India Today Group is India’s most viewed news network on YouTube: Vidooly Report

As per Vidooly, India's leading Video Intelligence platform, India Today Group is India’s most viewed news network on YouTube with 1.92 billion views in 2017 alone. Following close in the second spot is NEXT9News with 1.89 billion views in 2017. ABP News group ranks third with 1.32 billion views in 2017. India’s 80 top digital news networks had a lifetime subscriber base of 65 million viewers up until December 2017 who collectively generated 18 billion views.

With a user base of over 400+ million in India, Youtube is the biggest platform for video content. Every day across Youtube, Vidooly tracks data from over 500 million videos globally. In order to prepare Vidooly’s Annual Digital Video report in News category, Vidooly tracked viewership data from over 80+ news networks in India who have a presence on Youtube. Additionally, Vidooly also tracked anonymous viewership habits of 400 million plus viewers between the ages of 18 - 65 on Youtube in 2017.

Subrat Kar, CEO and co-founder of Vidooly said “Our Annual Digital Video Report in News is an effort to examine the viewership growth pattern in the Indian media on Youtube. Interestingly we are witnessing not just new age media companies but also legacy media companies who are investing heavily in growing their digital presence. While monetisation still remains a challenge, the ubiquity and massive audience base of Youtube has led to news networks attracting the younger crowd who don’t watch news on television and prefer to consume content on online video platforms.”

INDIA’s MOST VIEWED NEWS NETWORKS IN 2017

NETWORK	NUMBER OF YOUTUBE CHANNELS	SUBSCRIBERS(in million)	VIEWS IN 2017(in billion & million)
INDIA TODAY GROUP	13	8.97M	1.92B
NEXT 9 NEWS	2	3.88M	1.89B
ABP NEWS	7	4.55M	1.32B
TV9	6	2.39M	980.07M
INDIA TV	1	3.55M	972.50M
NMF NEWS	1	2.44M	856.89M
ZEE MEDIA	15	3.49M	771.14M
V6 NEWS	1	1.50M	757.23M
NETWORK 18	20	3.05M	563.87M
ONE INDIA	7	1.93M	559.85M

TOP TRENDS FROM THE REPORT

• Regional news content in Hindi and Telugu dwarfs english news content in terms of views on Youtube. All the top 10 news networks on Youtube have a regional channel.

• News channels on Youtube get the most amount of views in the months of March, June, July, October and December.

• After Kids, Music and Entertainment content, News is the 4th most watched category on Youtube in India.

• Next 9 News is India’s most watched digital news channel on Youtube that does not have operate a television channel.

• India’s 80 top digital news networks had a lifetime subscriber base of 65 million viewers up until December 2017.

• Indian news networks pulled in 18 billion views on Youtube in 2017

• Out of 18 billion views, digital only news properties contributed 22% ie 4 billion of the views in 2017

The entire report can be accessed here: https://vidooly.com/blog/annual-digital-video-report-news-category-2017

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