List of french-speaking science popularization channels

In 2018, I started compiling a list of French-speaking science popularization channels by aggregating various existing sources and then allowing anyone to add themselves. Today, it includes several thousand channels covering science, education, and more broadly culture, and it has notably been used to produce this scientific publication. There is a large unfiltered list and a smaller one that I maintain manually.

The list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r7R08GUZd-ebXl-GfnvVFrVU5u4sV-05oRZHAQd9Qg8/

Add a channel that is not listed: https://goo.gl/forms/ECEZeu6HDqu0Fc3V2

Data sources and aggregation

The initial data come from several sources:

• video creators from the Café des sciences association
• video creators shared by the Vidéothèque d’Alexandrie over the past 4 years
• video creators from Les Internettes in the categories Literature/Culture/Art/Science/History, Cinema/Culture/Law/Politics/Society/Science
• video creators from Médiapason (for music)

• videos from Yex.TV in the Science, Education, and Culture categories

These initial aggregations were then complemented by manual additions from various internet users.

Based on this “large” list, I manually built a smaller list, which is necessarily subjective since there is no official definition of what a “popularization” channel is, nor of a “scientific” channel. I generally excluded movie reviews, book reviews, video game reviews, tutorial channels, “learn a language” videos, “learn a musical instrument” videos, course videos, conference recordings, etc.

Warning: I did not sort these channels by quality (and there are many I have never watched). Watch with a critical mind.

Feel free to use this list as you wish, as long as you link back to this page.

A few quick graphs

Year of channel creation: has the golden age of popularization already passed?