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.