Dr. Becky✓

YouTube @drbecky Knowledge 📍 United Kingdom

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Subscribers

871K

🔥 Buzz rank

#3,545

Total Views

113.55M

Videos

562

Channel age

14 yrs

Est. monthly earnings

$3.3K – $6.4K

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🕵️Fake followersReal-audience % & bot risk→ 📊Engagement rateBenchmarked vs. peers→ 💰What they chargeFair sponsored-post price→

929.4K total audience across 2 platforms

YouTube · 871K TikTok · 58.4K

📊 Content format · share of recent views

⚡ 63%

▶️ 37%

⚡ Shorts 63% · ▶️ Long-form 37% — brands place & price integrations differently across the two.

How we estimate

~1.82M recent monthly views × an estimated ad RPM of $4.90–$9.45 per 1,000 views — adjusted for Knowledge content and a GB audience. About 63% of recent views are Shorts, valued separately at the much lower Shorts ad rate. Yearly ≈ $39.7K – $77.1K. Excludes sponsorships, memberships & merch. Full methodology →

Known for

1.19M views Is the Universe JERKING? #shorts

1.14M views The controversy of the Hubble Deep Field image #shorts

557.4K views The Universe might not be flat (and cosmologists are quietly freaking out)

253K views Why we shouldn't send humans to Mars #shorts

▶️ Featured Video

557.4K views

🎯 Reach quality

Subscriber activation · Strong

14.4%

Share of subscribers who watch a typical recent video (avg views ÷ subscribers) — the real reach behind the subscriber count, and a quick check on whether those subscribers are still active rather than a vanity number.

Recent vs all-time

-38%

Recent videos average 125.3K vs an all-time 202.1K/video — recent uploads run below the all-time norm — much of the lifetime views sit in an older catalogue.

📈 Performance

Typical video

32.5K–144.3K views

Median 66.5K — the reliable floor a brand can expect, not just the headline average.

Upload rhythm

3.4× / week

Most active on Fridays — consistent output keeps an engaged, sponsor-ready audience.

125.3K

Avg views / video

6.7K

Avg likes

448

Avg comments

5.71%

Engagement rate

3.4

Uploads / week

202.1K

Lifetime avg / video

130

Views / subscriber

63%

Shorts (recent views)

21m 53s

Typical video length

Engagement rate = (likes + comments) ÷ views across recent videos.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined YouTube in 2011 — 14 years ago.

🏆Ranked #3,380 among all influencers on SocialDB.

🎯Top Knowledge influencer — #164 in the niche.

👁️Averages 125.3K views per video.

📤Posts about 3.4× per week.

💬5.71% engagement rate.

🚀Gained 2K subscribers in the last 7 days.

📱63% of recent uploads are Shorts.

👥 Audience demographics

Estimated

Modeled from this creator's niche, platform & region — a planning estimate, not connected analytics.

Gender split

Male 49% Female 51%

Age · peak 25-34

13-1710%

18-2429%

25-3433%

35-4418%

45+10%

Top geographies

United Kingdom44%
United States18%
Ireland5%
Australia5%
Canada4%

Likely interests

EntertainmentLifestyleTrending

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

98/100

Excellent Credibility score

98%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 98% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.1× of subscribers watch each video) is around typical for YouTube.
Verified account.
Established account (14+ years old).
5.71% engagement — above the ~3.6% typical for a YouTube account this size.
Growing — gained 7K followers in the last 30 days.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

Estimated

Brands Dr. Becky's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

Keeps

Nebula

Coinbase

Shopify

Robinhood

Brilliant

Fiverr

Incogni

Surfshark

Audible

About

I'm Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars. I have also written a few books. My latest, "A Brief History of Black Holes", is available in hardback, e-book and audio (which I narrated myself!)