The channel of CONFIDENTIAL in Youtube This Sunday, November 27, it surpassed 400,000 subscribers, leading the ranking of the digital media with the largest audience in Nicaragua.
Since the dictatorship prohibited the diffusion of This week Y Tonight, on Channel 12 and the cable system in January 2019the channel
of CONFIDENTIAL on YouTube, it has had exponential growth.
CONFIDENTIAL on YouTube, directed by the journalist Carlos F. Chamorro, registers an average of more than three million monthly views, from a large community of Nicaraguans living mainly in Nicaragua, the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, Canada and twenty more countries that are looking for reliable information in the face of the vacuum that the dictatorship has tried to impose.
50.3% of the audience of CONFIDENTIAL on YouTube it is in Nicaragua, 20% in the United States, 10% in Costa Rica and the remaining 20% in two dozen countries in the rest of America and Europe.
Among its playlists, it displays a wide and exclusive offer of quality audiovisual journalistic content, which includes in-depth interviews, analysis, comments, archives of historical value and special reports. In addition, the satirical humor of the news with the segments La Última Mirada News, and Noti Miér-Coles.
CONFIDENTIAL It has multiplied its number of subscribers twenty-fold since the social outbreak of the Rebellion in April 2018, when it had close to 20,000. In January 2019 it exceeded 100,000 and its average annual subscriber growth reaches 80,000.
Nicaraguan media with the most subscribers on YouTube
CONFIDENTIAL It ranks as the second media outlet with the most subscribers in Nicaragua, with an archive of 7,200 videos and 124 million views, since its creation in May 2012. In first place is the national media channel Canal 10, with more than 570,000 subscribers. , 37,200 videos, and 155.6 million views, as of May 2011.
In third place is the official channel Viva Nicaragua, and in fourth and fifth place are 100% Noticias and Nicaragua Investiga, respectively; both independent digital media that, like CONFIDENCIAL, continue to report from exile.
Independent journalism under attack and censorship
On two occasions, the regime has raided and confiscated the offices of CONFIDENTIAL and its audiovisual recording studios. He forced all his journalists into exile, and the censorship attempts persist, and they have gone from the physical and material to the Internet platforms.
In 2019, official media denounced our YouTube channel for alleged violation of “copyright”, for the use of news images of public interest, and of which the regime has deprived independent media. These complaints were intended to temporarily remove our daily publication from circulation.
On November 13, 2022, our YouTube channel also suffered a cyber attack that led to identity theft, as part of an international cryptocurrency scam scheme, which has affected various accounts around the world. YouTube suspended our channel as part of its protocol against this type of impersonation and successfully restored together with all your videos in less than 48 hours.
“These attacks are usually associated with the media that may be critical of political regimes, or sometimes they may be cyber attacks whose purpose is to spread information for fraudulent purposes.”said to CONFIDENTIAL, Agneris Sampieri, Public Policy Analyst for Latin America at Access Now.
Despite the criminalization, persecution, and different cyber attacks, the audience of CONFIDENTIAL continues to grow and its followers trust the professional journalism of its journalists, who have been on the front lines reporting on the human rights crisis, the covid-19 health emergency, the political and economic failure of the regime, the growing discontent of public officials and the massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguan migrants.
For the 500,000 subscribers on the Confidencial channel
In the midst of a context of acute repression, the closure of civic spaces, the concealment of public information and the dictatorship’s interest in ending freedom of the press and expression, the support of our audiences is essential to continue exercising more and better journalism in the fight to defeat censorship in Nicaragua, that’s why we invite you to subscribe, if you haven’t already done so, to our YouTube channel. Also, tune in and share all our content.
Only with your support will we be able to add more than 500,000 subscribers, and bring more and better information to the Nicaraguan audience to win the battle for truth.
