Top 50 Educational YouTube Channels in 2026
The 50 largest educational youtube channels by subscribers, out of 13,228 channels we classify as education in our index.Each row shows the channel's size and the brands we have detected sponsoring its videos. Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes leads with 203M subscribers.
Updated Sep 27. Subscriber counts from YouTube; sponsors detected by SponsorRadar.
Headspace
Mattel
Hasbro
Ela Excellence Resort Belek
Mattel
L.o.l. Surprise!
Msc CruisesEducation sponsorship deals per month
Sponsored videos detected per month across every channel in this list's scope. Recent months keep filling in as detection catches up.
The 50 biggest Educational YouTube Channels
Ranked by current subscriber count. Top sponsors are the three brands with the most detected deals on that channel, all time.
Brands that sponsor educational youtube channels
The most active sponsors across education channels in the last 12 months, by detected deals.
| Brand | Category | Deals | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|
 Unacademy | Education | 4,520 | 73 |
 Streamyard | News & Politics | 2,628 | 225 |
 Squarespace | Lifestyle & Vlog | 1,966 | 82 |
 History Hit | Education | 1,296 | 8 |
 BetterHelp | Entertainment | 1,287 | 171 |
 Skillshare | Education | 1,194 | 249 |
 Hostinger | Education | 1,029 | 114 |
 Amazon | Entertainment | 867 | 99 |
 Ground News | Education | 763 | 139 |
 Udemy | Education | 691 | 30 |
 Incogni | Education | 654 | 186 |
 Aura | Entertainment | 612 | 108 |
 Lotus Chess | Education | 538 | 2 |
 Brilliant.org | Education | 532 | 114 |
 Whatnot | Entertainment | 528 | 14 |
 Testbook | Education | 516 | 25 |
 Nebula | Education | 516 | 55 |
 Physicswallah | Education | 467 | 27 |
 Jase Medical | Education | 438 | 7 |
 Audible | Entertainment | 391 | 39 |
How this list is built
The scope is channels we classify as education. We order them by subscriber count as reported by YouTube, refreshed nightly, and show the top 50. A sponsor is a brand we detected in that channel's videos through sponsor segments, description disclosures and promo links; the count is unique brands, all time. Channels we have not indexed are not ranked, so a missing channel means missing coverage, not a judgement. Read the full methodology.
Questions people ask
- Who is the biggest educational youtube channel in 2026?
- Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes tops this list with 203M subscribers, and its most frequent sponsors are Headspace.
- How is this ranking built?
- We rank the channels we classify as education in our index by current subscriber count, then attach the sponsors we have detected in each channel's videos. 13,228 channels qualify; the top 50 are shown. Subscriber counts come from YouTube and refresh nightly.
- Which brands sponsor educational youtube channels?
- Across the last 12 months the most active are Unacademy, Streamyard, Squarespace, History Hit, BetterHelp. The full table above lists 20 brands with deal counts.
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