New videos every week covering the topics every programmer should know. The original home of #100SecondsOfCode #TheCodeReport and #CodeThisNotThat. Created by Jeff Delaney. Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter – https
| Subscribers | 4.3M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 798M |
| Videos | 860 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 1.9M |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2017-04-07 |
Niches: AI Tools & News.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not | 4.5× | 6.7M | 2026-10-12 |
| Did OpenAI actually build AGI? GPT-6 Astra first look | 2.9× | 4.3M | 2026-09-04 |
| OpenAI's biggest math breakthrough is getting ugly... | 2.3× | 3.5M | 2026-09-11 |
| An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM... | 2.1× | 3.1M | 2026-09-21 |
| PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious | 2× | 3M | 2026-10-05 |
| I built the same game with Astra and Fable 5.1... only one was fun | 2× | 3M | 2026-09-09 |
| Tragic mistake... Anthropic leaks Claude’s source code | 2× | 3.3M | 2026-04-01 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Korea stole $6.3 billion... and that’s not even the worst part | 1× | 1.6M | 2026-11-03 |
| The runtime wars are over... and Node won | 0.7× | 1.2M | 2026-10-15 |
| OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy... | 1.2× | 1.8M | 2026-10-14 |
| Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not | 4.5× | 6.7M | 2026-10-12 |
| A $6.3 billion open-weight model just got embarrassed by the French... | 1.1× | 1.7M | 2026-10-07 |
| PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious | 2× | 3M | 2026-10-05 |
| The one OpenAI announcement that can actually make you money... | 1.3× | 1.9M | 2026-10-01 |
| Did a 50 year old military secret just solve agent prompt injection? | 0.6× | 922K | 2026-09-30 |
| DHH has gone completely off the rails... | 1.6× | 2.4M | 2026-09-28 |
| Meta is pivoting again... everything you missed from Connect 2026 | 1.1× | 1.6M | 2026-09-25 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Fireship, 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 | 3 | 487K | - |
| Under 20 minutes | 97 | 934K | 0.6× |
Levers to test
- The channel posted about 8.5 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 Fireship have?
Fireship has about 4.3M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Fireship upload?
About 8.5 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Fireship?
"Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not" reached 4.5× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Fireship 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 Fireship on YouTube.