How far are we from saturation in youtube long form content?

india · Sep 17, 2026

It's super competitive in every niche now, so you really need unique ideas and solid editing just to survive. Doing it all alone takes way too much time. Honestly, having a small team for research and editing is almost a must these days!

hisene · Sep 17, 2026

devcore said:
People have been saying YouTube is saturated since 2015. Topics might be crowded, but quality, good pacing, and clickable packaging (title/thumbnail) will still outperform 95% of channels in any niche

Nevertheless, YouTube is not saturated; only the bad content is. Packaging does help you get hits, but retaining them is what matters.

savitaprasad · Sep 17, 2026

hisene said:
Nevertheless, YouTube is not saturated; only the bad content is. Packaging does help you get hits, but retaining them is what matters.

Retaining is also a big challenge. The audience gets bored of a creator too soon. May be one should focus on extracting as much as popular during fame days.

Alone_feelings · Sep 17, 2026

savitaprasad said:
I am seeing that all new creators are struggling with long form content. 1 out of thousands is able to gain some traction. Are we very near to completely saturated YouTube where it will be impossible to grow with long form content?

People are getting addicted to short-form videos of approximately 1 to 2 minutes. In this time, they want to gather as much information as they can. But if we speak about creators who teach something valuable on YouTube and people are willing to learn, then serious people would still be watching long-form videos. I have seen creators uploading 4 to 6 hours of videos as a course or teaching something and getting millions of views.

andreaissabel · Sep 18, 2026

ranjithy said:
I think while some niches are indeed extremely crowded, claiming that YouTube as a whole is saturated is a bit of an exaggeration. If you enter a major niche and simply replicate what hundreds of other channels are already doing, success will naturally be difficult. There is still room for growth, but average content faces a much tougher landscape than it did a few years ago. Channels need to innovate and improve the quality of their content and perspectives; simply repeating the same old formulas is unlikely to yield good results

The problem is that you have no entry barriers for your content.
Anybody can copy it in 24hours if it's a particular, or in hours if they are an agency behind a farm of big creators

Creating original content don't pay the effort

How far are we from saturation in youtube long form content?

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