AllBSides by the numbers

8,709 talks. 227 chapters. 5 continents. 280 days of runtime.

Combined viewership across the archive: 4.9M views. Median talk: 106 views. Most-viewed talk: 654K. Combined transcript text: 60M 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 2026-05-03 · numbers refresh on every deploy.

Archive

Talks
8,709
Speakers
5,316
unique
Chapters
227
Events
223
Countries
68
5 continents
Years covered
2011–2026
Total runtime
280 days
6,736 hours

Most prolific speakers

6,040 of 8,709 talks with speakers tagged · 31% not yet categorized

Geography

Top countries by event count

USA77

May is the peak BSides month — 29 events (17% of all dated events) land there, more than any other month.

Content shape

Top 10 chapters by talk count

8,709 of 8,709 talks linked to a chapter · all tagged

Talks per year

1'11
40'12
52'13
117'14
184'15
261'16
439'17
555'18
553'19
395'20
398'21
424'22
593'23
481'24
1,003'25
212'26
20112026

Top topics

2,915 of 8,709 talks tagged with a topic · 67% not yet categorized

Top tools mentioned

674 of 8,709 talks with tools tagged · 92% not yet categorized

Category split

5,328 of 8,709 talks tagged with a category · 39% not yet categorized

Difficulty split

1,019 of 8,709 talks tagged with a difficulty · 88% not yet categorized

Team split

1,449 of 8,709 talks tagged with a team · 83% not yet categorized

Red880
Blue563

Style split

6,053 of 8,709 talks tagged with a style · 30% not yet categorized

Talk5,432
Demo375

Research-method split

849 of 8,709 talks tagged with a research · 90% not yet categorized

Transcript languages: 98% en, 1% es, 0% pl, 1% other (9,453 transcripts).

Site traffic (last 90 days)

89%bot ratiolast 90 days · 70,912 requests
Humans7,566
AI assistants (real-time, user behind them)889
AI trainers (scraping for model training)50,262
Crawlers (search engines, monitoring)12,138
Spoofed browsers26
Social previews31

Press blurb

AllBSides.com is an independent archive of every Security BSides conference talk recorded to YouTube. As of May 2026, the archive includes 8,709 talks from 5,316 unique speakers across 227 chapters and 68 countries on 5 continents. Combined runtime: 280 days. Combined viewership: 4.9M views. Combined transcript text: 60M words. Numbers refresh on every site rebuild.

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