Observatory

YOUPOL / Explore
Public figures named

Who is named, and by whom.

A closed list of 238 public figures, parties, organisations, media and countries, recognised in the transcribed sentences and counted video by video. A private person named in a video is never counted.

The podium of the last seven days transcribed sentences naming them
  1. Donald Trump 192 sentences 31 videos · 6 channels
  2. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon 95 sentences 23 videos · 5 channels
  3. Éric Duhaime 79 sentences 18 videos · 4 channels
  1. 04 Mark Carney 42 14 videos · 5 channels
  2. 05 François Legault 33 13 videos · 4 channels
  3. 06 Emmanuel Macron 17 4 videos · 2 channels
  4. 07 Elon Musk 17 4 videos · 2 channels
  5. 08 Justin Trudeau 12 5 videos · 3 channels
  6. 09 Yves-François Blanchet 8 5 videos · 3 channels
  7. 10 Marine Le Pen 8 4 videos · 3 channels

Transcribed sentences of the videos published in the last seven days that name the person. The bar gives the channel orientation. Recent videos take a few days to be transcribed.

People, last thirty days
  1. 01 Donald Trump 2,695 208 videos · 8 channels
  2. 02 Jeffrey Epstein 148 50 videos · 5 channels
  3. 03 Joe Biden 134 56 videos · 6 channels
  4. 04 Benjamin Netanyahu 100 32 videos · 5 channels
  5. 05 Vladimir Putin 93 29 videos · 2 channels
  6. 06 Barack Obama 75 42 videos · 6 channels
  7. 07 Volodymyr Zelensky 71 19 videos · 2 channels
  8. 08 Pete Hegseth 68 28 videos · 4 channels
  9. 09 JD Vance 57 20 videos · 4 channels
  10. 10 Marco Rubio 54 26 videos · 5 channels
Parties, last thirty days
  1. 01 Parti républicain 478 105 videos · 7 channels
  2. 02 Parti démocrate 304 93 videos · 6 channels
Who names whom, last thirty daysshare of the sentences naming the person, by channel orientation
Donald Trump2,695 Left 88%Culture 10%
Jeffrey Epstein148 Left 79%Culture 19%
Joe Biden134 Left 84%Culture 10%
Benjamin Netanyahu100 Left 70%Culture 25%
Vladimir Putin93 Left 98%
Barack Obama75 Left 76%Culture 19%
Pete Hegseth68 Left 96%
Far rightConservative rightLeftCulture
Donald Trump2,695 0%2%88%10%
Joe Biden134 6%84%10%
Barack Obama75 5%76%19%
Pete Hegseth68 1%96%3%

Each row adds up to 100% and gives the share of the sentences naming the person spoken on the channels of each orientation. Corpus sizes weigh in. The far right and the left have the most channels.

Same measure over thirty days. Each record details the months, the orientations and the channels. Public figures over time

The list

Every entry, by category.

People 76

Parties 2

Organisations 15

Media 7

Countries and territories 9

Number of videos of the last twelve months whose transcript names the entry at least once. Full counts, by month and by orientation, are on each record.

Project paper