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YouTube Researcher Program

YouTube (Google)

NontraditionalIn-kind resource

Scaled access to YouTube's public data corpus, with as much quota as the research requires, global data, and technical support from YouTube staff, for academic researchers with a clear research goal who intend to publish. The researcher applies to use the data in their own study.

Indicative award
Not a cash award (not a cash award)In-kind data access (API quota) and staff technical support; the pages state no cash award and say nothing about fees.
Timing
Varies by programmeNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Neither the programme home page nor the policies page states an application window or processing time; applications go through a Google Support form.
Who can apply
Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Any faculty rank
Eligibility
Applicant must be a student, research-focused staff member or faculty member at an accredited, degree-granting higher-education institution, with a clear research goal and intent to publish; Alphabet/Google interns, temps, vendors and consultants are excluded. Countries are not specified.
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Special Interest Groups
Topics
social media data · platform data access · youth media use · online communities · computational social science
Apply at
https://research.youtube/policies/
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-24. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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