Popular Science - what's actually working, and what isn't
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 87 most recent of 482 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Popular Science on YouTube →
Popular Science's YouTube stats: views and performance
This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 67% of all views and its biggest is 95.7× the median, so the median upload (23K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.
What is Popular Science's most popular video?
Its biggest hit is "Bill Nye Responds to Anti-Science Tweets" at 2.2M views - 95.7× the channel median. The other top performers:
| Video title | Views |
|---|---|
| Bill Nye Responds to Anti-Science Tweets | 2.2M |
| The $580 Million Vinyl Movie Disaster (Selectavision) | 781K |
| The $15,000 A.I. From 1983 | 437K |
Which titles work best for Popular Science - and which flop?
Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:
And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:
Which title patterns actually move the needle
Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 87 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.
Lean on has a number and starts how / why / what - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".
What keywords does Popular Science rank on?
Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: bill nye, movie disaster, wild lives, lost underwater, underwater film, experimentals nautiluses, solar eclipse, experimentals moles. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.
How often does Popular Science post, and when?
Popular Science publishes about 0.2 videos a week, most often on Sun.
How long are Popular Science's videos?
Typical uploads run about 5 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (74K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.
How does Popular Science compare to other education channels?
At 23K median views, Popular Science runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.
What is Popular Science's net worth and estimated earnings?
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, Popular Science pulls roughly 20K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $20-$79 a month in ad revenue (about $237-$949 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 Popular Science make next?
Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sun. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 23K views.
Popular Science stats at a glance
| Subscribers | 138K |
| Total views | 30M |
| Videos published | 482 |
| Avg views (of 87 analyzed) | 77K |
| Engagement rate | 5.8% |
| Uploads per week | 0.2 |
| Typical length | 5 min |
| On YouTube since | 2006 (20 yrs) |
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