Playing For Change
Playing For Change had 3.5M subscribers as of October 6, 2026. The channel has accumulated 2.1B views across 784 videos since 2008.
Relative to its audience, that is 603 lifetime views per subscriber and 292K views generated per day.
Where does Playing For Change rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Playing For Change sits 6031st worldwide.
The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.28% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.
When did Playing For Change start on YouTube?
Playing For Change published their first video on October 31, 2008, "Playing For Change: Bringing Hope to South Africa", which has 577.3K views. Their biggest hit since does 394 × that number.
Playing For Change published 665 videos between 2008 and 2025, peaking at 106 in 2025. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 73% of output, against 25% before.
What is Playing For Change's most-viewed video?
Playing For Change's most-viewed video is "Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World", with 227.7M views. That is 78 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 30.1% of the channel's total views.
78 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
Which format works best for Playing For Change?
On Playing For Change, mid-form (3 to 20 min) performs best: a median of 545.4K views across 332 videos analysed. That is 28 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
How often does Playing For Change publish?
Playing For Change currently publishes 6,1 vidéos par semaine. That is 7.8 × the channel's lifetime average pace. Its catalogue generates 372 views per video per day.
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How many views does a typical Playing For Change video get?
The median Playing For Change video has 76.9K views, computed across 717 analysed videos.
How long has Playing For Change been publishing on YouTube?
Playing For Change has been publishing for 19 years, averaging 42 videos per year.
Which country is Playing For Change from?
Playing For Change is registered in US.
Is this data up to date?
Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on October 6, 2026. Per-video measures cover 717 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 10/6/2026). Per-video measures computed across 717 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.
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