Veteran Kapamilya Journalist Karen Davila celebrated as the YouTube channel of ABS-CBN News reached 11 million subscribers.
Recently, ABS-CBN News received a Diamond Creator Award from YouTube after reaching 10 million subscribers. After a month, their channel subscribers continued to grow, and ABS-CBN News gained another million.
Davila credited the 11 million subscriber-hit of their channel to the solid Kapamilya supporters and netizens.
WOW! Maraming salamat sa inyong tiwala KAPAMILYA!! https://t.co/dABdnalLRL
— Karen Davila (@iamkarendavila) December 14, 2020
In terms of YouTube subscribers, ABS-CBN News outpaces other Philippine news channels. GMA News has almost 8 million subs, News 5 has 2 million, and CNN Philippines only has 500k subs.
As the ABS-CBN network faced the non-renewal of their franchise, ABS-CBN News was one of the most affected.
Following the shutdown, ABS-CBN News went fully digital as they moved to online platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
Some ABS-CBN shows went back on the air via the A2Z channel however, the News department remained only online and off-air.
The ABS-CBN News YouTube channel streams the Kapamilya newscast show TV Patrol, TeleRadyo, Headline Pilipinas, The World Tonight, and others.
