Veritasium
Veritasium had 21.4M subscribers as of October 15, 2026, ranked #193 in United States. The channel has accumulated 4.7B views across 540 videos since 2010.
Relative to its audience, that is 218 lifetime views per subscriber and 3.7M views generated per day.
Where does Veritasium rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Veritasium sits 193rd in United States and 668th worldwide.
Over the last 29 days, Veritasium's subscriber count moved by +0.94 %.
When did Veritasium start on YouTube?
Veritasium published their first video on August 15, 2010, "How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun?", which has 1.7M views. Their biggest hit since does 63 × that number.
Veritasium published 475 videos between 2010 and 2025, peaking at 73 in 2011. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 34% of output, against 18% before.
What is Veritasium's most-viewed video?
Veritasium's most-viewed video is "Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?", with 109.7M views. That is 14 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 8.0% of the channel's total views.
14 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
Which format works best for Veritasium?
On Veritasium, long-form (over 20 min) performs best: a median of 10.2M views across 108 videos analysed. That is 5.5 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
How often does Veritasium publish?
Veritasium currently publishes 1,6 vidéos par semaine. That is 2.6 × the channel's lifetime average pace. Its catalogue generates 6,891 views per video per day.
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Veritasium's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $189,884 and $691,604 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 44% short-form, 56% long-form. At this scale, advertising is typically a minority of a creator's actual income, behind brand partnerships and merchandise, which are not measured here.
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How many views does a typical Veritasium video get?
The median Veritasium video has 4.5M views, computed across 539 analysed videos.
How long has Veritasium been publishing on YouTube?
Veritasium has been publishing for 16 years, averaging 33 videos per year.
Which country is Veritasium from?
Veritasium is registered in US.
Is this data up to date?
Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on October 15, 2026. Per-video measures cover 539 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 10/15/2026). Per-video measures computed across 539 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.
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