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Khan Academy YouTube channel is the original YouTube-distribution channel for Khan Academy educational content (the foundational K-12-and-undergraduate education non-profit covered separately under mooc-khan-academy), founded in 2006 when Salman Khan began posting tutorial videos to help his cousins with mathematics homework. The channel has grown to ~9+ million subscribers as of 2024 with the substantial archived content of approximately 8,000+ educational videos covering K-12-and-undergraduate mathematics, science, history, economics, plus broader K-12-and-undergraduate subject coverage.\n\nThe pedagogical approach has retained the foundational Salman Khan-narrated whiteboard-style instructional video aesthetic that originally established the Khan Academy brand and substantially influenced the broader educational-video YouTube medium globally. While the substantial post-2010 Khan Academy expansion has progressively moved core delivery to the khanacademy.org platform with integrated practice-exercises infrastructure, the YouTube channel continues to operate as a substantial discovery-and-content-distribution channel with substantial mathematics, science, finance, economics, and broader subject content. The Khan Academy India expansion (the substantial Hindi-and-Indian-curriculum localisation initiative supported by Tata Trusts since 2018) operates substantially through dedicated Indian-language YouTube-channels plus the integrated khanacademy.org platform.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional, the Khan Academy YouTube channel provides foundational free K-12-and-undergraduate-fundamentals video content. Indian-learner engagement is substantial particularly among Indian K-12 students plus the substantial Indian undergraduate STEM-fundamentals reinforcement audience. The platform operates with substantial post-2008 philanthropic-funding support including substantial Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Reed Hastings of Netflix, plus the broader Khan Academy donor network. Cross-references: ytedu-khan-academy-yt is the YouTube-distribution complement to mooc-khan-academy which covers the broader Khan Academy non-profit organisation and integrated platform.