Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • September 2014

Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • September 2014

• By Joshua Cohen
• On October 28, 2014

For its seventh month in a row, Felix Kjellberg‘s PewDiePie channel is in the #1 spot on the charts. The twenty-four-year-old’s online video library of Let’s Play videos, charitable campaigns, and the occasional personal vlog took a 13% hit in its month-over-month view count, but still scored a very impressive nearly 392.1 million views in the 30 days of September.

In second place is perennial chart-topper DisneyCollectorBR. The online video destination catering to toddlers and their parents dipped 4% in views on the month and bottomed out just shy of 311.9 million. Next up is StamphyLongHead. Despite a 13% decrease in views, the UK-based Minecreaft-er jumped up to third place with more than 189.6 million views during the month. That total was just barely good enough to beat out Katy Perry. The YouTube channel of the pop star who hasn’t released a major music video in several weeks amassed almost 188.5 million views.

And rounding out the Top 5 once again is Enrique Iglesias. The internationally well-known multi-hyphenate’s online video collection racked up more than 181.7 million views in the month.

Top Gainers

The honor of one of our Top Gainers this month goes to Unbox Therapy.

The Canadian channel “where products get naked” had a particularly great September thanks to its “iPhone 6 Bend Test” and the internet ephemeral phenomenon that was #Bendgate. The video showing beyond a reasonable doubt the iPhone 6 Plus can’t handle a strong flex quickly cracked an eight-figure view count and helped the Unbox Therapy channel increase its month-over-month view count by 1,201%. The channel ended the month in the #70 spot in the world with more than 69 million views.

Channel Distribution

The Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube channels this month amassed in aggregate a total of 10,103,957,776 views. Here’s a look at the distribution of those channels broken down by the most-represented YouTube Multi-Channel Networks on the chart:

• VEVO: 22 channels in the Top 100. Katy Perry is the network’s highest ranking channel at #4.
• Maker Studios: 9 channels in the Top 100, with PewDiePie at #1.
• Fullscreen, Machinima: 4 channels in the Top 100, with Fullscreen’s PopularMMOs at #14 and Machinima’s VanossGaming at #11.
• WMG: 3 channels in the Top 100, with Jason Derulo at #39.
• BuzzFeed, Movieclips, Munhwa, XMediaDigital: 2 channels each in the Top 100, with BuzzFeed’s BuzzFeed video at #21, Movieclips’ MovieclipsTrailers at #35, Munhwa’s MBCEntertainment at #30, and XMediaDigital’s mashamedvedtv at #22.

And here’s a look into the distribution of the this month’s Top 100 by country of origin:

• The United States: 51 channels in the Top 100.
• Great Britain: 10 channels in the Top 100.
• Spain, South Korea: 5 channels each in the Top 100.
• Russia: 4 channels in the Top 100.
• Canada, Japan: 3 channels each in the Top 100.
• Brazil, India, Thailand: 2 channels each in the Top 100.
• Chile, Colombia, France, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Sweden, United Arab Emirates: 1 channel each in the Top 100.

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OpenSlate is a video content analytics platform that tracks more than 220,000 YouTube video channels and measures their ability to attract, engage and influence an audience. By providing one consistent measure of quality – the SlateScore™ – OpenSlate helps marketers, producers and agencies hone their online video marketing strategy.