Aggregate figures across the 18,596 channels and 18.4M videos TubeStats tracks, not all of YouTube.
Counted exactly. Channel totals — how many channels we track, their combined subscribers and views, and the 18.4M videos in the database — are exact counts, recomputed nightly. They grow as we add channels, so the figure you see is always the current tracked set of 18,596 channels.
Estimated from a sample. Shape-of-the-data figures — view, like and duration distributions — come from a random sample of 50,000 videos drawn each night, rather than from scanning all 18.4M rows. A sample that size pins a percentage to within a few tenths of a point, because precision follows the number of videos sampled, not what fraction of the table they are. Where a figure is scaled up from the sample to stand for the whole table (about 368×), it is marked with a leading ≈. Anything without that mark was counted, not estimated.
Averages, not fixed totals. Because the tracked set grows, per-channel averages (average views per channel, average channel age, median earnings) are the stable figures — a total that jumps the day we add a thousand channels is describing our coverage, not YouTube. Where a total is shown, read it as “across everything we track”.
Coverage. TubeStats tracks 18,596 channels, weighted heavily towards large ones. These figures describe that set, not all of YouTube, and the true YouTube-wide numbers are larger by an unknown factor — we don't publish a guess at it.
Channels tracked
18,596
Videos tracked
18.4M
videos we hold data for
Combined subscribers
67.9B
Combined views
41.4T
Average channel age
8y
3,222 days
Uploads (24h)
23.9K
204.9K in 7d · 903.7K in 30d
Shorts share
29.2%
5.4M of 18.4M videos
Long-form share
70.8%
13.0M videos
Share of views
Shorts are 29.2% of uploads but 41.1% of views.
of views
of views
3,222 days
Per day
21.7K
average over the last year
Per week
152.1K
204.9K in the last 7 days
Per month
651.9K
903.7K in the last 30 days
Per year
7.9M
videos published in the last 365 days
How many videos were published each day across everything we track.
Day
How many videos fall into each view range. Ranges get wider as you move right.
Views a video has
How big the channels behind these videos are. Ranges get wider as you move right.
Subscribers the channel has
How many videos fall into each like range. Ranges get wider as you move right.
Likes a video has
How many videos fall into each comment range. Ranges get wider as you move right.
Comments a video has
How long videos run, in seconds. Ranges get wider as you move right.
Length of a video (seconds)
When the videos we track were published.
Year published
Filter a random sample of … videos; medians update as you type.
The main topic of every channel we track.
Number of channels, by category
+10 more in the table
The country each channel we track is registered in.
Number of channels, by country
+10 more in the table
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