Bright Side (YouTube channel)

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Bright Side
Websitebrightside.me
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2017–present
Genre
Subscribers41.3 million[1][2]
Total views8.8 billion[2]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg 10,000,000 subscribers
Updated: July 23, 2021

Bright Side is a YouTube channel operated by media publisher TheSoul Publishing. Founded in 2017, the channel uploads videos regarding how-to trivia as well as history and knowledge. As of July 2021, it is the 45th-most subscribed YouTube channel with over 41.3 million subscribers to its main channel, and over 8.8 billion views,[3] The channel has over four thousand videos.[4]

History[]

Bright Side was created on 15 March 2017, and posts videos that are a mix of facts, riddles and life hacks.[5] Bright Side has been described as a "popular content farm channel".[6]

In June 2019, Bright Side popularised a 382-day fast held in 1965 by Angus Barbieri, after creating an animated video recounting the event. The video received over 300,000 views within a week of its upload.[7]

Its most popular video is called "13 Tips on How to Survive Wild Animal Attacks" which was created in late 2017. As of May 2021, the video has 86 million views.

The channel is operated by TheSoul Publishing, a company founded by Russia-based developers Pavel Radaev and Marat Mukhametov.[8] The company also owns the channels 5-Minute Crafts, 5-Minute Crafts Kids, 5-Minute Crafts Girly, 7-Second Riddles and 5-Minute Magic.[4] The company releases three videos a day, "operates 40 Facebook pages in 10 languages and has 550 employees".[5]

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References[]

  1. ^ "BRIGHT SIDE's Real-Time Subscriber Count - Social Blade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "About BRIGHT SIDE". YouTube.
  3. ^ "Top 100 YouTubers sorted by Subscribers - Socialblade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Kaplan, Lisa (2019-12-18). "The Biggest Social Media Operation You've Never Heard of Is Run Out of Cyprus by Russians". Lawfare. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Jennings, Rebecca (2018-11-12). "Why YouTube is riddled with bizarre DIY videos". Vox. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ McCluskey, Megan (2019-09-04). "This '5-Minute Craft' YouTube Channel Is Captivating the Masses". Time. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  7. ^ Reporter (2019-06-28). "Fife man Angus Barbieri's incredible food fast becomes a YouTube hit". The Courier UK. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  8. ^ Jennings, Rebecca (12 November 2018). "Why YouTube is riddled with bizarre DIY videos". Vox. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

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