TECH: Who’s the king of YouTube?

What’s not to love about YouTube?
Maybe you’re the type who racks up Gigs of data watching the latest music videos, or perhaps you get gaming/ lifestyle/ miscellaneous advice from helpful tutorial vids.

The question is, which uploader reigns supreme?

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#3 – YouTube Spotlight

The channel for the site: Spotlight places the focus on happenings and uploads on YouTube, and includes its own quirky content, broadcasting to approximately 23-million subscribers. This channel has tussled for the top spot, but now ranks third.

#2 – HolaSoyGerman

Also 25, Chilean national, German Aranis began YouTubing about four years ago. To date, his subscribers have totalled above 23,6-million, and armies of devoted fans helped him achieve the ‘Icon of the Year’ at the MTV Millennial Awards last year.

#1 – PewDiePie

Swedish-born Felix Kjellberg gave up a degree to focus on his YouTube channel, and at 25 is the uploader with the most subscriptions to his channel, at close to 39-million. Viewers love his zany humour, energetic content and foul-mouthed vids.

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#3 – FunToyzCollector/disneycollectorbr

This channel is all about toys and putting them together. The real life identity of the voice and hands in the videos, achieving over 7,6-billion overall views, remains speculative, mostly because the owners seem to shy away from all publicity.

#2 – emimusic

The official channel for Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) features massive amounts of music across various genres, and boasts more than 8,2-billion video views in total.

#1 – PewDiePie

This nutty Swede takes top spot again, with his videos viewed almost 10-billion times by subscribers and casual viewers.