Carlos Santana Vega, known online as Dotcsv, is a Spanish science communicator who has built one of the most substantive artificial intelligence education channels in the Spanish-speaking internet.
Total Followers +0.2%
1.5M
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
920K followers · 63% of audience
Engagement
5.6%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. $2.1K–$5.3K / IG post
Continuing his yearly tradition, Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) released 24 interactive predictions on the trajectory of artificial intelligence in 2026, with followers able to endorse each one individually.
Carlos Santana gave an on-stage presentation covering AI's evolution from its 1950s–60s origins through modern applications, filmed and published on his YouTube channel.
Researchers Tamara Morte Nadal and Patricia Gascón Vera published a chapter in 'Espejo de Monografías de Comunicación Social' (No. 36, 2025) analysing Dotcsv's most viral content as a model of science communication.
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
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| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | +96 +0.1% | +0 +0.0% | +96 |
| Last 30 days | +1K +0.1% | +743 +0.7% | +468 +0.1% | +2K |
| Last 90 days | +3K +0.3% | +1K +1.2% | -298 -0.1% | +4K |
| Last 365 days | +3K +0.3% | +1K +1.2% | -298 -0.1% | +4K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Carlos Santana Vega, known online as Dotcsv, is a Spanish science communicator who has built one of the most substantive artificial intelligence education channels in the Spanish-speaking internet. The handle itself is a deliberate signal: .csv is the workhorse file format of data science, establishing technical credibility before a single video loads. His YouTube output covers a wide register — from hands-on guides to running local AI tools, to rigorous analyses of multimodal models and AGI timelines — delivered with a depth uncommon in mainstream science communication. That approach has earned him an engagement rate multiple times the category median, indicating an audience that actively participates rather than passively scrolls.
His viewership skews heavily male and concentrates in the 18–44 age band, spread across Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia, making Dotcsv a rare pan-Hispanic voice in a space still dominated by English-language creators. That geographic footprint is commercially meaningful: Spanish-speaking tech professionals represent a fast-growing but underserved audience for enterprise software, cloud platforms, and edtech brands. With no comparable competitor occupying the 'rigorous AI education in Spanish' position at similar scale, Dotcsv is naturally positioned to deepen partnerships with technology and developer-tools brands seeking credible access to Latin American and Iberian markets as AI adoption accelerates across the region.
Dotcsv reaches an audience concentrated in ESP primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. As a tech creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. With no brand deals logged yet, they read as an available, category-aligned partner for advertisers building early presence in the space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 5.6%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows tech content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For ESP-focused brands in tech and related categories, Dotcsv offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Dotcsv's tier (Macro, 1.5M combined followers, ESP). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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The name references the .csv file extension — a standard data format used in data science and machine learning — signaling that the creator comes from a technical, data-oriented background. It sets the channel's tone before a viewer even presses play: this is AI content built around real understanding, not hype.
100 horas de ML (100 Hours of Machine Learning) is an extended educational series Dotcsv produced on YouTube, designed to guide Spanish-speaking learners through machine learning from the ground up. It is one of his signature long-form projects and a key reason his community developed around structured, serious AI learning rather than casual content consumption.
Dotcsv published a dedicated analysis of GPT-4o framing it as OpenAI's major strategic bet on multimodal AI — systems capable of handling text, audio, and images together. He broke down what the multimodal direction means for the broader trajectory of AI development, consistent with his focus on explaining the 'why' behind big industry moves.
Dotcsv has dedicated a full video to the question ¿Qué es la AGI? ¿Cuándo llegará la Inteligencia Artificial General?, exploring both the definition and realistic timeline for Artificial General Intelligence. He also tracks the research on superhuman reasoning systems as a related thread running through his channel's coverage of frontier AI.
One of Dotcsv's recurring content formats covers free, locally runnable AI tools — he has published a guide specifically organized around three tools he argues every curious person should know about. This fits his broader mission of making AI practical and hands-on for Spanish-speaking audiences, not just theoretical.
Yes — a core pillar of his channel is translating frontier AI research into clear Spanish-language explainers, including videos examining what major studies reveal about how AI works internally. For millions of Spanish speakers, his channel is one of the few places to access that level of analysis in their own language.
His engagement rate runs close to four times the typical benchmark for educational creators in his category, a gap that reflects a genuinely invested audience rather than passive viewers. His followers skew heavily toward adult men aged 18–44 who are actively interested in AI — an audience that comments, debates, and shares rather than scrolling past.
Dotcsv is based in Spain, which makes up the largest slice of his audience. His Spanish-language AI content has built substantial reach across Latin America as well, with Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia all representing major portions of his viewership.
Dotcsv's YouTube channel sits just under the one-million-subscriber mark, placing him in the Macro creator tier and among the largest dedicated AI education channels in the Spanish-speaking world. His combined following across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram pushes his total reach well past one and a half million.
Yes — Dotcsv maintains a TikTok presence with a following in the hundreds of thousands, using the platform to extend his AI education content into short-form video. His TikTok bio mirrors his channel's mission directly: ¡Aprende Inteligencia Artificial!, targeting Spanish speakers who want to understand AI in bite-sized formats.
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