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If you add together the monthly subscriber gains for Masters of Prophecy and MrBeast, the total comes out to 21.3 million. Let’s put that number in context: If you add up the monthly subscriber gains for the next ten channels in our U.S. Top 100, it amounts to…about 21.3 million. That’s how far ahead of the field the top two channels are.
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Even if no one can catch the two top dogs of the U.S. Top 100, it’s still fun to take a look at channels that are reaching the ranking for the first time. This month, that list includes a number of creators who ply their trades via a classic YouTube pastime.
Because Minecraft wasn’t enough already…
It’s funny to think of Minecraft as an under-the-radar trend. After all, we’re talking about a game that has thrilled the internet for more than 15 years and has generated over one trillion views on YouTube alone.
Minecraft is as mainstream as mainstream gets, but over the past few month, the blocky sandbox title has seen its popularity soar even higher. The release and success of A Minecraft Movie was a massive boon for the game’s creator community, and months after the film’s premiere, it is still providing a bump to Minecraft viewership on YouTube.
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about Minecraft is the great diversity of videos that exist within the game’s ecosystem. The current YouTube meta is defined by imitation. Channels find the trends that get millions of views (typically on YouTube Shorts), and they repeat those formulae ad nauseam until the hits come rushing in.
But that’s not the case with Minecraft. In this month’s U.S. Top 100, we can find silly “monster school” animations courtesy of Googly, who brought in 970,000 new subscribers to reach 31st place in the U.S. Top 100. If you prefer more traditional forms of gameplay, you might enjoy the clips Glebo has to offer. The masked Minecrafter took on some of the game’s many challenges, pulling in 1.2 million monthly subscribers in the process. That put him in 18th place in our all-American ranking.
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Even longtime YouTube legends are benefitting from the Minecraft Movie bump. Few players of the blocky game are as well-known as Preston, the Texas-based creator whose family-friendly video game content has brought more than 12.1 billion lifetime views to his primary YouTube channel.
Even during his most fallow periods, Preston still gets nearly 20 million views per week on his main YouTube hub. His recent numbers have soared far beyond that baseline, and his subscriber numbers have been going up, too. He crossed 30 million subs after adding 600,000 new subscribers during May.
Data via Gospel Stats
It’s funny to think that this resurgence may not have happened without Jack Black, a chicken jockey, and hordes of young theatergoers who love memes. But there’s something that just feels right about silliness underpinning the latest Minecraft boom. That’s always been the tone of the game’s best-performing videos, and given recent numbers, creators have no reason to change up their strategies.
Channel Distribution
This month, 81 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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