Chart of the Day: The top 25 YouTube channels according to their number of channel subscribers
With almost one-third of the entire internet using YouTube and the platform predicted to grow a further 6.6% in 2019 compared to this year, its no surprise that some accounts that opened at the height of the platform reaching mainstream popularity, have experienced exponential growth, with the platform. In today’s Chart of the Day, we look at the top 25 YouTube channels by subscribers.
While celebrities and musicians have armies working behind the scenes to create exposure for their brands, what’s truly remarkable are those individuals that started with an idea and not much else, and still managed to shatter worldwide records with reaching global audiences and convincing them to subscribe to their YouTube channel.
One such person is PewDiePie. PewDiePie, also known as Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is a Swedish YouTube personality who has managed to amass nearly 65Million subscribers to his YouTube channel. This has placed him quite firmly at the very top of the chart as YouTube’s most popular creator and cemented him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. What’s even more remarkable is that he’s only 28 years old and generates between £468.9K – £7.5M per year solely from his YouTube channel which continues to grow by between 20-30 thousand new subscribers every day.
PewDiePie’s most viewed YouTube video
In not-so-close 2nd place on YouTube’s most subscribed channels chart, with 53.5 million subscribers, is T-series, India’s largest music label and movie studio. T-series has generated a total of 42,506,628,822 (forty-two billion, five hundred and six million, six hundred and twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred and twenty-two) views, since it was created in March 2006. Obviously, with India’s population at 1297Billion+, it helps to have a channel that appeals to an entire nation.
T-series’ most viewed YouTube video
Comparison between PewDiePie and T-series’ Youtube channel growth over time
In third place, is Justin Bieber’s channel, which has one of the highest, (if not the highest!) conversion rates of all YouTube channels with a video to subscriber conversion rate of 303 468%.
Below is Justin Bieber’s most popular YouTube video with over 2.9Billion views.
Starting a YouTube channel might seem like one of the world’s most pointless challenges in 2018, especially if your wish is to achieve a spot on the Top 25 most subbed list. But YouTube is still a great platform for reaching new audiences and generating exposure for your brand, given you use the free online video marketing tools available to optimise your videos for success.
Below are the top 25 YouTube channels globally as at 19 July 2018.
