Methodology
How the data is collected and how to read it
Public channel statistics from the YouTube Data API, shown as YouTube reports them, with the date each was read, and never filled in with guesses.
Where the data comes from
Channel figures come from the public statistics YouTube publishes for each channel through the YouTube Data API: subscriber, view and video counts, the channel's declared country and language, its topic categories and its audience setting. Our source held 233,079,888 channel records when we counted them on 25 Oct 2026.
The website covers channels with 10,000 or more subscribers: 4,332,024 at the last count. Below that line most channels have no audience large enough to analyse.
How fresh it is
Every figure on a channel page shows the date it was read. Our source re-reads each channel when its last reading is 14 days old. Channels YouTube no longer returns (deleted, terminated or made private) are removed and their text is not displayed.
Current values, not trends
Lassina shows each channel’s current subscriber, view and video counts. It does not keep a history of those figures, so it does not show growth rates, trend charts or estimates. YouTube rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures, and channels can hide theirs; a hidden count is shown as hidden.
Blank means undeclared
A missing country, language or audience setting is shown as “not declared”. We do not infer a channel's country from its language or content, and we do not treat a blank audience setting as “not for kids”.
What we will not do
- Estimate age, gender, ethnicity, health, religion or any other sensitive trait of creators or viewers.
- Present a count of channels as a count of people or businesses.
- Publish a figure without the date it describes.
Channel data is synthetic for now
Channel profiles, rankings and search results currently use synthetic example records: invented channels whose size and coverage follow the real 10K+ population. They will be replaced by real channels once that data is approved for publication. The figures on the statistics page and in research articles are real counts from 25 Oct 2026.
How we counted
Population figures (all 233,079,888 records, and the 4,332,024 with 10,000+ subscribers, by size and by number of videos) are exact counts from a full read of our source on 25 Oct 2026. Field coverage for the 10K+ tier comes from a 0.5% block sample of 21,779 channels; at that size the 95% margin of error is within ±0.7 percentage points.
Corrections
If a figure looks wrong, tell us. Corrections to research are noted at the end of the article with the date of the change.