Top News & Politics YouTube Channels
Ranking of the 19 most-subscribed news & politics YouTube channels in our tracked dataset, spanning 8 countries and currently led by Aaj Tak. Compare subscribers, lifetime views and video counts.
Current Leaderboard: 19 Channels
Sorted by Subscribers (Primary) & Lifetime Views (Secondary)
| Rank | Channel | Subscribers | Total Views | Videos | Country | Category | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75.7M | 49.4B | 756,269 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 2 | 50.9M | 36.61B | 484,136 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 3 | 42.5M | 34.41B | 369,601 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 4 | 41.6M | 60.74B | 726,727 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 5 | 35.1M | 19.28B | 90,743 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 6 | 32M | 24.05B | 363,979 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 7 | 31.5M | 10.37B | 35,833 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 8 | 30.1M | 19.16B | 14,461 | PH | News & Politics | ||
| 9 | 26.9M | 33.64B | 382,514 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 10 | 23.6M | 13.02B | 168,160 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 11 | 23.4M | 4.07B | 9,652 | IN | News & Politics | ||
| 12 | 21.3M | 13.47B | 389,056 | PK | News & Politics | ||
| 13 | 20.2M | 7.44B | 33,674 | GB | News & Politics | ||
| 14 | 20.1M | 16.73B | 416,658 | ID | News & Politics | ||
| 15 | 19.9M | 21.82B | 187,758 | US | News & Politics | ||
| 16 | 19.9M | 19.12B | 121,323 | US | News & Politics | ||
| 17 | 19.3M | 14.93B | 301,816 | PH | News & Politics | ||
| 18 | 6.25M | 8.29B | 237,147 | UA | News & Politics | ||
| 19 | 22.1K | 3.3M | 158 | MX | News & Politics |
Who Leads News YouTube Right Now?
This leaderboard ranks the 19 news YouTube channels currently in our tracked dataset by verified subscriber count. Ten of the 19 are based in India, with the rest spread across 7 further countries, and the ranking spans from 75.7M subscribers at the top to 22K at the bottom of the table.
Aaj Tak (India) currently leads with 75.7M subscribers, 49.4B lifetime views and 756,269 videos. News18 India (India) holds the highest lifetime view count here at 60.74B views despite ranking lower by subscribers (41.6M) — subscriber rank and view rank differ because subscribers are the primary sort key.
The “News & Politics” heading is the display name for YouTube's news category on this page; the URL keeps the shorter slug /news. Figures are our tracked-dataset snapshot, updated Oct 13, 2026 — not a census of all news channels on YouTube.
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How Are These YouTube Channels Ranked?
This leaderboard highlights the top news & politics youtube channels ranked strictly by verified subscriber volume from our tracked creator dataset. Subscriber numbers serve as the primary metric for measuring audience loyalty, channel reach, and community scale.
Ranking Methodology & Tie-Breaking
To ensure complete determinism, channels are sorted primarily by their verified subscriber count in descending order. In cases where two channels share identical subscriber milestones, their all-time lifetime video views serve as the secondary ranking signal. If both subscriber and view numbers are tied, internal channel IDs provide a strict, stable fallback order.
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Rankings are based on the YouTube channels currently tracked in our dataset and are refreshed with current statistics from the official YouTube Data API. Explore our wider YouTube Statistics Directory for more leaderboards, or analyze your own channel using our YouTube Description Extractor and YouTube Statistics.
News & Politics YouTube Rankings — FAQs
By verified subscriber count in descending order, using figures from the official YouTube Data API. Identical subscriber counts are broken by lifetime video views, then by a stable internal channel-ID order. The ranking covers the 19 news channels currently in our tracked dataset.
Aaj Tak (India) currently leads this leaderboard with 75.7M subscribers, 49.4B lifetime views and 756,269 videos. See the #1 row in the table above, or visit Aaj Tak on YouTube.
“News & Politics” is the display name for YouTube's news category used across this page — the H1, table Category cells and breadcrumb all use it — while the URL keeps the shorter slug /youtube-stats/category/news. It is the same leaderboard either way.
No. This page ranks only the news channels in our curated tracking set (currently 19, from 8 countries), refreshed from the YouTube Data API and updated Oct 13, 2026. Explore the wider YouTube Statistics Directory for other categories and ranking tiers.