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Step by Step Science - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 12-min uploads · 223K subscribers · started 2007 · ~0.4/week
Est. ad revenue$31–$125/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 174 most recent of 568 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Step by Step Science on YouTube →

In Step by Step Science's own words
Hundreds of physics, chemistry and math videos. Everything explained in a clear step by step manner. The videos are also organized by playlist on my website: Please subscribe, give me a thumbs up, leave a positive comment and share my videos with all of your friends! Thanks for all the support....Based in DE

Step by Step Science's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 49% of all views and its biggest is 20.2× the median, so the median upload (12K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

12K
median views
20.2×
top vs median
26%
hit rate (2×+)
49%
views from top 10%

What is Step by Step Science's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Motion Graphs: Transforming Position to Velocity to Acceleration vs Time" at 242K views - 20.2× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Motion Graphs: Transforming Position to Velocity to Acceleration vs Time242K
What is a Joule? An Explanation206K
Building Series & Parallel Circuits with PhET Simulations185K

Which titles work best for Step by Step 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
Motion Graphs: Transforming Position to Velocity to Acceleration vs Time242K
What is a Joule? An Explanation206K
Building Series & Parallel Circuits with PhET Simulations185K
Resistance & Resistivity, Example Problems171K
What is a Newton? An Explanation166K
Ohm's Law, Example Problems133K
What is a Newton-Meter? An Explanation121K
Kinetic Energy: Example Problems120K
Resistance & Resistivity, An Explanation120K
What is a Watt? An Explanation94K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Fluids: Presssure in Liquids4K
Photoelectric Effect (8 of 8) A Summary (Clear and Concise)4K
Making YOU the Scientist: Experimenting with Electromagnets4K
Drawing Ellipses for the Kepler's Laws Ellipse Lab4K
States of Matter: Solids, Liquids & Gases4K
Physics, Kinematics: Distance vs. Displacement (new)4K
Think Inside the Tube: A Science Inquiry Demonstration4K
Radioactivity (16 of 16) Carbon-14 Dating, When Did Ötzi Die?4K
Snell's Law with PhET Interactive Simulations4K
Electromagnetic Induction (14 of 15) Transformers, Example Problems3K

The words that win for Step by Step Science

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 174 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 - Step by Step Science
Short title (≤6 words)34% of videos
+60%
Asks a question7% of videos
+55%
An ALL-CAPS word7% of videos
-28%
Uses (brackets)44% of videos
+18%
The title formula for Step by Step Science

Lean on short title (≤6 words) and asks a question - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on an all-caps word.

an all-caps word drags views 28% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Step by Step Science rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: example problems, simple harmonic, harmonic motion, resistance resistivity, velocity acceleration, parallel circuits, series parallel, phet simulations. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Step by Step Science post, and when?

Step by Step Science publishes about 0.4 videos a week, most often on Mon.

Views by day of week
Sun
9
Mon
44
Tue
37
Wed
38
Thu
31
Fri
9
Sat
6

How long are Step by Step Science's videos?

Typical uploads run about 12 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (53K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5 min
53K
5-10 min
12K
10-20 min
12K
20 min+
7K

How does Step by Step Science compare to other education channels?

At 12K median views, Step by Step Science sits below the typical education channel we track (23K) - there is headroom.

What is Step by Step 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, Step by Step Science pulls roughly 21K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $21-$83 a month in ad revenue (about $248-$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 Step by Step Science make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Mon, and build titles around its proven words (explanation). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 12K views.

Step by Step Science stats at a glance

Subscribers223K
Total views36M
Videos published568
Avg views (of 174 analyzed)25K
Uploads per week0.4
Typical length12 min
On YouTube since2007 (19 yrs)

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