The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2024

In 2024, our YouTube audience spent nearly 16 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2023

In 2023, our YouTube audience spent nearly 18 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

TED-Ed launches in 5 new languages

TED-Ed is excited to announce that our award-winning animations will now be available in German,...

The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2022

In 2022, our YouTube audience spent nearly 24 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

10 Years of TED-Ed: The most popular videos from our first decade

This year, TED-Ed is celebrating a big milestone: our tenth birthday! When we published our first...

The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2021

In 2021, our YouTube audience spent over 36 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2020

In 2020, our YouTube audience spent nearly 32 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

The 10 most popular TED-Ed Animations of 2019

In 2019, our YouTube audience spent over 23 million hours watching TED-Ed Animations (that’s...

Pratt students animate Student Talks ideas!

For the past two years, TED-Ed and Pratt’s Department of Digital Arts have provided undergraduate...

Bringing history to life: A Q&A with animator and children’s book illustrator Els Decaluwe

In honor of our lesson on Anna Komnene —a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician and historian —...

The making of TED-Ed’s first 360° animation

Virtual reality is an emerging medium for artists and educators. Painting is an ancient art form;...

Animation basics: What is rotoscoping?

Rotoscoping is, in essence, a technique that goes back to the early days of cinema, when...

How to create stop-motion animation at home

Stop-motion animation is a visual storytelling form that conjures up the illusion of movement by...

8 favorite facts I learned from animating 16 TED-Ed Lessons

At TED-Ed, we have the joy of working with all different animators from across the globe, and we...

Animation basics: What is pixilation?

There’s a word for the stop-motion animation of humans: pixilation, a technique made famous...

How do you animate a solar energy lesson….with crochet? A behind-the-scenes interview with Richard O’Connor

Every once in a while, a TED-Ed Lesson is animated in a way that leaves the audience asking, ‘How...

Asha de Vos meets a puppet of herself

Blue whale researcher and TED Senior Fellow Asha de Vos unveiled her TED-Ed lesson today on the...

Why one animator decided to use iPhones and bologna to explain shape memory alloys

Here at TED-Ed, we have been incredibly fortunate to work with talented and innovative animators...