List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

A subscriber to a channel at the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a person who has chosen to get hold of the channel's content by using clicking on that channel's Subscribe button, and each consumer's subscription feed consists of motion pictures published by means of channels to which the consumer is subscribed. The capability for customers to subscribe become introduced in October 2005. YouTube commenced publishing a list of its most-subscribed channels in April 2006. An early archive of the listing dates to May 17, 2006. Since May 2006, when Smosh occupied the top function with simply 2,986 subscribers, at least 11 different YouTube channels have held the top spot; those encompass the channel for the American fictional web series lonelygirl15, American comic Brooke Brookers Brodack, American fictional person Fred Figglehorn, Swedish gamer Felix PewDiePie Kjellberg, American comedian Ryan Higa, American media character Ray William Johnson, American publi...