Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • September 2014

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It's another installment of the Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide and PewDiePie is still on top.

Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel is back at the top of our monthly Most Subscribed YouTube channels chart. The internet's most popular destination for Let's Play videos (whose creator is 'happy' at Maker Studios) retained the #1 spot despite a 28% decrease in its subscriber acquisition rate, bottoming out at just over 0.80 million new subs on the month.

Top Gainers

In second place is the Polish prankster wardegasa, whose epic scares helped the channel amass an additional 0.79 million subscribers in September. Next up is fouseyTUBE. The channel that's home to Yousef Saleh Erakat's videos and pranks tested its might with a Mortal Kombat-themed spoof. The results were overwhelmingly positive and garnered Erakat's channel another .46 million subscribers.

VanossGaming is up next in fourth place. The Canadian gamer with a penchant for comedy scored nearly 0.43 million new subscribers on the month. And rounding out the Top 5 is Ariana Grande. The channel that's home to 21-year-old burgeoning pop star from Boca Raton, Florida's music videos played for more than 0.42 million new subscribers in September.

The honor of Top Gainer this month goes to the aforementioned wardegasa.

Channel Distribution

Polish filmmaker S.A. Wardega's channel proudly displays the mottos 'Insane people are the best!' and 'Don't take life so seriously,' both of which are exemplified in the young man's videos. One of his latest mega hits uploaded back in May 2013 features a vigilante Spider-Man dancing to Psy's single 'Gentleman'. But his latest upload is by far his most monstrous hit.

Mutant Giant Spider Dog depicts a freaky, but friendly beast terrifying a Polish city. The video has amassed more than 100 million views and accounts for wardegasa's impressive 816% increase in its subscriber acquisition rate. All in, the channel ended the month with nearly 0.79 million new subscribers and the #2 spot in the world.

The Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube channels in the month amassed in aggregate a total of 24,702,390 new subscribers. Here's a look at the distribution of a few of those channels broken down by the most-represented YouTube Multi-Channel Networks on the chart:

VEVO: 20 channels in the Top 100 Most Subscribed, with Ariana Grande at #5. Maker Studios: 10 channels in the Top 100, with PewDiePie at #1. Collective Digital Studio: 8 channels in the Top 100, with TenSecondSongs at #13. Fullscreen: 6 channels in the Top 100, with The Fine Bros. at #10. Machinima: 5 channels in the Top 100, with HolaSoyGerman at #9. Big Frame, DEFY Media, StyleHaul: 3 channels each in the Top 100, with Big Frame's MirandaSings08 at #41, DEFY's MatthewPatrick13 (aka The Game Theorists) at #33, and StyleHaul's zoella280390 at #29. BroadbandTV, Buzzfeed: 2 channels each in the Top 100, with Broadband's fernafloo at #56, and BuzzFeed's BuzzFeed Video at #20.

And here's a look into the distribution of the this month's Top 100 by country of origin:

OpenSlate is a video content analytics platform that tracks more than 225,000 YouTube video channels and measures their ability to attract, engage and influence an audience. By providing one consistent measure of quality - the SlateScore™ - OpenSlate helps marketers, producers and agencies hone their online video marketing strategy. The United States: 63 channels in the Top 100. Great Britain: 12 channels in the Top 100. Canada, Spain: 5 channels each in the Top 100. France, Mexico: 2 channels each in the Top 100. Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine: 1 channel each in the Top 100.

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