Most content creators are at least curious as to how many YouTube channels there are, and how many channels have certain subscriber milestones or play button awards.

So each year we make it a point to try to keep you up to date on interesting YouTube Statistics including how many YouTube Channels there are, and how many YouTube Channels have over 100,000, 1 Million, 10 Million, and 100 Million Subscribers.

Q: How Many YouTube Channels Are There?

There are more than 115 Million YouTube Channels as of August 2025 and over 2.7 Billion Users World Wide across over 100 countries.

Source: GMI Research Statistics

**Currently Social Blade only tracks roughly 60M channels globally but this excludes some countries and smaller channels that don't submit themselves manually, so the numbers Social Blade has is always lower, but its the number the YouTube community largely references or accepts.

There are roughly 115 Million YouTube Channels in the entire world with roughly 60M Channels Actively Uploading to YouTube every month.

Far less than 1% of all YouTube Channels have a silver or gold play button, even if you wanted to try to narrow it down to only active channels.

Less than 100,000 channels in the United States have a Silver Play Button and over 100,000 Subscribers and only roughly 13,000 YouTube Channels in the United States have a Gold Play Button and over 1 Million Subscribers.

If you're curious about how many channels have 1 Million YouTube Subscribers we have that data here! We also covered how many YouTube Channels have 100,000 Subscribers in 2025!

90% of all YouTube channels have less than 1000 Subscribers, and 97% of Channels have less than 10,000 Subscribers on YouTube according to data from Social Blade and Pex.

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35 YouTube Statistics for 2025

These YouTube Statistics are for August 2025 and are the most recent data we have, we try to track this data roughly every quarter or so.

• YouTube Currently has 2.7 Billion Monthly Active Users World Wide in over 100 Countries in over 80 Languages
• India has the most YouTube users in the world with over 491 Million users according to Statista
• YouTube has paid over $100B to Creators in Revenue in the last 5 years.
• YouTube Shorts average over 200B views per day as of 2025
• YouTube Shorts has over 2.5 Billion monthly active users
• YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have over 100M paying subscribers world wide
• YouTube Music Has Over 80M Users Worldwide
• YouTube Music Has Over 100M Songs Live Worldwide
• Over 3 Million Creators are Currently in the YouTube Partner Program
• 63% of YouTube Watch Time comes from Mobile Devices
• YouTube accounts for 25% of all mobile web traffic worldwide
• Only 16% of all YouTube Traffic comes from the U.S.
• The average daily time spent on YouTube is roughly 19 minutes
• The average user spends 29 Hours per month on YouTube mobile
• There are over 1 Billion YouTube Shorts videos on the platform
• On average 25 Million new YouTube shorts are uploaded every month
• The average YouTube Short duration tends to be 33 seconds
• There are currently 500 Hours of Video Uploaded to YouTube every minute
• There are currently over 5 Billion YouTube Videos on YouTube with 1Billion Being YouTube Shorts
• The most popular languages on YouTube are English, Spanish and Hindi
• YouTube gets 1 Billion Hours of Watch on TVs globally per day in 2025
• YouTube is the 6th Largest Digital Ad Platform in the World
• Over 60% of All YouTube Views Come From People Aged 18-34
• 105,960 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have YouTube Play Button Awards and at least 100,000 subscribers or more
• 91,700 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 100,000 Subscribers or more
• 13,510 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 1 Million Subscribers or more
• 678 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 10 Million Subscribers or more
• 6 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 10 Million Subscribers or more
• India has the most YouTube Play Buttons (144,430), United States has the second most (105,960), Brazil has the 3rd most (33,835), followed by Indonesia in fourth with (26,647), and Japan in fifth place with (16,368).
• 618,955 YouTube Channels have 100,000 Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 69,182 YouTube Channels have 1 Million Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 2639 YouTube Channels have 10 Million Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 74 YouTube Channels have 50 Million Subscribers (or more) in 2025
• 14 YouTube Channels as of August 2025 Have 100 Million Subscribers or more, the Channels are: MrBeast, WWE, Vlad and Niki, Kids Diana Show, Like Nastya, The Stoke Twins, Pewdiepie, Cocomelon Nursery Rhymes, Sony SAB, TSeries, SET India, Zee Music Company, Goldmines and KIMPRO.

 

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