# Van Neistat: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, Van Neistat has 649,000 subscribers, 68,056,860 total views, and 286 videos. It ranks #116,774 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Van Neistat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/). 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 Van Neistat is “Tickets, A Necktie & 26 Years of Footage: Long-Form 3”, a long-form video published Aug 1, 2026.
- These are Van Neistat’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Sep 2, 2025 and Aug 1, 2026 (27 long-form videos and 21 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 21,955. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Inside Van Neistat's New Handmade LA Studio” (144,820 views, Sep 8, 2025). Least viewed: “Why the machine dream was never real.” (4,609 views, Jul 4, 2026).
- Median length: 4:24 for 27 long-form videos; 0:55 for 21 Shorts.
- In this sample, Van Neistat’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 70 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Aug 11, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Tickets, A Necktie & 26 Years of Footage: Long-Form 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/C8BsOTAol_o/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 23,217 | 28:27 | 2.99x |
| [The Triumph of Natural Intelligence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/qwhU-8rlKPw/) | 2026-07-20 | Long-form | 17,752 | 6:32 | 1.71x |
| [7 AI Principles for a simpler life](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/H-ckdWpGjZw/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 9,296 | 2:11 | - |
| [A black board build & tech's big flaw](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/UOhGsFC-MAE/) | 2026-07-12 | Long-form | 14,987 | 4:14 | 1.17x |
| [My favorite filmmaker explains why](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/oL-H52u7U_w/) | 2026-07-08 | Long-form | 13,591 | 4:21 | 1.06x |
| [I wanted AI to free me. It's making me crazy.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/I9XGPL1wA8Q/) | 2026-07-06 | Short | 12,662 | 1:13 | - |
| [Is it wrong to want an AI Agent?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/4-ImXV23zb8/) | 2026-07-05 | Long-form | 12,196 | 7:25 | - |
| [Why Adam Curtis is my favorite filmmaker.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/zwaDF01O8BE/) | 2026-07-05 | Short | 6,115 | 1:19 | - |
| [Why the machine dream was never real.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/i-FWKdY-cAQ/) | 2026-07-04 | Short | 4,609 | 0:57 | - |
| [A cheap fix for camera shake when filming macro.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/E2vHLcEefys/) | 2026-07-03 | Short | 13,084 | 0:50 | - |
| [How I search my video archive (it's not clever)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/iumEFXQ8ubg/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 7,187 | 2:35 | - |
| [The fix that stops camera shake while filming macro.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/T6_7P4RBFOc/) | 2026-07-02 | Short | 15,807 | 0:36 | 1.02x |
| [Where 'The Spirited Man' comes from](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/yLMzo38W2p0/) | 2026-07-01 | Short | 7,470 | 0:52 | - |
| [My dream is to make this channel Mr. Rogers for adults.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/SXVoqWPezMs/) | 2026-06-29 | Short | 14,645 | 0:31 | - |
| [Not if we can help it](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/drgGKG0xWAY/) | 2026-06-28 | Long-form | 9,366 | 2:59 | - |
| [Pod School: Our Son Tested Two Grades Ahead in One Year](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/iLhJpLDueAs/) | 2026-06-28 | Short | 21,103 | 0:31 | - |
| [DIY Raspberry Pi Footage Crawler](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/iG_se9NiEMA/) | 2026-06-27 | Short | 15,324 | 0:36 | - |
| [He tried to innovate his way around the world. I'm nothing like him.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/8zvpUYmUkuw/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 10,137 | 0:53 | - |
| [And AI-Induced Nervous Breakdowns](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/kOBVwQ-Uc4A/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 8,949 | 3:59 | - |
| [The Rise of Self-Organizing Systems: Beyond 90s Tech Dreams](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/6dLfmuifNEg/) | 2026-06-25 | Short | 29,213 | 0:55 | 1.29x |
| [Use AI to live more analog. That's the whole point.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/zNT4GK971dg/) | 2026-06-24 | Short | 22,220 | 1:03 | - |
| [The Deceptive World: Why Nothing Changes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/8T1_hWTJh7A/) | 2026-06-23 | Short | 5,661 | 0:43 | - |
| [Van Neistat: As this fake word grew, all of us went along with it.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/hg4dIx6OEIw/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 7,157 | 1:08 | - |
| [I'm well aware of everything wrong with AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/usQ_1AEg1wE/) | 2026-06-22 | Short | 22,353 | 0:52 | - |
| [He drank coffee through the storm that was drowning everyone else.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/IaA7mlzeOzk/) | 2026-06-21 | Short | 5,266 | 0:59 | - |
| [My friend gave his AI $1,000 and it built itself a body #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/zzofCDZijDs/) | 2026-06-20 | Short | 49,442 | 0:55 | 1.38x |
| [The machine dream was never real.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/dG5pEiGhB_c/) | 2026-06-18 | Long-form | 81,090 | 33:58 | 2.82x |
| [Details Within Details](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/MyDsU9b2se4/) | 2026-06-04 | Long-form | 25,033 | 2:23 | - |
| [How Every Digital Thing Should Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/rbqJNTByDkc/) | 2026-05-31 | Short | 102,276 | 1:30 | 1.79x |
| [A Build: Escaping Final Cut Pro](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/6KWsNSyUbcg/) | 2026-05-30 | Long-form | 27,061 | 4:24 | - |
| [Nuclear Sub Engineers Hacked Atari 2600](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/6zZ9QHGDVWI/) | 2026-05-29 | Short | 13,788 | 1:53 | - |
| [Apple Computers Still Suck](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/MOKNvJronIQ/) | 2026-05-28 | Short | 12,619 | 1:12 | - |
| [Customization Is Key To Organization](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/nxOYZALKPCw/) | 2026-05-27 | Short | 36,874 | 1:05 | 1.03x |
| [Held Hostage By Apple For 26 Years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/CuKBWfJ07LY/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 21,886 | 4:35 | - |
| [Making My Stuff Mine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/9in8AIHH8dA/) | 2026-05-20 | Long-form | 22,023 | 1:31 | - |
| [Using AI to Live More Analog & F-YOU, Apple](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/zrbgbyJWih8/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 80,685 | 31:33 | 1.72x |
| [Apple's Worst Product](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/9FFzBfJy-Qk/) | 2026-05-11 | Long-form | 34,861 | 2:21 | - |
| [Giving AI Another Chance](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/FBZvG506-ZA/) | 2026-05-07 | Long-form | 27,805 | 2:41 | - |
| [My 5 Favorite Computers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/e9F01466fFE/) | 2026-05-03 | Long-form | 35,770 | 7:45 | - |
| [Small, Fast, Perfect](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/7CS-RTneCgU/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 23,497 | 2:09 | - |
| [Trailer: The Spirited Man Long-Form Episode 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/cJ4VIEqqguQ/) | 2026-04-16 | Long-form | 33,120 | 1:50 | - |
| [NEW YORK IS UNDERWATER](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/tQ24O46vaVo/) | 2026-02-22 | Long-form | 65,252 | 8:54 | - |
| [Cowards don't fail.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/IicTWaameAU/) | 2026-01-30 | Long-form | 62,665 | 11:13 | - |
| [You are NOT an artist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/6EMAOqRd4OA/) | 2026-01-19 | Long-form | 107,661 | 12:01 | 0.96x |
| [I Was DONE With L.A.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/8kPkMk5vA7s/) | 2025-12-16 | Long-form | 117,896 | 9:17 | 1.01x |
| [Van Neistat fixes YOUR stuff now.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/476uQn0xbeQ/) | 2025-11-17 | Long-form | 39,396 | 7:03 | - |
| [Inside Van Neistat's New Handmade LA Studio](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/ATcOOBNXTDY/) | 2025-09-08 | Long-form | 144,820 | 8:10 | 1.24x |
| [A Few Fixes & Builds](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vanneistat/videos/E067JiLwMcE/) | 2025-09-02 | Short | 124,233 | 1:06 | 3.94x |

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