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Most subscribed YouTube channels in United Kingdom
7 channels that list the United Kingdom as their location, with live subscriber counts, total views and average views per video from the YouTube Data API on 2026-09-03.
7
Channels tracked
69.8M
Combined subscribers
19.3M
Largest
| # | Channel | Subscribers | Total views | Videos | Avg views / video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Diary Of A CEO | 19.3M | 1.7B | 878 | 2.0M |
| 2 | BBC | 15.6M | 13B | 32,266 | 397K |
| 3 | BBC Earth | 14.5M | 5.7B | 3,411 | 1.7M |
| 4 | CGP Grey | 7.0M | 1.3B | 195 | 6.5M |
| 5 | Ali Abdaal | 6.7M | 558M | 1,460 | 382K |
| 6 | JackSucksAtLife | 4.6M | 1.1B | 1,995 | 564K |
| 7 | Sidemen Productions | 2.1M | 166K | 7 | 24K |
Location is the channel’s own public setting. Plenty of large United Kingdom channels leave it blank or set it elsewhere, so read this as the biggest channels that say they are in United Kingdom, not as every one that is. Channels under one million subscribers are excluded.
What stands out
The Diary Of A CEO leads on subscribers with 19.3M. But CGP Grey gets the most views per upload at about 6.5M, which is the more useful number if you are trying to work out what performs rather than what accumulated.
Subscriber totals reward age and upload volume. A channel that has published ten thousand videos over fifteen years will out-subscribe a sharper channel that publishes weekly, and the table above will not tell you which is which unless you read the last two columns together.
What those views are worth
Subscriber counts say nothing about earnings. A United Kingdom audience pays roughly $5 to $11 per thousand monetized long-form views depending heavily on niche, and Shorts pay a fraction of that.