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Gaming on YouTube
How Gaming creators are growing this week: the sub-niches taking off, the channels rising fastest and the videos that beat their channel's usual.
30,703
Creator channels
7.5B
Combined subscribers
+0.4%
Typical channel's views this week
vs +0.3% across all niches
#22
Rank by growth
of 70 niches
Fastest-growing Gaming sub-niches
Median view growth of each sub-niche's channels over the last 7 days.
- Chess Challenges6 channels+5.6%
- Sports Simulation Gaming5 channels+2.5%
- Character Guides5 channels+1.8%
- VRChat Trolling6 channels+1.6%
- SMP Storytelling5 channels+1.3%
- Game Tutorials & Builds6 channels+1.2%
- Gaming Challenge Runs5 channels+1.2%
- Tactical Shooters15 channels+1.1%
- Game Trolling8 channels+1.1%
- Game Lore & Theories11 channels+1.1%
- Challenge Playthroughs7 channels+1%
- Redstone Tutorials6 channels+1%
Biggest Gaming channels
By subscribers.
Rising Gaming channels
Biggest subscriber growth this week, relative to size (10K+ subscribers).
Top Gaming videos this month
The long-form uploads that most outperformed their own channel's usual views, one per channel.
Other YouTube niches
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This week the typical Gaming channel grew its views by +0.4%, against +0.3% for the typical channel across all niches — #22 of 70 niches by growth. It is measured on 27,225 channels and recomputed daily.