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Documentary & Film on YouTube
How Documentary & Film creators are growing this week: the sub-niches taking off, the channels rising fastest and the videos that beat their channel's usual.
838
Creator channels
254M
Combined subscribers
+0.4%
Typical channel's views this week
vs +0.3% across all niches
#11
Rank by growth
of 70 niches
Fastest-growing Documentary & Film sub-niches
Median view growth of each sub-niche's channels over the last 7 days.
- Tech & Business Documentary95 channels+0.7%
- Geopolitical Documentary99 channels+0.6%
- Historical Documentary316 channels+0.5%
- Investigative Documentary232 channels+0.5%
- Social & Cultural Documentary363 channels+0.5%
- True Story Documentary369 channels+0.4%
- Immersive Documentary67 channels+0.4%
- Filmmaker Vlogs65 channels+0.2%
Biggest Documentary & Film channels
By subscribers.
Rising Documentary & Film channels
Biggest subscriber growth this week, relative to size (10K+ subscribers).
Top Documentary & Film videos this month
The long-form uploads that most outperformed their own channel's usual views, one per channel.
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This week the typical Documentary & Film channel grew its views by +0.4%, against +0.3% for the typical channel across all niches — #11 of 70 niches by growth. It is measured on 724 channels and recomputed daily.