YouTube channel

British Council | English

@britishcouncilenglish · The channel on YouTube

Explainers, history and education

British Council | English has 943,000 subscribers and 31,255,033 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,000 subscribers and 90,521 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Read your way to better English - a British Council English podcast", with 109,811 views. By subscribers it is No. 2,440 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 59 of 96 in Explainers, history and education.

The numbers today

subscribers

943,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

31,255,033

▲ 90,521 in the last 7 days

views a day (current pace)

2,686

on a typical day: 14,724

Videos on the channel

562

2 uploaded in the last 7 days

Last upload

yesterday

October 23, 2026

Views per subscriber

a new long video usually gets 6,911 views

Next milestone

1,000,000 subscribers

at the current pace: in about 200 days

What happened lately

This week on the channel +135K views this week

Jo's present perfect lesson, and a roll call from Colombia to Vietnam

The British Council's one new upload was a live grammar class on the present perfect simple and continuous, while a ten-day-old podcast on …

Channel: British Council | English · Story of October 5, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Who does Halloween belong to anyway? A British Council English podcast

Video published: October 23, 2026
Video views so far: 3,013
Video views, pace per day: 4,024
Views in its first 14 hours: 3,013

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Position on Trari and in the category

	Among all channels on Trari	In the category Explainers, history and education
By subscribers	2,440 of 5,387	59 of 96
By views gained this week	4,699 of 5,295	85 of 96

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category: 0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscriber growth this week: 0.2% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education

1TEDx Talks

44,700,000

2TED

27,900,000

3TED-Ed

23,000,000

4CrashCourse

17,200,000

5The Infographics Show

15,500,000

6Learn English With TV S…

12,200,000

7freeCodeCamp.org

12,000,000

8Learn English with Engl…

8,730,000

8,720,000

8,000,000

7,940,000

7,120,000

6,740,000

6,740,000

59British Council | Engli…

943,000

Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education

1BradyYourTutor

86,660,870

2TEDx Talks

14,011,783

3Drop A Pin

13,039,554

4English with Steve Ford

12,027,526

5GeoGlobeTales

11,284,568

6TED-Ed

9,144,382

7The Infographics Show

8,826,663

8Johnny Harris

6,133,592

9hoser

5,988,578

10Extra History

5,782,986

11TED

5,710,955

12CrashCourse

4,365,387

133Blue1Brown

4,254,456

14Geography By Geoff

4,210,242

85British Council | Engli…

90,521

Subscribers, last 30 days

September 26, 2026: 933,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 943,000 subscribers

Total views, last 30 days

September 26, 2026: 30,811,849 views → October 24, 2026: 31,255,033 views · average: 15,828 views a day

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Who does Halloween belong to anyway? A British Council Engl…	October 23, 2026	26:47	3,013	4,024	3,013 (14 hours)	55	4
Language Clinic - get answers to all your questions	October 21, 2026	1:10:39	3,703	152	3,251	76	7
Live lesson: Books and reading - language for stories	October 15, 2026	1:11:47	5,379	63	3,623	113	9
Read your way to better English - a British Council English…	October 9, 2026	29:33	109,811	416	10,389	353	4
Live lesson: Practice makes perfect	September 30, 2026	54:46	4,941	16	3,027	94	26
How to get people to do things - a British Council English …	September 25, 2026	29:08	81,700	80	7,618	247	10
Live lesson: Talking about past habits and memories	September 16, 2026	57:54	7,292	32	-	139	19
Grammar Lesson: A blast from the past	September 14, 2026	0:34 short	1,006	9	-	24	1
Live Lesson: Talking about senses in English	September 9, 2026	53:53	6,531	5	-	130	21
Language Clinic - LIVE answers to all your questions!	June 11, 2026	1:04:22	2,825	3	-	95	15
Language Clinic - LIVE answers to all your questions!	May 22, 2026	1:03:03	1,829	2	-	64	6
Language Clinic - LIVE answers to all your questions!	May 14, 2026	1:14:39	1,543	2	-	54	11
How to turn one English word into five – a Mini English Les…	May 8, 2026	3:54	203,781	91	-	677	12
How to talk about mental health in English – a Mini English…	May 8, 2026	3:53	168,198	110	-	581	7
Stop making these apostrophe mistakes – a Mini English Less…	May 1, 2026	3:40	182,648	22	-	226	9

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views: 3.7 in the category: 21.2
comments per 1,000 views: 0.2 in the category: 1.3
short vs long: 1 short (up to 3 minutes), 14 long
average views per short video: 1,006
average views per long video: 55,942

Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

Stories

This week on the channel +135K views this week

Jo's present perfect lesson, and a roll call from Colombia to Vietnam

The British Council's one new upload was a live grammar class on the present perfect simple and continuous, while a ten-day-old podcast on …

Channel: British Council | English · Story of October 5, 2026