Both ABS-CBN and GMA Network have attained major feats on YouTube, this month.
As GMA Network enjoys leadership on local television, the case could not be any similar in the digital realm, where media network and former TV rival, ABS-CBN, rules with unrivaled supremacy.
We don’t even need to talk about the record-breaking milestones of Kapamilya Online Live, where streaming TV shows are now regularly drawing never-before-seen concurrent viewership numbers. FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, alone, continues to break local TV records, with at least 500,000 concurrent viewers, nightly. On Wednesday, August 7, the series set a new record anew, breaching 682,300 concurrent viewers, for the first time, since its February, 2022 debut. Kapamilya Online Live is the official livestream of ABS-CBN on YouTube and Facebook.
Reflective of such a massive growth in concurrent viewership, is ABS-CBN Entertainment’s unrivaled leadership, in terms of subscribers. This week, the main entertainment YouTube channel of ABS-CBN, officially hit the 49-million mark, a first for any Southeast Asian-based media entity. GMA Network, meanwhile, ABS-CBN’s closest rival, crossed 36 million.
Lifetime views-wise, ABS-CBN remains well-ahead GMA Network, with 55 billion lifetime views versus the latter’s 27.9 billion lifetime views.
