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Indian YouTube channels with 1 mn subscribers up from 16 to 1,200 in 4 yrs

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Gireesh Babu Chennai
The number of Indian YouTube channels with more than one million subscribers has grown from 16 in 2015 to over 1,200 now. The video-streaming platform expects similar growth over the next few years, with a rise in the number of internet users in the country allows more people to use video as a medium to create and share content.

"There are more than 1,200 channels across verticals with more than 1 million subscribers in India. Of these, over 120 are owned by women creators. YouTube has more than 265 million people coming to the platform on a monthly basis, and we

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