Share on In December 2018, the top YouTube channels around the world generated 12 billion total views. Our newest YouTube leaderboard for last month also revealed some other cool facts about the top 100 channels, such as: The top five channels saw at least 1 billion views each, with the top performer garnering more than 3 billion views alone. The highest average 30-day engagement rate (ER30) of the top ten channels hit 2.8x, which was shared with one other channel in the top 100. Top YouTube Channels January 2019 The top ten most-watched YouTube channels are generally familiar names if you follow our leaderboards regularly; for example, the top three of T-Series, Cocomelon, and SET India all maintained their spots from December. What’s most significant about the top ten was that eight of these channels maintained or improved their positions in January, with three of them landing (or re-landing, in the case of ABS-CBN) in the top ten thanks to their view increases! Of course, there were other trends across the 100 top YouTube channels as a whole; here’s what we discovered… More Kids’ Content Is Taking Over the Top 100 It’s certainly no secret that kids’ content and family programming dominates on the YouTube charts. For example, six of the eight channels which improved their rankings by 100 spots were family-focused channels, and 35 of the 58 channels that bumped up at least one position were kids’ animation and entertainment. Much like the “Baby Shark” phenomenon, we noted a couple months ago how massively popular K-pop content was on YouTube in 2018, pulling in 4.3 billion views in the second quarter of last year. Tubular Video Ratings You’ll notice some exclusive data in this month’s chart as we include Tubular Video Ratings, a unique group of online video metrics that set the standard for measurement of views and engagements across videos and publishers. In the meantime, sign up for a free Tubular account and get access to the complete list of the top 25 video creators across YouTube, Facebook, and cross-platform.
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In December 2018, the top YouTube channels around the world generated 12 billion total views. While that number is by no means unimpressive, January’s ten most-watched channels still beat it by a solid 2 billion to hit just over 14 billion total views! Our newest YouTube leaderboard for last month also revealed some other cool facts about the top 100 channels, such as:
- The top five channels saw at least 1 billion views each, with the top performer garnering more than 3 billion views alone.
- The top three channels all maintained their same ranks from December.
- The best 30-day average (V30) from the top ten channels was a hot 36.9 million, which also happened to be the best overall V30 across the top 100 channels.
- The highest average 30-day engagement rate (ER30) of the top ten channels hit 2.8x, which was shared with one other channel in the top 100. However, the highest ER30 of the top 100 channels overall was a whopping 10x+!
- Out of all 100 creators, eight of them increased rankings by at least 100 positions, with +890 being the highest jump in ranking across these creators.
Top YouTube Channels January 2019
The top ten most-watched YouTube channels are generally familiar names if you follow our leaderboards regularly; for example, the top three of T-Series, Cocomelon, and SET India all maintained their spots from December. What’s most significant about the top ten was that eight of these channels maintained or improved their positions in January, with three of them landing (or re-landing, in the case of ABS-CBN) in the top ten thanks to their view increases! Of course, there were other trends across the 100 top YouTube channels as a whole; here’s what we discovered…
More Kids’ Content Is Taking Over the Top 100
It’s certainly no secret that kids’ content and family programming dominates on the YouTube charts. However, January in particular saw a massive influx of channels from this genre — more so than usual. For example, six of the eight channels which improved their rankings by 100 spots were family-focused channels, and 35 of the 58 channels that bumped up at least one position were kids’ animation and entertainment.
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