- [Voiceover] Combined, they have
over 138 million subscribers.
That's more people than who live in Mexico.
Combined they have amassed 71 billion views.
That's more people than who live on this planet.
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nine times over.
We are of course talking about PewDiePie and T-Series,
the two most subscribed two channels on YouTube.
And these are 10 facts you need to know
about their race to the top.
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- [Voiceover] Although not necessarily his first ever video
currently the oldest video on PewDiePie's channel
titled Minecraft Multiplay Fun
was published on October the 2nd 2010
and it has over 8.5 million views.
As for T-Series,
well they keep removing all the videos
but currently as of time of recording
their oldest video was published
on the 23rd of December 2010.
And it has just over half a million views.
It's also not that popular either.
At the time of recording PewDiePie's channel
has over 3,600 public videos,
T-Series over 12,800 videos,
a difference of over 9,000 videos
or to put it another way,
T-Series has made 3.5 times as many videos as PewDiePie.
If we track the number of videos
back to the oldest video published on each channel,
PewDiePie publishes new content every 0.8 days
or every 19.5 hours.
T-Series on the other hand produces on average
almost 4.5 videos a day
or to put it another way,
a new video every five to six hours.
So T-Series makes more videos on average
but what about views per video?
Well if we divide T-Series' 52 billion views
by its 12,800 videos
we reach a figure of just over four million views per video
but PewDiePie dividing 19 billion views
by 3.5 thousand videos
gives us a total of over five million views per video.
But this doesn't tell us the full story.
A quick glance at PewDiePie's most recent videos
shows you he consistently gets millions of views per video.
T-Series' view counts on the other hand
range from a few hundred thousand to millions.
So how does T-Series average four million views per video?
The answer lies in their most viewed videos.
PewDiePie's most successful video to date
has 84 million views.
However, T-Series' most successful video
has 609 million views.
79 of their videos
have over 100 million views in themselves
and 107 T-Series videos have been watched more times
than PewDiePie's most successful video ever.
Phew!
Both channels are racing towards 70 million subscribers
at a rapid pace.
If each channel was a country and subscribers were people,
both PewDiePie and T-Series
would be listed in the top 25 countries
by order of population.
If we divide total channel views by subscribers,
PewDiePie gets over 270 views per subscriber
while T-Series gets over 750 views per subscriber.
Of course the reason we are all following
the subscriber count so closely
is because T-Series were predicted to overtake PewDiePie
at the end of October.
With T-Series averaging 120,000 subscribers a day
and PewDiePie averaging 30,000 subscribers a day,
T-Series got as close as 182,000 subscribers.
What none of us predicted
was a channel called MrBeast
rallying behind PewDiePie.
It's impossible to calculate
the direct effect of MrBeast's video on the topic
but since it went live,
PewDiePie has outpaced T-Series.
To illustrate, in the six days prior to MrBeast's video,
T-Series caught up PewDiePie
by more than half a million subscribers.
In the six days after that video
PewDiePie then beat T-Series
by more or less the same number, half a million subscribers.
At the time of recording,
this puts the gap at over 600,000 subscribers.
But that gap is slowly starting to close once again
as the MrBeast effect in favor of PewDiePie
runs out of steam.
It seems almost certain now
that PewDiePie will be the first YouTube channel
to hit 70 million subscribers
with T-Series overtaking soon after
sometime in the next two or three weeks.
That is of course
unless something else extraordinary happens.
PewDiePie has ruled the YouTube roost for nearly five years
but nothing lasts forever.
And the race for number one will never end.
Above T-Series, above PewDiePie lie four YouTube topics,
one of which has already cracked 100 million subscribers.
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