The Corpus and the Counting

274 political channels on YouTube and Rumble, a hand-made list of news outlets, commentators, streamers and podcasters across the spectrum. It is a list, not a sample of either platform: every number in the articles describes these channels and no more, and nothing is inferred about the platforms from them. The articles name no groups or sides; the channels are told apart only by what they publish.

Every title each channel published between 1 January 2026 and 14 September 2026, uploads and live streams alike, read as published: 293,590 titles. A channel's show name, episode number and brand tag stay in the title for anything that reads its capitals, since they are part of what a viewer sees; they are stripped for anything that reads its words. The capitalization article counts every title, repeats included, because a repeated title is published again. The year in words counts each channel's verbatim repeats once, 284,906 unique titles, because a word repeated in the same title is not used again.

A YouTube title's date is its publish time from the YouTube Data API, to the second; a live stream is dated by the moment it went live, and a Rumble title by Rumble's own listing. The channel listings the corpus was collected from give only approximate dates, accurate to the month, so every title was re-dated from the API and the titles that fell outside the window once dated exactly, most of them published in December 2025 and filed by the listing as January, were dropped. The window ends on 14 September 2026, so September is a part-month and the first and last weeks are part-weeks; the charts draw them hollow.

The 10 largest channels publish 40% of all the titles, so a plain count over titles is mostly a count of them. Every share in the articles is therefore given channel-weighted: the share is computed for each channel over its own titles, then averaged over all 274 channels, so a channel with 19,454 titles weighs the same as one with 3, and a channel that lacks the thing counted contributes 0. Where the articles also give the title-weighted (pooled) share, every title counts once and the biggest outlets count by their output: it is what a viewer scrolling past all of it would see. A ranking of channels by a share is over the channels with 30 or more titles, so a channel of five titles cannot top a list; a month or a week counts toward a channel-weighted mean only from channels with enough titles in it, fifteen in a month and five in a week.

A word is shouted when it has three or more letters and is written entirely in capitals inside a title that is not itself all capitals, unless capitals are simply how the word is written: a learned acronym, a generic label, or one of the channel's own tag words. The acronyms are learned from the corpus itself, the 938 words that are all-capitals in at least four in five of their non-initial appearances in mixed-case titles (FBI, ICE, GOP, NATO, AI). The generic labels are a fixed list: LIVE, BREAKING, WATCH, NEW, FULL, EXCLUSIVE, UPDATE, REPLAY and the like. A channel's own tag words are the words of an edge segment it repeats on more than one title in twenty and at least twenty times, a “| REUTERS” suffix, a “GRAPHIC WARNING:” label, a show's name (84 channels, 315 words), exempt for that channel only. The exemption cuts both ways: a name a channel always capitalizes can be learned as an acronym and stop counting, and a name written in capitals once counts as a shout. The full rule that sorts a title into a style, with its six tests in order, is in the capitalization article.

Every number on an article is computed from the corpus and imported; the prose reads its figures from the same data as the charts, so a re-import moves both together. The corpus itself, every title and every channel, and the tables the articles are drawn from are on the Datasets page, as files to download and as tables to browse. The imports on the page today:

• No. 1, Capitalization Profile of 293,590 Video Titles: imported 22 September 2026, titles through 14 September 2026.
• No. 2, What 274 Political Channels Talked About: imported 22 September 2026, titles through 14 September 2026.