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WIRED

@wired📍 US📅 21 yrs🔄 Updated 10/15/2026
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13M
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#499 United States

WIRED had 13M subscribers as of October 15, 2026, ranked #499 in United States. The channel has accumulated 5B views across 4,245 videos since 2005.

Relative to its audience, that is 382 lifetime views per subscriber and 1.5M views generated per day.

5Btotal views
4,245videos
1.5Mviews / day
85.4Kmedian views

Where does WIRED rank on YouTube?

Ranked by subscriber count, WIRED sits 499th in United States and 1559th worldwide.

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The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.77% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.

When did WIRED start on YouTube?

WIRED published their first video on August 15, 2007, "Keepon dancing to Spoon's "Don't You Evah"", which has 2.2M views. Their biggest hit since does 32 × that number.

Keepon dancing to Spoon's "Don't You Evah"
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Keepon dancing to Spoon's "Don't You Evah"
2.2M views

WIRED published 4,121 videos between 2007 and 2025, peaking at 438 in 2016.

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What is WIRED's most-viewed video?

WIRED's most-viewed video is "Stranger Things Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED", with 70.1M views. That is 62 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 5.8% of the channel's total views.

62 ×outlier multiplier on its best video

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Performance analysis

Which format works best for WIRED?

On WIRED, long-form (over 20 min) performs best: a median of 848.7K views across 280 videos analysed. That is 27 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.

Short< 3 min
31.2K1,843 videos
Mid3 – 20 min
217K2,153 videos
Long> 20 min
848.7K280 videos

How often does WIRED publish?

WIRED currently publishes 4,9 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 351 views per video per day.

4.9videos / week
202videos / year lifetime
1.3 ×vs lifetime pace

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How much does WIRED earn on YouTube?

WIRED's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $112,320 and $411,138 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 17% short-form, 83% 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 WIRED video get?

The median WIRED video has 85.4K views, computed across 4,276 analysed videos.

How long has WIRED been publishing on YouTube?

WIRED has been publishing for 21 years, averaging 202 videos per year.

Which country is WIRED from?

WIRED 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 4,276 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 4,276 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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