Veritasium'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.
The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
The Biggest Chemical Coverup In History3.4×3
This Skyscraper Was Days From Collapsing And No One Knew2.4×4
Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds2.1×5
The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine1.9×6
The Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics1.9×7
What's working for Veritasium right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 11.0M views. “The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology” reached 65.2M, roughly 5.9 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (1). 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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