The comparison covers 115 leading video news publishers that featured inthe previous Press Gazette ranking in January 2025.
The figures underline Youtube’s growing role in news distribution.Youtube claimed that viewers watched more than 15 billion hours of news on the platformin the first half 2025 and it said half of all poll voters are now getting more news from Youtube than from traditional TV.
Chartbeat data from Reuters Institute’sJournalism and Technology Trends and Predictions 2026 reportshowed thatYoutube is the third-party platform leading publishers plan to invest in most this year.
It also startedmaking bespoke content for the platform in a new YouTube-first strategybeginning with the Winter Olympics in February.
The Sun has found mid-length news videos (around two to eight minutes) are harder to make work, and has instead pivoted towards longer-form content within a news format, including military analysis. It has also moved royal coverage onto a separate channel to better distinguish it from the predominantly male audience on its main channel.
The title remains the most-watched UK newspaper on Youtube with more than 5.5 billion views since its channel launched in 2007.
The Youtube channel with the most views since launch is that of widely syndicated daily US TV show Inside Edition, with more than 25.6 billion views across its 40,238 videos since its launch in 2012. This is followed by Fox News (25.1 billion) andCNN(20.4 billion).
In 2025, Press Gazette collected the data of some of the biggest news influencer accounts on Youtube, with the non-exhaustive list amounting to 28 channels.
Many of these accounts, but not all, engage primarily in commentary or analysis of the news.
The accounts included were found through a mix of suggestions from the Youtube algorithm,third-party listsof news accountsandPew-Knight research into news influencersthat waspublished in November.
Source: Press Gazette
