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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

@kurzgesagtJoined 9 Jul 2013393 videos
EducationGermany
LanguagesEnglish

Subscribers

Rounded by YouTube

25.7M

Latest figure

Total views

4B

Channel total, latest figure

Views, last 30 days

~83M

Up 4% on the 30 days before

Views since tracking began

~317M

Since 2 May 2026, about 1.7M a day

Viewershift Score

Medium confidence

97/ 100

Strong

Ahead of about 97% of the 3,104 channels with 10M+ subscribers across all categories that could be scored, based on 3 of 3 measures.

  • Momentum · 40% of scorePercentile 79

    Views grew 1.9% per 30 days, over the last 86 days

  • Consistency · 30% of scorePercentile 83

    83 uploads in the last year; gap variation 0.71 (lower is steadier)

  • Engagement · 30% of scorePercentile 81

    3.5% median likes per view across 371 videos

A percentile rank among comparable channels, not a measure of quality. Updated 4 Nov 2026. How the score works.

Recent views

Rounded

Views per 30 days, recent pace

~69M

▲ 102% vs the 3 months before

Growing faster than about 79% of comparable channels.

  1. 39M7 Jun8 May 2026 to 7 Jun 2026: about 39M views
  2. 28M7 Jul7 Jun 2026 to 7 Jul 2026: about 28M views
  3. 36M6 Aug7 Jul 2026 to 6 Aug 2026: about 36M views
  4. 44M5 Sep6 Aug 2026 to 5 Sep 2026: about 44M views
  5. 80M5 Oct5 Sep 2026 to 5 Oct 2026: about 80M views
  6. 83M4 Nov5 Oct 2026 to 4 Nov 2026: about 83M views

Views gained in each 30-day period up to 4 Nov 2026, rounded, from 31 view counts since 2 May 2026. Days between two counts are not tracked one by one, so the figures are totals, not daily numbers.

Where the views came from

Last 90 days

Views gained, 6 Aug 2026 to 4 Nov 2026

~210M

51% came from videos uploaded before this period.

  • New uploads · 20 uploads, 14 of them Shorts49% · ~100M
  • Back catalogue · everything published earlier51% · ~110M

Driving views now

  1. AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?New upload+24Msince upload
  2. This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane MethodNew upload+21Msince upload
  3. We Finally Know More About Humanity’s First CivilizationNew upload+12Msince upload
  4. This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look LikeNew upload+9.5Msince upload
  5. Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar SystemUploaded 4 Aug 2026+9.3Min 9 weeks

The split is the channel’s total gain divided between videos uploaded in the period (all of their views count) and everything older. “Driving views now” ranks the videos whose views we re-check regularly; that is not every video, so the list shows the biggest contributors we know of, not a complete breakdown. Figures are rounded.

Subscribers by month

Smoothed
09.5M18.9M28.4MJul '13Oct '15Jan '18Apr '20Jul '22Oct '24

A smoothed curve with one value per month. YouTube rounds public subscriber counts, so the curve passes through the middle of each rounding step and bridges stretches between data points.

Content analytics

Uploads, last 90 days

21

about 1.6 a week

Typical gap between uploads

3 days

9 in 10 gaps are shorter than 8 days

Shorts share of uploads

33%

of 426 videos

Median long-form length

9:03

9 in 10 are shorter than 13:44

When it publishes

Uploads by day of the week · UTC · last 12 months

22
19
4
27
4
7
0
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

Busiest day: Thu · 83 uploads in the window. We track the upload date, not the time of day, so there is no hourly breakdown.

How long its videos run

Long-form videos with a recorded length · 280

  • Under 4 min36 · 13%
  • 4-10 min127 · 45%
  • 10-20 min113 · 40%
  • 20-40 min2 · 0.7%
  • 40-60 min0 · 0.00%
  • Over 60 min2 · 0.7%

Shorts are counted as their own format, not by length, so they appear in the format chart and not here.

Format mix by year

Uploads per year, by format

  • Long-form
  • Shorts
  • Live

Counts are minimums: a video whose format we could not determine is shown as unknown, never guessed.

Top videos

Most viewed, all time

  • 1
    Kurzgesagt Channel Trailer

    23 Feb 2016 · 0:45

    10.6M

    views

  • 2
    How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views

    10 Nov 2015 · 5:02

    10M

    views

  • 3
    Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System

    4 Aug 2026 · 14:08

    10M

    views

  • 4
    How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

    28 Nov 2013 · 3:34

    8.5M

    views

  • 5
    The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker

    18 Dec 2014 · 2:03

    8.3M

    views

  • 6
    Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained

    2 Sep 2014 · 5:10

    8.3M

    views

  • 7
    The History and Future of Everything -- Time

    19 Dec 2013 · 7:10

    7.5M

    views

  • 8
    We Need to Rethink Exercise - The Workout Paradox

    15 Jul 2024 · 12:00

    7M

    views

  • 9
    The Moons of Mars Explained -- Phobos & Deimos MM#2

    11 May 2014 · 1:54

    4.5M

    views

  • 10
    How to catch a Dwarf Planet -- Triton MM#3

    25 May 2014 · 2:06

    4.3M

    views

  • 11
    Who Invented the Internet? And Why?

    9 Apr 2014 · 6:33

    3.1M

    views

  • 12
    The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic

    17 Feb 2026 · 12:51

    3.1M

    views

  • 13
    You Will Only Like Half of This Video

    20 Oct 2026 · 3:33

    2.6M

    views

  • 14
    How Big is the Moon? MM#1

    4 May 2014 · 1:40

    2.5M

    views

  • 15
    The 12,021 Human Era Calendar

    10 Oct 2020 · 1:24

    1.8M

    views

Breakout videos

Views far above the channel's typical video

No breakout videos

No video uploaded 30 to 730 days ago has 4× the channel's median views.

A breakout is a video uploaded 30–730 days ago with at least 4× the typical (median) views of the channel's videos from that period. At least 12 videos are needed for a fair comparison.

Captions and languages

What viewers who do not speak the channel's language can follow

Videos with captions available326 of 370 · 88%

Based on the videos we have checked, so it may be lower than the true share on YouTube.

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Based on the videos we have for this channel (426, uploaded 11 Jul 2013 to 29 Oct 2026). Updated 31 Oct 2026. These figures cover the videos we track, which may not be every video on the channel.

Subscribers and uploads timeline

Every upload placed on the subscriber curve

399 uploads from 1 Jul 2013 to 4 Nov 2026
010M19M29MUploads713101110131311171718189263953554316Jul '13Nov '16Mar '20Jul '23Nov '26

Each circle is one or more uploads; uploads close together in time share a circle, with the number of videos inside. Pick a shorter range or drag the slider handles to pull them apart. YouTube rounds public subscriber counts, so the line is a smoothed curve that passes through the middle of each rounding step and bridges stretches between data points, with one value per month.

Each marker is a video placed on the day it was published. Videos published close together are grouped.

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