Viral Video Infographics

The Top 1000 YouTube Channels are Broken Down and Analyzed by Content

Viral videos are open to specific niches who crave laughter, meaningful messages and DIY tutorials; with this Top 1000 YouTube Channels infograph, one can decipher how the popular video social media outlet divides its attention.

YouTube grew as a large viral distribution for music videos from celebrities and up-and-coming artists with 25% of the site dedicated solely to music. Following behind music as influential mediums on YouTube includes gaming with 20%, comedy sketches as 14%, entertainment purposes at 13% and 7% for DIY tutorials. Interesting enough, 64% of the DIY tutorials are dedicated to beauty. YouTube has 11.3 billion views per month and 30,000 monthly videos uploaded. So get to publishing videos, as the average top 1000 YouTube channels generate $23,000 in ad revenue a month.

DIY Beauty Tutorials
YouTube is dominated by beauty DIY tutorials among all other DIY tutorials, indicating high demand for this type of content.
Gaming Videos
Gaming videos make up 20% of YouTube content, creating opportunities for gaming influencers and industry professionals to leverage this trend.
Comedy Sketches
Comedy sketches remain an influential medium on YouTube, signaling potential for comedy influencers and professionals to capitalize on this trend.

Sectors Adopting This

Beauty Industry
The dominance of DIY beauty tutorials on YouTube presents opportunities for beauty businesses to collaborate with beauty influencers and create innovative content.
Gaming Industry
The popularity of gaming videos on YouTube indicates potential for gaming industry professionals to collaborate with gaming influencers and produce innovative content for their audiences.
Entertainment Industry
Comedy sketches remaining an influential medium on YouTube suggests opportunities for entertainment industry professionals to create impactful, comedic content through collaboration with comedy influencers.
SCORE
3.2 out of 10
GENDER
70% Men30% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe
GENERATION
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen X
  • Gen Z (primary audience)
  • Millennial (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 30%
Activity 57%
Freshness 8%

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