BBC World Service YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
👋🏽 Welcome to the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. Whether you are looking for podcasts, documentaries, interviews or explainers, if you are interested in global stories, we hope you will feel at home with us. Here you can watch your favourite podcasts and look forward to the best of th
| Subscribers | 2.3M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 406M |
| Videos | 3.3K |
| Average views per video (est.) | 88K |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2019-10-22 |
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding Nazi photos of Auschwitz - BBC World Service #shorts | 201× | 1.7M | 2026-10-13 |
| Unveiling the face of Crazy Horse - BBC World Service #shorts | 143× | 1.2M | 2026-10-26 |
| Trapped under Houthi siege in Yemen’s city of snipers - BBC World Service Documentaries | 24× | 324K | 2026-10-27 |
| What airport security staff actually see - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service | 21× | 396K | 2026-10-15 |
| Shadowmen: Russian operatives who say they're sabotaging Putin’s war – BBC World Service Docs | 21× | 656K | 2026-10-18 |
| Are human interpreters still necessary? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service | 18× | 446K | 2026-10-23 |
| Gen Z protests: What unites them? - BBC World Service | 17× | 86K | 2026-10-22 |
| Why Vietnam’s coffee beans might outlast others - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service | 13× | 234K | 2026-10-02 |
| Serbia at a Crossroads - Global Eye, BBC World Service | 10× | 54K | 2026-10-06 |
| Why Young Israelis Lean Right - Global Eye, BBC World Service | 7.3× | 97K | 2026-10-21 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why is China angry at footballer Mbappe? - BBC World Service #shorts | 1.4× | 12K | 2026-10-31 |
| Texas, Ohio, Maine... US midterms races to watch - The President's Path podcast, BBC World Service | 2.6× | 35K | 2026-10-31 |
| The best of Stumped - BBC World Service #shorts | 0.2× | 1.7K | 2026-10-31 |
| Why did China get so angry about Mbappe’s joke? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service | 3.6× | 122K | 2026-10-31 |
| Hyrox could become an Olympic sport - BBC World Service | 0.5× | 4.5K | 2026-10-30 |
| Sir James Anderson: Lancashire release legendary bowler - Stumped podcast, BBC World Service | 0.3× | 6.2K | 2026-10-30 |
| The science behind mass spawning in the Great Barrier Reef - BBC World Service #shorts | 1.6× | 14K | 2026-10-30 |
| Ukraine v Russia: Drones race - The Global Jigsaw podcast, BBC World Service | 0.4× | 20K | 2026-10-30 |
| Would you use an Etsy witch? - BBC World Service | 0.3× | 4.3K | 2026-10-29 |
| Why people are buying spells online - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service | 1.2× | 17K | 2026-10-29 |
Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of BBC World Service, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 38 | 8K | 0.9× |
| Under 20 minutes | 49 | 13K | 1.1× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 12 | 94K | 1.6× |
| Over 60 minutes | 1 | 656K | 21× |
Levers to test
- 20 to 60 minutes did best here, at 1.6× against 0.9× for shorts. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 44.8 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.
These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does BBC World Service have?
BBC World Service has about 2.3M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does BBC World Service upload?
About 44.8 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from BBC World Service?
"Finding Nazi photos of Auschwitz - BBC World Service #shorts" reached 201× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the BBC World Service audience?
No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.
Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open BBC World Service on YouTube.