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Median views per long-form video
25,784
Uploads per week
6.0
Average long-form length
2:05:19
In the sample
50 long-form · 0 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- Why Voyager 1 Still Hasn't Hit a Single Thing After 49 Years in Space
648.7K views · 25.2x the median
- Why Our First Contact With an Alien Civilization Will Be Our Last
367K views · 14.2x the median
- Why Every Alien Civilization Might Already Be Dead
282.2K views · 10.9x the median
- Why We Can Reach Pluto but Can't Go Above the Sun
270.3K views · 10.5x the median
- The True Scale of a Light Year Will Break Your Brain
220.6K views · 8.6x the median
Trailed the channel median
- Why the Distance Between Galaxies Is Worse Than You Think
9.7K views · 0.4x the median
- The Universe Is Silent for a Reason... And It's Horrifying
9.1K views · 0.4x the median
- What a Generation Ship Would Experience on the Way to the Next Star System
7.9K views · 0.3x the median
- Why It's Impossible to Return from Jupiter
6.9K views · 0.3x the median
- Why Magnetars Are the Deadliest Stars in the Universe
3.6K views · 0.1x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
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- YouTube audience retention guide
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- YouTube Shorts retention
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Where these numbers come from
Counts from the YouTube Data API, read Oct 29, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Aug 31, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.