Google Shows Off the ten Most-Watched YouTube Vids for 2022

As annoying as current on YouTube appears to be at the present time—if you’re halted ever three to 5 minutes by a State Farm advert—I nonetheless come again to the platform usually.

I can’t assist it. There are many alternative video platforms, however as agonizing as it’s to note the growing variety of adverts or understand how little your choices influence the YouTube algorithm or how a lot malicious or misinformed content material finally ends up on customers’ feeds, I nonetheless return to observe 2-hour or extra video essays about Warhammer 40K lore or inane movies about journaling workouts.

So it’s good to know that YouTube’s top videos for this year included some heartfelt standouts and, and just one actual apology vid. None of the titles Google named as their prime hits felt like apparent clickbait. They ran the gamut from one Minecraft streamer providing a message of thanks earlier than their premature dying, to a preferred animator explaining their aromantic asexuality to nicely over 17 million folks.

Unfortunately, YouTube has additionally been pushing its Shorts short-form video exhausting over the previous few years, serving to it sustain with TikTok. Shorts has proved extremely popular with almost 1.5 billion month-to-month viewers, so we are able to solely count on it to grow to be an even bigger a part of the video platform going ahead. The prime 10 shorts have proved utterly inane, from cracking an egg 10 ft underwater to throwing a plunger on a Dave & Buster’s signal. There’s some novelty in these vids, however give me a protracted type explainer another day of the week.

In addition, YouTube shared who’ve been the platform’s prime creators. Led by MrBeast, they embrace the likes of NichLmao, Airrack, Jooj Natu ENG, and Shangerdanger. YouTube music additionally shared what was their topic-played songs of the yr, that includes We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Disney’s Encanto as primary.

The relaxation are:

YouTube listed its movies by U.S. viewer depend, however simply as nicely we shared the highest 10 movies by their counts listed on their pages.