Getting to 100,000 YouTube Subscribers is the most significant milestone for most YouTubers after they get monetized at 1000 subscribers, and eventually get their first 10,000 subscribers and start to believe growth is possible.

Naturally most YouTube creators are curious about how many YouTube Channels have 100,000 Subscribers and Silver Play Button Awards, so we make sure every year we try to update that data for you, and these are the numbers for August 2025!

Q: How Many YouTube Channels Have 100,000 Subscribers in 2025?

618,955 YouTube Channels have over 100,000 Subscribers (or  more) in 2025.

That is less than 1% of all the YouTube Channels World Wide (115M YouTube Channels, over 60M monthly active channels uploading each month).

90% of all YouTube channels have less than 1000 Subscribers, and 97% of Channels have less than 10,000 Subscribers on YouTube.

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 are curious about how many YouTube Channels have 1 Million Subscribers, we've covered that here.

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Relevant YouTube Statistics for 2025

• 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, SETIndia, Zee Music Company, Goldmines and KIMPRO.

 

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