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ABC Science - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 8-min uploads · 693K subscribers · started 2009 · ~1.1/week
Est. ad revenue$157–$629/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 165 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit ABC Science on YouTube →

In ABC Science's own words
We want to make you smarter. We make videos about nature, space and the human body. Watch our documentaries: Read our science stories: This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Please see the ABC Online Terms of Use for the reasons why we may remove content from this...Based in AU

What are ABC Science's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 83% of all views and its biggest is 300× the median, so the median upload (22K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

22K
median views
300×
top vs median
35%
hit rate (2×+)
83%
views from top 10%

What is ABC Science's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is ""I Was Born With Male and Female Parts"" at 6.6M views - 300× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
"I Was Born With Male and Female Parts"6.6M
"My Skin Rips With Every Movement"6.5M
"I Was Born With Two Vaginas, Two Uteruses and Two Cervixes"2.7M

Which titles work best for ABC Science - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
"I Was Born With Male and Female Parts"6.6M
"My Skin Rips With Every Movement"6.5M
"I Was Born With Two Vaginas, Two Uteruses and Two Cervixes"2.7M
The Professor Who Taught People How To Think (1962)2.3M
"Being Diagnosed With OCD Doesn't Make The Doubt Go Away"2.1M
Serial Killers Seem To Be Disappearing. Here's Why | Criminal Psychology1.6M
"I Learned I Was Intersex At 21"1.1M
This Australian Factory Makes 14 MILLION Lollies Every Day778K
AI-Powered Farming Robots That Work 24/7 | FULL DOCUMENTARY681K
The Dark Side Of Dolphins' Sex Lives | REACTION663K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
How Psychics Convince You To Believe6K
Doctor Explains: Why I Don't Take Creatine6K
The surprising answer to butter v margarine | PODCAST6K
The Truth Behind Fatbergs: Why Our Cities Are Swimming in Crap6K
Can We Eat Deep Sea Fish?6K
Giraffe Foreplay: It's All About The Pee | REACTION | How Extra: Love Edition | ABC Science6K
Singing Syncs Up Our Heart Rate Variability6K
Is Sitting As Harmful As Smoking? A Doctor's Take | What's That Rash?5K
The Only FOUR Things You Need To Form A Habit | What's That Rash?5K
Is shampoo a scam? | PODCAST5K

The words that win for ABC Science

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: australian.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 165 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - ABC Science
Uses (brackets)12% of videos
+60%
Speaks to "you"9% of videos
-58%
Asks a question32% of videos
-31%
Starts How / Why / What19% of videos
-17%
The title formula for ABC Science

Lean on uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

Surprise: speaks to "you" costs this channel 58% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does ABC Science rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: was born, australian factory, criminal psychology, factory million, professor miller, these five, five animals, extra love. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does ABC Science post, and when?

ABC Science publishes about 1.1 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
9
Mon
5
Tue
12
Wed
41
Thu
32
Fri
62
Sat
4

How long are ABC Science's videos?

Typical uploads run about 8 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (27K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
5-10 min
27K
20 min+
25K
under 5 min
16K
10-20 min
12K

How does ABC Science compare to other education channels?

At 22K median views, ABC Science sits below the typical education channel we track (23K) - there is headroom.

How much money does ABC Science make on YouTube?

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, ABC Science pulls roughly 104K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $104-$416 a month in ad revenue (about $1,249-$4,995 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like ABC Science make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Fri, and build titles around its proven words (australian). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 22K views.

ABC Science stats at a glance

Subscribers693K
Total views216M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 165 analyzed)203K
Engagement rate2.9%
Uploads per week1.1
Typical length8 min
On YouTube since2009 (17 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for ABC Science, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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