United Kingdom
Ed is a Romania-born, UK-based self-taught full-stack engineer and designer who has built a substantial YouTube following around accessible coding and web development education.
Total Followers -0.2%
951K
Across YouTube, Instagram
Primary Platform
YouTube
935K followers · 98% of audience
Engagement
4.4%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $412–$1.2K / IG post
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | -1028 -0.1% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | -1028 |
| Last 30 days | -1963 -0.2% | -74 -0.4% | +0 +0.0% | -2037 |
| Last 90 days | -2992 -0.3% | -312 -1.9% | +0 +0.0% | -3304 |
| Last 365 days | -2992 -0.3% | -312 -1.9% | +0 +0.0% | -3304 |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | May 2026 | — |
| Brilliant Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Mar 2026 | — |
| Notion Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Dec 2025 | — |
| Supabase Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Oct 2025 | — |
| CodeCrafters Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2025 | — |
Ed is a Romania-born, UK-based self-taught full-stack engineer and designer who has built a substantial YouTube following around accessible coding and web development education. Launching his channel in 2018, he developed a signature style that blends technical instruction with a deliberately approachable, personality-driven tone — his channel greeting, "Hello my gorgeous friends on the internet," has become something of a trademark. His content spans web development fundamentals, UI/UX design, JavaScript frameworks like React, CSS techniques, and increasingly, practical commentary on AI tooling and the shifting landscape of developer education. Short-form explainers ("CSS Box Model In 60 Seconds") sit alongside longer opinion pieces questioning whether traditional coding tutorials still have a place — a reflective posture that resonates with an audience that has moved past beginner status.
His audience skews heavily male and concentrates in the 18–34 age bracket, with the United States and United Kingdom together accounting for the majority of viewership — a profile that makes him particularly attractive to developer-tools and productivity brands targeting English-speaking professionals. His sponsor roster reflects this positioning cleanly: Hostinger and Supabase serve practicing developers, CodeCrafters appeals to those leveling up their engineering skills, and Brilliant and Notion round out the productivity and learning-platform tier. With an engagement rate well above the category median, his audience is notably active relative to his follower count. As AI reshapes how developers learn and work, Ed's willingness to engage critically with that shift — rather than simply riding the trend — positions him as a durable voice in the developer-education niche rather than a purely tutorial-driven channel.
Developedbyed reaches an audience concentrated in United Kingdom primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories. As an education creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include Hostinger and Brilliant. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.4%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Developedbyed's tier (Mid, 951K combined followers, United Kingdom). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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The channel name is a literal play on his first name — his name is Ed, and the brand reads as 'Developed By Ed.' He's a self-taught full stack engineer and designer who built the channel identity around that name. He hasn't publicly shared his surname but goes by Ed consistently across all platforms.
Yes — Ed describes himself explicitly in his YouTube bio as a self-taught full stack engineer and designer, and that background is central to his entire teaching approach. The idea that someone without a formal computer science degree can learn and then teach these skills is baked into his content's tone. He has been publishing tutorials since 2018.
Ed is originally from Romania but is now based in the United Kingdom, which is where the channel is registered. He references his Romanian roots in his YouTube bio as part of his self-taught story. His audience skews heavily toward the US and UK.
Yes — his Instagram bio lists 'Fox owner 🦊' as one of the few personal details he makes public. It's one of the more distinctive personal touches on what is otherwise a straightforwardly tech-focused profile. He also namedrops a partner, @mtrill, in the same bio.
Ed published a video titled 'coding tutorials are dead, and that's okay,' engaging with the argument that AI tools are fundamentally changing how developers learn and making traditional step-by-step tutorials obsolete. His framing is optimistic rather than alarmist — the 'and that's okay' signals he sees it as an evolution. This fits a broader shift in his recent content toward AI comparisons and developer workflow topics alongside classic tutorials.
Yes, AI model comparisons have become part of his regular content mix, including a recent video asking whether a newer GPT release beats a Claude Opus version. This sits naturally within his niche of helping working and aspiring developers understand which tools are actually worth using. His hashtag activity also shows consistent use of the AI tag.
Ed has partnered with Hostinger, Brilliant, Notion, Supabase, and CodeCrafters for sponsored YouTube content. The list skews heavily toward developer tools and learning platforms that map directly onto his audience of web developers and coders, which makes the integrations feel native rather than off-brand.
His stated scope includes game development alongside web development, web design, and UI/UX. In practice, his most active hashtags point overwhelmingly toward JavaScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Python, and CSS fundamentals, so web-focused content clearly dominates the channel's actual output.
Ed has been teaching code on YouTube since 2018, giving him roughly eight years of tutorial content by mid-2026. Over that stretch he has built the channel to just under one million subscribers, placing him in the Mid-tier creator range with an engagement rate that runs well above the category average.
React and Tailwind CSS are among the most prominently featured topics on the channel, appearing at the top of his hashtag usage alongside JavaScript and general web development. Developers building modern front-end stacks with those tools are squarely within the audience he designs content for. His short-form explainers — like a 60-second CSS Box Model breakdown — show he also caters to learners who want quick, dense answers.
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