Video Editing Software on Wikipedia Study

Key takeaways

1. CapCut's article drew 1,084,723 human views on English Wikipedia from October 2025 to September 2026, 49% of the 18 video editors we tracked and 3.6 times DaVinci Resolve (299,032). The article only took off in February 2024, when its monthly views jumped from 520 to 11,877. See details
2. DaVinci Resolve passed Adobe Premiere in April 2024, counting three-month totals, and has stayed ahead; over the last 12 months it drew 2.2 times Premiere's views (138,846, Pro and Elements together). See details
3. Measured per billion English Wikipedia views, Adobe Premiere lost 69% and Final Cut Pro 70% between October 2020–September 2021 and October 2025–September 2026; DaVinci Resolve lost 8% and Kdenlive gained 25%. 14 of the 15 editors we could compare lost ground. See details
4. English Wikipedia's own human views fell 12% over the same five years; the Wikimedia Foundation links recent declines to AI answers in search and to social video. See details
5. CapCut's busiest day from December 2024 to March 2025 was January 19, 2025: 32,263 views, 2.4 times its early-December median, the day the U.S. law requiring TikTok's sale or shutdown took effect. See details

Which video editors get looked up most?

We counted the human views of 18 video editors' English Wikipedia articles, each article plus every redirect to it, over the 12 months from October 2025 to September 2026, using the Wikimedia Analytics API. CapCut's article drew 1,084,723 views, 49% of the 18 editors' total, followed by DaVinci Resolve (299,032), Adobe Premiere (138,846), iMovie (121,902), Vegas Pro (90,224) and Final Cut Pro (87,232).

CapCut's lead is recent. Its article drew a few hundred views a month until January 2024 (520), then 11,877 in February 2024 and more each month after. A twentyfold jump in a single month is more likely a change in where searches for CapCut land, such as a search engine starting to link the article, than a change in interest of that size; pageviews alone cannot tell the two apart.

When did DaVinci Resolve pass Premiere?

In April 2024, counting three-month totals: from then on, DaVinci Resolve's article drew more views than Adobe Premiere's in every three-month period. Over the last 12 months it drew 2.2 times as many. Wikipedia covers Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements in one article, so Premiere's count includes both, and all of the redirects people land on, such as "Adobe Premiere Pro".

Who gained and lost ground over five years?

Raw views fell for 14 of the 15 editors we could compare, partly because Wikipedia itself gets fewer human views (below). So we compare views per billion English Wikipedia views, between October 2020–September 2021 and October 2025–September 2026. Adobe Premiere fell 69% and Final Cut Pro 70%. DaVinci Resolve fell 8%, and Kdenlive was the only editor to gain (+25%). 14 of the 15 editors whose articles existed through both periods lost ground; CapCut, Microsoft Clipchamp and Wondershare Filmora had no article, or almost no views, five years ago.

CapCut and the TikTok law

CapCut's busiest day from December 2024 to March 2025 was January 19, 2025, with 32,263 views, 2.4 times its median day in the first half of December 2024 (13,175). That was the day the U.S. law requiring TikTok's sale or shutdown took effect (Supreme Court). Views fell back within days.

Wikipedia itself is getting fewer views

English Wikipedia's human views fell 12.2% between October 2020–September 2021 and October 2025–September 2026, from 91.6 billion to 80.4 billion. In October 2025 the Wikimedia Foundation reported human pageviews roughly 8% lower over the preceding months than in the same months of 2024, and linked the decline to search engines answering questions directly and to younger people looking things up on social video (Wikimedia Foundation). It also reclassified some 2025 traffic as bots built to look human, so it asks readers to compare periods with care; both of our periods are outside the months it revised.

What this means

• Lookups are not users. A Wikipedia view shows someone wanted to know what an editor is, often because a search engine sent them; it does not count people editing with it.
• The relative shift is the signal. Raw views fell with Wikipedia's; per billion views, Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve did far better than Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
• News moves lookups for days, not months. CapCut's January 2025 peak faded within the week.

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How we ran the study

Editors. 18 video editors with an English Wikipedia article: Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Avidemux, Camtasia, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Kdenlive, Lightworks, Microsoft Clipchamp, OpenShot, Pinnacle Studio, PowerDirector, Shotcut, Vegas Pro, VSDC Free Video Editor, Wondershare Filmora.

Views. Monthly page views from the Wikimedia Analytics API for the user agent type, which leaves out spiders and traffic Wikimedia's bot detection classifies as automated (page view definition), across desktop, mobile web and the apps. For each editor we added the views of every redirect to its article, so renamed and merged articles keep their history. Read October 31, 2026.

Comparisons. The last 12 full months (October 2025 to September 2026) against the same 12 months five years earlier (October 2020 to September 2021), per billion English Wikipedia human views in each period. An editor is compared only if its article had at least 100 views in every month of both periods. "Passed" means DaVinci Resolve's three-month total stayed above Premiere's for at least 12 months running from that month.

Limitations

• Interest, not use. Views measure lookups; heavy users of an editor rarely need its Wikipedia article.
• Search engines decide a lot. Where a search for an editor lands (Wikipedia, the maker's site, an AI answer) changes views without any change in interest.
• English Wikipedia only. Other language editions organize these articles differently (English Wikipedia's Premiere article links to 2 other languages, DaVinci Resolve's to 21), so totals across languages would not compare like for like.
• Bot filtering changes over time. Some automated traffic may still count as human, and the rules differ between the two periods.

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Sources

Summary per editor (CSV) · Monthly views per editor (CSV)

Widely quoted video statistics on other topics are traced to their origin, with a verdict on each, in our research fact-check.

1. Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Analytics API: Page view analytics. Accessed 2026-10-31.
2. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, Research:Page view (the page view definition). Accessed 2026-10-31.
3. Wikimedia Wikitech, Bot detection. Accessed 2026-10-31.
4. Wikimedia Foundation (Diff), New User Trends on Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-10-31.
5. Supreme Court of the United States, TikTok Inc. v. Garland, No. 24-656 (January 17, 2025). Accessed 2026-10-31.

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• October 31, 2026: First published.