AllBSides by the numbers

8,722 talks. 231 chapters. 6 continents. 285 days of runtime.

Combined viewership across the archive: 4.9M views. Median talk: 106 views. Most-viewed talk: 655K. Combined transcript text: 61M words. The top 1% of talks (87 videos by view count) accounts for 51% of all viewership — the rest are deeply niche, often the only video record of a specific technique.

Snapshot built 2026-06-14 · numbers refresh on every deploy.

OverviewTalks over time →

Archive

Talks
8,722
Speakers
6,077
unique
Chapters
231
Events
235
Technologies
4,217
Countries
68
6 continents
Years covered
2011–2026
Total runtime
285 days
6,860 hours

Most prolific speakers

7,005 of 8,722 talks with speakers tagged · 20% not yet tagged

Geography

Top countries by event count

USA80

May is the peak BSides month — 30 events (16% of all dated events) land there, more than any other month.

Content shape

Top 10 chapters by talk count

8,722 of 8,722 talks linked to a chapter · all tagged

Talks per year

6,621 of 8,722 talks tagged with a year · 24% not yet tagged

4'11
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127'14
209'15
275'16
467'17
574'18
605'19
502'20
512'21
562'22
692'23
594'24
1,124'25
269'26

Top topics

3,806 of 8,722 talks tagged with a topic · 56% not yet tagged

Top technologies mentioned

4,870 of 8,722 talks with technologies tagged · 44% not yet tagged

Nmap258

Technologies by category

4,217 of 4,217 technologies categorized · all tagged

Tool2,291
Platform380
Concept342
Service333
Framework207
Hardware146
Vendor143
Protocol140
Standard97
Malware83
Language55

Category split

6,304 of 8,722 talks tagged with a category · 28% not yet tagged

Difficulty split

1,408 of 8,722 talks tagged with a difficulty · 84% not yet tagged

Team split

1,804 of 8,722 talks tagged with a team · 79% not yet tagged

Red1,073
Blue723

Style split

7,097 of 8,722 talks tagged with a style · 19% not yet tagged

Talk6,430
Demo430

Research-method split

1,108 of 8,722 talks tagged with a research · 87% not yet tagged

Transcript languages: 98% en, 1% es, 0% hi, 1% other (9,708 transcripts).

Site traffic (last 90 days)

85%bot ratiolast 90 days · 1,447,378 visits
Crawlers (search engines, monitoring)706,488
AI trainers (scraping for model training)446,968
Humans211,695
AI assistants (real-time, user behind them)79,668
Social previews1,664
Spoofed browsers895

Press blurb

AllBSides.com is an independent archive of every Security BSides conference talk recorded to YouTube. As of June 2026, the archive includes 8,722 talks from 6,077 unique speakers across 231 chapters and 68 countries on 6 continents. Combined runtime: 285 days. Combined viewership: 4.9M views. Combined transcript text: 61M words. Numbers refresh on every site rebuild.

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