How many Subscribers defines a BIG Youtuber?

[Yorkshire Gamer]

I've always seen it as smaller YouTubers are under 10K, 10K - 100K medium 100K - 500K medium big and 500K BIG

Fair analysis, but when you consider the 100th most subscribed channel from the UK alone has 1.6m subscribers, there needs to be a few categories above that!

 

[EmilyJM]

Fair analysis, but when you consider the 100th most subscribed channel from the UK alone has 1.6m subscribers, there needs to be a few categories above that!

I usually add another one but I couldn't be bother to think of a word bigger than big so :')

 

[Yorkshire Gamer]

I usually add another one but I couldn't be bother to think of a word bigger than big so :')

MaHOOOOOsive!

 

[EmilyJM]

MaHOOOOOsive!

nailed it

 

[nad]

Why is the size of a YouTube Channel for you guys determined by the amount of subscribers and not the amount of views?
My channel has 5400 subscribers and 1.150.000 views.
Would you say a channel with 10.000 subscribers and 300.000 views is bigger than mine?

 

[MissFushi]

I'd say 100k. If you think about it, that's a huge accomplishment.[DOUBLEPOST=1451423030,1451422967][/DOUBLEPOST]

Why is the size of a YouTube Channel for you guys determined by the amount of subscribers and not the amount of views?
My channel has 5400 subscribers and 1.150.000 views.
Would you say a channel with 10.000 subscribers and 300.000 views is bigger than mine?

Views mean someone clicked a video. They didn't stay. Subs matters more in my personal opinion (AS LONG AS THEY'RE ACTIVE SUBS). I'd rather have 1000 subs than 5000 views.

 

[TheSwedishTraveler]

Everything over 10k subs are big. but then again, to me the views matter more!

 

[Wreckless Eating]

I'd just go by those play buttons that YouTube gives out. Top tier is 10 million subs, so that's a fair estimate of what constitutes a big channel. When they announced the new tier level at Vidcon, 42 channels were already eligible to receive it. There's 54 channels currently over 10M.

 

[LeGenDaryPuLse]

100,000 for me will mean you are big

 

[Switchbox]

I think channels that have 100,000 or more subscribers are big