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Question · Shorts
Do Shorts get more views than regular YouTube videos?
For channels under 100K subscribers, about two and a half times as many. Above a million, no difference.
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Category growth
Which categories grow their views fastest: the median monthly view growth of channels in each category.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 4 Nov 2026 · 15 categories
Category growth
4 Nov 2026- Education+1.3% a month
- Music+1.3% a month
- Sports+1.3% a month
What this report answers
- Which YouTube categories are growing fastest?
- Is my category growing faster than average?
The full report covers 15 categories, rebuilt every week, most recently from data as of 4 Nov 2026.
How this was made
Channels we track with 10,000 or more subscribers that pass the sanity checks of the rankings (the ranked set). It is not all of YouTube. Growth is a channel's view-count growth between two of our readings at least 30 days apart in the last 90 days, scaled to 30 days (the Momentum input of the Viewershift Score). Each figure is the median over the channels with such a pair of readings.
- Categories with fewer than 1,000 measured channels are left out.
- Growth of views already on the channel is not growth of new uploads: a large back catalogue grows slowly in percent.
Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.
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