Shannon Odell's attention-span lesson leads TED-Ed's two-upload week
Five days in, the Monday video is gathering views several times faster than Rachel Yang's magnet lesson, which has cooled since its first day.
TED-EdStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell
A video about fixing your attention span is the one holding everyone's attention. "4 ways to fix your attention span - Shannon Odell" went up on Monday and has already passed a million views. It is still adding them at a pace nothing else on the channel comes close to.
Two days later came "Why magnets stumped scientists for so long - Rachel Yang." It opened briskly and has since settled to about a third of that first-day speed. That is still a healthy clip, just a gentler one than its sibling's. Further back, the twelve-day-old "How to explain something complicated" keeps a quieter but steady trickle going.
Among the explainers, history and education channels, TED-Ed sits second of nine by subscribers, just behind its parent channel, TED. Two lessons this week, and the one about focus is the one people could not look away from.
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The videos drawing views on TED-Ed right now
- Channel
- TED-Ed
- Subscribers
- 22,900,000
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- September 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,266,188
The numbers
Here are the week's figures for TED-Ed and its latest lessons.
