Rahul Gandhi's YouTube Channel on an upward swing – The Hindu

Rahul Gandhi joined YouTube on August 10, 2017 and eight days later came the first video of his interaction with Doon School students. File | Photo Credit: PTI In the last one month, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s YouTube channel has posted six videos, including a 12-minute grim video capturing his two-day visit to strife-ridden Manipur in July. Two of these videos have crossed three millions views. Mr. Gandhi, who has often called out the mainstream news channels biased, has been relying more on social media for a direct connect with people. Mr. Gandhi joined YouTube on August 10, 2017, and eight days later came the first video of his interaction with Doon School students. The six-minute video gathered only 24,000 views. The channel has had modest viewership recording negligible growth for the first five years till September 2022 when Mr. Gandhi led the party’s 4,000-km march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir branded as Bharat Jodo Yatra.  As per an internal assessment, the subscriber base of his channel has grown five times from January 2022 (0.5 million) to 2.6 million in August 2023. The spurt that came during the yatra from September 2022-February 2023 has only been growing. The internal assessment points out
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