Statistics
The 10,000-subscriber tier, counted
How many YouTube channels reach 10,000 subscribers, how that tier divides by size, and how complete public channel data is. Counted on 25 Oct 2026.
Channel records counted
233.1M
Exact: 233,079,888
With 10,000+ subscribers
4.3M
1.9% of records
Never published a video
60.2%
140,409,735 records
Hide their subscriber count
1,026
0.0004% of records
Figure 1
Four in five channels above 10,000 subscribers stop short of 100,000
Channels with 10,000+ subscribers, by tier. Exact counts.
- 10K–100K3,503,535
- 100K–1M746,847
- 1M–10M78,493
- 10M+3,149
Figure 2
Fewer than two in five channel records have ever published a video
Channel records by number of public videos.
- All records233.1M
- 1+ videos92.7M
- 10+ videos44.6M
- 100+ videos13.7M
How complete is public channel data?
Most fields are far better filled among channels with 10,000+ subscribers than across all records. Blank fields mean the channel declared nothing; this platform never fills them with guesses.
| Field | All records | 10K+ tier |
|---|---|---|
| Country declared | 9.2% | 69.2% |
| Topic categories | 30.1% | 94.8% |
| Description written | 25.7% | 83.8% |
| Audience setting declared | 4.9% | 49.8% |
| Default language declared | 0.8% | 6.9% |
All records: exact count, 25 Oct 2026. 10K+ tier: from a sample of 21,779 channels (±0.7 points). How we counted