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Found And Explained - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 14-min uploads · 875K subscribers · started 2020 · ~1.2/week
Est. ad revenue$3K–$10K/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 180 most recent of 389 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Found And Explained on YouTube →

In Found And Explained's own words
With host and creator Nick at the helm, Found and Explained is a YouTube's ultimate "what if" engineering paradise. With planes, boats, trains and more, the channel explores mechanical marvels that we know and love today, others that will be famous tomorrow and some that never left the drawing...Based in AU

What are Found And Explained's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 39% of all views and its biggest is 28.7× the median, so the median upload (327K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

327K
median views
28.7×
top vs median
24%
hit rate (2×+)
39%
views from top 10%

What is Found And Explained's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka" at 9.4M views - 28.7× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka9.4M
What Happened To Ring Wing Planes?3.1M
When the US Army is overfunded, they made this.... Convair Model 492.9M

Which titles work best for Found And Explained - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka9.4M
What Happened To Ring Wing Planes?3.1M
When the US Army is overfunded, they made this.... Convair Model 492.9M
This tank hops on one leg...2.4M
Why the Soviet answer to the F-16 failed - MiG 29 story2.2M
What happened to giant land ships?1.9M
Forgotten Prototypes: 1950s Experimental Planes | Full Documentary1.8M
Was this the most advanced Russian jet? - Yak 1411.8M
How Russia built a stealth jet to beat the west - Su-571.7M
The gigantic Russian Ekranoplan aircraft carrier1.6M

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
The GTA tank was real...and it was STEALTH!153K
How Convair built the American Concorde a decade early...153K
How Britain Built the Fastest Steam Locomotive Ever152K
The amazing F-22 2.0 that we never got143K
Insane Boeing projects that almost happened! | FULL DOCUMENTARY142K
Lockheed's Flying Pickup Truck141K
How Canada Invented the Jet Age... and Gave It Away140K
The massive Soviet sea monster with a space shuttle on its back...139K
Northrop's plan to make a commercial flying wing...137K
The one jet that USA is afraid of in 2025...136K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 180 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 - Found And Explained
Best / top / worst / ultimate9% of videos
+94%
Has a number42% of videos
+53%
An ALL-CAPS word16% of videos
-19%
The title formula for Found And Explained

Lean on best / top / worst / ultimate and has a number - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on an all-caps word.

What keywords does Found And Explained rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: fighter jet, forgotten prototypes, jet ever, happened giant, was advanced, ever happened, prototypes experimental, stealth jet. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Found And Explained post, and when?

Found And Explained publishes about 1.2 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
4
Mon
4
Tue
7
Wed
32
Thu
57
Fri
69
Sat
7

How long are Found And Explained's videos?

Typical uploads run about 14 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (448K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
5-10 min
448K
20 min+
330K
10-20 min
324K

How does Found And Explained compare to other education channels?

At 327K median views, Found And Explained runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does Found And Explained 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, Found And Explained pulls roughly 1.7M long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $1,687-$6,749 a month in ad revenue (about $20,248-$80,991 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 Found And Explained make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Fri. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 327K views.

Found And Explained stats at a glance

Subscribers875K
Total views274M
Videos published389
Avg views (of 180 analyzed)551K
Uploads per week1.2
Typical length14 min
On YouTube since2020 (6 yrs)

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