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Psych Explained - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 11-min uploads · 131K subscribers · started 2016 · ~0.2/week
Est. ad revenue$29–$114/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 82 most recent of 161 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Psych Explained on YouTube →

In Psych Explained's own words
Welcome to Psych Explained! 🧠 Psych Explained makes psychology engaging, understandable, and accessible. Whether you're studying psychology, preparing for the AP or IB Psychology exam, taking an introductory college course, or simply curious about the mind, you'll find videos to help you learn and...Based in US

How does Psych Explained perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 49% of all views and its biggest is 29.2× the median, so the median upload (22K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

22K
median views
29.2×
top vs median
45%
hit rate (2×+)
49%
views from top 10%

What is Psych Explained's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "What is a Neuron? Parts and Function" at 642K views - 29.2× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
What is a Neuron? Parts and Function642K
Psychology's 7 Modern Perspectives393K
The Brain Explained in 7 Minutes377K

Which titles work best for Psych 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
What is a Neuron? Parts and Function642K
Psychology's 7 Modern Perspectives393K
The Brain Explained in 7 Minutes377K
What Happens to Your Brain While You Sleep? The Science of Sleep335K
Stop Mixing These Up! Independent vs. Dependent Variables315K
How Neurons Fire - Action Potential Explained!299K
What is Correlational Research? Finding Relationships Between Variables293K
Sigmund Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego I Personality Structure I Psychoanalytic Theory239K
From Cell to Baby: Prenatal Development Explained213K
The Fear Center of Your Brain (Amygdala Explained)206K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
What is Statistics in Psychology? I Data Interpretation | AP Psychology I Unit 0, Topic 55K
Intro to Psychological Research I Scientific Practices | AP Psychology I Unit 0, Topic 15K
Nature-Nurture | The Interaction of Heredity and Environment I AP Psychology I Unit 1, Topic 1.15K
Classical Conditioning4K
Correlational Research and Other Non-Experimental Methods I AP Psychology I Unit 0 Topic 34K
How To Design An Experiment In Psychology? | Experimental Method I AP Psychology I Unit 0, Topic 23K
7 Perspectives That Explain Human Behavior3K
Perspectives in Psychology I AP Psychology I Unit 0, Topic 73K
What is Ethics? Ethical Guidelines I AP Psychology I Unit 0, Topic 63K
How Memory Works...And Why It Fails You (Explained Simply!)3K

The words that win for Psych Explained

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 82 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 - Psych Explained
Starts How / Why / What32% of videos
+281%
Speaks to "you"24% of videos
+229%
Short title (≤6 words)18% of videos
+165%
Has a number30% of videos
-92%
Asks a question20% of videos
-53%
An ALL-CAPS word7% of videos
-52%
The title formula for Psych Explained

Lean on starts how / why / what and speaks to "you" - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on has a number.

Surprise: has a number costs this channel 92% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Psych Explained rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: neuron parts, happens brain, brain while, while sleep, action potential, correlational research, vision works, experimental method. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Psych Explained post, and when?

Psych Explained publishes about 0.2 videos a week, most often on Sun.

Views by day of week
Sun
25
Mon
0
Tue
2
Wed
19
Thu
11
Fri
8
Sat
17

How long are Psych Explained's videos?

Typical uploads run about 11 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (67K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
67K
20 min+
44K
5-10 min
10K

How does Psych Explained compare to other education channels?

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

Psych Explained's estimated YouTube 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, Psych Explained pulls roughly 19K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $19-$76 a month in ad revenue (about $227-$908 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 Psych Explained make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (brain). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 22K views.

Psych Explained stats at a glance

Subscribers131K
Total views7.3M
Videos published161
Avg views (of 82 analyzed)78K
Uploads per week0.2
Typical length11 min
On YouTube since2016 (10 yrs)

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