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2020 MEDIA SURVEY: YouTube tries hard to keep it left, but the right battles to a standoff
 

CONCLUSIONS: YouTube pushes liberal news sources almost exclusively. Many users of the app seem likely to ignore news suggestions by YouTube. Despite the high frequency of legacy (liberal) media suggestions, legacy media does not dominate news views on the app, although it does have a slight advantage. Conservatives compete quite well.

The uninformed audience that YouTube might influence by recommending only liberal legacy media sources is unlikely to voluntarily click on news at all. They don't care about news and they have other options, which they will always take. YouTube's influence is minimal.

LEFT vs. RIGHT, TOTAL DAILY VIEWS
This chart tracks how the top news channels from the left perform against those that lean right on YouTube.
NEWS CHANNELS, TOTAL DAILY VIEWS
This chart tracks the top six left-wing websites and the top right-leaning YouTube channels and compares their total views.
LEFT vs. RIGHT, DAILY VIEWS/1000 SUBSCRIBERS
This chart tracks how well the left and right performs with its existing followers
NEWS CHANNELS, DAILY VIEWS/ 1000 SUBS
This chart tracks how channels perform each day with their existing subscribers
LEFT vs. RIGHT, AVERAGE VIEWS PER VIDEO
This chart compares how many viewers each video from the right and left gets on average
NEWS CHANNELS, AVERAGE VIEWS PER VIDEO
This chart compares how many viewers each video from the top six channels of both the left and right receive
 
 

 

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