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Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Gaming Channels Worldwide • November 2015

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It’s time for another monthly installment of our Tubefilter Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Gaming Channels Chart and a familiar channel is back in the top spot.

Chart Toppers

A familiar face is once again in the #1 spot on the Gaming chart. Felix Kjellberg’s PewDiePie channel reclaimed the coveted position after a several-month hiatus. The world’s most subscribed and most viewed YouTube channel scored nearly 319.9 million views in the 30 days of November. In a semi-distant second place is TheDiamondMinecart. The British gamer’s constant supply of mostly Minecraft videos kept its view count almost constant with a slight 6% dip to bottom out at almost 243.3 million views.

In third place is VanossGaming. The top North American channel on the chart amassed more than 231.8 million views in the month.  And on the Canadian’s heels is the top U.S. gaming channel on the chart. PopularMMOs closed out the month just shy of 226.7 million views.

Rounding out the Top 5 is JackSepticEye. The Irish gamer and self-proclaimed “most energetic videogame commentator on YouTube” dipped 1% in views, but still racked up almost 224.5 million views on the month.

Top Gainers

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

The YouTube home of the 18-year-old British Josh Temple, who describes himself as someone who “makes videos on games and stuff and you watch them, sometimes” had a great month on YouTube. A steady stream of most Grand Theft Auto uploads, peppered with gameplay footage from sims Sims and other titles (along with your regular YouTube challenge video fare) helped his Slogoman channel to a 96% month-over-month increase in views, nearly 49 million views on the month, and the #45 spot on the worldwide gaming chart.

Channel Distribution

The Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Gaming Channels this month amassed in aggregate a total of 6,379,726,533. Here’s a look at the distribution of those channels broken down by the most-represented YouTube Multi-Channel Networks on the chart:

  • Maker Studios: 27 channels in the Top 100, with PewDiePie at #1.
  • Machinima: 15 channels in the Top 100, with VanossGaming at #3.
  • BroadbandTV: 7 channels in the Top 100, with fernanfloo at #8.
  • OmniaMediaCo: 6 channels in the Top 100, with TheAtlanticCraft at #32.
  • Divimove, Fullscreen: 5 channels each in the Top 100, with Divimove’s elrubiusOMG at #11 and Fullscreen’s popularmmos at #4.
  • VSP: 4 channels in the Top 100, with В Гостях У FrostA at #29.
  • Jetpak, Rooster Teeth, XMediaDigital: 2 channels each in the Top 100, with Jetpak’s TheSyndicateProject at #76, Rooster Teeth’s Rooster Teeth at #48, and XMediaDigital’s TheBrainDit at #30.

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

  • United States: 31 channels in the Top 100.
  • Great Britain: 14 channels in the Top 100.
  • Spain: 8 channels in the Top 100..
  • Brazil, Japan: 7 channels each in the Top 100. 
  • Canada, Russia: 5 channels each in the Top 100. 
  • Ireland, Netherlands, Ukraine: 3 channels each in the Top 100. 
  • Chile, Denmark, South Korea: 2 channels each in the Top 100. 
  • Australia, El Salvador, Finland, France, Italy, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland: 1 channel each in the Top 100.

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Jerry Seinfeld, President Obama Talk Politics And Underwear In New Episode Of ‘Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee’

Crackle just dropped a new episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with a very special guest. Host Jerry Seinfeld entertains the President of the United States, Barack Obama in the online original series’ season seven premiere dubbed “Just Tell Him You’re the President.”

The installment starts with Seinfeld talking like a gearhead about the 1963 Chevrolet Stingray Corvette. That’s the car the comedian chose to drive around the “‘are you kidding me,’ super-special guest” on the White House grounds. After the intro, the two head inside for coffee in the kitchen, where they proceed to talk about everything from historical Presidents to the brand of underwear in Obama’s dresser.

As it turns out, Seinfeld isn’t the only one dropping laugh out loud and kinda sorta funny lines throughout the episode. For example, when the comedian asks Obama how many world leaders are out of their minds, POTUS answers, “A pretty sizeable amount.” (Which, when typed out in text, actually seems like a more terrifying line that a funny one, but still.)

Crackle originally announced the Comedians in Cars episode with POTUS on December 21, 2015. Obama marks the series’ first guest whose primary job isn’t stand-up comedy or acting. The Commander-in-Chief is also the first political figure Seinfeld has interviewed on the show. That being said, it’s a fitting episode as the 2016 election campaigns ramp up while Obama finishes out his last few months in the White House.

Future guests on season seven of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee include comedians Will Ferrell, Steve Martin, Garry Shandling, Kathleen Madigan, and Sebastian Maniscalco. You can catch all future episodes of the series’ new season every Wednesday night on Crackle.com.

Netflix’s New Year’s Eve Countdowns Will Help Put Your Kids To Bed Early

Netflix will help parents ring in the New Year a little early and without having to worry about tired and cranky kids who refuse to go to bed before the ball drops. The streaming video platform released a series of New Year’s Eve countdown videos that parents can turn on at any point on December 31 to convince their children the New Year has arrived.

The New Year’s Eve countdown videos feature hosts from some of Netflix’s original children’s programming titles, including Care Bears & Cousins, Inspector Gadget, Puffin Rock, and Project MC2. Families can simply search for “New Year’s Eve” in Netflix and select which countdown video they want to watch. Then parents can just tell their kids the New Year has arrived and it’s time for bed, no matter how early it is. Netflix’s New Year’s Eve countdowns are available on the platform now through (presumably) December 31.

This isn’t the first time Netflix has helped parents trick their kids into going to bed early on New Year’s Eve. Last December, the streaming platform provided a countdown video featuring King Julien from its original DreamWorks Animation series All Hail King Julien (which is also featured in this year’s NYE countdown videos). The NYE countdown video was originally inspired by a Netflix study, which found 34% of parents try to get their kids to think it’s the New Year before it actually arrives.

So on New Year’s Eve, enjoy your childfree evening of celebration (and possibly some chill), courtesy of Netflix.

Vimeo’s Mood Screen Will Pick One Of 2015’s Best Videos For You

Vimeo decided to opt out of the traditional “best of” or “year in review” posts pumped out at the end of every year. Instead, the online video platform has created an interactive Mood Screen, which will randomly pull up one of 2015’s best video selections for you to enjoy based on any number of different feelings you might be experiencing at the given moment.

In a blog post, Vimeo writes how the company “didn’t bother trying” to conceive of an annual report or timeline, and instead focused on creating their own video iteration of the classic mood ring. Internet users can click anywhere on the Mood Screen and let the magical crystal icon “divine your current disposition using a mystifying combination of pixie dust and pixels.” Mood categories include happy, hangry, calm, anxious, and even the text emoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Based on a user’s (supposed) attitude at the moment, Vimeo will show a related clip considered to be one of 2015’s best videos on the platform.

“We decided to make something fun to show just how much we love you, our community, and all of the fabulous videos and creators within it,” Vimeo wrote in the blog post. “‘Tis the season for feeling all the feelings, so click away (or tap, if you’re on mobile) and share this moody, screeny experience with your friends and loved ones. That way, you won’t actually have to talk to them. Just jesting!”

You can check out the Vimeo Mood Screen here. Or, if you’re more of a fan of the traditional “best of” lists, you can read Vimeo’s list of 2015’s top videos.

YouTube Sees 11 Times More Viewing Hours Per Day Than Facebook

Facebook recently reached the eight billion video views per day milestone. While many experts, media outlets, and online video fans consider this number to be a big deal, YouTube still has the social media site beat in terms of one important measurement. The total number of hours viewed across Google’s entire online video site is currently 11 times that of Facebook.

According to a report from VentureBeat, site traffic and mobile analytics company SimilarWeb discovered Internet users in America spend far more time on YouTube’s desktop site and app than they do on Facebook. Based on data from 100 million tracked devices, U.S. online video viewers watch the equivalent of about 8,061 years on YouTube, and only 713 years on Facebook. That’s a whopping difference of 7,348 years per day.

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And those numbers only deal with American video viewers. When SimilarWeb expanded its study to include monitored internet users around the globe, the company found the world’s population watches about 46,000 years’ worth of YouTube content every day. While Facebook routinely gets over 100,000 years of attention per day, the social networking site can only claim 5,625 years of that total for video views.

Of course, one major factor plays into SimilarWeb’s watch time findings. Facebook counts a video view after only three seconds of watch time, as opposed to YouTube’s rumored 30-second requirement for a view to count. This implies online video viewers prefer to seek out and stick around to watch a YouTube video (i.e. they dole out their watch time more purposefully), whereas on Facebook videos auto-play in a users’ feed whether they were intending to watch the clip or not. In this sense, Facebook also trails YouTube in terms of understanding how to keep video viewers coming back for more content (and the site is already working to make sure stolen videos won’t count towards the attraction factor).

You can read more about SimilarWeb’s findings (as well as check out some of VentureBeat’s own survey stats) on YouTube vs. Facebook views by clicking here.

John Green Responds To Quora Users Asking Why He’s Not Worth More Than $5 Million

Quora isn’t normally a repository for information about notable online video celebrities. (That’s generally Reddit’s domain.) But one user on the question-and-answer website was particularly curious about why the very successful John Green – author of The Fault in Our Stars and more best-sellers, one half of the Vlogbrothers’, and co-founder of VidCon – is only worth an alleged $5 million. So, that user posed the question. And on December 26, Green himself stopped by Quora to answer it.

The original user-submitted query appears to have been written a while ago, as one Quora user responded as far back as April 2015. A total of seven users submitted their own theories and explanations as to why Green did not make the millions more that seem due him thanks to his multiple best-selling books and popular YouTube channels. One user named Clayburn Griffin, who claims to be a part of Green’s Nerdfighter community, notes that writing doesn’t actually pay that much, and for Green to have “$5 million, and some estimates put him over $10 million lately, is incredibly successful.”

“He is perhaps poorer than his level of fame might suggest, but that is easily explained by his own altruism,” Griffin continues. “Much of his fame is from non-profit endeavors. The Vlogbrothers channel doesn’t generate income directly for the Greens, and when it is used to raise money it goes toward charity and to support other projects.”

The Quora post has attracted over 400,000 views to date, as well as the aforementioned attention of Green himself. In his response, the author and YouTube star greets his fellow Quora users and says he wanted to jump in on the discussion about his salary because the Quora question is one of the top search results related to him. Green then provides these three explanations about his current financial status:

  1. When we imagine that people’s net worth is directly correlated with their value as a person or professional, I think we give money too much power.
  2. In my admittedly limited experience, the Internet is not particularly good at telling you how much money someone has.
  3. My family is incredibly lucky (and privileged) to have financial security. But I’m not sure what money can do beyond providing financial security. Like, I am not in need of a yacht. I feel like owning a yacht would stress me out.

Green doesn’t directly confirm or deny that he makes $5 million (or more). However, his answer to the original Quora poster’s burning question proves just how much more the YouTube creator cares about the way he thinks about money and handles it as opposed to the exact dollar figure in his possession.

Anatomy Of Viral Videos: ‘Pizza Rat’ Vs. ‘Boston Sunfish’

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One or two times per week, a remarkable user-generated video goes viral. It’s posted to major websites and blogs, shared heavily on social media, and likely licensed for use on TV news and lifestyle programs.

On the other hand, one or two times per year, there are videos that not only go viral, but go well beyond that to turn into genuine cultural events. In 2014, two of the videos that took on a life of their own were Hero Cat and Train Selfie Head Kick, which combined for more than 50 million views on YouTube. Hero Cat became a phenomenon – the feline was even invited to throw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game – and Jared Frank, the train selfie man himself, went on to do dozens of TV and radio interviews in the US and beyond.

2015 seemed like it was on a path to having a lot of great videos, but none that were transcendent. There was a remarkable clip of a gorilla unexpectedly charging the glass at a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska that gained a lot of attention back in April, but it didn’t quite have the ‘je ne sais quoi’ that makes a viral video become a pop-culture phenomenon.

But that all changed during the week of September 22, 2015, which saw not one, but incredibly, two viral videos, go off the rails and turn from popular online videos to cultural events. Skeptics need look no further than this piece from The New Yorker, which pits each video against the other for meme supremacy.

Pizza Rat

A 15-second video depicting a rodent carrying an entire slice of pizza into a NYC subway went viral in a way that few videos ever do.

Stephen Colbert, who featured the clip on the Late Show, said, “If you’re not familiar with Pizza Rat…the Internet blew up over this video,” and Conan O’Brien, meanwhile, put together a hilarious parody video, showing the ‘untold story’ of what happened before the rat was caught on film; the clip even was referenced on Saturday Night Live, in host Miley Cyrus’ opening monologue. Throw in the fact that there were Pizza Rat Halloween costumes and plush toys, and there’s no doubt about the video’s place in the cultural zeitgeist.

Curiously, the video’s viewcount on YouTube is at a relatively pedestrian 8.4 million views. This is of course more views than the vast majority of videos on the web, but for something that was as ubiquitous as Pizza Rat seemed to be, it’s surprising that there weren’t 2-3x as many views. That is, until you dig into the data.

Looking at statistics available to Jukin Media, the data revealed that Pizza Rat was illegally copied – that is, someone ripped the video and reuploaded it to YouTube in an attempt to monetize it – more than 400 times. By comparison, similarly-viewed viral videos typically see a few dozen copies. While the millions of views generated by all of those illicit copies are monetized by Jukin on behalf of the clip’s owner, they do not show up in the view count on the original video, and thus make it appear that the clip has far fewer views than it actually has.

The top 5 traffic referral sources to the original YouTube version of Pizza Rat are as follows: Facebook, USAToday.com, Gawker, FoxNews.com, and Ahnegao.com.br (a Brazilian humor blog).

Boston Sunfish

In the same week, no less, a video of a pair of Boston-area fishermen who encounter an odd sea creature also went uber-viral, largely due to the colorful commentary of the cameramen. The genuinely excited and bewildered fishermen attempt to guess what the creature could be. Is it a sea turtle? A tuna? A baby whale? (Spoiler: it’s a giant sunfish).

The stars of the video were invited on to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, were featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, and have been featured on public radio shows and on national morning shows.

Oddly, the Sunfish video is another curious case whereby the original clip did not receive all that many views. It was first uploaded to Facebook where it received more than three million views; it was covered by BuzzFeed, Daily Dot, Mashable, Time, and dozens of other websites. Interestingly, it was the Facebook version of the video that was embedded on those websites, rather than the YouTube version. Facebook only made its videos embeddable early this year, and although sites are embedding Facebook videos with more frequency, publishers still seem to heavily favor YouTube embeds; Facebook does not yet offer analytics regarding embedded player views, so all we know is that some portion of those 3 million+ views are from embeds on the aforementioned sites. The YouTube version of the clip has 800k+ views; of that 800k, 123k came from an embedded player. The Top 5 referrers of the YouTube version were: Facebook (interestingly), TheShrug.com, Geekologie.com, Tumblr, and Oddee.com.

A few takeaways about mega-virality from these two videos:

1) A video that connects deeply with a particular big city (Pizza Rat was said to perfectly embody New York’s spirit, while the fishermen carry an unmistakable Boston accent and were celebrated by Boston media), has a chance to catch on quickly in one geographic area, and spread well beyond.

2) The diversity of today’s video landscape is such that a viral video can seldom be measured by its view count on any one site alone.

3) If social media is responsible for helping push a video viral, it seems as though late night TV shows, more than anything else, are the benchmark that signify a viral video’s entry into the greater pop-culture stratosphere.

mike skogmo headshotMike Skogmo is VP, Communications at Jukin Media, the global leader in user-generated entertainment. Jukin Media receives more than one billion monthly views across digital platforms, and its portfolio of owned and operated entertainment brands combine for more than 20 million fans online. Learn more at JukinMedia.com.

YouTube Superstars Zoe Sugg, Alfie Deyes Ask For Privacy From Stalking Fans

The life of a YouTube star isn’t always as easy as it seems. While mid-level celebrities have to deal with cobbling together a decent income that belies their popularity, superstars have a whole other set of safety concerns with which to deal. And recently, no one knows this better than YouTube stars and couple Zoe Sugg (aka Zoella) and Alfie Deyes (aka PointlessBlog). The two video creators recently took to Twitter to ask fans to stop showing up uninvited at the doorstep of their Brighton, UK home.

According to a tweet from Zoella, the UK’s The Daily Mail was the first newspaper to reveal the couple’s Brighton home address. Almost immediately after publication, the house was flooded with fans. Starting December 28, 2015, Deyes took to Twitter, calling out parents who took their kids to his and Zoella’s home so they could take pictures through the window. Deyes pleads for fans to “go away” and “come to a meet up just like everyone else who wants to meet me does.” Zoella even wrote about how she’s starting to “hate my house” because of the unwelcome attention.

Deyes apologized to his Twitter followers about all the complaining, but claimed he was still justified in his frustrations because of how often unwanted fans appear on and around his front door every day. Despite Deyes and Zoella’s request that fans and the media give them some privacy, Deyes tweeted how Brighton’s The Argus newspaper then re-printed the couple’s address only a day later in an article about how the YouTube stars were “moaning” about the price of fame.

In an entertainment medium where celebrities seemingly talk directly to their audiences and interact with several of those audience members on a daily basis through any number of forms of social media, it must be difficult for a prepubescent fanatic to know where to draw the line. But if you’re reading this, Alfie and Zoe fans, please know that this is the line. There are many unpleasant byproducts of being celebrity a popular individual should be willing to suffer through in exchange for his or her spot in the public eye, but having uninvited individuals stalk you in your own home should not be one of them.

New YouTube Channel Shows What Happens When You Shoot A GoPro Out Of A Cannon

Thanks to its portable nature and durable design, the GoPro camera has allowed action junkies, thrill seekers, and other adventurous sorts to shoot unique videos and post them to YouTube. Some of these videos end up on the GoPro YouTube channel, while others are posted by independent creators. Two members of the latter group are David and Ryan, the hosts of a channel called Eclectical Engineering that has served up a particularly crazy GoPro video.

Eclectical Engineering’s “GoPro Hero 4 Session” begins at a 3D printer, from which David and Ryan printed a powerful cannon. They then loaded their camera into the cannon and launched it high into the San Francisco sky, where it delivered stunning aerial views of the surrounding it landscape. On the other side of its journey, it landed in another high-tech piece of equipment: A baseball glove, which David used to catch the falling camera.

The GoPro cannon shot is Eclectical Engineering’s first video, and it marks the new channel as one to watch. It will be hard for David and Ryan to top their incredible YouTube debut, but they have access to a 3D printer and a pair of fancy engineering degrees, so I’m excited to see what they come up with next.

Second Season Of ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Arrives On Amazon

It may not have garnered the same critical acclaim as some of Amazon’s other shows, but the first season of Mozart in the Jungle was quality programming, and a second movement is now available. Just ahead of the new year, Amazon Prime subscribers can now access ten new episodes of the symphonic comedy.

Mozart in the Jungle, which is based off a Blair Tindall memoir of the same name, goes inside the world of top-level concert musicians in New York City, with Gael Garcia Bernal leading the way as a flamboyant conductor and Lola Kirke co-starring as a young, determined oboist. The first season of the show premiered last December to generally positive reviews. A couple months later, Amazon picked up Mozart for a second season, and most recently, the show added another feather to its cap by scoring a pair of Golden Globe nominations.

Based on early reviews, season two of Mozart delivers the same generally positive quality as its predecessor. It is a little bit funny, a little bit dramatic, and, on the whole, enjoyable. As Variety puts it, the December 30th release date tells you everything you need to know: “Amazon is, charitably, trying to hit ’em where they ain’t – and less charitably, dumping the show – by launching it a few days before New Year’s,” writes Brian Lowry in his review, “perhaps recognizing that this isn’t a huge prestige title or a particularly commercial one, except among those apt to swoon at classical-music cameos.”

So there you have it. Mozart in the Jungle is back, and it’s still fun. It won’t be as groundbreaking as some of Amazon’s other upcoming shows, but it’s an enjoyable piece within the digital platform’s repertoire of original content.

Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • November 2015

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It’s another installment of the Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide and an international pop star is still in the top spot.

Chart Toppers

For the fourth month in a row, PewDiePie is not in first place on the Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Chart. In fact, he’s not even in the Top 5. The current occupier of the #1 spot is Adele. The 25-year-old British popstar who said “Hello” to the world after a three-or-so-year hiatus and in turn, turned the music business on its head attracted a LOT of new fans to her YouTube channel this month. Adele’s subscriber acquisition rate was up 23% to top out at nearly 1.7 million new subscribers in the 30 days of November.

In a not-so-distant second place is Justin Bieber. The Bieb’s mid-November release of his fourth studio album Purpose and its associated music videos turned a lot of wouldbe fans into Beliebers. Bieber’s channel closes out the month with more than 1.5 million new subscribers.

In a very distant third place is The Ellen Show. Ellen DeGeneres’ eponymous syndicated daytime talk show added more than 616,500 new subscribers to its YouTube channel in the month. Ariana Grande is next up in a very close fourth place. The 22-year-old pop star’s YouTube channel attracted more than 613,000 new subscribers during the month.

And rounding out the Top 5 is Fernanfloo. The El Salvadorian gaming sensation is the only basement born YouTube star towards the top of the charts this month and scored over 512,000 new subscribers.

Top Gainers

The honor of one of our our Top Gainers this month goes to What’s Inside.

The homegrown YouTube channel that started out as an online video offshoot of a second grade school project had an incredible month on YouTube by doing exactly what it says, cutting everyday and uncommon objects open and in two to take a look at what lies below the surface and in the middle.

A steady stream of weekly-or-so timely videos (like this one devoted to what’s inside of a self-balancing scooter aka hoverboard) helped give What’s Inside a massive boost in its subscriber count, but one meta video had a particularly large effect. “What’s Inside the YouTube Silver Play Button?” features son Link and dad Dan cutting into the trophy they received from YouTube for passing the 100,000 subscriber mark. It’s a fun, insider-y upload that helped the channel to a 1,225% month-over-month increase in its subscriber acquisition rate, more than 423,600 subscribers on the month, and the #12 spot on the worldwide chart.

Channel Distribution

The Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube channels in the month amassed in aggregate a total of 31,466,434 new subscribers. Here’s a look at the distribution of a few of those channels broken down by the most-represented YouTube Multi-Channel Networks on the chart:

  • VEVO: 20 channels in the Top 100 Most Subscribed, with Adele the top channel in the network at #1.
  • Maker Studios: 12 channels in the Top 100, with PewDiePie at #7.
  • Collective Digital Studio: 8 channels in the Top 100, with RomanAtwoodVlogs at #17.
  • BroadbandTV: 7 channels in the the Top 100, with Fernanfloo at #5.
  • Fullscreen: 6 channels in the the Top 100, with whinderssonnunes at #6.
  • Machinima: 4 channels in the Top 100, with VanossGaming at #9.
  • Big Frame, WMG, XMediaDigital: 2 channels each in the Top 100, with Big Frame’s Miranda Sings at #49, WMG’s Ed Sheeran at #72, and XMediaDigital’s Get Movies at #37.

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

  • The United States: 50 channels in the Top 100.
  • Brazil, Great Britain: 12 channels each in the Top 100.
  • Canada: 7 channels in the Top 100.
  • Netherlands: 3 channels in the Top 100.
  • Chile, India, Russia, Spain: 2 channels each in the Top 100.
  • El Salvador, France, Ireland, Jamaica, Mexico, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine: 1 channel each in the Top 100.

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Above Average’s ‘7 Minutes In Heaven’ Returns To The Web With Guest John Cena

Above Average is bringing back one of its original series after a three-year hiatus. The comedy video network from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video has re-launched the web series 7 Minutes in Heaven, and the celebrity talk show’s first guest is WWE star John Cena.

In the newest episode of 7 Minutes in Heaven, host Mike O’Brien invites Cena to hang out with him in his cramped closet to talk about the wrestler’s life and career (but not, surprisingly, about his popular internet meme). The two men address Cena’s failure at his limo driving job in his younger days, as well as the smell of fellow wrestler Big Show. Then, as is tradition in 7 Minutes in Heaven, O’Brien takes inspiration from the titular teen party game and goes in for a kiss, which Cena reciprocates with a more European version.

Above Average originally launched 7 Minutes in Heaven back in 2011 with episodes running about four-and-a-half minutes long, despite the series’ title. In the first season, O’Brien interviewed comedian Kristen Wiig, actor Elijah Wood, and Bravo’s Andy Cohen before trying to land a good kiss with each guest. 7 Minutes in Heaven, which is produced by Saturday Night Live associate producer Erin Doyle, ran for two years before halting production in May 2013.

O’Brien’s next guest for the newest season of 7 Minutes in Heaven will be comedian Will Ferrell. The returning three-episode web series will be available on AboveAverage.com and the brand’s accompanying YouTube channel in the next few weeks.