AllBSides by the numbers

8,575 talks. 227 chapters. 6 continents. 280 days of runtime.

Combined viewership across the archive: 4.8M views. Median talk: 107 views. Most-viewed talk: 654K. Combined transcript text: 60M words. The top 1% of talks (85 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 2026-05-06 · numbers refresh on every deploy.

Archive

Talks
8,575
Speakers
5,901
unique
Chapters
227
Events
224
Countries
68
6 continents
Years covered
2011–2026
Total runtime
280 days
6,733 hours

Most prolific speakers

6,812 of 8,575 talks with speakers tagged · 21% 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

8,575 of 8,575 talks linked to a chapter · all tagged

Talks per year

1'11
40'12
49'13
117'14
185'15
260'16
443'17
550'18
572'19
483'20
517'21
567'22
700'23
596'24
1,120'25
223'26
20112026

Top topics

3,606 of 8,575 talks tagged with a topic · 58% not yet categorized

Top technologies mentioned

4,670 of 8,575 talks with technologies tagged · 46% not yet categorized

Nmap249

Technologies by category

3,993 of 4,004 technologies categorized · 0% not yet categorized

Tool2,193
Platform355
Service310
Framework198
Hardware134
Protocol132
Language52
Malware79
Standard93
Concept308
Vendor139

Category split

6,135 of 8,575 talks tagged with a category · 28% not yet categorized

Difficulty split

1,264 of 8,575 talks tagged with a difficulty · 85% not yet categorized

Team split

1,729 of 8,575 talks tagged with a team · 80% not yet categorized

Red1,040
Blue681

Style split

6,897 of 8,575 talks tagged with a style · 20% not yet categorized

Talk6,220
Demo431

Research-method split

1,052 of 8,575 talks tagged with a research · 88% not yet categorized

Transcript languages: 98% en, 1% es, 0% pl, 1% other (9,469 transcripts).

Site traffic (last 90 days)

87%bot ratiolast 90 days · 221,998 requests
Humans29,472
AI assistants (real-time, user behind them)19,515
AI trainers (scraping for model training)106,499
Crawlers (search engines, monitoring)65,665
Spoofed browsers136
Social previews711

Press blurb

AllBSides.com is an independent archive of every Security BSides conference talk recorded to YouTube. As of May 2026, the archive includes 8,575 talks from 5,901 unique speakers across 227 chapters and 68 countries on 6 continents. Combined runtime: 280 days. Combined viewership: 4.8M views. Combined transcript text: 60M words. Numbers refresh on every site rebuild.

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