Video length by category

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. Only channels with 12 or more videos on record are counted. Each channel's uploads are split into Shorts, past live streams and long-form videos by length; the shares shown are the average of those splits over the channels of a category, so every channel counts once however much it uploads. The typical length is the median, over the category's channels, of each channel's median long-form length.

• Shares cover every upload on record, from the channel's first: older channels uploaded before Shorts existed.
• Unknown is long-form uploads whose length we have not read, and channels with fewer than 12 timed videos.
• Categories with fewer than 1,000 channels are left out.

Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.