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Age by subscriber band
From Seven in ten YouTube channels above 10K subscribers are over five years old · Data as of 9 Oct 2026
Age by subscriber band
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<figure style="margin:0;max-width:1200px"> <a href="https://viewershift.com/insights/channel-age/charts/age-by-subscriber-band"><img src="https://viewershift.com/insights/channel-age/charts/age-by-subscriber-band/image.png" alt="Age by subscriber band" width="1200" height="634" style="width:100%;height:auto" loading="lazy"></a> <figcaption style="font-size:13px">Source: <a href="https://viewershift.com/insights/channel-age">Seven in ten YouTube channels above 10K subscribers are over five years old</a>, Viewershift</figcaption> </figure>
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Seven in ten YouTube channels above 10K subscribers are over five years old
We looked at how long the 4.4 million channels above 10,000 subscribers have existed. Older channels are more often quiet, and bigger channels skew older.