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• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 09/22/2024
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Gun swords, super-small houses, Scientology

  We have an eclectic mix in our latest Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report, with a few familiar faces debuting a few unfamiliar topics. Scientology? Gun-swords?? Exercise??? FaZe Rug is at #1, and even as he fits himself into a tiny house, we take a look at how big his channel's view count has gotten. To top it all off, we have some weird finds from the depths of Amazon--so buckle up, and check 'em all out below.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 09/22/2024

  Andrey Grechka's second-most watched YouTube Shorts upload is a reaction to his most-watched Shorts upload.

  
• Will Fortnite players tee up for virtual golf?

  Golf is a huge thing in our space lately, with the PGA Tour holding its first-ever Creator Classic, golf-focused creators like Bryson DeChambeau (who played a round with Trump to promote the latter's presidential campaign) getting their moments in the spotlight, and the sport as a whole crushing it on YouTube. Gaming and entertainment brand Topgolf is teeing off with this trend: It's partnered with Fortnite and a handful of creators to introduce a custom branded map.

  
• California is tackling addictive social media feeds at the state level
• Twitch is finally bringing merged chats to multi-creator streams
• Have you heard? One Paul brother says boxing is over, but the other is hitting back at his critics.
• Discord wants to improve its ad game
• Chipotle is looking for the next Keith Lee
• Sony’s new kids hub could become the biggest thing on YouTube
• Should YouTube introduce revenue-sharing for reaction content?
• TikTok is a growing holiday shopping hub for Gen Z, but some zoomers wish the app didn’t exist
• Twitch invites its community to drop into ‘The Glitch’ in ‘Fortnite’
• Creators’ viewers can be big spenders. LTK is driving $5 billion a year catering to them.
• iShowSpeed got one million concurrent viewers in one of Asia’s most creator-obsessed countries
• French YouTuber Inoxtag just sold 350,000 movie tickets in 24 hours
• Do newsletter writers want to be streamers? Substack is going to find out.
• MrBeast hit with class action lawsuit from ‘Beast Games’ contestants
• NIL hype helps ‘EA College Football’ score 6.5 million players in 2024
• YouTube wants creators to share the Hype
• YouTube CEO says “product innovation” — not an ad monopoly — is the key to Google’s business
• Patreon is finally trying to establish a network effect
• Creators, tech firms, and Barack Obama are out in full force on National Voter Registration Day
• Snapchat puts the spotlight on video content with TikTok-y redesign