Data report · July 2026

The State of YouTube

An original analysis of the world's notable creators

Alaxia tracks 122,038 notable YouTube channels across 207 countries and 19 categories, drawn from 141,120 public records. Here is what that map looks like this month.

The ten biggest channels

Where the scene is biggest

Notable channels per country edition, with each country’s most-subscribed creator.

By category

How big is big?

Distribution of listed channels by subscriber count.

  • 100M+14
  • 10M–100M703
  • 1M–10M6,445
  • 100K–1M16,004
  • Under 100K98,872

The pioneers

The oldest channels still ranking today — YouTube’s earliest accounts.

Source: the Alaxia directory (YouTube Data API, Wikidata, Wikipedia). See how we measure. Momentum and movement metrics will join this report as our ranking history matures.