This week on the channel +498K views this week

Reactor engineering and Pompeii keep SmarterEveryDay's curiosity traveling

Destin Sandlin's catch-up shelf pairs nuclear-power access with an Italian tour guided by Ciro.

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INSIDE a Nuclear Reactor Core - Smarter Every Day 317

Destin Sandlin added no new SmarterEveryDay upload, leaving a catch-up week that stretches from nuclear engineering to Roman archaeology. Across the catalog, videos brought in about half a million views, while the subscriber count stayed unchanged.

"INSIDE a Nuclear Reactor Core - Smarter Every Day 317" remains the channel's most active video, approaching two million views. Its nuclear-power focus has company: "Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311," posted nearly a year ago, is the next strongest daily draw. For anyone returning to Sandlin's engineering investigations, these are two distinct ways into the same substantial subject.

Then comes a change of scenery. "Pompeii Changed How I Think About The Roman Empire - Smarter Every Day 310" remains among the busiest older uploads. Sandlin credits guide Ciro and his father Gaetano for allowing him to film, and makes a point of saying the family paid full price for the tour. He also stresses that the video shows only a fraction of what Pompeii holds.

Daily viewing is below half the channel's usual pace. In the neighboring science group, Veritasium and Cleo Abram had much larger viewing weeks. SmarterEveryDay's smaller week belongs to existing work, with reactor access and a patient archaeological guide giving that catalog very different kinds of discovery.

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The videos drawing views on SmarterEveryDay right now

Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 3117,410,721 views

Pompeii Changed How I Think About The Roman Empire - Smarter Every Da…2,070,030 views

The facts

Channel: SmarterEveryDay
Subscribers: 11,900,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 498,040
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how SmarterEveryDay's viewing and subscriber count moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

24,612,166

22,380,206

7,905,430

6,930,389

3,382,976

2,629,569

883,740

660,109

498,040

subscribers

11,900,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,284,925,872

views per day

89,036

typical day: 217,419

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

21,400,000

15,000,000

11,900,000

11,000,000

10,800,000

8,890,000

8,870,000

8,420,000

5,990,000

As of October 15, 2026 · 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.

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