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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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Channels by category
Which YouTube categories hold the most channels with 10,000+ subscribers, and the most lifetime views.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 10 Nov 2026 · 16 categories
Channels by category
10 Nov 2026- People & Blogs1,083,402 · 33%
- Entertainment485,285 · 15%
- Music441,528 · 13%
- Education289,319 · 8.7%
- Gaming284,136 · 8.6%
- Howto & Style147,950 · 4.5%
- Film & Animation113,216 · 3.4%
- Sports81,550 · 2.5%
- News & Politics81,131 · 2.5%
- Science & Technology79,343 · 2.4%
- Autos & Vehicles61,032 · 1.8%
- Comedy57,623 · 1.7%
- Travel & Events52,029 · 1.6%
- Pets & Animals31,467 · 1.0%
- Nonprofits & Activism19,570 · 0.6%
- Trailers12 · 0.00%
What this report answers
- Which YouTube category has the most channels?
- Which categories hold the most views per channel?
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. A channel's category is the YouTube category most of its videos are filed under. Views are the channel's lifetime view count as YouTube reports it.
- Shares are of channels with a known category; channels without one are counted separately, not as a category.
- A channel counts once, under its main category, even when it publishes in several.
Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.
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Platform at a glance
How much of YouTube we track: channels, videos, view-count readings, caption and audio tracks.
- channels tracked
- 256.2M
- channels with 10K+ subscribers
- 4.5M
- video records
- 8.5B
- view-count readings
- 7.2B
7 figures · data as of 10 Nov 2026
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Channel size distribution
How many channels sit in each subscriber band, and how many of them still upload.
- 10K–100K subscribers3,698,718 channels
- 100K–1M709,393 channels
- 1M–10M77,255 channels
- 10M+3,116 channels
4 size bands · data as of 10 Nov 2026
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Channels by country
Where YouTube channels with 10,000+ subscribers say they are based, ranked by channel count.
- India797,251 · 25%
- United States549,654 · 17%
- Brazil185,206 · 5.7%
242 countries · data as of 10 Nov 2026
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By the numbers · Video length
2.6 times as many YouTube videos end just after 8 minutes as just before
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