
Chicago metro
Chicago nonprofit YouTube rankings
232 tracked nonprofit channels, ranked by subscribers, engagement, and recent activity.
Most subscribers
Best engagement
Channels with 1K+ subscribers
Most active
Uploads in the last 90 days
How Chicago compares
Against the typical tracked metro
Chicago ranks #3 of 15 metros by channels tracked (232).
Worth watching
Flagged by our channel analysis
The channel demonstrates strong mission storytelling, with recent exhibition-focused videos like 'Stories of Survival' pulling in over 1,000 views, which is 2.7x the channel average. While the engagement rate is healthy at 2.21% and upload consistency is steady with 6 videos in the last 90 days, the channel's native caption coverage is critically low at 2%, representing a major accessibility gap.
The Mariners' Museum has a solid 1.95% engagement rate — above the nonprofit benchmark — but the audience resonance is middling at 16.8% views-to-subscriber ratio, well below the 30% strong threshold. The top video 'How Does A Ship Float?' at 22,351 views is a 16.7x outlier over the 1,335 avg, suggesting the channel hasn't replicated that educational short-form success consistently; the best recent video pulled only 990 views (0.7x avg). Caption coverage at just 30% is a significant accessibility gap for a museum with educational ambitions.
PAWS Chicago demonstrates strong mission storytelling with specific, impact-driven video titles like 'PAWS Chicago rescues 25 beagles,' driving an impressive 108% average view-to-subscriber ratio. However, the channel's editorial potential is severely limited by a near-dormant upload schedule (only 2 videos in the last 90 days) and a critical lack of accessibility, with only 2% of videos featuring captions.
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