Recent statistics from YouTube reveal a changing tide in media consumption and a shake-up in news channel rankings, according to a new report from Press Gazette that analyzes the change between June 2022 and October 2023.
While left-wing CNN still has the most subscribers of any English-language news channel, its conversative counterpart Fox News has stolen the spot for all-time views. With CNN at 14,840,000,000 total views and Fox at 15,460,000,000, Fox is now ahead by 600 million, while in June 2022 it trailed CNN by 200 million. That is a 33 percent increase for Fox compared to CNN’s 25 percent increase.
Meanwhile, establishment-skeptic Great Britain (GB) News has reached 1 billion views and claims to be the fastest-growing UK channel on YouTube of all time. GB News and Piers Morgan Uncensored have each surpassed 1 million subscribers.
The biggest change in the top ten largest channels by subscribers has been Al Jazeera English jumping up two spots to come in fourth, surpassing Vox and Fox News.
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Insider fell from sixth to seventh, with NBC News surpassing it. NBC increased in views by over 55 percent since June 2022.
Seven new publishers broke into Press Gazette’s Top 25 YouTube News Channels since June 2022 by surpassing 1 million subscribers. These included:
- Australia’s 9 News
- BBC News Africa
- CBN News, (Pat Robertson-founded Christian Broadcasting Network)
- Canadian network CTV News
- New York local broadcaster Eyewitness News ABC7NY
- Opinion-led UK broadcaster GB News
- Piers Morgan Uncensored, the flagship programme for UK opinion-led broadcaster TalkTV
Meanwhile, four had already done so, but Press Gazette didn’t check in on them. These were Indian news agency ANI News, English-language Chinese state broadcaster CGTN, Turkish public broadcaster TRT World, and DW Documentary, a subsidiary of German news agency Deutsche Welle.
In terms of most views per video (average views), Vox remains “well ahead of the competition.” Press Gazette spoke to Vox video editorial director Mona Lalwani, who chalked their success up to their “explanatory journalism” model.
“The way that news comes at us is hard and fast and splintered. And I think Vox does a really good job of gluing that information together,” Lalwani said.
In second place was DW Documentary, with 756,000 average views per video compared to Vox’s 2.08 million.
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