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Australia’s favourite couple channel has risen to pole place in our International Prime 50 rating. Double Date, which options collabs between coupled pairs Cadel and Mia and Jasmin and James, is #1 in our viewership chart due to its 1.6 billion weekly views.Subscribe to get the newest creator newsSubscribe
The very best spots in our International Prime 50 are full of couple channels, family-oriented hubs, and leisure locations based mostly in India and East Asia. If you get additional down within the rating, the standing of included channels turns into murkier — and, in some circumstances, AI-generated movies show perplexing.
The much less AI “information” I see, the higher
On YouTube Shorts, generative AI is commonly used to parrot main tendencies. If Italian brainrot is the most well liked meme of the second, for instance, why not remake its signature characters with the velocity and effectivity of an LLM?
If you happen to’re in search of a cause to decry that development, look no additional than Each day Paw Information. On the floor, the channel seems to be like some other generative AI hub that drafts off the wind generated by short-form tendencies.
Contemplate the channel’s title. Animals have been a giant deal on YouTube without end (simply ask Tillman the skateboarding canine), and the appearance of Shorts solely heightened that viewer choice. Channels like Ohio Cat Bombastic have hauled in billions of views by including animals to content material that will in any other case be unremarkable.
Kraftovie provides a newer instance of that development. The Russian channel’s formulation principally boils all the way down to catlike behaviors + human ingenuity, and that mixture is paying off. Kraftovie not too long ago jumped to its highest weekly viewership since April, when YouTube rejiggered the methodology it applies to Shorts views.
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So Each day Paw Information is simply including extra foolish cat movies to the web — nothing mistaken with that, proper? However the different video class referenced within the channel’s title makes Each day Paw Information inherently problematic.
Viewership of reports content material on YouTube has been steadily rising for years, and 2025 occasions just like the battle between India and Pakistan have turned YouTube-based information protection right into a full-blown phenomenon. Each day Paw Information’ deal with means that it’s seeking to experience the coattails of the YouTube information surge, however there’s only one downside: The “information” reported by this channel by no means occurred.
When channels like this will get 523.6 million weekly views with AI-generated “information” experiences, YouTube-set laws turn out to be crucial. The platform not too long ago modified its monetization coverage to forestall unoriginal, repetitive channels from turning their slop right into a veritable income stream.
That’s all nicely and good, however channels like Each day Paw Information are getting huge viewership regardless. We’ll see if these AI channels are nonetheless displaying up within the International Prime 50 when YouTube’s new guidelines go into impact subsequent week.
Channel Distribution
Right here’s a breakdown of the Prime 50 Most Considered channels this week when it comes to their nations of origin:
United States: 13
India: 12
Hong Kong: 5
Australia, Russia, and Taiwan: 2
Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Peru, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 41 channels within the Prime 50 are primarily energetic on YouTube Shorts.
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