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• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Pyramids, paddles, and Facebook Marketplace
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Podcasts, super glue, and NASA’s big plans

  Podcasters are having a moment in the White House right now--and over on YouTube, too. Around this time last year, we saw a spike in podcast viewership right before the Super Bowl, with the Kelce brothers' podcast New Heights regularly hitting the top 5 in our Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report. This year, instead of sportsball podcasts, it's entertainment and political shows, with a dash of our usual science suspects.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Balls, bees, Marques Brownlee

  Our latest Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report is a sample size of what makes YouTube...well, YouTube. We have a man on a ball bike (not as painful as it sounds), Marques Brownlee dissecting the latest Samsung smartphone, Kurtis Conner surviving entirely off creator food brands for a week, Veritasium going all X-Files on the MIT's new robot bug project, and for the grand finale, DokaRyan horfing down an inadvisable amount of soju.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Cheaters, consoles, and ‘Lethal Company’

  Joe Rogan has dropped out of our top 5 after dominating last week's list, making way for YouTube OGs like Linus Tech Tips, Wendigoon, and some good old ASMR. But that doesn't mean he batted zero over the last seven: he's in at spots #26 and #29. We expect him to be a pretty familiar face on our Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Reports if he keeps hanging around people involved in the Trump administration (and the social media CEOs who want its approval). For now, though, our top 5s are quite the collection, from a take on Nintendo's next console to how narcotics-selling cartels transport their goods and a cheating investigation worth of early 2000s MTV.

  
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: A Joe Rogan threepeat
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Cars, trains, and…pizza?
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Slinging guns, getting high, and going fishing
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Ryan Trahan double trouble
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Supersonic Nerf darts and a homemade Porsche