Education · channel analysis

World Science Festival - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 57-min uploads · 1.4M subscribers · started 2008 · ~0.6/week
Est. ad revenue$347–$1K/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 178 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit World Science Festival on YouTube →

In World Science Festival's own words
Watch long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth. We gather great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with...Based in US

What are World Science Festival's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 60% of all views and its biggest is 100× the median, so the median upload (89K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

89K
median views
100×
top vs median
32%
hit rate (2×+)
60%
views from top 10%

What is World Science Festival's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "WSU: Space, Time, and Einstein with Brian Greene | World Science Festival" at 8.9M views - 100× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
WSU: Space, Time, and Einstein with Brian Greene | World Science Festival8.9M
Things We've Never Seen: The James Webb Space Telescope Explores the Cosmos2.8M
Einstein and the Quantum: Entanglement and Emergence | World Science Festival2.6M

Which titles work best for World Science Festival - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
WSU: Space, Time, and Einstein with Brian Greene | World Science Festival8.9M
Things We've Never Seen: The James Webb Space Telescope Explores the Cosmos2.8M
Einstein and the Quantum: Entanglement and Emergence | World Science Festival2.6M
Psychedelics: Chemicals, Consciousness, and Creativity | World Science Festival1.8M
Does Math Reveal Reality? | World Science Festival1.7M
The Dreaming Mind: Waking the Mysteries of Sleep | World Science Festival1.4M
WSU: Special Relativity with Brian Greene1.3M
Beyond Higgs: The Wild Frontier of Particle Physics | World Science Festival1.3M
What Creates Consciousness? | World Science Festival1.1M
Decoding the Brain | World Science Festival969K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
WSU: Fundamental Lessons from String Theory with Cumrun Vafa | World Science Festival36K
AI Creativity: Genius or Gimmick? | World Science Festival34K
Your Daily Equation #22: 8 - 2 ÷ 2 x 3 + 4 = ? | World Science Festival34K
Your Daily Equation #16: Fourier Series -- The "atoms" of Math | World Science Festival34K
Your Daily Equation #7: Relativistic Velocity Combination | World Science Festival33K
WSU Master Class: How Black Holes Became Real with Priyamvada Natarajan | World Science Festival26K
2020 The Kavli Prize Announcement, Hosted by Brian Greene | World Science Festival26K
WSU Master Class: Illuminating Black Holes with Veronika Hubeny | World Science Festival23K
Cumrun Vafa: On The Shoulders of Giants | World Science Festival23K
What's Special About a Black Hole's Edge? | World Science Festival22K

The words that win for World Science Festival

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 178 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 - World Science Festival
Asks a question24% of videos
+93%
Includes a year6% of videos
-85%
An ALL-CAPS word18% of videos
-81%
Starts How / Why / What8% of videos
+64%
Has a number23% of videos
-58%
Speaks to "you"19% of videos
-46%
The title formula for World Science Festival

Lean on asks a question and starts how / why / what - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on includes a year.

includes a year drags views 85% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does World Science Festival rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: brian greene, james webb, webb space, space telescope, quantum entanglement, black holes, daily equation, quantum computing. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does World Science Festival post, and when?

World Science Festival publishes about 0.6 videos a week, most often on Sun.

Views by day of week
Sun
46
Mon
28
Tue
14
Wed
17
Thu
26
Fri
44
Sat
3

How long are World Science Festival's videos?

Typical uploads run about 57 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (123K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
123K
10-20 min
51K
5-10 min
20K
under 5 min
16K

How does World Science Festival compare to other education channels?

At 89K median views, World Science Festival runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does World Science Festival 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, World Science Festival pulls roughly 230K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $230-$918 a month in ad revenue (about $2,755-$11,022 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 World Science Festival make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Sun, and build titles around its proven words (quantum). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 89K views.

World Science Festival stats at a glance

Subscribers1.4M
Total views249M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 178 analyzed)279K
Engagement rate2.7%
Uploads per week0.6
Typical length57 min
On YouTube since2008 (18 yrs)

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

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