I'm a little dubious about the "61% of developers now prefer video-based content over text tutorials" claim though. It's not clear where www.amraandelma.com get that stat from, but I'm willing to bet it's: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/
But that says something different. It's under "Respondents learning to code use YouTube for community more than professional developers" and the 61% is a ranking of community platforms. YouTube is high, and it is above other text based platforms, but I don't think this says anything about tutorial preferences. It's also a bit hard to believe how high Stack Overflow scores, but I guess that's the bias (only people that use StackOverflow filled in the survey).
Hi Adrian! Yes! That survey was the basis for this article and that's completely fair! I think it's a bias of any developer survey where developers have to opt in to taking.
For example, as a web dev, I always love the results of the State of CSS survey. As I've read it over the past few years, I've realized it really represents the developers that really like or really dislike something, but it can be a little faint for the developers in the middle ground who don't have a super strong opinion. What you stated is true here as well: only people the know about the survey or are in the State of CSS community filled it out.
Here's how I interpreted this: developers prefer video based content in general over text tutorials. Meaning, video deep dives, reviews, commentary, narratives, and more over text tutorials. I didn't see this as YouTube tutorial vs. text tutorial, but developer content consumption via video vs. text tutorials.
Ok. I think it would ok to draw a general inference that video content is important and becoming more so, but the "61%" figure is very misleading here. (But that's on amraandelma.com, not you).
Thanks so much for your thoughts! If you thought this, it’s likely that other people did too. I just added a note to myself to clean up this metric so it’s not so misleading 😊
Hey, great article!
I'm a little dubious about the "61% of developers now prefer video-based content over text tutorials" claim though. It's not clear where www.amraandelma.com get that stat from, but I'm willing to bet it's: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/
But that says something different. It's under "Respondents learning to code use YouTube for community more than professional developers" and the 61% is a ranking of community platforms. YouTube is high, and it is above other text based platforms, but I don't think this says anything about tutorial preferences. It's also a bit hard to believe how high Stack Overflow scores, but I guess that's the bias (only people that use StackOverflow filled in the survey).
Hi Adrian! Yes! That survey was the basis for this article and that's completely fair! I think it's a bias of any developer survey where developers have to opt in to taking.
For example, as a web dev, I always love the results of the State of CSS survey. As I've read it over the past few years, I've realized it really represents the developers that really like or really dislike something, but it can be a little faint for the developers in the middle ground who don't have a super strong opinion. What you stated is true here as well: only people the know about the survey or are in the State of CSS community filled it out.
Here's how I interpreted this: developers prefer video based content in general over text tutorials. Meaning, video deep dives, reviews, commentary, narratives, and more over text tutorials. I didn't see this as YouTube tutorial vs. text tutorial, but developer content consumption via video vs. text tutorials.
Ok. I think it would ok to draw a general inference that video content is important and becoming more so, but the "61%" figure is very misleading here. (But that's on amraandelma.com, not you).
Thanks so much for your thoughts! If you thought this, it’s likely that other people did too. I just added a note to myself to clean up this metric so it’s not so misleading 😊