The data displays the most popular YouTube channels, ranked by number of subscribers. As of June 2018, singer Taylor Swift was ranked eighth with 30.3 million subscribers. Video game commentator PewDiePie was ranked first with over 63 million subscribers.
Youtube was launched in 2005, as a platform for sharing user-generated videos, such as video blogging, tutorials or original series. The site grew rapidly and was reportedly receiving 100 million video views per day and had more than 65 thousand daily uploads only a year later.
