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A recent trend in our Global Top 50 has seen popular channels get more than one billion views in a single week. Earlier this year, KIMPRO achieved that rare status. Last week, it was T-Series‘ turn to shine. Now, over our final seven-day measurement period of February, MrBeast is in the driver’s seat thanks to his 1.04 billion weekly views.
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But you don’t need a billion views per week to make your mark in our rankings. The only requirements are working knowledge of YouTube Shorts and a keen sense of comedic timing.
Funny jaja or funny weird?
The quick-hitting tempo of a typical YouTube Shorts video makes the format perfect for sketch comedy. Many creators have already discovered that strategy, and Latin American creators are trading the hahas for jajas to climb up the Global Top 50 ranking.
Like in India, short-form comedy in Latin America is often kid-friendly and typically full of common stereotypes for specific family members. Videos for older YouTube viewers may not be as common in the Global Top 50, but that hasn’t stopped Gabriela Flores Villar from summoning Millennial nostalgia to push her channel into our ranking for the first time.
Villar, who hails from Peru, draws humorous juxtapositions between girls of the past and girls of today. Sure, we didn’t have smartphones in the 90s, but at least we had fashions that are now back in style.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YoyGNB0S1OQ
Villar’s 258.6 million weekly views put her in 39th place in the Global Top 50. Her week-over-week viewership gain of 23% is strong, but she still can’t touch the creator who has become el rey among Latin America’s short-form comedians.
I’m talking about Alfredo Larin, who has represented his native El Salvador in every weekly chart we’ve released in 2025. His family-oriented sketches aren’t soaring quite as high as they were at the start of the year, when Larin’s channel crossed 500 million weekly views, but the Salvadoran funnyman continues to trend up by reaching 15th place in our most recent Global Top 50.
If East Asia was the first region to show the potential of YouTube Shorts (thanks, KIMPRO), then Latin America looks to be the next hotspot. Creators like Villar and Larin are getting millions of subscribers with their short-form yuks. The rest of the world should pay attention.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 16
- United States: 11
- Indonesia: 5
- Hong Kong: 3
- Canada and Pakistan: 2
- Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, El Salvador, Japan, Peru, South Korea, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 33 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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