Regional News emerges one of the most viewed video channels across YouTube, Facebook: Vidooly Report

As per Vidooly Media Tech, India's leading Video Intelligence platform, news genre is emerging in popularity across leading online video platforms in India and crossing a billion plus online viewership every month.

Vidooly conducted a study across top Facebook pages from India and YouTube channels from India, two of the most popular video platforms in to understand viewership habits of Indian internet users. The study was conducted across a total of 16 categories of Indian video content in the genres of Automobile, comedy, kids, education, entertainment, film and animation, science and technology, health, gaming, how-to & style, food, music, news and politics, people, pets and animals, sports and travel.

With over 180 million users on YouTube and 241 million users on Facebook in India, they are the two of the most popular online video platforms in India. Both the platforms with its massive reach and ubiquity allow content creators, brands and anyone to reach millions of viewers who consume this content across desktop and mobile devices.

YouTube Findings (Across top 10 channels)

Music genre with 3.2 billion views and entertainment genre with 2.7 billion views attracted maximum Indian viewership. Video content targeted towards kids especially nursery rhymes were also extremely popular with 1.4 billion views.

Regional news is extremely popular on YouTube with 9 out of the top 10 news channels publishing news in regional languages. Collectively the top 10 news channels pulled in 701 million views. Most other viewed videos were across the categories of Comedy, film and animation and food.

The following are the popular genres and the corresponding views:

Automobiles-30M

Comedy-180M

Kids-1.4B

Education-84M

Entertainment-2.7B

Film and animation-432M

Science/Technology-92M

Health/Fitness-45m

Gaming-34m

How to/Style-117m

Food-126m

Music-3.2b

News and Politics-701m

People and Blogs-94m

Pets/Animals-22m

Sports-48m

Travel and Events-41m

Facebook Findings (Across top 10 pages)

Unlike YouTube News pips other genres to emerge the most popular category with Indian viewers with the top 10 pages pulling in collectively 1.4 billion in viewership. Here the top spots are taken by Hindi and Marathi news channels. Followed closely are entertainment videos with 919 million views across the top 10 Facebook pages. In entertainment category, regional content again takes the top spot with content in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi being extremely popular with viewers.

The genres and corresponding views are:

Food-382m

Lifestyle and fashion-47m

Entertainment-919m

News-1.453B

Independent creators-390m

Sports-31.7m

Across Facebook and YouTube, regional news across the languages of Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Marathi are extremely popular with Indian viewers collectively amassing 2.1 billion views in August across YouTube and Facebook.

Across the top 100 channels in India on YouTube, content around music entertainment, news and kid's genres took the top spots.

Across the top 100 Facebook pages, the top 7 spots are dominated by news channels, followed by cooking and entertainment genres.

"With a rapidly rising usage of Internet, Indian media houses are increasingly tapping into social media and content platforms to boost engagement and reach amongst viewers. Interestingly we are seeing a rising trend of regional content dominating English or Hinglish content. These point to the larger overall trend of increasing viewership and internet growth in non-urban areas. This presents an exciting opportunity for brands and content creators to create multilingual content to reach out to the millions of users to are accessing internet for the first time" said Subrat Kar, CEO, Vidooly.