Top 50 YouTube Channels by Subscribers, With Views Per Video

Who are the top 50 YouTube channels?

What the top 50 shows

TV networks upload the most videos and get the fewest views per video

8 channels in the top 50 have more than 90,000 videos each. They are TV networks, a news channel and WWE. None of them averages more than 1.3M views per video. Aaj Tak has 752,506 videos and averages 65.5K views each. The 19 channels with fewer than 2,500 videos have a median of 62.1M views per video. Both groups reach the top 50, but in opposite ways: one posts every clip from its shows, the other posts fewer, bigger videos.

Kids channels get the most views per video

7 of the 12 channels with the highest views per video make videos for children. They include Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes and Kids Diana Show, which each average more than 70 million views per video. Young children often watch the same video again and again, so kids videos keep adding views for years after upload.

Mark Rober turns more subscribers into views than almost anyone

Mark Rober has 271 videos and averages 71.2M views per video, a reach ratio of 85.1%. That is the 2nd-highest reach ratio in the top 50, behind Justin Bieber at 91.3%. MrBeast averages 141.2M views per video, more than anyone else, from 1,005 videos. Compare PewDiePie: 4,667 videos and 6.3M views each, a reach ratio of 5.8%.

Colors TV gets the fewest views per video in the top 50

Colors TV has 82.6M subscribers but only 3.0B lifetime views across 139,942 videos. That works out to 21.7K views per video. We checked the count on the channel's YouTube About page on 7 October 2026. It is YouTube's own figure, not an error in our data. At the other end, UR · Cristiano has only 149 videos, the fewest on the list, and still ranks 27th by subscribers.

Many of the biggest channels are companies, not people

Record labels, TV networks and kids studios fill much of the list. T-Series, Zee Music Company, Sony Music India, YRF and Tips Official are music labels. SET India, Sony SAB, Zee TV and Colors TV are TV networks. If you want to see which individual creators are biggest and why subscriber count misleads, read our guide to the top YouTubers in the world.

How to read views per video and reach ratio

Views per video is a channel's lifetime views divided by its video count. It shows how much attention a typical upload gets over its whole life.

Reach ratio is views per video divided by subscribers. It shows how much of a channel's audience watches a typical video. MrBeast has a reach ratio of 27.2%. Colors TV has 0.03%. The median across the top 50 is 16.1%.

Both numbers are lifetime averages. Old viral hits and short videos raise them, and they do not show how the latest upload did. To judge a channel today, compare each new video with that channel's own normal views. That comparison is what an outlier score measures.

Reach ratio helps when you pick creators for a sponsorship, because a sponsor's message only reaches the people who watch. Our guide to finding YouTube influencers shows how to rank creators by reach ratio in any niche.

Frequently asked questions

How this list was built

Ranking. The channels come from Wikipedia's list of most-subscribed YouTube channels (table dated October 2026), re-ranked by the live subscriber counts below. That list leaves out channels YouTube generates on its own and channels that moved their videos elsewhere. Country, language and category come from the same table.

Counts. I read subscribers, lifetime views and video count from each channel's public YouTube About page on 7 October 2026. YouTube rounds subscriber counts to three digits, so two channels can show the same number. YouTube blocks two of these channels in India, where I ran the check, so their counts come from the OutlierKit channel index, refreshed within the previous week.

Limits. Views per video includes Shorts, which often get more views than long videos. It also includes old videos, so a channel with one huge hit years ago scores higher than its recent uploads deserve. The list does not show revenue, watch time or where the audience lives. For how subscriber counts spread out below the top, read the subscriber benchmarks by niche.