MeLa BitChute

MeLa BitChute is a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over 2.5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a commonly used alternative to YouTube. Additionally, the dataset includes a variety of video-level metadata, including comments, channel descriptions, and views for each video.

The dataset contains data from 3,036,190 videos, 61,229 channels, and 11,434,571 comments between June 28th, 2019 and December 31st, 2021. This dataset provides timestamped activities and estimates on views for the majority of channels and videos on the platform, allowing researchers to align BitChute videos with behavior on other platforms. Therefore, this dataset can facilitate both studies of BitChute in isolation and studies of BitChute’s role in the larger ecosystem.