14%
By the numbers · Subtitles
Only about one in seven YouTube channels above 10K subscribers uploads its own subtitles
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Channels by language
Which spoken languages YouTube channels publish in, detected from their videos' automatic captions.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 10 Nov 2026 · 68 languages
Channels by language
10 Nov 2026- English548,653 · 31%
- Hindi249,620 · 14%
- Spanish141,750 · 7.9%
- Portuguese105,860 · 5.9%
- Arabic102,455 · 5.7%
- Indonesian80,757 · 4.5%
- Russian77,486 · 4.3%
- Japanese59,382 · 3.3%
- Korean51,354 · 2.9%
- French42,105 · 2.4%
What this report answers
- Which languages dominate YouTube?
- How many channels publish in my language?
The full report covers 68 languages, rebuilt every week, most recently from data as of 10 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. A channel's language is the spoken language most of its videos have, read from YouTube's automatic captions.
- More than half of ranked channels have no detected language yet (no automatic captions collected); shares are of channels with one.
- A channel counts once, under its main language, even when it publishes in several.
Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.
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