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June was a good month for the creators who cracked our U.S. Top 100 chart. The start of the summer season gave America’s kids more free time, and they responded by delivering extra viewership to their favorite YouTube channels.
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As a result, 25 of the top 100 channels in the ranking added at least one million new subscribers during the sixth month of the year. Chart-topper MrBeast did juuuust a little bit better by adding 11 million new subscribers during June.
YouTube Shorts has come down with a case of wanderlust
Travel videos have long been popular on YouTube, with creators like Drew Binsky entertaining millions of subscribers with dispatches from their globetrotting adventures. But Binsky is best known for his long-form videos, and on YouTube Shorts, travel content is in a different spot. We have seen only a few travel channels in our Tubefilter rankings since we started keeping track of this data more than a decade ago.
In 2025, however, those trends are starting to shift. In June, multiple channels cracked the U.S. Top 100 thanks to their international journeys and the sightseeing contained therein.
One channel riding that wave is Adventures of EP Girls. The acronym in that handle stands for Eden Prairie, the Minnesota hometown of the channel’s familial stars. Though a channel about lake life and hockey sounds like fun, the EP Girls’ videos take place far away from the Upper Midwest.
In the most-watched YouTube Shorts uploaded on their channel, the EP Girls hit the Vatican to check on Pope Francis. They’ve also explored ancient ruins in Turkey and cat cafes in Tokyo. Even their domestic adventures, such as their trip to New York, haul in big viewership.
Videos like these just gave the EP Girls their biggest subscriber boost since they launched on YouTube in 2020. During June, their channel added 759,000 new subscribers. That didn’t just put them in 41st place in the U.S. Top 100 — it also more than doubled their total subscriber count.
Channels like Adventures of EP Girls are following in the footsteps of creators who wrote the travel content playbook for YouTube. You could argue that no travel web series is more influential than Ryan Trahan‘s penny series, which collected more than 190 million total views while raising more than $1.3 million for charity.
Trahan is now back with another adventure: He is attempting to visit all 50 U.S. states in just 50 days. So far, he’s halfway through his challenge and is closing in on $3 million raised for charity.
The journey is causing his subscriber count to balloon once again. He added 700,000 new subs in June and also enjoyed a big viewership bump as his cross-country adventure got udnerway.
Data via Gospel Stats
In terms of YouTube Shorts content, the travel genre still isn’t as big as niches like gaming, family content, or pranks. But with a few more experimental Ryan Trahan itineraries, YouTube’s globetrotters could get the attention they need to crack the upper echelon of our ranking. Ball’s in your court, Ryan.
Channel Distribution
This month, 84 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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