Veritasium
Veritasium had 21.2M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #196 in United States. The channel has accumulated 4.5B views across 530 videos since 2010.
Relative to its audience, that is 212 lifetime views per subscriber and 2M views generated per day.
Where does Veritasium rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Veritasium sits 196th in United States and 670th worldwide.
The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.47% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.
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 8.3% 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 107 videos analysed. That is 5.1 × 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 1,4 vidéos par semaine. That is 2.3 × the channel's lifetime average pace. Its catalogue generates 3,699 views per video per day.
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Veritasium's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $79,804 and $289,524 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 56% short-form, 44% 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 530 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 August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 530 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 8/31/2026). Per-video measures computed across 530 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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