Most popular YouTube content categories 2018, by views

Published by Laura Ceci, Aug 25, 2023
This statistic presents the most popular video content categories on YouTube worldwide, ranked by views. As of December 2018, entertainment was the most popular YouTube content category based on video views. The category accounted for 25 percent of public video views on the platform.

Distribution of total YouTube video views worldwide as of December 2018, by category

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June 2019

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Worldwide

Survey time period

December 31, 2018

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