YouTube’s Unveils 2015’s Most-Watched Clips + Music Videos
YouTube’s list splits out music videos from other clips, but if it didn’t, Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again would be sitting at the top of the list with 1.2 billion views and counting since April.
The most watched video on YouTube this year was Silento’s “Watch Me Whip/Nae Nae” with the young dancer Heaven King and the rest of her dance crew performing to the popular song.
Four of the most watched ad this year were particularly popular among millennials.
YouTube has announced its Top Ads of 2015, and there are few surprises among the work from Samsung, Budweiser, Clash of Clans, Always, Adidas, Hyundai, and more.
Justin Bieber’s Carpool Karaoke by The Late Late Show with James Corden is following hot on the heels of The Tonight Show with 43 million views in sixth place.
The number one gaming video by a soberingly enormous margin is a pre-rendered/live-action commercial for Finnish free-to-play game Clash of Clans, with 83.4 million views. Crazy Plastic Ball PRANK!!
In fact, 2015 was the year that the newish crop of late-night TV hosts firmly established themselves as viral video superstars. Ad Council5. Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon6. The channels behind the top ten videos have a collective 40 million subscribers.
According to YouTube, the list was based on views, likes, shares, searches, parodies, remixes and responses, which were taken into consideration.
Get nostalgic early and check out the entire Top 10 in the slideshow above.