Last year during Buffer Festival I made this post breaking down the demographics of Featured Guests

Last year during Buffer Festival I made this post breaking down the demographics of Featured Guests doing content at the various big YouTube events throughout 2014. I knew they tended to be largely white and male, but looking at the actual numbers made it even more maddeningly clear how big the discrepancy was.As Buffer Festival 2015 has just wrapped up, I wanted to see if/how the numbers have changed in the past year. I feel like the general consensus in the community is that things are “getting better,” but let’s see how much better.Last year, the highest percentage of female Featured Guests at any of these events was 32%. This year all of the events were over 40% women. It’s not ideal, but it’s definitely progress, and personally I’m pretty pleased!But on the race side things are still less than impressive. Last year the highest percentage of PoC at any event was 16%, and this year it’s 18%. Which is still less than 1 out of 5 Featured Guests being anything other than white. :/As always, I encourage you to share your thoughts directly with the event organizers and recommend any creators of color you think would be awesome for their event!Playlist Live: Website / Twitter / TumblrVidCon: [email protected] / Twitter / TumblrSummer in the City: [email protected] / Twitter / TumblrBuffer Festival: Website / Twitter / TumblrSome notes:The numbers are taken from the Featured Guest list on each event’s website. There may have been more or fewer at the actual events.Discrepancies in total Guest numbers between an event’s Gender and Race graphs is due to some listed Guests being multiple people (bands, channels with multiple hosts, etc.). Listed Guests with more than one race or gender were counted more than once where applicable.Playlist Live numbers are from their DC event this year rather than Orlando because I couldn’t access the Orlando Guest list on the Wayback Machine like I did last year.My counting of race and gender is primary visual. It’s possible that some white-passing or very feminine or masculine presenting non-binary folks may have been misplaced. (But I did try to research people I wasn’t sure on). If you know I have missed someone, let me know! -- source link

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