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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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Audience and market sizePublic
Channel size distribution
How many channels sit in each subscriber band, and how many of them still upload.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 10 Nov 2026 · 4 size bands
Channel size distribution
10 Nov 2026- 10K–100K subscribers3,698,718 channels
- 100K–1M709,393 channels
- 1M–10M77,255 channels
- 10M+3,116 channels
- Uploaded in the last 30 days
- Last upload 1–12 months ago
- No upload for over a year
- Last upload unknown
What this report answers
- How many YouTube channels have over a million subscribers?
- What share of channels have gone quiet?
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. Bands are by the subscriber count YouTube shows. Activity is the date of the channel's newest upload we have seen, counted back from the snapshot date.
- Channels below 10,000 subscribers are outside the ranked set, so the smallest band starts at 10K.
- A channel whose newest upload we have not seen is counted as unknown, not as quiet.
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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Channels by category
Which YouTube categories hold the most channels with 10,000+ subscribers, and the most lifetime views.
- People & Blogs1,083,402 · 33%
- Entertainment485,285 · 15%
- Music441,528 · 13%
16 categories · 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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What changes for YouTube creators in February 2027
From February 2027, earning from Shorts each month takes 10 million Shorts views every 90 days.
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