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What Audience Data Reveals About The Next Wave of The Creator Economy

YouTube, and social video in general, is winning a battle for TV viewers' attention, as recent industry coverage shows. But where's the playbook for what happens next, as video trends and audience behaviors continue to change? Hidden Trends, Big Moves – from Chartbeat/Tubular Labs' Jill Nicholson

CREATOR ECONOMY

MeidasTouch, MSNBC Boost Watch-Time With Long, Live Videos

Shorts are a big piece of the pie when it comes to YouTube, but they’re not the end-all be-all, as some media companies regularly lean into. Tubular Labs data shows that in June, MeidasTouch and MSNBC were among the most successful U.S. channels generating domestic watch-time on Youtube

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Disney+ Audience Soars With Shorts Push

Disney+ has increasingly been focusing on YouTube Shorts to push both awareness of the service and highlight specific content options. Combined with some ad spend, the strategy netted the service 75% more unique U.S. viewers on YouTube in June 2025, according to new data from Tubular Labs. Disney+ uploaded

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YouTube's Most Prolific U.S. Media Shorts Creators In 1H 2025

Shorts are a big deal, as the format accumulates seemingly larger shares of YouTube's views. But which U.S. media companies are doing the best job generating eyeballs with Shorts? Data from Tubular Labs reveals the top domestic media companies by shorts (uploads and views) over the first

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Beauty Sponsors See 1.6x More Engagement With Food & Drink TikTok Videos

Even though U.S. beauty brands are sponsoring beauty videos at a higher rate on TikTok (53.6% in 2025, according to recent data from Tubular Labs), those videos are not getting the same level of engagement as other content categories. * Tubular's recent VidCon presentation – which you can

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How Does YouTube Viewing Differ By Device Type?

Mobile audiences drive a lot of YouTube Shorts views, while TV viewers are tuning into significantly more long-form videos – and watching them for a lot longer, too. That was one of the major takeaways from Tubular Labs' recent presentation at VidCon, which is now available for download. * Through May

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Which Devices Are Consumers Using To Watch YouTube Videos?

Is YouTube TV? The answer is that it depends on who you ask, and how you're measuring it. Tubular Labs recently dove into device-level insights around global YouTube viewership at VidCon, revealing some key findings for TV and mobile content viewing – and trends that shed light on where

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The Land of Boggs Takes Off

BuzzFeed’s The Land of Boggs short-form video show has been around since 2018, but has really hit its stride lately, as new data from Tubular Labs reveals. In May 2025, The Land of Boggs was the No. 11 media & entertainment channel on YouTube by unique U.S. viewers,

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Milo And Chip Take On Gaming Giants With Long-Form Videos

Gaming is a busy space on YouTube, with some of the genre’s best creators having extensive histories earning millions of views per day with a variety of long-long-for and short-form videos. Typically, that lends to some difficulty for less established creators breaking in – though that was not the case

Site Traffic

Social Site Referrals Rank Lowest By Average Engaged Time, Pageviews

Internal site traffic not only accounts for the highest share of pageview referrals – according to a recent report shared by Chartbeat – but also the highest average pageviews per session. * The report shows that for those referred internally, they're not only averaging 2.9 pageviews per session, but also

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Hopper Rides 'Brain Rot' To 3x Audience Increase

So-called “Italian Brain Rot” and other brain rot-related videos have found incredible popularity in recent months as the content finds a willing audience for its cast of strange AI characters and pseudo-Italian utterances.  One YouTuber that’s been taking full advantage of the trend is Hopper, who puts their own

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Eggdar Spins Off Stone Face Memes Success

A month after Stone Face Memes topped YouTube as its most-seen creator, movie-focused creator Eggdar achieved the same feat. * Data from Tubular Labs shows that Eggdar grew to 96.6 million unique U.S. viewers on YouTube in May 2025; all on the strength of short movie memes repeatedly displayed

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Longer-Form Videos Dominate YouTube Watch-Time

While Shorts have taken over YouTube from a strict views standpoint, watch-time is increasingly guided by videos with durations of 20 minutes or longer. New Tubular Labs data – first shared with Bloomberg – reveals that over 57% of YouTube's minutes watched in 2025 (through May 31) were delivered by

Politics

C-SPAN's Large TikTok Audience Shows Appetite For Political Access

As U.S. consumers flock to streaming (both on-demand and vMVPDs), many are also inadvertently losing access to C-SPAN in the process. Neither YouTube TV nor Hulu (other streamers are holdouts as well) carry C-SPAN, and that's leading to fewer viewers having access to its programming, which you

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Media Companies Are Falling Behind On Shorts

Creators long ago took over YouTube, so it's not necessarily news that they accounted for over 95% of U.S. views on the platform over the last 30 days (May 11-June 11, via Tubular Labs data). But despite creators setting the tone around how content is being consumed,

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Block Blast Video Cruises To A Billion TikTok Views In A Month

A short-format video gaining viral steam on TikTok is not necessarily news. The platform was built on the idea, after all. Despite that fact, though, sometimes a video gains so much steam that it demands more attention. So is the case with pomeranian-focused account PomKori, which has scored 1 billion

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Why e.l.f. Beauty’s Rhode Acquisition Is a TikTok Game Changer

On Wednesday, e.l.f. Beauty announced plans to acquire Hailey Bieber’s fast-growing beauty brand, Rhode. This acquisition brings together two social powerhouse beauty brands but interestingly, the brands’ audiences don’t overlap on social as much one may assume, presenting an enticing opportunity for both brands. Data from

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Kevin Hart’s LOL Network Turning Laughs Into Watch-Time

By programming its YouTube similarly to a cable network, LOL Network is carving out a unique niche that other media companies can mimic as well.

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MSNBC Goes All-In On Tariff Videos Since Trump Inauguration

Tubular Labs data shows on YouTube, MSNBC has emerged as a top source for content related to tariffs, as the topic has built steam in 2025. * In the past 90 days alone, MSNBC amassed over 319 million views around tariff-related videos on YouTube, on 829 uploads. * Of MSNBC’s top

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COPS Mines Archives For 17% More YouTube Watch-Time

In April, COPS uploaded 34 new videos while generating 191.4 million minutes of watch-time among U.S. YouTube viewers.

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Stone Face Memes Soars to Most-Watched U.S. Creator

The account was watched by 107.3 million unique U.S. viewers in April – No. 1 among all domestic accounts on YouTube.

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Exploding Kittens Blows Up, Reaching 20 Million Viewers On YouTube

Exploding Kittens learned some key lessons from the creator economy in April, using Shorts to generate viral interest in its various party card games (including newly-released Coyote). Data from Tubular Labs shows Exploding Kittens was the No. 5 domestic brand by U.S. YouTube reach in April, at 19.8

SPORTS

TikTok Returns Show Ravens Win With NFL Schedule Release Video

The NFL's schedule release has turned into a social content bonanza every May, as every team tries to land the best jokes, pop culture nods and hidden references en route to announcing the year's 17 opponents. Typically, the Los Angeles Chargers land the funniest video every

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How The Savannah Bananas Successfully Compete With MLB

The Savannah Bananas aren't a Major League Baseball club, but you wouldn't know it from the level of views and engagement they're able to generate across social video platforms. Data from Tubular Labs digs into what traditional sports can learn from the intrepid team

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Fox News And CNN Have 42% Audience Overlap

Think that Fox News and CNN viewers are completely different groups? Think again. Data from Tubular Labs shows that over the last six months, Fox News' YouTube audience has 42% overlap with CNN's entire social video audience; meaning that 42% of Fox News viewers are watching CNN