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The most-subscribed U.S.-based creator of November 2024 is also the most-subscribed YouTube channel of all-time. MrBeast owns both of those titles, claiming the former after he accrued eight million new subs during the 11th month of the year.
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MrBeast has only worn YouTube’s subscriber crown for a few months, but challengers to his throne are already coming out of the woodwork. As we noted in the Global Top 100, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is making a run at MrBeast’s record. Closer to home, there’s another creator who could eclipse MrBeast’s mark — even though YouTube isn’t that creator’s primary platform.
How big will Kai Cenat get on YouTube?
The Bronx-born streamer’s exploits on Twitch have been record-shattering. His recently-concluded Mafiathon 2 rewrote the Twitch record books by attracting 727,700 followers to his star-studded streams.
Cenat has also made splashes on platforms like TikTok, but up until recently, his YouTube presence mostly consisted of repackaged clips from his Twitch streams. Even though YouTube was little more than a second window for Twitch’s biggest star, the Kai Cenat Live channel pushed into our weekly Top 50 charts a couple months ago. (A bump from Kevin Hart definitely helped.)
As Mafiathon 2 concludes, Kai Cenat Live is back in the Tubefilter rankings. The YouTube hub got 830,000 new subscribers in November, nearly tripling the number of subs who arrived on the channel during the previous month.
Highlights from Mafiathon drove a big chunk of that traffic, but Cenat is also experimenting with old-school YouTube formats. One recent upload with over 1.4 million views is Cenat’s letter to himself from the start of Mafiathon. With its lowercase title, nostalgic content, and close-up cinematography, the vlog wouldn’t look out of place on Emma Chamberlain’s channel.
Cenat isn’t the only U.S. Top 100 entrant who has found success with the tried-and-true formula the YouTube vlog represents. yoangelolo‘s Shorts typically take the form of updates from work or interactions with his younger siblings, and they’ve struck gold among YouTube’s short-form community.
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I for one hope that creators like Cenat will continue to unlock the potential of videos that work better on YouTube than they would on Twitch or TikTok. Two-minute updates on his life happenings would help his subscriber count continue skyrocketing, and those videos wouldn’t require a month of continuous streaming.
Channel Distribution
This month, 70 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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