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The five U.S.-based YouTube channels that got the most views during April all retained their places in the top five during our most recent 31-day measurement period. The channels that are leading the U.S. Top 100 for May are longtime chart stalwarts that continue to shatter YouTube records.
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The #1 channel in the ranking hasn’t been on YouTube for as long as the other contenders, but it has gained views at a rate few channels can match.
Chart Toppers
MaviGadget brought the coolest gizmos to YouTube Shorts in May 2024. The quick-hitting channel has only been active on YouTube for seven years, but over that period, it has reeled in more views than many channels that have been active for more than a decade. MaviGadget is one of the hubs at the forefront of the industrial revolution on YouTube Shorts. Viewers love videos that show the inner workings of mechanical processes, and MaviGadget delivers. It boosted its traffic by 35% month-over-month during May. That brought it up to 2.4 billion monthly views and the top spot in the U.S. Top 100.
Speaking of channels that have made great gains during May, let’s talk about MrBeast. Jimmy Donaldson just made history on his main account by passing T-Series to become the most-subscribed channel on YouTube. That surge will be reflected in next month’s U.S. Top 100, but for now, Donaldson and co. will have to settle for a second-place finish in our all-American ranking. Even though MrBeast’s traffic went up by 25% month-over-month and reached 2.3 billion monthly views, the extravagant hub lost its pole position to MaviGadget.
The next three channels in the U.S. Top 100 are all sitting in the same spots they occupied in the previous month’s chart. Up first (or third, I guess) is Toys and Colors, a channel affiliated with the family-friendly franchise builder pocket.watch. In the world of children’s videos, Toys and Colors is a major success story. Its brightly-colored and positive videos attracted preschool-age viewers from around the world. After getting 1.84 billion monthly views, Toys and Colors has brought its lifetime YouTube viewership above 65 billion views.
CoComelon – Nursery Rhymes landed its second-straight #4 finish in the U.S. Top 100. Like Toys and Colors, CoComelon has boosted its long-lasting presence in the YouTube Kids community by receiving help from a major media company (Moonbug, in this case). 1.81 billion monthly views may not match the chart-topping sums CoComelon posted a few years ago, but that total (which represents the channel’s May 2024 viewership) was high enough to bring its lifetime traffic above 182 billion. No other channel in the chart can boast a higher number in that category.
Zack D. Films held steady at #5 to round out the upper echelon of this month’s U.S. Top 100. Zach’s narrated Shorts brought in 1.49 billion monthly views during the month that was.
Top Gainers
Sports fans have long trusted MaxPreps as a source for high school sports news and highlights. Since its inception in 2002, MaxPreps has become an important name on the recruiting trail. I don’t consider football and basketball players to be serious prospects unless they have sick MaxPreps mixtapes to their name.
The advent of YouTube Shorts has allowed MaxPreps to expand its digital presence in new and exciting ways. The Shorts on its YouTube channel are a mixed bag. Some are exactly what you’d expect: Fast-paced highlight reels that distill the most exciting high school sports action into minute-long uploads.
Some of MaxPreps’ viral uploads, however, have more in common with other top Shorts hubs than they do with other sports channels. The channel is getting millions of views with heartwarming family content and prank videos.
The most-watched MaxPreps Short falls squarely in the former camp. It offers only a few seconds of high school volleyball, but the sequence is chaotic enough to draw in more than 131 million views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKQ7hndkkQ
Overall, MaxPreps brought in 320.2 million monthly views during May. That total, which was good for a 70% month-over-month improvement, gave MaxPreps its first-ever appearance in our U.S. Top 100. It reached 97th place, which would also be a good place for a recruit to land on a MaxPreps class list.
The channel’s increasing viewership will give more attention to exemplary high school athletes who deserve the shine. Some competitors featured on MaxPreps will end up making it big, and others will look back fondly on their high school glory days. No matter how their careers turn out, today’s MaxPreps stars will be able to boast about the awesome mixtapes their careers produced.
Channel Distribution
This month, 79 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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