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High-street lookalikes give Lateral's guests something to puzzle over
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Lateral with Tom Scott
@lateralcast · The channel on YouTube
Website: lateralcast.com
In short
On YouTube, Lateral with Tom Scott has 155,000 subscribers and 33,865,946 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 199,205 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "India's traffic signal that backfired", with 88,996 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,938 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 69 of 75 in category "Podcasts and interviews".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
155,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
total views
33,865,946
▲ 199,205 in the last 7 days
▲ 1,070,030 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,070,030 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
12,532
on a typical day: 28,517
Videos on the channel
585
6 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
yesterday
November 10, 2026
Views per subscriber
218
a new long video usually gets 32,650 views
Next milestone
200,000 subscribers
45,000 subscribers to go
Apple Podcasts: The podcast
Lateral with Tom Scott · On the podcast charts by subject
YouTube: What happened lately
October 23, 2026 4.8x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 174,196 views a day, 4.8 times a normal day (36,380).
The video drawing the most views now
These quotations help you... 'literally'
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 14,808
- Video views, pace per day
- 22,082
- Views in its first 12 hours
- 14,808
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Podcasts and interviews | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,938 of 5,393 | 69 of 75 |
| By views gained this week | 4,149 of 5,274 | 64 of 74 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,907 of 5,043 | 60 of 69 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.0% on this channel, 0.1% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Podcasts and interviews
Views gained this week in the category Podcasts and interviews
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 155,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 155,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 32,803,458 views → November 11, 2026: 33,865,946 views · average: 36,637 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 These quotations help you... 'literally' | November 10, 2026 | 5:04 | 14,808 | 22,082 | 14,808 (12 hours) | 667 | 41 |
 How hares got your mail delivered | November 9, 2026 | 6:31 | 19,380 | 5,834 | 17,093 | 790 | 55 |
 Want money? Help yourself! | November 8, 2026 | 6:59 | 24,803 | 1,761 | 20,231 | 928 | 109 |
 A sneaky 'Fast & Furious' stand-in | November 7, 2026 | 7:21 | 24,589 | 1,040 | 18,367 | 879 | 55 |
 The $100,000 bike | November 6, 2026 | 6:18 | 24,293 | 544 | 18,504 | 877 | 60 |
 The utensil that can give you palpitations | November 5, 2026 | 7:33 | 29,600 | 773 | 19,331 | 1,024 | 129 |
 Quick, I need 13 sandwiches! | November 4, 2026 | 5:45 | 26,806 | 394 | 18,878 | 1,005 | 60 |
 A punch-up at the beach | October 24, 2026 | 6:54 | 32,743 | 90 | 19,378 | 1,036 | 70 |
 A life-saving piggy-back | October 22, 2026 | 8:32 | 32,644 | 127 | 20,124 | 1,150 | 104 |
 Sweden's lasting influence on Argentina | October 21, 2026 | 6:26 | 50,003 | 153 | 25,072 | 1,118 | 75 |
 India's traffic signal that backfired | October 20, 2026 | 8:07 | 88,996 | 130 | 33,505 | 1,817 | 170 |
 A weirdly popular medical exam | October 19, 2026 | 7:28 | 35,900 | 81 | 22,133 | 1,119 | 110 |
 The birds with aromatic butts | October 16, 2026 | 7:30 | 32,409 | 67 | 19,431 | 1,148 | 76 |
 A very unwanted saddle | October 15, 2026 | 5:03 | 27,575 | 47 | 17,724 | 1,007 | 90 |
 Japan's cutest dog story | October 14, 2026 | 9:23 | 32,650 | 100 | 20,385 | 1,304 | 131 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 31.9 in the category: 20.7
- comments per 1,000 views
- 2.7 in the category: 1.6
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 22,191 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 33,146
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 174,196 views a day, 4.8 times a normal day (36,380).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +209K views this week
High-street lookalikes give Lateral's guests something to puzzle over
Lizzy Skrzypiec joins Map Men's Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, while Answer in Progress supplies the week's other guest trio.