The 17 Best YouTube Channels of All Time

Science explainers, stunt budgets, cooking shows and one channel aimed entirely at toddlers.

1
MrBeast
Escalating stunt videos that passed 500 million subscribers in June 2026.
2
PewDiePie
The Swedish gamer who held the subscriber crown for most of the 2010s.
3
T-Series
The Indian music label that is still the platform's most-viewed channel.
4
Kurzgesagt
Animated science explainers with a house visual style copied everywhere.
5
Veritasium
Physics and engineering videos built around a counterintuitive result.
6
Marques Brownlee
Gadget reviews shot to a standard most television cannot match.
7
Mark Rober
Engineering projects from a former NASA engineer, usually involving squirrels or glitter.
8
Vsauce
Long questions about reality answered slowly and sideways.
9
Dude Perfect
Trick shots and sports challenges from five friends in Texas.
10
Good Mythical Morning
Rhett and Link's daily talk show, running since 2012.
11
Linus Tech Tips
Computer hardware coverage with a warehouse and a dropped-product running joke.
12
Binging with Babish
Cooking dishes that only exist in films and television.
13
Tom Scott
One man explaining an oddity of geography, language or engineering per week.
14
3Blue1Brown
Animated mathematics that makes linear algebra look inevitable.
15
Casey Neistat
Daily vlogs that set the visual grammar most vloggers still use.
16
Cocomelon
Nursery rhymes for toddlers, and one of the platform's largest channels.
17
Smosh
Sketch comedy from 2005, one of the platform's first breakout acts.

Comments

MrBeast passed 500 million subscribers in June 2026, and Cocomelon is the reminder that nursery rhymes sit near the top of every subscriber table: https://youpick.best/articles/where-does-youtube-rank

ypb-team·Aug 21·