# TED YouTube Stats

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

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As of 2026-10-31, TED has 27,900,000 subscribers, 3,268,447,317 total views, and 5,876 videos. It ranks #403 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

Counts reflect public YouTube data and may be rounded. Earnings are modelled ad revenue estimates, not reported creator income; sponsorships, memberships and merchandise are excluded. [Data sources and earnings methodology](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/top/methodology/#earnings).

## Key stats

- Subscribers: 27,900,000
- Total views: 3,268,447,317
- Videos: 5,876
- Estimated ad revenue (USD): $120,000
- Worldwide rank: #403
- Country: United States (rank #120)
- Category: Education (rank #6)
- Joined YouTube: 2006-12-06
- Statistics as of: 2026-10-31

The exact earnings measurement window is unavailable.

## Top videos

| Video | Format | Published | Views | Views per hour | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Hint: It’s all you need #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/ytyzsAV4pxA/) | Short | 2026-06-25 | 20,306,230 | 6,566 | >100x |
| [Make no mistake... or do, it might make you famous! #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/-0aZ2TmrsX8/) | Short | 2025-08-08 | 5,609,896 | 521 | >100x |
| [A peek inside the minds behind true crime #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/kNelNGmQ4YM/) | Short | 2025-10-31 | 1,417,692 | 162 | 25.59x |
| [You can always count on people to fill in the blanks #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/boc6LIL0R1o/) | Short | 2026-06-21 | 1,086,607 | 345 | 29.54x |
| [How Language Shapes the Way We Think \| Lera Boroditsky @TED #ted #tedtalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/Q5bBccodkEw/) | Short | 2024-03-20 | 1,079,482 | 47 | 21.05x |
| [Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/cdZZpaB2kDM/) | Long-form | 2022-04-14 | 14,121,327 | 4 | - |
| [The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think \| Ian Bremmer \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/uiUPD-z9DTg/) | Long-form | 2023-06-14 | 13,913,912 | 469 | >100x |
| [How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media \| Duolingo's Luis Von Ahn \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/P6FORpg0KVo/) | Long-form | 2023-10-26 | 11,780,652 | 446 | >100x |
| [Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about \| Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/YRvf00NooN8/) | Long-form | 2022-04-18 | 10,989,793 | 93 | - |
| [How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future \| Scott Galloway \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/qEJ4hkpQW8E/) | Long-form | 2024-05-02 | 8,163,507 | 373 | >100x |

## Latest videos

| Video | Format | Published | Views | Views per hour | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Would you let your friend pay for dinner? #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/Uhk5S8rByUk/) | Short | 2026-10-30 | 26,179 | 708 | 1.49x |
| [The Joy of Foraging Your Own Food \| Alexis Nikole Nelson \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/8bk1Llgvs4o/) | Long-form | 2026-10-30 | 48,179 | 635 | - |
| [What If You Could Read the DNA of Your Future Child? \| Noor Siddiqui \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/3RSEuMA4qbE/) | Long-form | 2026-10-29 | 64,211 | 443 | - |
| [This dad tried to get AI to help raise his kids, and it didn’t turn out the way he hoped #TEDTalks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/Sj2OZXQHugQ/) | Short | 2026-10-27 | 17,843 | 167 | - |
| [Why You Should Share a Recipe with a Stranger \| Anuj Gupta \| TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/videos/tu6tF-lVDJI/) | Long-form | 2026-10-27 | 61,326 | 80 | - |

## Long-form vs. Shorts, last 28 days

| Format | Uploads | Views |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Long-form | 23 | 2,560,800 |
| Shorts | 10 | 234,177 |

## Daily performance

All recorded daily snapshots available for this channel. Dates are UTC. Missing days are not filled in; negative changes are retained. Earnings are estimates.

| Date | Subscribers | Subscribers change | Views | Views change | Estimated earnings (USD) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-31 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,268,447,317 | +416,934 | $2,300 |
| 2026-10-30 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,268,030,383 | +1,280,491 | $6,900 |
| 2026-10-29 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,266,749,892 | +309,758 | $1,700 |
| 2026-10-28 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,266,440,134 | +835,062 | $4,500 |
| 2026-10-27 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,265,605,072 | +729,469 | $4,000 |
| 2026-10-26 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,264,875,603 | +1,157,177 | $6,300 |
| 2026-10-25 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,263,718,426 | +650,615 | $3,500 |
| 2026-10-24 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,263,067,811 | +396,502 | $2,100 |
| 2026-10-23 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,262,671,309 | +735,814 | $4,000 |
| 2026-10-22 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,261,935,495 | +725,371 | $3,900 |
| 2026-10-21 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,261,210,124 | +1,299,271 | $7,000 |
| 2026-10-20 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,259,910,853 | +534,620 | $2,900 |
| 2026-10-19 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,259,376,233 | +699,982 | $3,800 |
| 2026-10-18 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,258,676,251 | +992,869 | $5,400 |
| 2026-10-17 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,257,683,382 | +451,014 | $2,400 |
| 2026-10-16 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,257,232,368 | +1,201,070 | $6,500 |
| 2026-10-15 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,256,031,298 | +142,242 | $770 |
| 2026-10-14 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,255,889,056 | +1,298,166 | $7,000 |
| 2026-10-13 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,254,590,890 | +1,053,588 | $5,700 |
| 2026-10-12 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,253,537,302 | +278,045 | $1,500 |
| 2026-10-11 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,253,259,257 | +938,310 | $5,100 |
| 2026-10-10 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,252,320,947 | +961,352 | $5,200 |
| 2026-10-09 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,251,359,595 | +481,137 | $2,600 |
| 2026-10-08 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,250,878,458 | +742,658 | $4,000 |
| 2026-10-07 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,250,135,800 | +837,805 | $4,500 |
| 2026-10-06 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,249,297,995 | +977,036 | $5,300 |
| 2026-10-05 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,248,320,959 | +531,362 | $2,900 |
| 2026-10-04 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,247,789,597 | +904,020 | $4,900 |
| 2026-10-03 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,246,885,577 | +665,397 | $3,600 |
| 2026-10-02 | 27,900,000 | 0 | 3,246,220,180 | +1,220,405 | $6,600 |

## Monthly history

In September 2026, TED gained 100,000 subscribers and got 26,025,654 views. Each month shows its net change and the totals at its end.

| Month | Subscribers gained | Views gained | Subscribers | Views |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| September 2026 | +100,000 | +26,025,654 | 27,900,000 | 3,244,999,775 |
| August 2026 | +100,000 | +18,794,044 | 27,800,000 | 3,218,974,121 |
| July 2026 | +100,000 | +25,917,623 | 27,700,000 | 3,200,180,077 |
| June 2026 | +200,000 | +18,869,343 | 27,600,000 | 3,174,262,454 |
| May 2026 | +100,000 | +15,042,375 | 27,400,000 | 3,155,393,111 |
| April 2026 | 0 | +12,498,343 | 27,300,000 | 3,140,350,736 |
| March 2026 | +100,000 | +13,397,992 | 27,300,000 | 3,127,852,393 |
| February 2026 | +100,000 | +13,857,828 | 27,200,000 | 3,114,454,401 |
| January 2026 | +100,000 | +15,305,952 | 27,100,000 | 3,100,596,573 |
| December 2025 | +100,000 | +13,476,923 | 27,000,000 | 3,085,290,621 |
| November 2025 | +100,000 | +18,259,270 | 26,900,000 | 3,071,813,698 |
| October 2025 | +100,000 | +96,434,987 | 26,800,000 | 3,053,554,428 |
| September 2025 | +200,000 | +16,961,766 | 26,700,000 | 2,957,119,441 |
| August 2025 | +100,000 | +16,718,914 | 26,500,000 | 2,940,157,675 |
| July 2025 | +100,000 | +13,539,331 | 26,400,000 | 2,923,438,761 |
| June 2025 | +100,000 | +13,219,570 | 26,300,000 | 2,909,899,430 |
| May 2025 | +100,000 | +16,299,850 | 26,200,000 | 2,896,679,860 |
| April 2025 | +200,000 | +15,919,918 | 26,100,000 | 2,880,380,010 |
| March 2025 | +100,000 | +14,092,758 | 25,900,000 | 2,864,460,092 |
| February 2025 | +100,000 | +14,378,713 | 25,800,000 | 2,850,367,334 |
| January 2025 | +200,000 | +15,846,374 | 25,700,000 | 2,835,988,621 |
| December 2024 | +100,000 | +15,522,949 | 25,500,000 | 2,820,142,247 |
| November 2024 | +200,000 | +16,131,262 | 25,400,000 | 2,804,619,298 |
| October 2024 | +100,000 | +15,585,321 | 25,200,000 | 2,788,488,036 |
| September 2024 | +200,000 | +14,953,612 | 25,100,000 | 2,772,902,715 |
| August 2024 | +100,000 | +13,899,454 | 24,900,000 | 2,757,949,103 |
| July 2024 | +200,000 | +13,847,523 | 24,800,000 | 2,744,049,649 |
| June 2024 | +100,000 | +13,970,833 | 24,600,000 | 2,730,202,126 |
| May 2024 | +200,000 | +20,247,965 | 24,500,000 | 2,716,231,293 |
| April 2024 | +100,000 | +16,141,864 | 24,300,000 | 2,695,983,328 |
| March 2024 | +100,000 | +13,695,645 | 24,200,000 | 2,679,841,464 |
| February 2024 | +200,000 | +14,945,771 | 24,100,000 | 2,666,145,819 |
| January 2024 | +100,000 | +15,005,189 | 23,900,000 | 2,651,200,048 |
| December 2023 | +100,000 | +13,408,866 | 23,800,000 | 2,636,194,859 |
| November 2023 | +200,000 | +15,913,280 | 23,700,000 | 2,622,785,993 |
| October 2023 | +100,000 | +17,314,156 | 23,500,000 | 2,606,872,713 |

## Cite these statistics

vidIQ. As of 2026-10-31, TED has 27,900,000 subscribers, 3,268,447,317 total views, and 5,876 videos. It ranks #403 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ. Source: public YouTube statistics recorded by vidIQ. https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/ Methodology: https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/top/methodology/

[Shareable recorded history chart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ted/history.svg)

## Frequently asked questions

**How many subscribers does TED have?**

TED has 27,900,000 subscribers as of 2026-10-31.

**How many views does TED have?**

TED has 3,268,447,317 total video views as of 2026-10-31.

**How many videos has TED uploaded?**

TED has uploaded 5,876 videos as of 2026-10-31.

**What is TED's estimated YouTube ad revenue?**

vidIQ models about $120,000 USD in YouTube ad revenue for TED as of 2026-10-31. This is a modelled estimate, not income reported by the creator or YouTube. The exact earnings measurement window is unavailable.

**What is TED's subscriber rank?**

TED is ranked #403 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ as of 2026-10-31.

**How many subscribers did TED gain in the last 28 days?**

TED gained 0 subscribers between 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-31.

**How many views did TED get in the last 28 days?**

TED got 21,561,740 views between 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-31.

**How much did TED grow in September 2026?**

In September 2026, TED gained 100,000 subscribers and got 26,025,654 views.

**When did TED start their channel on YouTube?**

TED started their YouTube channel on December 6, 2006.

**What country is TED YouTube channel from?**

TED has its channel country set to United States on YouTube.

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