A Window into Culture and Politics on YouTube

YouTube is used by 71% of Americans and is a source of news for 26% of US adults. While the impact of YouTube continues to grow, options for understanding the content and ideas being shared on the platform are lacking. That is why we built Transparency.tube. In creating a first-of-its-kind effort to categorize, index, and analyze over 7,300 of the largest English language YouTube channels actively discussing political and cultural issues, we aim to provide the data necessary to better understand this space.

Note - The data for this site is no longer being refreshed as of Nov 2022

Political YouTube channelViews2020byTagand colored byLeft/Right

MSM36b

Partisan Left19b

Partisan Right16b

Anti-Woke8.8b

Woke7.1b

Late night show5b

State Funded3.6b

Conspiracy3.5b

Religious Con.2.5b

Politician1b

Libertarian918m

QAnon914m

Socialist479m

Anti-theist433m

Manosphere373m

White Id.53m