# Tom Scott: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-11-05, Tom Scott has 6,750,000 subscribers, 1,973,055,419 total views, and 764 videos. It ranks #5,659 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Tom Scott](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/). 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 Tom Scott is “It's getting harder to balance the power grid. Here's why.”, a long-form video published Nov 2, 2026.
- These are Tom Scott’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Sep 25, 2023 and Nov 2, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 1,705,830. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.” (12,178,836 views, Jan 1, 2024). Least viewed: “I got hit in the teeth at England's oldest ritual” (480,077 views, Jun 29, 2026).
- Median length: 21:18 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Tom Scott’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 7 days, longest 812 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.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [It's getting harder to balance the power grid. Here's why.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/NBXu6Z9Fw_M/) | 2026-11-02 | Long-form | 1,670,316 | 16:21 | 1.21x |
| [This machine breaks things.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/-E47v4Oy7fE/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 1,810,558 | 23:17 | 1.06x |
| [Clocks are so much more interesting than I thought.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/BxXfeotgVVA/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 1,125,195 | 21:05 | 0.65x |
| [Why robots still can't pick strawberries](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/TumxO2glmPQ/) | 2026-10-12 | Long-form | 2,183,483 | 31:10 | 1.21x |
| [In this arcade, you drop metal balls on rich people.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/drrUvxtT6lU/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 1,814,947 | 11:01 | 1.1x |
| [When I blow this whistle, a swimming pool appears.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/pZtU48TjxXg/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 2,419,863 | 26:07 | 1.68x |
| [Can I get into the Top 100 of tiddlywinks in one day?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/AQqVcdTH5bQ/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 1,378,187 | 25:58 | 0.95x |
| [Thomas, a tank engine, is not Thomas the Tank Engine.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Dr4lseoF82c/) | 2026-09-14 | Long-form | 2,070,427 | 18:00 | 1.43x |
| [Flying a plane badly, on purpose.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/YwxiF2Gqtww/) | 2026-09-07 | Long-form | 2,072,029 | 17:40 | 1.68x |
| [This Mars rover's cool. But have you seen its wheels?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/IJSO-BL3pEU/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 1,912,135 | 22:40 | 1.86x |
| [How do you keep 8,995 codebreakers secret?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/tDLbO9KeddY/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 1,469,083 | 26:25 | 1.43x |
| [This 100-year-old ride must never change again.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/EU-rZuJxdbw/) | 2026-08-17 | Long-form | 919,465 | 16:37 | 0.96x |
| [Turns out building dry stone walls is difficult](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/7S8mK7WSNZQ/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 1,053,688 | 24:45 | 1.03x |
| [I'm so glad this hidden monorail broke down.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/SzM1hpnXux4/) | 2026-08-03 | Long-form | 1,420,627 | 27:22 | 1.48x |
| [I get excited about &.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/8IsbKH-EsAY/) | 2026-07-27 | Long-form | 999,256 | 23:40 | 1.05x |
| [I have a weird conspiracy theory about this bridge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/jUa2x_xpFuM/) | 2026-07-20 | Long-form | 1,741,343 | 12:40 | 1.57x |
| [If I get this wrong, 50,000 people will hear it.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/WGia1R3xacM/) | 2026-07-13 | Long-form | 658,040 | 23:14 | 0.73x |
| [To help fire this trebuchet, I climbed inside it](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/blubg9l8AVc/) | 2026-07-06 | Long-form | 685,210 | 22:55 | 0.62x |
| [I got hit in the teeth at England's oldest ritual](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/hCZwH5CSlEY/) | 2026-06-29 | Long-form | 480,077 | 15:15 | - |
| [We can't invent a robot better than these ferrets](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Mi_fYfpycT0/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 1,636,269 | 21:33 | 1.41x |
| [I cannot believe Jodrell Bank let me do this](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/YrZyJuaBfKA/) | 2026-06-15 | Long-form | 771,162 | 23:10 | 0.67x |
| [Why do some British trains still rely on old levers?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/omYfLDlt-MA/) | 2026-06-08 | Long-form | 1,333,137 | 25:50 | 1.03x |
| [I took a long walk on a dangerous beach.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Pwn8IrDeiwc/) | 2026-06-01 | Long-form | 911,745 | 26:15 | 0.7x |
| [The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/NxZOBBenmZM/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 1,307,219 | 21:44 | 0.98x |
| [I should not have liked the world’s first smart home.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/V2lEgMHF2Fo/) | 2026-05-18 | Long-form | 1,815,856 | 25:33 | 1.29x |
| [If you found candy with my name in it, here's why.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/aZRXpmnys7I/) | 2026-05-11 | Long-form | 887,012 | 17:02 | 0.63x |
| [Hello from inside a tiny boat.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/cMYYcddinkE/) | 2026-05-04 | Long-form | 1,371,336 | 23:59 | 0.76x |
| [I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/-v2ZhcJcnBE/) | 2026-04-27 | Long-form | 716,816 | 28:36 | - |
| [These people walk towards mining disasters.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Wp-TX1FoEN4/) | 2026-04-20 | Long-form | 1,013,096 | 21:31 | 0.46x |
| ["I feel like I've just destroyed evidence!"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/PTEkUe1k6gc/) | 2026-04-13 | Long-form | 1,291,843 | 29:32 | 0.59x |
| [They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here's how.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/zKx1VJsLsfk/) | 2026-04-06 | Long-form | 1,446,469 | 27:28 | 0.66x |
| [I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/GpaNijzRaJI/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 2,493,820 | 32:05 | 1.06x |
| [I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Yz3lSKgz4q8/) | 2026-03-23 | Long-form | 3,267,786 | 1:41 | 1.48x |
| [After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/7DKv5H5Frt0/) | 2024-01-01 | Long-form | 12,178,836 | 8:11 | 5.53x |
| [People are going to be angry about pylons.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/F0JDK_71yDg/) | 2023-12-25 | Long-form | 2,172,322 | 7:18 | 0.99x |
| [Why the government drops flies on California](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/Zl_5LT2fzak/) | 2023-12-18 | Long-form | 2,210,908 | 6:36 | 0.94x |
| [A robot just swapped my electric car's battery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/hNZy603as5w/) | 2023-12-11 | Long-form | 2,191,691 | 5:24 | 0.7x |
| [Why don't subtitles match dubbing?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/pU9sHwNKc2c/) | 2023-12-04 | Long-form | 2,019,703 | 8:26 | 0.59x |
| [Why use many streetlights when one will do?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/LDiXNsWQzD0/) | 2023-11-27 | Long-form | 4,149,838 | 5:38 | 1.05x |
| [These tiny ships have a serious purpose](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/jplrbxI5GN8/) | 2023-11-20 | Long-form | 1,661,884 | 10:41 | 0.48x |
| [Every mistake I've made since 2014.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/lIbfMjZ0ME4/) | 2023-11-13 | Long-form | 2,510,178 | 12:07 | 0.73x |
| [Does the language you speak change how you think?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/CmZdGo6b5yA/) | 2023-11-06 | Long-form | 1,568,606 | 5:25 | 0.45x |
| [Boarding planes could have been very different](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/j3OqAN4ISOw/) | 2023-10-30 | Long-form | 3,770,899 | 5:09 | 1.04x |
| [0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/XQIu5tZ0vbQ/) | 2023-10-23 | Long-form | 5,061,507 | 5:28 | 1.54x |
| [there’dn’t’ve](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/CkZyZFa5qO0/) | 2023-10-16 | Long-form | 5,364,526 | 4:35 | - |
| [I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/ZgDBIzClmPg/) | 2023-10-09 | Long-form | 6,573,317 | 3:31 | 2.53x |
| [The largest telescope that will ever be built\*](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/QqRREz0iBes/) | 2023-10-02 | Long-form | 3,090,416 | 29:02 | 1.19x |
| [Spherical houses weren't a great idea.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tomscottgo/videos/3kwDVw0u4Kw/) | 2023-09-25 | Long-form | 6,877,943 | 4:10 | 2.7x |

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