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Move over, KIMPRO: There’s a new leader at the front of our Global Top 50 ranking. The channel that got the most YouTube views during our most recent seven-day measurement period was Double Date, the Australian hub that is part of a wave of couple channels. It collected 1.98 billion weekly views.
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There was only one other channel that even got half as many weekly views as Double Date, but even if the chasers are far from the leader of the pack, there are some interesting storylines to uncover. And yes, that reference to a proverbial wolfpack was intentional: We’re headed back to the animal kingdom.
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Adorable animals have made hay on YouTube ever since the days of Tillman the skateboarding dog, and that trend still holds true in 2025. There are multiple animal-focused channels in this week’s Global Top 50, but the furry friends featured therein aren’t exactly riding around on four-wheeled extreme sports equipment. In the era of YouTube Shorts, the humble genre known as the cute animal video is going back to its roots.
The best example of that phenomenon can be found on a channel called Infi’s Diary. Though the thumbnail image for that hub depicts a human, the channel’s top-performing Shorts are all about animals. There are dogs who can’t sleep without one another, tenacious kittens, and at least one very polite hedgehog. It’s animal content distilled down to its purest form: Cute, brief videos that are uploaded with virality in mind.
To me, Infi’s Diary has more in common with children’s books than children’s YouTube videos. Some of the titles within the channel’s Shorts library would fit nicely into the kids’ section of a literal library. Can’t you imagine going to a Scholastic book fair and picking up a tome about the smartest crow ever? And then there’s “the otter who tried to hard.” If no one has picked up that idea yet, I’m about to write it out.
Though these videos would work well in the literary world, Infi’s Diary doesn’t need any hard-backed adaptations to achieve virality. Its YouTube library is enough — that’s why the upstart channel was able to reach 49th place in our most recent Global Top 50. It picked up 361 million views during the last full week of October.
The Infi’s Diary approach to animal videos is tailor-made for the current era of Reading Rainbow revivals, but that’s not the only way to turn mammalian adventures into a Global Top 50 entry. MEOWJI‘s feline mascot has been a mainstay in our charts for much of 2025, and we’re still seeing that purring face — even if it’s connected to videos that have little to do with animals. The cat draws kids in, and the actors do the rest.
Data via Gospel Stats
Personally, I prefer the Infi’s Diary method of videomaking and hope to see more channels like that in the Global Top 50 moving forward. In an era defined by rampant and often disturbing examples of AI slop, some old-school animal content is always refreshing. And since I’m not the one who has to clean up all that dog hair, well, that’s even better.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 17
- United States: 8
- Australia, Canada, Pakistan, and South Korea: 2
- China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 40 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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