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Creators will capitalise on local languages in 2020
While 2016 had just one woman YouTube creator with a subscriber base of over one million, this year saw that number shoot to 120 women YouTube creators with over a million followers.
By AuthorIANS | Published: 6th Dec 2019 8:36 pm
Google-owned YouTube, which has more than 265 million monthly active users in India, will focus on regional languages to drive the growth of creators on the platform in 2020, a top company executive has said.
According to Satya Raghavan, director, Content Partnerships, YouTube in India, the company's focus on Indian languages will continue and it will encourage more creators to find success on the video sharing platform in the next year.
"In the last three years, we saw good growth in regional languages, especially Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. We saw uptake for content in Tamil initially, and Telugu and Malayalam picked up later too," said Raghavan. Other languages such as Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Marathi started to evolve on YouTube India in 2016.
These Indian languages continued expanding their verticals, from comedy to gaming to beauty, and today they have a full range of content on the popular video sharing platform.Genres such as farming, gaming and learning, grew into categories worth mentioning on YouTube, and hit massive reach and engagement. According to the company, across categories, women creators were seen leading from the front.
While 2016 had just one woman YouTube creator with a subscriber base of over one million, this year saw that number shoot to 120 women YouTube creators with over a million followers. YouTube creators have become effective storytellers, with more than 1,200 Indian creators crossing the one million subscriber milestone, while just five years ago, there were only two creators with a million subscribers on the platform.
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