From Vice to Vox: YouTube News Channels See Surge in Growth, Views, and Global Influence

According to an analysis by Press Gazette, there are 115 English-language publisher accounts on YouTube with at least a million followers. The most popular UK newspaper on YouTube is The Sun with six million subscribers. Press Gazette found that there was a 20% increase in subscribers of news publishers on YouTube in the past 15 years, while the video views have risen 25%. Many news publishers are focusing on YouTube because it makes about 10% of TV viewing in the US.

Overall, the most subscribed news publisher on YouTube is Vice with 18.7 million subscribers, followed by ABC News (US) with 18 million subscribers. CNN has 17.4 million subscribers on Youtube while BBC news has 17.2 million subscribers. Other news channels which have more than ten million subscribers on YouTube are Al Jazeera English (15.1 million), NDTV (14.3 million), Inside Edition (13.5 million), Fox News (12.6 million), Vox (12.4 million) and NBC News (10.8 million). The crown for most all-time video views at nearly 25 billion goes to Inside Edition, followed by Fox and CNN while The Sun is the most watched newspaper channel.

Some of the biggest news publishers on Youtube are Vice, ABC News (US), CNN and BBC news. Some other big news publishers on Youtube included in the top ten are Al Jazeera English, NDTV, Inside Edition, Fox News, Vox and NBC News. There are also a lot of news influencer accounts on Youtube apart from traditional news companies which have been ranked by Press Gazette. The Joe Rogan Experience Youtube channel tops the list with 19 million subscribers, followed by Ben Shapiro and The Philip DeFranco Show with 7.2 million and 6.6 million subscribers respectively. Piers Morgan Uncensored and Tucker Carlson have 3.6 million subscribers each.

The news publishers with the highest average views are Vox (2 million), Insider Science (1 million) and Vice (1 million). All other news publishers have less than a million average views on Youtube. There are also some news personality YouTube accounts with one million or more views per video. These Youtube accounts include The Joe Rogan Experience (2 million), Legal Eagle (1 million), The Philip DeFranco Show (1 million).

The YouTube channels which saw the most increase in subscribers between October 2023 and January 2025 were TRT World (4 million), ANI News (3.8 million) and Al Jazeera English (3.4 million). Some small news channels like Piers Morgan Uncensored also added 1.8 million subscribers in the past 15 months and E! News added one million subscribers. Because of this increase in subscribers, the fastest growing Youtube news channels were ANI News (107%), TRT World (103%) and Piers Morgan Uncensored (95%). The most watched Youtube news publishers between October 2023 and January 2025 were MSNBC with 3.7 billion video views, Fox News with 3.4 billion video views and ANI News with 2.6 billion video views.




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