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DW Documentary: A multilingual success story
Exciting stories on a wide variety of topics from around the globe: DW brings viewers background reports from the worlds of politics, business, science, culture, nature, history, lifestyle and sport.
With nearly 600 documentaries, our YouTube channel DW Documentary allows viewers to watch productions of their choice on-demand. The program offers high-quality documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies, introduces intriguing people, takes the audience to distant lands, shares a look behind the complexities of daily life and builds a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events.
DW Documentary is also available on Instagram. Follow us here for additional information about our documentaries.
A multilingual success story
In January 2017, the English-language YouTube channel DW Documentary was launched. A few months later, it had rapidly growing views and a high average watch time of 14 minutes. At the beginning of 2021, more than 2.5 million users subscribed to the channel.
A year later, the Spanish version DW Documental followed, which is currently DW's most popular YouTube channel with 2.8 million subscribers.
DW Documental and DW Documentary are Deutsche Welle's most successful YouTube offerings.
The Arabic-language YouTube channel, DW Documentary Arabia, has been online since December 2018 - and also has more than one million subscribers since January 2021.
- Date 01.09.2020
- Author Anne Samba
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- Author Anne Samba
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