Kurzgesagt

Kurzgesagt (/ˌkʊərtsɡəˈzɑːkt/) (German for "in a nutshell") is a German animation studio founded by Philipp Dettmer. The studio's YouTube channel focuses on minimalist animated educational content, using the flat design style.[4]

Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt's logo, a minimalist representation of Earth
MottoIn a Nutshell
Formation2013
FounderPhilipp Dettmer
TypePrivately held company
PurposeAnimation studio
Location
OwnerPhilipp Dettmer
Staff (2020)
37[2]
Websitekurzgesagt.org
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genre
  • Animation
  • Education
  • Science
  • Philosophy
Subscribers12.1 million[3]
Total views1 billion[3]
100,000 subscribers 2014
1,000,000 subscribers 2015
10,000,000 subscribers 2019
Updated March 16, 2020

It discusses scientific, technological, political, philosophical and psychological subjects. Narrated by Steve Taylor, videos on the channel are typically 4–16 minutes in length, with many of them available in German through the channel Dinge Erklärt – Kurzgesagt.

Aside from their German channel, they began creating videos for their Spanish channel En Pocas Palabras – Kurzgesagt near the end of 2019.[5]

While their English channel mostly finances itself with donations from their viewers and individual sponsorships, the German channel is financially supported by funk, the online presence of German public broadcasting, and the Spanish channel is sponsored by Wix.[6]

With over 12 million subscribers, the studio's channel was ranked as the world's 452nd (noxinfluencer.com) or 456th (socialblade.com) most subscribed in 2020.[7][8]

History
Patrizia Mosca, former Chief operating officer at Kurzgesagt, speaks at the Internet Days in Stockholm, 2018.

The Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created on July 9, 2013, shortly after the founder, Philipp Dettmer, graduated from Munich University of Applied Sciences.[9]

The first video, which explained evolution, was published two days later. The videos were more popular than expected, and in six years the channel went from a project worked on during Dettmer's free time to a design studio with over twenty-five employees.[10]

In 2015, Kurzgesagt was commissioned to do a video on the end of disease for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Thereafter, it worked with the foundation on a number of other commissions, including videos about motherhood mortality.[11]

In 2019, Kurzgesagt became the first German channel to surpass 10 million subscribers on YouTube.[12]

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kurzgesagt uploaded a video about how the human body reacts after contracting COVID-19.[13] The video had reached over 22 million views, making it the most viewed video on the channel.[14]

Name

The name derives from the German kurz-gesagt (IPA: [ˈkʊɐ̯ts gəˈzaːkt]),[15] which, when taken literally, translates to "shortly said".[16] The English equivalent of this phrase would translate to 'in a few words' or 'in a nutshell', the latter being used as an English subtitle for the channel's name.[17]

See also

References
  1. "About". Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  2. "About". Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  3. "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell". YouTube. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  4. "About". Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  5. "How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours". YouTube. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  6. "How to Make a Kurzgesagt Video in 1200 Hours". Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell YouTube Channel Analytics and Report". www.noxinfluencer.com. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  8. "kurzgesagt YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  9. "Kurzgesagt". t3n.de. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  10. "About". Kurzgesagt. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  11. "Kurzgesagt". facebook.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  12. Weil, Andrew (December 5, 2019). "YouTube's 2019 Rewind focuses on the basics after 2018 video fiasco". Wusa9. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  13. https://nerdist.com/article/how-coronavirus-covid-19-infects-people/
  14. https://www.cochranetoday.ca/local-news/video-explainer-on-the-coronavirus-has-more-than-175-million-views-2203874
  15. Kurzgesagt. "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?". Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via YouTube.
  16. "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  17. "In a Nutshell – Kurzgesagt – The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
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