# vlogbrothers: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-27, vlogbrothers has 4,090,000 subscribers, 1,107,261,353 total views, and 2,519 videos. It ranks #12,010 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [vlogbrothers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/). 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 vlogbrothers is “The Best Email I Ever Got”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are vlogbrothers’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 2, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 252,992. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die” (1,534,600 views, Sep 8, 2026). Least viewed: “Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!!” (25,060 views, Jul 8, 2026).
- Median length: 5:52 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, vlogbrothers’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Best Email I Ever Got](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/fsq6X8nn028/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 232,255 | 6:32 | 0.93x |
| [Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis \| 50 x 50 Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/OmQ6GXM5gro/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 197,057 | 8:34 | 0.68x |
| [Is Happiness the Goal?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/uthVy2pzSZs/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 266,866 | 5:09 | 0.89x |
| [My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/MgfZHaylL5A/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 342,056 | 7:26 | 1.13x |
| [The Productivity Lie](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/Fj-INVmmILo/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 1,003,512 | 12:44 | 4.18x |
| [The Test of a First Rate Intelligence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/ES1w6tlTAck/) | 2026-10-08 | Long-form | 182,249 | 4:50 | 0.77x |
| [The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/BYBB-7IkE4w/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 377,101 | 8:27 | 1.48x |
| [Make Your Art.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/TgUMME8J2Hg/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 650,082 | 4:54 | 2.54x |
| [Why Are We So Bad at Executing People?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/AvNZfUjYYOk/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 980,348 | 8:21 | 3.82x |
| [the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/PvaZohPUsyg/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 217,207 | 4:16 | 0.84x |
| [Are We Still YouTubers?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/V1qOdWx-8dw/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 199,689 | 8:02 | 0.75x |
| [The Point of Life](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/tG1OT3KU-k4/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 199,007 | 4:51 | 0.74x |
| [Pretend You Don't Know This](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/mHD5lXl7Qcs/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 267,918 | 4:57 | 0.93x |
| [Death. Taxes. Pizzamas.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/lQiCvQITEOQ/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 190,849 | 4:16 | 0.56x |
| [Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/20EtLeS4xdE/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 266,050 | 9:23 | 0.78x |
| [I Want You to Know Nothing About This](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/n7oEltFo6SU/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 253,113 | 4:54 | 0.74x |
| [John was Wrong about YouTube Views](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/a7QFfTCg3Pk/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 371,765 | 10:26 | 1.09x |
| [YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/GTlF8X8Du_4/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 691,430 | 5:39 | 2.37x |
| [Our Last YouTube View...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/iE6eNspvXFo/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 400,444 | 4:12 | 1.73x |
| [The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/6B209EM_IJM/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 1,534,600 | 6:06 | 8.8x |
| [This is a Terrible Idea….](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/4UMEvyGi7Dk/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 275,427 | 7:52 | 1.58x |
| [You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/R9nbuN8GT_Y/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 309,039 | 4:46 | 2.02x |
| [Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/gnlCug8vL_o/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 477,082 | 10:48 | 3.12x |
| [Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: "The Unicorn of Unicorns"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/cos8-xm210g/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 143,839 | 6:14 | 0.94x |
| [The Great Thing about Infectious Disease](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/swwakmR1jgw/) | 2026-08-25 | Long-form | 132,694 | 6:22 | 0.81x |
| [Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/xY4U2Z3LlaQ/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 187,090 | 10:38 | 1.15x |
| [My Nemeses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/kUczLjB_5gk/) | 2026-08-18 | Long-form | 142,478 | 4:53 | - |
| [Pain in the _____](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/UuZHzrW5VOg/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 161,603 | 6:52 | 0.99x |
| [Hollywood, Ending](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/VEqcbOot_-E/) | 2026-08-11 | Long-form | 133,587 | 7:42 | 0.89x |
| [Just Trying to Figure Out My Job](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/ssE1rmt3EpE/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 505,933 | 5:29 | 2.96x |
| [Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/NqV3y8eNkQQ/) | 2026-08-03 | Long-form | 106,891 | 4:32 | 0.63x |
| ["Are You John Green?"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/Odx8YoYb9UE/) | 2026-07-28 | Long-form | 166,290 | 4:36 | 0.97x |
| [One Must Imagine Sisyphus Important](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/3tTo02OIX50/) | 2026-07-25 | Long-form | 175,015 | 4:43 | 1.09x |
| [One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/--3Qi0Z0ASU/) | 2026-07-21 | Long-form | 312,841 | 5:08 | 1.79x |
| [The Terrors of Middle Age](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/YJtEq--lsNc/) | 2026-07-17 | Long-form | 135,220 | 4:15 | 0.96x |
| [On the Road Again](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/S86LGKOq7bw/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 82,422 | 4:14 | - |
| [How Status Destroys Us](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/83dCXA5LLnY/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 203,160 | 6:26 | 0.87x |
| [Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/OMhEGmHO0RE/) | 2026-07-08 | Long-form | 25,060 | 4:13 | - |
| [On the Death of the Author](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/BrMoSosin-4/) | 2026-07-07 | Long-form | 265,861 | 7:35 | 0.98x |
| [Why I Didn't Buy TED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/GulR9jLZeq0/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 658,450 | 8:19 | 2.49x |
| [No Video Today!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/OMw8u_nLSAM/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 93,105 | 3:03 | - |
| [A Very French Reunion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/6Hptrc1lYwI/) | 2026-06-23 | Long-form | 147,311 | 7:46 | 0.56x |
| [You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/1v2g3GLaJtE/) | 2026-06-19 | Long-form | 303,078 | 5:39 | 1.05x |
| [My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/ZrROAiquaro/) | 2026-06-16 | Long-form | 132,125 | 4:35 | - |
| [Wait...How Do You Pronounce Turkey???](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/WzohU9JYWOg/) | 2026-06-13 | Long-form | 275,432 | 6:25 | 1.02x |
| [Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/zbBndWexLWQ/) | 2026-06-09 | Long-form | 640,952 | 8:47 | 2.47x |
| [The Things We Don't Discuss](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/l4jB0E-EXew/) | 2026-06-05 | Long-form | 252,870 | 12:03 | 0.98x |
| [The Instagramification of Human Experience](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@vlogbrothers/videos/d264viC7ROE/) | 2026-06-02 | Long-form | 401,079 | 5:37 | 1.71x |

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