Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Cybersecurity YouTube outliers
5,620 Cybersecurity videos from 21 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 291 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
21
Videos scored
5,620
Reach 2x or more
29.3%
5x or more 11.3% · 10x or more 4.6%
Leaderboard pool
291
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Fear and curiosity split the Cybersecurity audience almost evenly, and channels tend to serve one side or the other. Practitioner content — tooling, home labs, certifications, career paths — draws a small technical audience and builds a modest but very stable baseline. Story content about breaches, scams and takedowns draws everybody. Most large multipliers on this list are the second kind landing on a channel built for the first, usually when an incident reaches mainstream news and a specialist explains it before the generalists arrive. Timing matters, though less than in pure news niches, because these stories are complicated enough that a clear explanation keeps earning long afterward. Read the top rows for how quickly each title makes the stake understandable to a non-specialist, then check whether the creator is teaching a skill or telling a story.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | InfoSec Pat | 322K | 1.3K | 252x | ||
| 2 | Hepta Security | 475K | 2.6K | 189x | ||
| 3 | Mr Ethical Hacker | 208K | 2.2K | 94x | ||
| 4 | Luke Gough | 89.4K | 1.2K | 73x | ||
| 5 | The Hacker Academy | 714K | 12K | 63x | ||
| 6 | HackersArsenal | 342K | 6.2K | 57x | ||
| 7 | David Bombal | 2.7M | 75K | 37x | ||
| 8 | John Hammond | 463K | 31K | 36x | ||
| 9 | NetworkChuck | 7.8M | 251K | 31x | ||
| 10 | Hacker Joe | 226K | 7.6K | 30x |
Showing the top 10 of 291 outliers in Cybersecurity (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Cybersecurity ranking is built
- Every Cybersecurity video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 5,620 videos from 21 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 291 Cybersecurity videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Cybersecurity channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 29.3% of scored Cybersecurity videos reach 2x or more, 11.3% reach 5x and 4.6% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
Why do breach stories outperform tutorials so consistently?
Because a story needs no prerequisites. A tutorial asks the viewer to already want the skill, while a breach has victims, a method and an ending that anyone can follow. Tutorials still do the quiet work of building the baseline against which a breach video is eventually measured.
Is certification and career content worth making if it never breaks out?
Yes, and this list understates it. That content arrives steadily from search, keeps a channel discoverable, and lifts the median instead of spiking above it. A channel whose baseline is built from career content can publish the occasional story video and watch it register as a genuine outlier.
How do I cover an incident responsibly and still earn the click?
Put the consequence in the title rather than the technique. The strongest rows here explain what happened to people and why it worked without handing anyone a recipe. That framing also travels further, because the audience that cares about consequences is much larger than the one that wants the exploit.
How many Cybersecurity videos are behind this leaderboard?
5,620 scored Cybersecurity videos from 21 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 291 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Cybersecurity leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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