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Channels with manual subtitles, by subscriber band

From Only about one in seven YouTube channels above 10K subscribers uploads its own subtitles · Data as of 10 Oct 2026

Channels with manual subtitles, by subscriber band

  • 10K to 100K subscribers11.7% of 3,259,671
  • 100K to 1M21.5% of 675,999
  • 1M to 10M35.7% of 75,840
  • 10M or more53.1% of 3,083
Share of channels with 12 or more uploads that have a creator-uploaded subtitle track in at least one language, in the 10 Oct 2026 snapshot. A full bar is 100%; the count after each percentage is the number of channels in that band.

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Only about one in seven YouTube channels above 10K subscribers uploads its own subtitles
We counted which YouTube channels above 10,000 subscribers offer creator-uploaded subtitles, in how many languages, and how that changes with channel size.

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