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Short-form channels remain well-represented in the U.S. Top 50. Our ranking of the most-watched U.S.-based YouTube channels includes 39 channels that operate predominantly on Shorts.
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The other 11 channels, including this week’s U.S. #1, combine multiple formats in one location.
Chart Toppers
Toys and Colors has completed a perfect November in the U.S. Top 50. The kid-friendly channel led all the American charts we posted during the 11th month of the year. Toys and Colors completed its run by adding 617.3 million weekly views during the Thanksgiving holiday. I guess there were a few parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who used Toys and Colors’ bright videos to entertain young family members after dinner. That phenomenon will continue even without a holiday to sustain it, and Toys and Colors should reach 55 billion lifetime views before the end of the year.
MrBeast has been stuck in second place during Toys and Colors’ four-week stay in the #1 spot. After sitting atop the Global Top 50 throughout October, Jimmy Donaldson became a regular runner-up a few weeks later. Though Donaldson commands multiple channels across an empire of YouTube content, his primary MrBeast hub is his most-watched and most-subscribed content destination. It added 486.5 million views during the week that was after enjoying a 7% week-over-week traffic increase.
The #3 spot in the U.S. Top 50 is also unchanged from the previous chart. Justin Flom continued his strong 2023 by picking up 385.2 million weekly views. Flom is a magician who has distilled his best tricks into digestible, 60-second chunks. That strategy has made him the most-watched illusionist on YouTube Shorts. He now reaches more than 15 million subscribers in addition to the 9 million followers he counts on TikTok.
ViralHog is up next in the U.S. Top 50. The content aggregator fell out of the top five a week ago, but it surged back to fourth place by recording 332.8 million weekly views. With a few more strong weeks, ViralHog can end 2023 on a high note. It has a chance to surpass both 25 billion lifetime views and 20 million subscribers before the end of the year. All it needs to do is continue sharing viral clips from across the social web.
YoesIan rounds out this week’s U.S. top five. The short-form creator blew past 22 billion lifetime views after picking up 317.4 million views during the week that was.
Top Gainers
During my family’s Thanksgiving gatherings, we often share our favorite viral videos with one another. To summon our favorite user-generated clips from the depths of our memories, we rely on companies like ViralSnare Rights Management.
ViralSnare partners with individual creators by inking licensing deals that provide broad distribution for outrageous clips. There are some majestic videos within the ViralSnare library as well as some that are a bit more mean. And as is often the case with these viral licensing companies, there are bloopers galore. The most-watched ViralSnare Short involves an ill-fated trampoline jump.
Perhaps some of these videos were cued up this past week as holiday favorites. But content aggregators are thriving no matter what date the calendar shows. Thanks to YouTube Shorts, channel owners are finding that sharing other people’s videos is sometimes easier than making your own.
Just look at ViralSnare’s YouTube viewership. The rights management company just had a huge week in which it snagged 128.2 million weekly views and vaulted up six spots in the U.S. Top 50. Thanks to a 14% week-over-week traffic bump, ViralSnare reached 29th place in our star-spangled ranking. It also has a chance to reach six billion lifetime views before the end of 2023, but it will need a more graceful landing than the one depicted in its most-watched Short.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 39 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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