The YouTube channel with the most subscribers is T-Series, an Indian music network, with over 259 million subscribers as of February 2024 ¹.
Here are some key points about the most subscribed YouTube channels ¹ ²:
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MrBeast is the most subscribed YouTube personality, with over 237 million subscribers as of February 2024.
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PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber, held the number one spot for 2,063 days (5 years & 7 months) in two different regions.
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MrBeast surpassed long-standing most subscribed YouTuber PewDiePie, having reached approximately 112 million subscribers in November 2022.
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MrBeast was estimated to have earned around 54 million U.S. dollars in 2021, topping the ranking of the highest-earning YouTube creators.
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YouTube Partner Program rewards uploaders of popular videos with a share of the advertising revenues the content generates.
Here are some additional details about YouTube ¹:
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YouTube was launched in 2005 as a platform for sharing user-generated videos such as vlogs, tutorials, or original series.
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The site grew rapidly and reportedly had 100 million video views per day and more than 65 thousand daily uploads only a year later.
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As of February 2020, more than 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute, up from a mere 24 hours of content uploads per minute in 2010.
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In the third quarter of 2022, YouTube’s ad revenue amounted to over seven billion U.S. dollars.
