The 20 fastest growing YouTube channels right now (since mid-September 2026)

From 15 September to 1 November 2026, about seven weeks, the fastest growing YouTube channel Branzly tracks was Lucan Pevidor, a Brazilian entertainment channel that added about 7.8 million subscribers. MrBeast, the largest channel on the platform, came second with about 7 million, and Spanish vlogger TadeVlogs third with about 5.2 million.

Brazil and Mexico supply eight of the top 20, and channels from Spanish or Portuguese speaking countries make up half the list. Below are the 20 biggest subscriber gains, the mid-sized channels growing fastest in percentage terms, and how each niche compares.

The 20 fastest growing YouTube channels by subscribers gained

TadeVlogs and Lucan Pevidor grew fastest in the top 20, by 21.1% and 19.2%. Just outside the list, the Mexican gaming channel Ricky Pepino added about 1.54 million and grew 77%, from about 2 million to 3.55 million subscribers.

MrBeast sits at number two with 1.4% growth. At 524 million subscribers, even a slow stretch adds more people than most channels will ever have. Raw gains favour channels that are already huge, which is why the percentage column matters when you compare channels of different sizes.

What the top 20 have in common

Latin America leads. Brazil and Mexico have four entries each and Argentina one, so nine of the 20 come from Latin America; add TadeVlogs from Spain and half the list comes from Spanish or Portuguese speaking countries. The US has seven.

Entertainment is the biggest niche by a distance. Eight of the 20 are entertainment channels, three are lifestyle, and gaming, food and business have two each. Mark Rober, at number nine with about 2.6 million new subscribers, is the only education channel in the list.

Business channels can grow at this scale too. Raj Shamani's interview podcast and KL BRO Biju Rithvik each added between 1.7 and 1.8 million subscribers, more than most entertainment channels in our data.

Fastest growing mid-sized channels (100K to 1M subscribers)

Percentage growth is a better test for smaller channels, because a gain of 100,000 subscribers means far more to a channel of 300,000 than to one of 30 million. These channels had between 100,000 and 1 million subscribers on 1 November 2026.

Tang Math Games almost doubled in seven weeks, the biggest percentage gain in this size band. GODZILLA OFFICIAL is a studio account, which shows that brand channels can grow as fast as creators when they have a strong property behind them. Two of the ten are gaming channels: bloxxedout, whose name points to Roblox, and TAKESHI. Business has two entries as well, Black Driver from South Africa and The Payments Shed Podcast from the UK, which added about 156,000 subscribers.

Which YouTube niches grew fastest

Entertainment added the most subscribers overall, about 147.8 million across 2,469 channels. Business channels had the highest average growth rate at 3.8%, ahead of education at 3.0% and sports at 2.8%. Business audiences are also among the best paid by advertisers, which you can see in our YouTube CPM rates by niche guide. Food grew slowest of these nine niches, at 1.8% per channel, with technology just ahead at 1.9%.

How we got these numbers

Branzly indexes about 474,000 YouTube channels and records their public subscriber counts over time. Our current count history starts on 15 September 2026, so for this article we compared each channel's count on 1 November 2026 with its first recorded count, which for most channels falls between 15 and 24 September. That makes the window about seven weeks. Of the 29,415 channels with growth records, 14,627 showed a measurable change in subscribers once hidden counts and obvious errors were removed.

YouTube rounds public subscriber counts to three significant figures, so a channel with 48 million subscribers can gain or lose tens of thousands without the public number moving. That makes small changes on very large channels invisible, and it is why every figure here is approximate. We removed channels that hide their subscriber count, and we only kept channels with a full Branzly report. Niches come from Branzly's channel reports (MrBeast is tagged Gaming there), and countries from what the channel declares; "n/a" means it declares none.

What to do with this

1. Look up your own channel on Branzly to see your recent change next to the channels above.
2. Compare yourself on percentage growth, not raw gains. Our YouTube rankings sort by both.
3. Study the formats behind the mid-sized risers, from kids and family channels to single-game gaming channels.
4. If you work for a brand, add the mid-sized risers to your shortlist early, since sponsorship fees tend to follow views. The sponsorship calculator estimates a fair fee from recent views.

To see what any of these channels earns, open its report or run it through the YouTube earnings calculator.