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2,394 videosJoined Mar 1, 2011Last updated Nov 5, 2026

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Last updated Nov 5, 2026

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As of 2026-11-05, TED-Ed has 23,000,000 subscribers, 4,773,896,460 total views, and 2,394 videos. Ranked #609 worldwide, #173 in United States and #12 in Education by subscribers.

TED-Ed’s most recent 48 uploads

The latest upload vidIQ has for TED-Ed is “Can you solve the Billy Bonka riddle? - Edwin F. Meyer”, a long-form video published Nov 3, 2026.
These are TED-Ed’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Apr 23, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026 (47 long-form videos and 1 Short).
Median views across these 48 uploads: 404,130. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
Most viewed in the sample: “4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell” (4,564,471 views, Sep 22, 2026). Least viewed: “How can you overcome writer’s block?” (41,657 views, Apr 23, 2026).
Median length: 5:51 for 47 long-form videos.
In this sample, TED-Ed’s consecutive uploads were a median of 5 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 7 days).
Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 5, 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.

TED-Ed’s most recent uploads, newest first, with publication date (UTC), format, lifetime views and length
Video	Published (UTC)	Format	Views	Length
Can you solve the Billy Bonka riddle? - Edwin F. Meyer	Nov 3, 2026	Long-form	324,990	6:13
What if you didn’t brush your teeth for a year? - Justin Merritt	Oct 29, 2026	Long-form	1,162,769	5:30
Scary stories to watch in the dark (if you dare…)	Oct 27, 2026	Long-form	410,703	34:20
5 sneaky ways stores get you to spend more	Oct 22, 2026	Long-form	467,805	6:22
Why does this animal never age? - Raymond Adkins	Oct 20, 2026	Long-form	421,646	5:51
3 things to never do with a credit card	Oct 15, 2026	Long-form	1,123,905	5:58
How to present your ideas effectively	Oct 13, 2026	Long-form	313,288	6:34
Which is better: Buying or renting a home? - Ella Feldman	Oct 8, 2026	Long-form	765,625	6:04
Why is Queen Victoria so controversial? - Carolyn Harris	Oct 6, 2026	Long-form	485,764	6:20
6 ways to be more persuasive	Oct 1, 2026	Long-form	309,860	6:03
Why are AI data centers using so much electricity? - Sajan Saini	Sep 29, 2026	Long-form	642,833	6:37
Do we actually know how magnets work? - Rachel Yang	Sep 24, 2026	Long-form	503,804	5:47
4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell	Sep 22, 2026	Long-form	4,564,471	5:26
Why is it so easy for birds to spread illness? - Benjamin Anderson	Sep 17, 2026	Long-form	480,919	6:30
How to explain something complicated	Sep 15, 2026	Long-form	652,872	9:29
Why do some people have a better sense of direction than others? - Oliver Baumann	Sep 10, 2026	Long-form	1,594,206	5:54
Ever walk into a room and forget what you were doing? - Gabriel Radvansky	Sep 8, 2026	Long-form	927,766	5:45
What are tariffs, and how do they work?	Sep 3, 2026	Long-form	783,534	5:40
4 ways to tell a great story	Sep 1, 2026	Long-form	588,541	5:06
Plato’s infamous Ship of State thought experiment - Michael Vazquez	Aug 25, 2026	Long-form	563,361	5:40
The Greek myth of Apollo's curse - Iseult Gillespie	Aug 18, 2026	Long-form	253,250	4:40
How do Maglev trains work? - Ning Zhao	Aug 11, 2026	Long-form	352,008	6:28
The fastest way to board a plane, according to mathematics - Rachel Yang	Aug 4, 2026	Long-form	397,556	5:58
Red gold: The world's most expensive spice - Carolyn Beans	Jul 28, 2026	Long-form	327,061	6:41
The magical forest realm hiding at the bottom of the ocean - Luka Seamus Wright and Salomé Buglass	Jul 21, 2026	Long-form	149,670	5:51
When did we start using passports? - Kristin Surak	Jul 14, 2026	Long-form	575,790	6:09
How does the space station never run out of oxygen? - Alvaro Romero-Calvo and Theo St Francis	Jul 7, 2026	Long-form	427,625	6:11
Psychedelics, mind control, radiation-eating: The secret superpowers of fungi - Max G. Levy	Jun 30, 2026	Long-form	380,848	6:13
How a broken heart affects your body	Jun 25, 2026	Long-form	393,514	5:18
Why avalanches are most deadly when they stop - Simon Trautman	Jun 23, 2026	Long-form	233,706	5:34
Should you rinse your dishes before placing them in the dishwasher? - Rachel Yang	Jun 18, 2026	Long-form	314,686	5:05
How to attack (and defend) a medieval castle - Connor C. Wilson	Jun 16, 2026	Long-form	320,559	5:34
Meet the slow loris, the only venomous primate in existence - Stephanie A. Poindexter	Jun 11, 2026	Long-form	263,131	6:00
What is sumo, and why is it so popular? - Lee Thompson	Jun 9, 2026	Long-form	178,998	5:38
Why does catnip make cats go crazy? - Jaap de Roode	Jun 4, 2026	Long-form	373,021	5:00
The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe	Jun 2, 2026	Long-form	602,141	5:31
Why your best ideas usually start as bad ones \| Think Like A Musician	May 28, 2026	Long-form	86,140	4:53
What toys have kids played with throughout history?	May 26, 2026	Long-form	3,471,635	5:22
The incredible engineering of Venice - Stephanie H. Smith	May 21, 2026	Long-form	186,273	6:50
Why is getting bitten by a rabid animal so dangerous? - Charles Rupprecht	May 19, 2026	Long-form	1,079,977	6:04
Edgar Allan Poe's story of the Red Death - Iseult Gillespie	May 14, 2026	Long-form	167,228	7:06
The missing ingredient in how we learn	May 12, 2026	Long-form	1,090,386	5:50
What to do if you live in the path of a volcano - Arianna Soldati	May 7, 2026	Long-form	155,262	5:16
How to find hidden clues at crime scenes - Theodore E. Yeshion	May 5, 2026	Long-form	204,485	5:34
The fascinating reason you loved peek-a-boo	Apr 30, 2026	Long-form	1,406,766	5:29
Why do we use "they" as a singular pronoun? - Arika Okrent	Apr 28, 2026	Long-form	163,034	5:34
How can you overcome writer’s block?	Apr 23, 2026	Short	41,657	0:44
Write every day, even if it’s terrible \| Think Like A Musician	Apr 23, 2026	Long-form	76,533	6:01

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