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.
YouTube channel
Lateral with Tom Scott
@lateralcast · The channel on YouTube
Website: lateralcast.com
In short
Lateral with Tom Scott has 155,000 subscribers and 33,433,954 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 460,320 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Who points at a green carpet?", with 106,071 views. By subscribers it is No. 4,917 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 67 of 75 in category "Podcasts and interviews".
The numbers today
subscribers
155,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
33,433,954
▲ 460,320 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
59,294
on a typical day: 51,075
Videos on the channel
577
4 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
October 22, 2026
Views per subscriber
215
a new long video usually gets 33,510 views
Next milestone
200,000 subscribers
45,000 subscribers to go
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
India's traffic signal that backfired
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 72,162
- Video views, pace per day
- 8,863
- Views on its first day
- 33,505
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Podcasts and interviews | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,917 of 5,387 | 67 of 75 |
| By views gained this week | 3,570 of 5,295 | 60 of 75 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.0% on this channel, 0.2% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Podcasts and interviews
Views gained this week in the category Podcasts and interviews
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 154,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 155,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 32,360,047 views → October 24, 2026: 33,433,954 views · average: 38,353 views a day
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 A life-saving piggy-back | October 22, 2026 | 8:32 | 22,999 | 7,235 | 20,124 | 910 | 93 |
 Sweden's lasting influence on Argentina | October 21, 2026 | 6:26 | 34,755 | 4,499 | 25,072 | 925 | 62 |
 India's traffic signal that backfired | October 20, 2026 | 8:07 | 72,162 | 8,863 | 33,505 | 1,551 | 143 |
 A weirdly popular medical exam | October 19, 2026 | 7:28 | 31,021 | 1,019 | 22,133 | 1,012 | 104 |
 The birds with aromatic butts | October 16, 2026 | 7:30 | 29,954 | 395 | 19,431 | 1,084 | 73 |
 A very unwanted saddle | October 15, 2026 | 5:03 | 25,972 | 243 | 17,724 | 970 | 90 |
 Japan's cutest dog story | October 14, 2026 | 9:23 | 30,546 | 250 | 20,385 | 1,237 | 127 |
 The war of the Soups and Sparks | October 9, 2026 | 6:15 | 30,209 | 124 | 18,318 | 1,007 | 51 |
 The Internet's run by... humming!? | October 8, 2026 | 7:20 | 31,925 | 134 | 21,069 | 1,136 | 116 |
| The lookalikes on your high street | October 6, 2026 | 8:39 | 39,815 | 180 | 23,988 | 1,327 | 113 |
 Beware: 250kg of polystyrene! | October 2, 2026 | 6:56 | 42,902 | 93 | 24,650 | 1,200 | 123 |
 Who points at a green carpet? | September 28, 2026 | 6:50 | 106,071 | 112 | 25,559 | 1,885 | 143 |
 The effects of Krakatoa are on your phone | September 23, 2026 | 6:29 | 36,734 | 82 | - | 1,191 | 96 |
 Use just one toothbrush? Try two! | September 20, 2026 | 6:42 | 33,510 | 44 | - | 970 | 110 |
 This car ad made other cars look good | September 19, 2026 | 6:44 | 36,591 | 59 | - | 1,116 | 102 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 29.0 in the category: 20.4
- comments per 1,000 views
- 2.6 in the category: 1.8
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 24,610 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 40,344
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.
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