TED-Ed YouTube channel stats and outlier videos

TED-Ed’s mission is to create lessons worth sharing. Feed and expand your curiosity with our award-winning animated shorts - published on YouTube and available with supplemental learning materials on ed.ted.com. Want to suggest an idea for a TED-Ed animation, nominate an educator or animator? Visit

Subscribers	23M
Total views	4.8B
Videos	2.4K
Average views per video (est.)	653K
Country	US
Language	EN (est.)
Created	2011-03-01

Niches: Tech Explained.

Best outlier videos

Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.

Video	Outlier	Views	Published
4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell	11×	4.5M	2026-09-22
What toys have kids played with throughout history?	7.9×	3.5M	2026-05-26
What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas	5×	2.2M	2025-12-11
Why kids need to take more risks	5×	2.2M	2026-04-16
What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel	4.7×	2.1M	2025-11-18
The best way to become good at something might surprise you - David Epstein	4.5×	2M	2025-11-04
What happens if you eat a silica gel packet? - Vivian Jiang	3.9×	1.7M	2026-03-31
Why do some people have a better sense of direction than others? - Oliver Baumann	3.8×	1.6M	2026-09-10
Do imaginary friends make you smarter?	3.5×	1.5M	2026-04-09
This is what happens in your brain when you can’t recall a word - Cella Wright	3.2×	1.4M	2025-11-20

Latest uploads

Video	Outlier	Views	Published
Scary stories to watch in the dark (if you dare…)	0.9×	392K	2026-10-27
5 sneaky ways stores get you to spend more	1.1×	451K	2026-10-22
Why does this animal never age? - Raymond Adkins	0.9×	412K	2026-10-20
3 things to never do with a credit card	2.6×	1.1M	2026-10-15
How to present your ideas effectively	0.7×	310K	2026-10-13
Which is better: Buying or renting a home? - Ella Feldman	1.8×	760K	2026-10-08
Why is Queen Victoria so controversial? - Carolyn Harris	1.1×	483K	2026-10-06
6 ways to be more persuasive	0.7×	308K	2026-10-01
Why are AI data centers using so much electricity? - Sajan Saini	1.5×	640K	2026-09-29
Do we actually know how magnets work? - Rachel Yang	1.2×	502K	2026-09-24

Repeatable pattern

Question titles. 5 of the last 100 uploads use it, with a median of 3.1× the channel's usual views. Example: "What toys have kids played with throughout history?".

Content map

What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.

Format	Uploads	Median views	Median outlier
Shorts	2	36K	-
Under 20 minutes	97	392K	0.9×
20 to 60 minutes	1	392K	0.9×

Levers to test

Titles of this kind ran at 3.1× the channel's usual views across 5 uploads, against 0.9× for all uploads. Test the same title shape on your topic.
The channel posted about 6.4 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 TED-Ed have?

TED-Ed has about 23M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.

How often does TED-Ed upload?

About 6.4 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.

What is the best recent video from TED-Ed?

"4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell" reached 11× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.

Can I see the age, gender or income of the TED-Ed 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 TED-Ed on YouTube.