BBC Global

YouTube: The numbers today

YouTube: What happened lately

October 23, 2026 2.5x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 371,021 views a day, 2.5 times a normal day (150,745).

This week on the channel +1.2M views this week

BBC Global finds a lighthouse habit in AI storytelling

Thomas Germain and Jessica Maddox test a recurring fiction trope, while Katty Kay brings viewers' AI questions to New Normal.

Channel: BBC Global · Story of November 4, 2026

This week on the channel +1.1M views this week

Five years of blank pages: Karl Ove Knausgård opens up to BBC Global

The Norwegian author talks about the shame that kept him from writing about his father, and the six volumes of My Struggle that followed.

Channel: BBC Global · Story of October 5, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The entrepreneurs reshaping Africa's economic future | BBC Global

Video published

October 27, 2026

Video views so far

162,501

Video views, pace per day

5,055

Views on its first day

10,204

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.2% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Do men hire more women after having a daughter?	November 9, 2026	9:11	7,456	3,804	5,992	94	6
The hunt for New York's most authentic pretzel | BBC Global	November 6, 2026	5:45	10,181	323	4,491	105	2
The Russian stray dog that beat humans into orbit | BBC Glo…	November 4, 2026	4:08	5,705	71	3,839	79	12
Instagram is coming for YouTube | The Interface	November 4, 2026	26:00	5,565	125	2,963	63	11
5 AI questions everyone should be asking	November 2, 2026	14:34	15,931	309	9,208	192	19
Why AI is suddenly obsessed with lighthouses | The Interface	October 28, 2026	26:01	22,140	249	4,619	213	63
The entrepreneurs reshaping Africa's economic future | BBC …	October 27, 2026	12:09	162,501	5,055	10,204	1,966	72
This reporter dove into mental health data. What he found s…	October 26, 2026	13:03	16,315	86	4,421	160	27
The minimalist choreographer who changed dance forever | BB…	October 23, 2026	5:30	13,144	58	4,394	184	4
'Nobody is making films like this' | BBC Global	October 22, 2026	4:44	37,140	254	10,554	296	24
The battle to delete your embarrassing online history | The…	October 21, 2026	26:01	4,491	10	2,859	39	0
Are there about to be a lot more people with dementia?	October 19, 2026	8:37	33,480	21	9,607	334	35
Are there about to be a lot more people with dementia? #BBC…	October 19, 2026	0:54 short	3,600	17	1,749	41	1
Should We Ban Being Cruel to Chatbots? | The Interface	October 14, 2026	28:54	4,945	13	2,576	31	9
One psychologist’s theory of why life has become less dange…	October 13, 2026	9:59	119,032	56	17,498	839	143

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

10.0 in the category: 18.6

comments per 1,000 views

0.9 in the category: 0.7

a video's usual first day on this channel

4,111 views

short vs long

1 short (up to 3 minutes), 14 long
average views per short video: 3,600
average views per long video: 32,716

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Antikythera Mechanism: The ancient 'computer' that simply s…	July 28, 2021	6:54	12,580,577
Extinct tree from the time of Jesus rises from the dead in …	June 30, 2021	8:25	11,717,760
Surprising images from inside North Korea - BBC REEL	February 11, 2020	5:36	10,432,403
The Japanese man who gets paid to 'do nothing' | BBC Global	August 5, 2022	8:37	7,692,293
Japan's ancient secret to better cognitive memory - BBC REEL	May 5, 2021	6:17	6,364,987

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien was published 70 years…	August 1, 2024	0:44	690,622
The origins of Kate Bush's iconic Wuthering Heights. #BBC #…	January 26, 2025	0:36	507,334
The challenges of playing the sitar. #India #Music #BBC	November 25, 2024	0:35	371,215
Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence join forces on new f…	November 19, 2024	0:40	114,325
Visit BBC.com for full election coverage	September 30, 2024	0:15	108,679

YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 23, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 371,021 views a day, 2.5 times a normal day (150,745).
2. October 15, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 329,768 views a day, 2.2 times a normal day (150,196).