SciShow's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City
Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?6.7×3
The Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pass Incident6.0×4
Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All3.9×5
AI Psychosis Is Killing People. It’s Time to Talk About It3.3×6
Ancient Octopuses Were MUCH Bigger Than We Thought2.9×7
What's working for SciShow right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 262K views. “Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City” reached 2.6M, roughly 9.9 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (2). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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