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Uploaded in the last year, by channel age

From Seven in ten YouTube channels above 10K subscribers are over five years old · Data as of 9 Oct 2026

Uploaded in the last year, by channel age

  • Under 1 year100.0% of 114,152
  • 1 to 3 years89.8% of 543,972
  • 3 to 5 years76.7% of 648,409
  • 5 to 10 years63.8% of 1,674,516
  • Over 10 years58.4% of 1,354,788
Share of channels with a known last upload that uploaded in the 365 days before 9 Oct 2026. A channel younger than a year cannot have been silent for a year, so the first bar is close to 100% by construction.

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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.

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