r/youtube
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
r/YouTube is for discussion about YouTube. This is a fan sub, not run or owned by YouTube! Please read the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/wiki/index/rules NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802848
Members
3,454,766
3.5M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.4%
+15K members · ≈33d
Published rules
5
2 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 3 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/youtube
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion | 49% | 13,566 |
| Question | 22% | 3,547 |
| Rant | 15% | 11,984 |
| News / link | 8% | 18,990 |
| Promo | 5% | 1 |
| Show & tell | 1% | 12,844 |
Based on 74 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 3,447
- Top 10% score
- 27,979
- Text posts
- 14%
- Got no replies
- 16%
- Busiest windows
- Wed 12:00 UTC, Wed 14:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Promotion goes in N/A (N/A).
- Self Promotion, Self Linking, or Advertising: Advertising and Self Promotion, or asking for channel feedback is not allowed on the Subreddit. You will receive a permanent ban immediately.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Directly addresses the post's topic or question.
- — Shares personal experiences related to YouTube's functionality or content.
- — Offers solutions or workarounds to common YouTube problems (e.g., ad blockers).
- — Uses humor or relatable frustration to connect with other users.
- — Provides specific details or examples to support claims.
- — Acknowledges the shared experience of platform issues.
What r/youtube's rules say about promotion
2 of 5 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Self Promotion, Self Linking, or Advertising
rule 4 of 5
Advertising and Self Promotion, or asking for channel feedback is not allowed on the Subreddit. You will receive a permanent ban immediately.
Removal reason shown to posters: links that direct to YouTube.com
No Spam
rule 5 of 5
If there is a trending topic, we reserve the right to delete copycat posts that are just farming karma and not adding anything to the already existing discussion.
Removal reason shown to posters: Spam or Repeat post.
The other 3
- YouTube and YouTube Adjacent Discussion
- Don't be Toxic
- Sitewide Rules/Abuse Discussion
Read from r/youtube’s published rules on Sep 23. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/youtube discusses.
Welcome to r/YouTubeVideos! This subreddit is all about sharing your YouTube videos, getting feedback, and growing your channel. Join us and let's support each other's content!
r/YouTubers is a subreddit for content creators to discuss long- and short-form video content creation.
Welcome to /r/YouTub, a community meant for sharing your Youtube content, giving other people things to look at, and most of all to have fun.
Promote yourself and link your YouTube videos to get viewers and potentially earn subscribers
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/youtube — frequently asked
How many members does r/youtube have?
r/youtube has 3,454,766 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/youtube growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/youtube changed by +0.4% — a gain of 15K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/youtube?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/youtube yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/youtube created?
r/youtube was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/youtube?
r/youtube publishes 5 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “Self Promotion, Self Linking, or Advertising”, says: Advertising and Self Promotion, or asking for channel feedback is not allowed on the Subreddit. You will receive a permanent ban immediately. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/youtube for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/youtube into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/youtube's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/youtube's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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