TEDtop videos and title patterns

7 TED videos that showed up in HookSignals topic searches, ranked by views. Use them to see which titles and thumbnails this channel wins with, then check your own before you publish. Last collected Oct 15, 2026.

TED at a glance · collected Oct 15, 2026

Videos measured
7
Subscribers
27.9M (Oct 15, 2026)
Median views
305.1K
Top video views
16.9M
Median title length
62 chars

Counts are public YouTube numbers stored when each video was collected, not live figures. Videos enter the dataset because they performed well in a topic search, so these are this channel's stronger uploads, not a full history.

Most viewed TED videos

  1. A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit | Judson Brewer | TED

    16,856,573 views · published Feb 24, 2016

  2. How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED

    9,933,707 views · published Feb 7, 2017

  3. 6 Tips on Being a Successful Entrepreneur | John Mullins | TED

    5,086,539 views · published Feb 9, 2024

  4. Is AI Turning Us All into the Same Person? | Sandra Matz | TED

    305,056 views · published Sep 28, 2026

  5. The Gravity-Defying Future of Manufacturing | Schendy Kernizan | TED

    206,235 views · published Oct 2, 2026

  6. Why You Should Embrace Unproductive Hobbies | TED Intersections

    141,636 views · published Sep 22, 2026

  7. The Four Steps to Hearing Hard Feedback Gracefully | Chris Wheatley | TED

    128,159 views · published Sep 13, 2026

Making a video on the same topic?

Put your title, thumbnail and first line next to videos that already won on your topic. You see where your packaging makes a weaker promise, before you upload.

Questions about TED

What is TED's most viewed video in this dataset?
"A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit | Judson Brewer | TED" with 16,856,573 views when it was collected on Oct 3, 2026.
How many views does a typical TED video get here?
The median across the 7 measured videos is 305,056 views. Videos enter the dataset because they were performing well in a topic search, so this is not the channel's overall average.
How long are TED's titles?
The median title is 62 characters. 1 of 7 titles contain a number and 1 ask a question.
Does TED make Shorts or long videos?
7 of the measured videos run longer than 3 minutes and 0 run 3 minutes or less.