Best YouTube Education Creators · All-Time
As of June 2026, the best youtube education creators are TED, RealLifeLore and CrashCourse, ranked by the BestCreators cross-platform score. The top 12 below are updated all-time using audience reach, engagement and 30-day growth.
- 1TEDEducationYouTube25MFollowers0.0%60Rising
- 2RealLifeLoreEducationYouTube8MFollowers0.0%53Rising
- 3CrashCourseEducationYouTube16MFollowers0.0%52Rising
- 4The Infographics ShowEducationYouTube14MFollowers0.0%51Rising
- 5CGP GreyEducationYouTube6MFollowers0.0%49Emerging
- 6Tom ScottEducationYouTube6MFollowers0.0%43Emerging
- 73Blue1BrownEducationYouTube6MFollowers0.0%42Emerging
- 8Wendover ProductionsEducationYouTube4.5MFollowers0.0%40Emerging
- 9Khan AcademyEducationYouTube8MFollowers0.0%36Emerging
- 10Ali AbdaalEducationYouTube5.5MFollowers0.0%27Emerging
- 11FireshipEducationYouTube3MFollowers0.0%12Emerging
- 12Thomas FrankEducationYouTube2.8MFollowers0.0%11Emerging
These 12 creators average 8.7M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 43. Rankings are recomputed continuously from public platform data; see our methodology.
Data & methodology
“Rankings are recomputed continuously from public-platform data using the BestCreators cross-platform score — a deterministic 0–100 percentile measure, not an estimate.”
The top 12 youtube education creators average 8.7M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 43; TED leads at #1.
Sourced from the YouTube Data API v3, captured June 2026. All figures are public-platform metrics shown with their capture date; the BestCreators Score is computed by a deterministic, versioned algorithm (v1) that percentile-normalizes audience, engagement and reach. See the full methodology.