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Upload cadence
How often channels upload, by subscriber band and category: weekly, monthly, occasionally or not at all.
Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 7 Nov 2026 · 4 size bands
Upload cadence
7 Nov 2026- 10K–100K subscribersmedian 41 uploads a year
- Weekly or more
- Monthly
- Occasionally
- No upload in 12 months
Median uploads a year by category · 10K–100K subscribers
- News & Politics126 · 54% weekly
- Nonprofits & Activism69 · 44% weekly
- Sports69 · 42% weekly
- Gaming57 · 37% weekly
- Entertainment52 · 36% weekly
- Pets & Animals49 · 34% weekly
- Education48 · 36% weekly
- People & Blogs48 · 33% weekly
- Travel & Events45 · 37% weekly
- Autos & Vehicles43 · 34% weekly
- Comedy43 · 28% weekly
- Howto & Style39 · 29% weekly
- Science & Technology37 · 30% weekly
- Film & Animation32 · 24% weekly
- Music24 · 21% weekly
What this report answers
- How often do successful YouTube channels upload?
- How often do channels in my category post?
The full report covers 4 size bands, rebuilt every week, most recently from data as of 7 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. Cadence is the number of uploads we have on record in the 365 days before the snapshot: weekly or more is 52 or more, monthly 12 to 51, occasional 1 to 11. Shorts and past live streams count as uploads. The median is over channels with at least one upload that year.
- Counts are uploads we have on record; a channel whose newest videos we have not collected yet looks slower than it is.
- Categories with fewer than 100 channels in a size band are left out of that band.
Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.
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