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Digital powerhouse GMA Public Affairs forges ahead as one of the Philippines' biggest and most followed content creators, recently breaching the 15 million subscriber mark on YouTube. This feat comes a year after the channel reached the ten million subscriber mark that gave GMA Network Inc., the largest broadcasting company in the country, its second Diamond Play Button from the global video sharing service and becoming the first Philippine broadcast network to receive two YouTube Diamond Creator awards.
With its wide array of videos ranging from previously aired documentaries, docudramas and news magazine and lifestyle programs to short-form journalism and explainers, GMA Public Affairs continues to attract new viewers and subscribers on its official YouTube channel. From April 2020 to date, the channel has garnered an overwhelming 2.8 billion video views and recorded more than 264 million hours of watched videos as of this writing. Furthermore, GMA Public Affairs remains ahead of ABS-CBN News which has 12.1 million subscribers and 1.9 billion views from April 2020 to date on its YouTube channel.
Leading the most watched videos that racked up the YouTube presence of GMA Public Affairs in the said period is Imbestigador's "Pag-Iibigang Nauwi Sa Karahasan" episode which has recorded almost 40 million views. Also included in the aforementioned list are Wish Ko Lang’s “Ang kalbaryo ni Gwen”; Tunay na Buhay’s “Sanggol na may hydranencephaly, paano lumalaban?”; Ilaban Natin ‘Yan’s “Misis, ginagawang punching bag ng kanyang mister kapag tinatanggihan niyang makipagsiping”; Tadhana’s “Obsessed na amo, may kakaibang regalo para sa kanyang houseboy”; Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho’s “Ang lumolobong problema ni Jonalyn” and “Monster fish in the city?”; Wagas’ “Woman gets impregnated by a ‘tikbalang’”; Tadhana’s “Babaeng hindi makuntento, pinagsabay ang magkaibigang seaman!”; and Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho’s other segments “Tenga ng bata sa Davao City, pinasukan ng buhay na isda?,” “Mga bote ng alak na natagpuan sa isang kuweba, libo-libo ang halaga?”, and “Choox TV, nakapagpatayo ng bahay sa pag-e-ML!”
On top of netizens from the Philippines, GMA Public Affairs' YouTube channel has viewers coming in from different parts of the globe including USA, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, Kuwait, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy and Thailand. Across popular platforms, GMA Public Affairs currently has more than 85 million followers. Based on data from Tubular Labs and Crowdtangle, GMA Public Affairs' various programs earned over 6.5 billion combined views on social media. With over 1.3 billion minutes, GMA Public Affairs emerged as the most watched News and Politics media creator in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in terms of online viewership last September 2020. On the said year, GMA Public Affairs was listed among the top five Philippine media creators on the social media platform TikTok.
