WIRED
WIRED had 12.9M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #505 in United States. The channel has accumulated 4.9B views across 4,213 videos since 2005.
Relative to its audience, that is 380 lifetime views per subscriber and 826K views generated per day.
Where does WIRED rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, WIRED sits 505th in United States and 1571st worldwide.
The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.78% 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.
WIRED published 4,121 videos between 2007 and 2025, peaking at 438 in 2016.
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 5.9% of the channel's total views.
62 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
Which format works best for WIRED?
On WIRED, long-form (over 20 min) performs best: a median of 833.4K views across 271 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.
How often does WIRED publish?
WIRED currently publishes 3,5 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 196 views per video per day.
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WIRED's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $54,640 and $199,717 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 27% short-form, 73% 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 84.2K views, computed across 4,247 analysed videos.
How long has WIRED been publishing on YouTube?
WIRED has been publishing for 21 years, averaging 201 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 August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 4,247 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 4,247 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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