YouTube is home to 800 active chemistry channels

YouTube is home to 1,619 channels producing English-language content on chemistry. Around half of them have uploaded at least one video in the past 12 months, and roughly 600 have uploaded at least one in the past 3 months. That’s according to a new analysis —published before peer review on chemRxiv—conducted primarily by undergraduate students at the University of Strathclyde. According to the study, 84% of the content was produced by independent creators with no declared affiliations with any institution, corporation, or other body. The backgrounds of 57% of channel creators were not readily available, the study noted. The study found that 71% of the channels were dedicated to chemistry theory or exam review. Among the rest were popular-science channels such as Reactions , produced by the American Chemical Society, which also publishes C&EN. The study examined chemistry content uploaded between 2005 and 2023 and found that uploads spiked in