Telegram post statistics: 1.8 million posts a day, half with a photo
We read the last 100 posts of 256,822 public Telegram channels, 24.5 million posts in all. The 178,199 active ones publish about 1.8 million posts a day; the typical channel posts 1.3 times a day, 49% of posts carry a photo, 29% are text only and 17% carry a video
The 178,199 active public Telegram channels we track publish about 1.8 million posts a day, and the typical channel posts 1.3 times a day. 49.2% of posts carry a photo, 29% are text only and 16.8% contain a video. The figures come from 24,465,971 posts of 256,822 channels, read between October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026.
How many posts do Telegram channels publish a day?
The median active channel posts 1.3 times a day. A quarter post less than 0.37 times a day and a quarter more than 4.9; the 90th percentile is 15. 56% of active channels post at least once a day, 14.2% ten times or more and 2.8% fifty times or more, while 14.6% are active but post less than once a week. Added up, these channels publish about 1.8 million posts a day. That is the public channels in our index only, not all of Telegram.
| Subscribers | Active channels | Median posts a day | Median views per post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10K | 87,995 | 0.93 | 1,060 |
| 10K–50K | 71,352 | 1.6 | 2,800 |
| 50K–100K | 10,520 | 3 | 7,270 |
| 100K–500K | 7,442 | 4 | 15,975 |
| 500K–1M | 515 | 7.1 | 40,150 |
| 1M+ | 375 | 8.2 | 72,250 |
Bigger channels post more often: channels with under 10K subscribers post 0.93 times a day at the median, channels with 1M+ subscribers 8.2.
What do Telegram posts contain?
89.2% of posts have text. Photos are in 49.2% of posts and videos in 16.8%, while 29% are text only. One post can carry several things: an album of photos counts as both Photo and Album, and a link preview can sit under a text. The shares therefore do not add up to 100%. 0.8% of posts are ones the web version cannot show.
| Post contains | Share of all posts |
|---|---|
| Photo | 49.21% |
| Text only | 28.98% |
| Video | 16.77% |
| Album | 14.22% |
| Link preview | 5.19% |
| File | 1.65% |
| Video message | 1.29% |
| Poll | 1.07% |
| Sticker | 1.10% |
| Voice message | 0.56% |
| Music | 0.59% |
| Location | 0.01% |
How long are Telegram posts?
89.2% of posts have text, a caption or both. The typical length differs by language: the median text is 399 characters in German channels and 126 in Arabic channels. The full distribution and the 1,024 and 4,096 character limits are in the character limit study.
How many views does a Telegram post get?
The median of the channels' median post is 1,860 views. A quarter of active channels get fewer than 709 views on a typical post, a quarter more than 4,830, and the top tenth more than 12,400. Size is the main driver: the median post gets 1,060 views in channels with under 10K subscribers and 72,250 in channels with 1M+ (see the table above). Views are counted on posts older than a day. For views as a share of subscribers, see the reach study.
How many posts get reactions, forwards and edits?
68% of posts have at least one reaction, and 85.6% of active channels received reactions on some post. 3.5% of posts received Stars, in 24.8% of channels (see the Stars study). 8.2% of posts are forwards, and 55% of channels forward at least one post (see the forwards study). 12.3% of posts were edited after publishing, 3.5% reply to an earlier post and 12.4% carry an author signature; 15.6% of channels sign posts. 3.3% have inline buttons, 51.8% contain a link (see the links study) and 13.8% a hashtag. Reaction rates by channel size and emoji are in the reactions study.
| Signal | Share of posts |
|---|---|
| At least one reaction | 68% |
| Stars received | 3.5% |
| Contains a link | 51.8% |
| Hashtag | 13.8% |
| Edited after publishing | 12.3% |
| Forwarded from another channel | 8.2% |
| Author signature | 12.4% |
| Inline buttons | 3.3% |
| Reply to an earlier post | 3.5% |
How do languages differ?
Hebrew channels post most often, with a median of 8.2 posts a day, and Amharic channels least, with 0.92. Arabic channels have the most text-only posts (48.8%) and Vietnamese the fewest (11.5%). German channels link most often (74.2% of posts), Arabic least (27.1%). Burmese channels forward most (34.2%).
| Language | Active channels | Posts a day (median) | Photo | Video | Text only | With a link | Forwarded | Median text length (chars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian | 48,692 | 1.3 | 56.3% | 19.3% | 20.9% | 50.9% | 5.6% | 314 |
| English | 18,205 | 1.2 | 48.4% | 12.7% | 32.4% | 56% | 9.7% | 182 |
| Persian | 15,344 | 2.5 | 39.8% | 16% | 37.3% | 70.6% | 8% | 213 |
| Arabic | 14,778 | 1 | 31.8% | 10.4% | 48.8% | 27.1% | 9.8% | 126 |
| Uzbek | 6,802 | 2.5 | 41.1% | 26.3% | 25% | 64.7% | 11.4% | 245 |
| Chinese | 5,683 | 1.1 | 60.8% | 27.4% | 20.6% | 62.4% | 8% | 159 |
| Spanish | 2,736 | 1.9 | 48.4% | 15% | 33.4% | 55.8% | 8.8% | 223 |
| Ukrainian | 2,441 | 5 | 49.7% | 14% | 35.3% | 58.8% | 5.7% | 299 |
| Burmese | 1,400 | 3.5 | 70.6% | 15.6% | 13.2% | 70.3% | 34.2% | 386 |
| Italian | 1,138 | 2.8 | 47.5% | 9.7% | 40.7% | 73.5% | 6.6% | 267 |
| French | 1,075 | 1.1 | 53.5% | 16.6% | 24% | 55.5% | 16.3% | 288 |
| Amharic | 1,008 | 0.92 | 50.5% | 7.5% | 36.1% | 55% | 11.5% | 234 |
| German | 947 | 1.7 | 44.8% | 22.5% | 29.4% | 74.2% | 20.8% | 399 |
| Portuguese | 851 | 2 | 50.7% | 15.9% | 25.7% | 63.6% | 8.6% | 202 |
| Hindi | 611 | 1.8 | 40.1% | 6.6% | 37.8% | 38.3% | 10.8% | 138 |
| Indonesian | 596 | 1.4 | 46.2% | 9.1% | 37.1% | 51.8% | 9.3% | 184 |
| Turkish | 561 | 5.9 | 57.4% | 14.5% | 23.3% | 43.9% | 7.5% | 191 |
| Vietnamese | 357 | 2.4 | 63.8% | 22.4% | 11.5% | 68.6% | 11.7% | 250 |
| Hebrew | 329 | 8.2 | 39.5% | 20.5% | 39.5% | 53.7% | 4.5% | 207 |
| Kurdish | 300 | 1.3 | 37.2% | 19.5% | 36.3% | 51.4% | 8.4% | 195 |
Which topics post most often?
News channels post most often, 5.9 posts a day at the median, and music channels least, 0.53. Polls are most common in education channels, where 4.9% of posts are polls.
| Topic | Active channels | Posts a day | Photo | Video | Text only | Polls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News | 22,592 | 5.9 | 48.6% | 20.7% | 30.1% | 0.2% |
| Sport | 3,103 | 4.6 | 57.5% | 17% | 21.7% | 0.4% |
| Shopping and deals | 3,126 | 4.1 | 69.8% | 12.6% | 18.1% | 0.1% |
| Jobs and careers | 1,940 | 3.4 | 35.2% | 2.4% | 60.7% | 0.2% |
| Finance | 4,049 | 2.3 | 47.2% | 6.1% | 41.7% | 0.5% |
| Fashion | 872 | 1.7 | 70.8% | 21.1% | 10.1% | 0.3% |
| Cars | 1,405 | 1.7 | 59.8% | 23.1% | 13.1% | 0.5% |
| Real estate | 542 | 1.6 | 60.3% | 18.7% | 18.8% | 0.4% |
| Humor and memes | 3,996 | 1.5 | 38.3% | 20.6% | 34.1% | 0.3% |
| Esoteric | 857 | 1.4 | 39.1% | 16.1% | 36.6% | 0.6% |
| Announcements | 544 | 1.3 | 44.8% | 9.2% | 39.4% | 1.1% |
| Beauty | 3,044 | 1.3 | 67.1% | 23.9% | 10.3% | 0.3% |
| Books | 587 | 1.3 | 58.7% | 7.7% | 27.3% | 0.6% |
| Events and local | 5,912 | 1.3 | 45.3% | 16.8% | 32.9% | 0.6% |
| Games | 3,630 | 1.1 | 58.1% | 11.9% | 23.1% | 0.6% |
| Business | 3,154 | 1.1 | 57.1% | 14.3% | 26% | 0.5% |
| Travel | 1,074 | 1.1 | 57.6% | 27.1% | 14.9% | 0.4% |
| Entertainment | 1,611 | 1 | 45% | 26.9% | 20.6% | 0.4% |
| Activities | 532 | 1 | 48.4% | 16.7% | 31.7% | 0.7% |
| Education | 13,438 | 1 | 40.4% | 10% | 35.5% | 4.9% |
| Anime | 1,216 | 1 | 58.4% | 18% | 16.2% | 0.4% |
| Religion | 5,195 | 0.97 | 26.8% | 14.8% | 47.6% | 0.9% |
| Aggregators | 590 | 0.92 | 55.9% | 11.7% | 28.8% | 0.4% |
| Food | 1,142 | 0.9 | 48% | 41% | 10.5% | 0.4% |
| Law | 411 | 0.9 | 34.3% | 7.8% | 47.6% | 3.7% |
| Crypto | 4,255 | 0.87 | 55.8% | 5.9% | 34.4% | 0.4% |
| Motivation | 1,406 | 0.87 | 34.8% | 14.1% | 44.7% | 0.5% |
| Psychology | 707 | 0.87 | 40.1% | 13% | 38.5% | 0.9% |
| Health and fitness | 3,055 | 0.8 | 45.5% | 23.1% | 26% | 1.4% |
| Blogs | 2,860 | 0.8 | 47.9% | 21% | 24% | 0.4% |
| Art | 1,338 | 0.77 | 65.4% | 13.5% | 15.2% | 0.3% |
| Design | 707 | 0.77 | 56.8% | 20.3% | 15% | 0.4% |
| AI | 496 | 0.77 | 50.3% | 19.1% | 26.2% | 0.7% |
| Life hacks | 780 | 0.73 | 43.3% | 21% | 31.3% | 0.3% |
| Marketing | 361 | 0.6 | 55.5% | 15.6% | 26% | 0.6% |
| Technology | 5,022 | 0.57 | 47.9% | 11.5% | 31.6% | 0.7% |
| Music | 1,726 | 0.53 | 35.5% | 26.4% | 23.6% | 0.4% |
Videos, voice messages and live streams
The median video lasts 26 seconds. 76.4% of videos are a minute or shorter and 2.8% are longer than ten minutes. Round video messages, which Telegram caps at one minute, have a median of 28 seconds, and voice messages 60 seconds. We saw 19,815 finished live streams in the window; the median lasted 42 minutes and 37.3% ran an hour or longer. More about file types and sizes is in the files study.
Polls and quizzes
We found 261,652 polls, 62.5% of them quizzes. The median poll has 4 options and the most we saw is 10. The median channel gets 192 votes per 1,000 views of a poll. How that compares with other ways of reacting is in the engagement benchmarks.
What this does not measure
Only public channels with a web page are counted, and they are the largest ones in our index: no groups, no private channels, no chats. We read the last 100 posts of each channel, so a very active channel contributes a shorter time window than a quiet one. Telegram rounds large view counts (372K). Daily totals are for these channels, not for all of Telegram. 384,849 service messages, such as "Channel created" and pinned posts, are left out of the shares. For how often to post, see how often to post on Telegram; for how many channels exist, see the channel census.
Questions and answers
How many posts are published on Telegram channels every day?
The 178,199 active public channels in the TGScope index publish about 1.8 million posts a day between them. This counts public channels with a web page, not all of Telegram.
How often does a typical Telegram channel post?
The median active channel posts 1.3 times a day. 56% of active channels post at least once a day and 14.2% post ten or more times.
What share of Telegram posts are photos or videos?
49.2% of posts contain a photo and 16.8% a video. 29% are text only. A post can carry more than one type, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
How many views does a Telegram post get?
The median active channel gets 1,860 views on a typical post, and a quarter get fewer than 709. Size matters: the median is 1,060 views for channels with under 10K subscribers and 72,250 for 1M+ subscribers.
What percentage of Telegram posts get reactions?
68% of posts have at least one reaction. 85.6% of active channels received reactions on at least one of their last 100 posts.
Method
Posts. The last 100 posts (up to 119, whole pages) of 256,822 public channels from the TGScope index, read from the public web version of each channel between October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026. The channels are the largest public channels in the index by subscribers; channels without a public web page are not included.
Active channels: latest post at most 30 days before collection: 178,199 channels. The median active channel's 100 posts cover 75 days.
Languages and topics: TGScope channel labels, available for 169,749 of the 256,822 channels; groups with fewer than 300 active channels are not shown.
Formats come from the attachments the web version shows. Posts a day: posts in the last 30 days, or, when a channel's last 100 posts cover less than 30 days, those posts divided by the days they cover. Views use posts older than one day.
Data and citation
The aggregates behind this article are in one file: telegram-post-statistics.json. It holds counts and shares only.
To cite this study: