Telegram Channel Reach 2026: median views per subscriber by channel size, 3.2M public channels

Reach is the average number of views per post divided by the subscriber count, taken per channel; the dataset gives the median of that ratio for each size band.</p><p>Median reach: 31.4% on channels with 1,000 to 5,000 subscribers (7,179 channels measured), 15.8% at 5k to 20k (2,750), 9.1% at 20k to 100k (1,201), 6.0% at 100k to 500k (8,380, every channel in the band) and 3.3% above 500,000 subscribers (1,211, every channel in the band).

Of the channels with a known subscriber count, 85.7% have fewer than 1,000 subscribers and roughly 7,900 pass 100,000. Russian accounts for 27.0% of sampled channels, English 12.1%, Arabic 6.0% and Persian 5.6%.</p><p>Limits: Telegram's view counter includes views through forwards and web previews by non-subscribers, so reach can overstate the share of subscribers who saw a post; inflated subscriber counts pull it down.