How many YouTube channels are there?

[Maarij Bashir]

Just out of curiousty. I can't seem to find a good estimated number.

 

[Uncle Eggnog]

MILLIONS

 

[DuncanT]

A lot.

 

[Orion Blue]

"YouTube has over a billion users — almost one-third of all people on the Internet — and every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views." As for active channels who knows, but they also claim "300 hours of video gets uploaded every minute" so there's that.

 

[Henry Gallimore]

Here's my unhelpful response:


An ABSOLUTE MAMMOTH amount, just thinking about the amount of video content that is uploaded every minute would make you dizzy.


Barely helpful response:

If you've already googled it then you probably know, but there is over 2000 channels with over 1mil subscriber.


Untrustworthy source response:

Wired.com seem to think its about 505,347,842. Maybe I'm miss-quoting.

 

[GucciCarry]

Lmao tooooo many to count and a lot of them are horrible which is why its so hard to get out there.

 

[Orion Blue]

Lmao tooooo many to count and a lot of them are horrible which is why its so hard to get out there.

And why so many people shrug off new youtubers. Though to be fair, all of our channels were terrible at one point or another.

 

[Henry Gallimore]

And why so many people shrug off new youtubers. Though to be fair, all of our channels were terrible at one point or another.

My channel still is terrible.

 

[Gaijillionaire]

According to social blade there's about 2 million channels with subscribers over 500. Some may be inactive or semi active, some might also be extensions of proper tv channels, etc. so maybe just say there's about 2 million out there with any kind of impact at all

 

[iMSaiyan]

These numbers are scaring me ;D - strive on!