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And action! UKgovweb YouTubers – TAKE 22

I recently found myself compiling a list of central (-ish) government YouTube channels and thought it worth sharing. By my count, there are 22 of them.

As has already been observed, it would be a damn sight quicker to compile a list of which bits of UK Gov are not on YouTube these days. And with the Queen now on it, I think we can safely say we’re beyond the tipping point.

Here’s what I’ve got on my list. Do tell me of any I’ve missed. For fun* I’m including the current channel views, number of videos posted and the date the first video was upped. All this info is plain to see on YouTube, anyone could have collated it.

Edit: added 23 – x to incorporate links from the comments below, to feed Tony Hirst’s Gov Youtube metasearch pipe. Nice work, Tony.

1. Downing Street – 687,657 channel views | 319 videos | joined 17 Apr 2007 | live 1 May 2007
2. Home Office – 39,808 | 30 | 11 Apr 2008 | 14 Aug 2008
3. Foreign and Commonwealth Office – 62,888 | 163 | 18 Sep 2007 | 21 Sep 2007
4. Dept of Health – 15,941 | 38 | 18 Apr 2008 | 24 Jun 2008
5. Our NHS, Our Future – 1,721 | 22 | 5 Oct 2007 | 8 Oct 2007
6. Dept for Communities and Local Government – 4,514 | 34 | 15 May 2008 | 15 Aug 2008
7. Dept for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – 2,793 | 2 | 13 Aug 2008 | 17 Feb 2009
8. Dept of Energy and Climate Change – 32 | 1 | 28 Jan 2009 | 18 Feb 2009
9. Dept for Environent, Food and Rural Affairs – 2,462 | 11 | 24 Aug 2007 | 4 Sep 2007
10. Dept for Innovation, Universities and Skills – 11,084 | 57 | 27 Feb 2008 | 12 Mar 2008
11. Dept for Children, Schools and Families – 44,013 | 32 | 8 Nov 2007 | 30 Nov 2007
12. Dept for International Development – 5,633 | 52 | 23 Oct 2007 | 30 Nov 2007
13. Dept for Work and Pensions – 2,845 | 52 | 12 Sep 2007 | unknown
14. Dept for Transport Think campaign – 168,403 | 10 | 21 Oct 2008 | 30 Oct 2008
15. Ministry of Defence – 34,662 | 99 | 21 Jan 2007 | 19 Feb 2007
16. The Royal Air Force – 148,592 | 262 | 7 Mar 2006 | 27 Apr 2007
17. Ministry of Justice – 183 | 18 | 15 Feb 2008 | 30 Oct 2008
18. Her Majesty’s Treasury – 21,361 | 15 | 25 Feb 2008 | 11 Mar 2008
19. UK Parliament – 47,263 |22 | 17 May 2007 | 26 Feb 2008
20. The Scottish Government – 19,552 | 27 | 28 Oct 2008 | 30 Oct 2008
21. The National Archives – 1,902 | 19 | 6 Mar 2008 | 7 Mar 2008
22. Cabinet Office public service films – 4,044 | 1 | 7 Aug 2006 | 8 Aug 2006
23. NHS Choices (see comments below for more NHS videos on other services)
    
24. London Summit
25. UK Trade & Investment

Top marks to DECC for getting theirs integrated into their website from the off. Out of the central departments I think that just leaves HMRC and (strangely) DCMS? I suspect there are some campaign-branded channels I have missed off.

Some lazy observations:

• Earliest launch: public service films (which makes sense) then MOD (which is more surprising).
• Most recent launch: DECC, a day after BERR.
• Longest gap between registering and launching: Parliament (10 months), then MoJ (9 months)
• Oddest coincidence: DFID and DCSF went live on the same day, did they know this?

I’m sure there are other conclusions you could draw if you’re better with Excel and have more energy than I do right now. Feel free to stick them in the comments.

*Yes, fun. This is my idea of fun. Or at least it was when I started, but not by the end. But it’s quite definitely not my idea of measuring success so please spare me the admonishing comments (unless they’re telling me to get a better sense of fun, which I can’t disagree with). But hand on heart, tell me it doesn’t change your perspective to know that the Royal Channel has had over 2 million channel views…

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