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YouTube @veritasium Knowledge 📍 United States
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Subscribers
20.9M
🔥 Buzz rank
#41,814 ▼31026
Total Views
4.37B
Videos
516
Channel age
15 yrs
Est. monthly earnings
$213.2K – $411.4K
22.6M total audience across 2 platforms
YouTube · 20.9M TikTok · 1.7M
📊 Content format · share of recent views
6%
▶️ 94%
⚡ Shorts 6%  ·  ▶️ Long-form 94% — brands place & price integrations differently across the two.
How we estimate
~46.26M recent monthly views × an estimated ad RPM of $4.90–$9.45 per 1,000 views — adjusted for Knowledge content and a US audience. About 6% of recent views are Shorts, valued separately at the much lower Shorts ad rate. Yearly ≈ $2.56M – $4.94M. Excludes sponsorships, memberships & merch. Full methodology →

Known for

What happens if you cut the green rope?37.91M views What happens if you cut the green rope? The World's Most Important Machine32.16M views The World's Most Important Machine There Is Something Faster Than Light14.72M views There Is Something Faster Than Light The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew14.47M views The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

▶️ Featured Video

32.16M views

📈 Performance

Typical video
3.46M–8.98M views
Median 5.72M — the reliable floor a brand can expect, not just the headline average.
Upload rhythm
1.5× / week
Most active on Thursdays — consistent output keeps an engaged, sponsor-ready audience.
7.01M
Avg views / video
181K
Avg likes
8.9K
Avg comments
2.71%
Engagement rate
1.5
Uploads / week
8.48M
Lifetime avg / video
209
Views / subscriber
6%
Shorts (recent views)
Engagement rate = (likes + comments) ÷ views across recent videos.

💡 Did you know?

🗓️Joined YouTube in 2010 — 15 years ago.
🏆Ranked #70 among all influencers on SocialDB.
🎯Top Knowledge influencer — #1 in the niche.
👁️Averages 7.01M views per video.
📤Posts about 1.5× per week.
💬2.71% engagement rate.
📱6% of recent uploads are Shorts.
🏅Earned the Diamond Play Button for passing 10M subscribers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

90/100 Excellent
  • Est. 93% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Healthy view-through — roughly 34% of subscribers watch each video.
  • 2.71% engagement — above the ~1% typical for this size.
Est. authentic audience
93%
Fake-follower risk
Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

👥 Audience demographics

Estimated

Modeled from this creator's niche, platform & region — a planning estimate, not connected analytics.

Gender split
Male 47% Female 53%
Age · peak 18-24
13-178%
18-2432%
25-3431%
35-4416%
45+13%
Top geographies
  • United States46%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Canada7%
  • Australia4%
  • India5%
Likely interests
EntertainmentLifestyleTrending

💚 Brand affinity

Estimated

Brands Veritasium's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

Keeps Nebula Amazon Affiliate Patreon Coinbase Robinhood Shopify Brilliant Epidemic Sound NordVPN

About

An element of truth - videos about science, education, and anything else we find interesting.

📸 Gallery

Why do these metronomes sync up? We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever... We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it Zippers are stronger than you think... How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out… Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

Recent videos

Why do these metronomes sync up?
635K views · 7 days ago
We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years
1.66M views · 11 days ago
This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...
5.28M views · 15 days ago
We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it
4.15M views · 19 days ago
Zippers are stronger than you think...
2.69M views · 21 days ago
How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
2.38M views · 25 days ago
AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…
1.28M views · 28 days ago
Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
8.92M views · 28 days ago
Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain
6.85M views · 1 month ago
How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
573.7K views · 1 month ago
Can you solve the hat riddle?
876.6K views · 1 month ago
How many batteries would it take to power a human?
358.1K views · 1 month ago

🔀 Audience overlap

Estimated

Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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