Vlogs, children’s content, challenges, cooking tutorials and video game walkthroughs − YouTube has it all.
The first YouTube video ever uploaded was a 19-second view of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of elephants. “Me at the zoo” has garnered almost 265 million views since its original upload on April 23, 2005.
Want to measure the video platform by the numbers? Here’s a look into the highest subscriber and view counts.
T-Series is the YouTube channel with the most subscribers. India’s largest music label and studio, T-Series has 241 million subscribers and 222 billion views across their videos.
The top 10 most-subscribed YouTube channels are mostly organizations, but there are some solo creators that make the list. MrBeast is the individual YouTuber with the most subscribers at 149 million total, as of May 2023. Jimmy Donaldson, 24, is behind the MrBeast channel, and his videos involve elaborate stunts, challenges and giving away large sums of money.
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It’s an earworm likely to make you, your grandma and your children dance and it has 12.7 billion views – that’s right, the most viewed YouTube video is “Baby Shark Dance” by Pinkfong. The song was released by the Korean children’s entertainment company in 2016 but is really a product of oral tradition passed down as school and camp songs.
The second most viewed YouTube video is the music video for “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee. The 2017 hit later added Justin Bieber to the track, but the original music video has 8.1 billion views and counting.
In addition to most subscribers, T-Series also takes the crown for the channel with the most views. Here is the full top 10 list as of May 2023:
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