# BBC Ideas: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-27, BBC Ideas has 704,000 subscribers, 47,110,252 total views, and 632 videos. It ranks #107,399 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for BBC Ideas is “A very short guide to Boolean logic”, a Short published Oct 22, 2026.
- These are BBC Ideas’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 21, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026 (11 long-form videos and 37 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 3,865. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The deceptively simple power of Boolean logic” (186,770 views, Oct 14, 2026). Least viewed: “Jane Harry: The slave trader's daughter who fought back” (1,725 views, Jul 28, 2026).
- Median length: 5:12 for 11 long-form videos; 1:28 for 37 Shorts.
- In this sample, BBC Ideas’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 7 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [A very short guide to Boolean logic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/aNG_rEnGKs0/) | 2026-10-22 | Short | 5,968 | 2:04 | 1.28x |
| [Why did humans start drinking cow's milk?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/OUAcmXu0AGo/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 9,002 | 0:43 | 2.34x |
| [Lightning is on the rise - here’s why](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/YFsPNLqv9Fg/) | 2026-10-15 | Short | 12,451 | 1:33 | 3.16x |
| [The deceptively simple power of Boolean logic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/LZF5xf-_H7s/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 186,770 | 5:15 | 8.83x |
| [Are you too quiet to be a great leader?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/7_j2XFFlsME/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 3,616 | 1:35 | - |
| [How to stay safe in a lightning storm](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/ClLNjBy8CO0/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 4,650 | 1:41 | 1.22x |
| [The truth about oily fish and your brain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/9ErtuF5IZ6s/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 5,540 | 1:14 | 1.53x |
| [Introvert? Here's how to ace your next job interview](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/aoK9XYU3bPk/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 16,189 | 5:12 | - |
| [Is the internet broken?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/JHfGotcOCJc/) | 2026-09-29 | Short | 3,641 | 3:00 | 1.05x |
| [Why multitasking is a myth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/9mJJfHv9gk4/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 3,645 | 1:27 | 1.16x |
| [Morning-after pill myths, debunked](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/RMGG6bF_rAE/) | 2026-09-22 | Short | 2,614 | 1:54 | - |
| [The 24 rabbits that nearly destroyed a continent](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/J4dUzaSYV28/) | 2026-09-17 | Short | 6,895 | 1:29 | 2.36x |
| [Why milk is weird](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/NqabAAXAA2Q/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 26,711 | 4:41 | 1.16x |
| [Parenting: The power of a pause \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/POZz89AWn2o/) | 2026-09-15 | Short | 3,487 | 1:21 | 1.24x |
| [Why is it so hard to change someone’s mind?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/KFdm-G8K0TQ/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 5,924 | 1:29 | 2.17x |
| [The parenting tool that really works (and only takes 5 mins!) \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/HmFY1QFtvag/) | 2026-09-08 | Short | 4,490 | 1:31 | 1.76x |
| [The rabbits that (nearly) destroyed a continent](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/6raEpri_wbU/) | 2026-09-02 | Long-form | 37,070 | 5:30 | 1.98x |
| [Can you solve this fiendishly difficult brain teaser?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/RQJd_0IUkJc/) | 2026-09-01 | Short | 2,775 | 1:31 | 1.22x |
| [Will your selfies still exist in a thousand years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/HUIcQiY_Y6Q/) | 2026-08-26 | Short | 2,988 | 1:34 | 1.28x |
| [How many different cubes can you make?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/WGATY3D0VxM/) | 2026-08-25 | Short | 2,102 | 1:26 | - |
| [Three squares. One line. Can you solve it?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/adpKqb7AbKE/) | 2026-08-20 | Short | 2,834 | 1:31 | 1.13x |
| [Why you’re breathing wrong (and how to fix it!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/g5fF7HnU0dE/) | 2026-08-19 | Long-form | 102,051 | 5:02 | 8.98x |
| [Fighting mosquitoes by… breeding them!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/rtWDSdeAHeA/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 2,483 | 1:05 | - |
| [A really simple tip to tackle your nerves](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/Y-aKkka4Vuo/) | 2026-08-13 | Short | 2,267 | 1:25 | - |
| [Can you figure out who is lying?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/eSQdgZEro1A/) | 2026-08-11 | Short | 1,956 | 1:30 | - |
| [What if we wiped out all the mosquitoes in the world?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/HZwK_wmQEZA/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 24,871 | 5:12 | 2.54x |
| [Can you solve this Victorian word puzzle?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/rUX24opLIDI/) | 2026-07-30 | Short | 3,023 | 1:28 | 1.01x |
| [Coming soon to BBC Ideas: A treat for logic puzzle fans](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/6fd_mNBVPaU/) | 2026-07-29 | Short | 2,595 | 0:22 | - |
| [Jane Harry: The slave trader's daughter who fought back](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/oaXY390lF80/) | 2026-07-28 | Short | 1,725 | 1:37 | - |
| [What happened to the internet?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/Q9SsQzAWK2g/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 59,171 | 12:16 | 6.93x |
| [Why listening to birdsong is good for you](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/JNhMIjUmGVQ/) | 2026-07-21 | Short | 4,084 | 1:36 | 1.28x |
| [Doctors said it was 'just bad periods'](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/yQOEO58EoCk/) | 2026-07-16 | Short | 2,621 | 1:31 | - |
| ['When I was 14, I thought I was dying'](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/dOHjJ5VH4bM/) | 2026-07-14 | Short | 2,763 | 1:04 | - |
| [The anti-slavery pioneer you’ve probably never heard of](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/X8sVxuOXGVw/) | 2026-07-09 | Long-form | 4,636 | 5:03 | - |
| [Does eating local yogurt prevent an upset stomach?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/j_ax6mEUSB0/) | 2026-07-07 | Short | 4,291 | 1:01 | 1.45x |
| [Butterflies in your stomach explained!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/mpq0Es9oQCs/) | 2026-07-02 | Short | 2,957 | 1:05 | - |
| [The parasite that lives in one-in-four of us](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/4C_7w2oyiwQ/) | 2026-06-30 | Short | 2,919 | 1:04 | - |
| [How NOT to get struck by lightning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/ShMC_CY_wPs/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 6,851 | 4:02 | - |
| [Do you know this powerful language learning tool? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/KLdKiVAdHwk/) | 2026-06-23 | Short | 3,299 | 0:52 | - |
| [An easy way to boost your language learning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/-ADjBwmWrJM/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 2,751 | 0:48 | - |
| [Did you know this language learning hack? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/OhePF0mBRQY/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 4,548 | 0:41 | 1.07x |
| [3 surprising things your gut is doing for you](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/2xz20qL3yJc/) | 2026-06-11 | Long-form | 12,619 | 4:05 | 1.74x |
| [Robots vs humans - what would you prefer? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/SgsT3R_Etg0/) | 2026-06-09 | Short | 1,983 | 1:19 | - |
| [What if we 'hacked' the climate?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/5UjrVboq9zM/) | 2026-06-04 | Short | 3,137 | 1:29 | - |
| [What would happen to your personality if you lost a part of your brain? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/6PxCo35kInI/) | 2026-06-02 | Short | 3,504 | 1:15 | - |
| [Why did it take so long for me to be diagnosed with endometriosis? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/WK2BLXz_ldA/) | 2026-05-28 | Long-form | 4,787 | 5:31 | - |
| [Spider + caffeine = ? \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/wtmEcpHTaFw/) | 2026-05-26 | Short | 5,494 | 1:43 | 1.01x |
| [What sugar does to your body \| BBC Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@bbcideas/videos/CiqwNVlqTks/) | 2026-05-21 | Short | 6,359 | 1:21 | 1.33x |

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