# The 17 Best YouTube Channels of All Time

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

*By YPB Team · Published August 6, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-17-best-youtube-channels-of-all-time*

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## Current results (0 votes)

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.

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