MrBeast Statistics
7:11 PM · Feb 22, 2026
Graph showing the Top 20 Fastest Growing Channels of 2025.
In 2025, MrBeast’s main channel had one of the most dominant years for growth in YouTube’s history. The channel gained 117M subscribers overall, making it the best performing year for any channel. MrBeast’s 2025 performance was also the 3rd time that the fastest growing channel of the year gained doubled the subscribers of the 2nd fastest growing channel of the year. MrBeast beat out the 2nd place channel, KIMPRO, by 67M subscribers, more than her 49.6M subs gained. It was the largest margin of victory in the “fastest growing of the year” race by raw subs in the site’s history.
The other 2 instances of #1 doubling #2 include PewDiePie’s victory over VanossGaming in 2014, and MrBeast’s victory over ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING in 2023. 2025’s performance saw MrBeast gain 2.36 times as many subs as 2nd place. Better than PewDiePie’s 2014 ratio of 2.11 times #2, but worse than MrBeast’s 2023 performance of 2.45 times #2. All things considered, it was a year for the books.
Various instances of various MrBeast shorts running as advertisements, featuring the large subscribe button in the UI.
One of the tools that Beast used in order to pull off such a victory was advertising. Using it, Beast can promote its shorts to a targeted audiences in countries with a lot of people, helping new people learn about the channel. In some instances, the advertisements make usage of a much larger “SUBSCRIBE” button than YouTube usually has on its shorts interface. The channel used Advertising all throughout the year, from January to December, all of which will be covered in this article.
This article will be broken into 2 main parts. Part 1 is a timeline highlighting important shorts to the channel’s growth, and when they appeared as advertisements. Part 2 will show much more data related to the advertisements themselves, highlighting their demographics, runtime, and relationship to the channel’s subscriber count.
The source for the main topic of this article, the advertisements, is Google’s Ad Transparency Center. On the Ad Transparency pages under the names of CREATORGLOBAL, LLC and CreatorGlobal, a full list of the advertisements run by Beast within the last 365 days can be found. CreatorGlobal is the name of the company under Beast that provides the channels with their audio dubs, using YouTube’s multi-language audio track feature.
ViewStats’ public Live MrBeast Count is the primary source of tracking the channel’s subscriber growth, however for the times when it’s frozen, linear million-to-million estimates are used.
Data for the views and likes for the various videos discussed come from Charlie Ashford’s VideoStats site, which focuses on the stats of the videos published, tracking the Beast channels’ videos statistics hourly.
Giving 1000 Phones Away. The analytics of that short’s first year were covered in a thread posted HERE.
A Hindi and an Indonesian instance of Subscribe For An iPhone running as an advertisement.
The short was first run as an ad around January 25th, running in 5 countries, including India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Thailand. For the remainder of January, the entirety of February, and most of March, these 5 ads would be the only ones CreatorGlobal was running, boosting the channel significantly. The Thai ad would end on January 30th, the Vietnamese one on February 11th, the Turkish one on March 3rd, the Indonesian one on March 27th.
All of those ads would end on April 4th, leaving the ~January 25th Hindi instance of Subscribe For An iPhone as the channel’s lone ad from April 4th to April 15th, the last day it would be run. From April 16th to April 21st, no ads would be run by CreatorGlobal. As of writing, this remains the most recent time period when this was the case.
On April 22nd, a new instance of Subscribe For An iPhone in Hindi would be launched, which would be CreatorGlobal’s only ad going into May. This instance would go on to run until October 4th.
On May 30th, CreatorGlobal ran 4 new ads in Turkey, including the recent Subscribe For An iPhone and Subscribe To Win $50,000, and brought back 2024’s 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny, and 2023’s
I Sent a Subscriber to Disneyland. These ads ran for a very short moment, with 2 ending on June 4th, and 2 ending on June 9th.
Two Thai instances of Can I Teach This Penguin To Subscribe? running as an advertisement.
On May 31st, MrBeast uploaded Can I Teach a Penguin To Subscribe?, a 9-second-long short featuring a penguin climbing a staircase to press the Subscribe button on the MrBeast channel. As of writing, this is the shortest piece of content on the MrBeast channel, and its 10th most viewed short. A day after it was published, MrBeast’s channel reached 400M subscribers! This major milestone also occurred on the 1 year anniversary of MrBeast passing T-Series! The short also ended with establishing the channel’s next large goal, reaching 500M subscribers.
On June 3rd, that short began running as an ad. 7 instances of the short began running, in India, (in Hindi, Punjabi, and Marathi), Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Turkey. 4 of these instances ended their run on June 9th. 3 of them, those being India’s Hindi, Vietnam’s, and Indonesia’s, are still running as of writing.
On June 30th, CreatorGlobal launched 18 new ads, all in Hindi in India, for its second big ad buy of 2025.
On July 8th, 176 new ads launched, followed by an additional 27 on the 9th, making 203 new ads begin in 48 hours. In this ad buy, only 3 countries were targeted, just India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. India received 90 of the 203 ads, Indonesia got 56, and Vietnam got 57. Among these ads, many heavy hitters for subscriber growth were included, such as even more instances of Subscribe For An iPhone, Subscribe To Win $50,000, and Can I Teach a Penguin To Subscribe?, and bringing back I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 and 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny for longer runs.
Various instances of I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 as an ad, as seen in the Google Ad Transparency Center.
On July 11th, another 32 ads would launch. Of the 32, 13 were instances of 2023’s short I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥. This short was the one that gave the channel an insane boost in October 2023, helping it reach 200M subscribers! It also resulted in October 2023 breaking the record for most subs gained for a channel in one month! This short’s ads specifically were unique with where they ran, running in the common locations of India (in multiple languages), Indonesia, and Bangladesh, but it also ran in Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, the only instances of those countries being targeted of all of the ads.
Between July 18th and July 24th, another 21 ads would begin. These also stand out among the rest of the ads CreatorGlobal has run for 2 big reasons. Firstly, 11 of the 21 are Longform videos, being the first Longforms to be run as ads since January. Secondly, these were all much more blanketed than all the other advertisements. All of these ads run in English across dozens of countries, rather than running in a local language in one country as most of the others have been.
Overall, 256 ads began during July 2025. 9 would end between July 2025 and October 2025, 148 would end during October 2025, 14 would end in December 2025, and 85 of them are still running today.
Some examples of advertising from BFA Non-Billable Test Profile. The main short that boosted the channel in September, 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated, can be seen on the left.
At the beginning of the month of August, MrBeast and Mark Rober, in collaboration with hundreds of other creators, launched TeamWater. It was a movement with the goal of raising $40M to provide access to clean water for communities worldwide, in the span of only a month. The goal was reached within the timeframe, reaching the $40M mark on the final day of the month! During the TeamWater campaign, some advertising was done, with several unlisted videos for the campaign appearing on TeamWater’s designated YouTube channel. The ads were run under the name of BFA Non-Billable Test Profile, an unverified Google Ads account, and not on CreatorGlobal.
On August 29th, MrBeast published 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated, a short where, as the title suggests, MrBeast, explains that for every subscriber he gains from the short, a he’ll donate a penny to TeamWater. The short blew up, becoming the channel’s best performing short in its first 24 hours, gaining 68M views, and 3M likes! It also resulted in the channel’s current most recent day where it gained over 1M subs in a day!
The pinned comment on the short read “Go donate to TeamWater and if you can’t just subscribe before the end of September and I’ll donate a penny on your behalf!” The short was run as an advertisement by BFA Non-Billable Test Profile until around September 30th, when the short’s growth suddenly plummeted. On October 1st, the comment’s deadline would be changed to say “the end of October”, and CreatorGlobal would launch its first ads since July, with 7 new instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated. The 7 instances would run in the usual countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and also in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and several Arabic-speaking countries under one instance. These ads would run until the end of October 2025.
Back on the main channel, many ads are both ended and started all throughout the month. In total, 72 new ads are launched on CreatorGlobal’s profile in October. 10 of these, those being the mentioned instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated and Subscribe For A Laptop, began in the month’s first 4 days. 41 of the 72 were started between October 7th and October 8th, 11 were started on the 16th, and 10 started between the 29th and 31st. Similarly to July’s buy, October’s ads were primarily in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, though this time, Thailand had several ads, with those 4 countries receiving about a quarter of the 72 ads each. Of the ads launched in this batch, a few were subscriber-based, including 1 Subscriber = 1 Second In The Arctic, Subscribe To Explode The TNT, and the short Every YouTube Play Button I Have, with its ad-exclusive alternative title, Subscribe To See My 500M Playbutton. Another short that started, Answer The Call, Win $10,000, though not subscriber related, had a strong subscriber-based opening which would be repeated in subsequent shorts.
On the flip side, 176 ads would end throughout October, with many of the big names making their final appearances. The instances of I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 would all stop on October 3rd. 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny, and the star of the show, Subscribe For An iPhone, would make their final appearances on October 4th. Subscribe to Win $50,000 would end on October 16th. Of the 176 ads that ended in October, 77 ran in India, 37 ran in Indonesia, 40 ran in Indonesia, 8 ran in Thailand, and the remaining 14 ran in various other countries.
Of the November ads that ended, there’s only 3, being 2 leftover instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated that ended on November 3rd, and an instance of Subscribe To Explode The TNT that ended on November 27th.
Also in December, 37 ads would end. On December 2nd, 4 ads that were running in Turkey would end. On December 9th, the 2 final instances of I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 would end. All the remaining ads that would end in December ended between the 21st and the 23rd. Of the 37 that ended, 10 had run in India, 2 in Indonesia, 1 in Italy, 9 in Thailand, 4 in Turkey, and 11 had run in Vietnam.
An Indonesian instance of Answer The Call, Win $10,000. The first instance where CreatorGlobal's rename to CREATORGLOBAL, LLC was seen.
On December 13th, CreatorGlobal would change its Google Ads account name from CreatorGlobal to CREATORGLOBAL, LLC, leaving it unverified between December 13th and February 4th, 2026. It would regain verification on February 5th, 2026. During this time, a second account called CreatorGlobal with verification would appear, and it ran 1 more short as new ads for the year.
On December 21st, MrBeast would post Giving Away $1,000,000 in Gifts To My Subscribers, the main channel’s first giveaway short since May. The short would first appear as an advertisement on the second CreatorGlobal on December 22nd, with instances in India, Vietnam, and Thailand, with an Indonesian instance appearing on the 23rd. In the short’s first 4 days and 12 hours, the time between publishing and the end of Christmas in US Eastern Time, the short would gain 197M views, and 2.6M likes. It is currently the channel’s 2nd fastest video from 0 views to 200M views, behind only Slippery vs Sticky Stairs. 3 of the 4 instances of this short would stop running after Christmas Day, with the exception of the one in India, which is still running today. With that short, that takes us to the end of 2025.
Chart showing which targets were the most common for advertising done by CreatorGlobal.
Overall, 428 ads were ran by CreatorGlobal in 2025. India alone makes up roughly 40% of these ads. Indonesia and Vietnam together both make up roughly another 40%. The remaining roughly 20% is composed of mostly Thailand, with a few others included as well.
With an advertisement demographic breakdown like this, it’s worth noting that according to YouTube’s 2025 Global Culture and Trends Report, MrBeast gained 47M Indian subscribers in 2025. For scale, this means more Indians subscribed to MrBeast in 2025 than total people did to T-Series, India’s (and formerly YouTube’s) #1 most subscribed channel, during their best performing year for sub growth. These 47M currently make up over 10% of the channel’s subscribers. MrBeast also gained the most subscribers from Indonesia of any channel, though we don’t have an exact number.
Chart showing how many advertisements started and ended during each month of 2025.
By month, July by far saw the most advertisements launched, with almost 60% of all the advertisements launched that month. October saw both the second most ads launched in one month, and the most advertisements ended in one month. Of the 428 ads that launched in 2025, 278 didn’t make it to 2026, while 150 did.
Graph showing how many ads were being run by CreatorGlobal & CREATORGLOBAL, LLC throughout 2025, by day.
October 16th saw the most ads run in a day of any day in 2025, peaking at 298 unique ads having run. Many of these ads would then end the next day, only to be replaced by other new ads. The drop on October 30th, however, wasn’t recovered from.
List of every video that appeared as an ad on CreatorGlobal's profiles in 2025. Red represents giveaways, Yellow represents shorts about subscribing, Green represents shorts with good subscriber call-to-actions.
Overall, 98 unique videos were seen as advertisements in 2025. Of these, 90 were shorts, and 8 were longforms. All were of videos on the main MrBeast channel except 1, that being MrBeast Gaming’s Subscribe For A Laptop. As of the end of 2025, there were 148 shorts on the MrBeast channel, meaning that 61% of the channel’s shorts had been seen running as advertisements at some point in time during 2025. Despite there being so many advertisements, the overwhelming majority of them didn't show a significant increase in views while running as ads.
In the list of what videos were ads, some are denoted with yellow, green, and red. Shorts in green are shorts with strong subscriber call-to-actions that boosted the channel. Shorts in yellow are content where the act of subscribing is what the short is based around. Shorts in red are subscribe-to-enter giveaways.
The various giveaways, notably, have been seen as advertisements outside of their giveaway periods. I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 was seen in December 2025, over a year after the channel reached 250M in April 2024. Giving 1000 Phones Away was last run in April 2025, after the giveaway period ended in June 2024. Subscribe For An iPhone was last run in October 2025, after the giveaway period ended in January 2025. Subscribe to Win $50,000 was last run in October 2025, after the giveaway period ended in May 2025. Subscribe For A Laptop’s giveaway period ended in October 2025, and is still running today. Giving Away $1,000,000 in Gifts To My Subscribers, the final giveaway of 2025, ended on February 1st, 2026, and is still running today.
Videos with the most instances as advertisements on CreatorGlobal's profiles.
These were the most common ads of the 428. 6 of them managed to have 10 different instances. The top 4 are all filled out by shorts that impacted the channel’s subscriber count heavily upon upload. Overall, the average number of instances a video would get was around 4.4 instances, well over 3 due to the common trio of India, Indonesia, and Vietnam being heavily targeted by the advertising.
The Subscriber Count Impact
The number of subscribers that MrBeast and MrBeast Gaming have gained both in total and in 2025 as a result of advertising is not a number that is known. But using data for the videos that received advertising, we can analyze places where it may have had significant impact throughout the year.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from January 8th to May 6th, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
During its prime, Subscribe For An iPhone was especially dominant in longterm growth compared to every other upload on the main channel. The video would routinely get over 100K likes/day as a result of the advertising, while most other videos would consistently stay under 50K. The impact of the advertising is shown in April, where without ads, the growth drops to around 5K likes/day.
List showing the channel's average daily subscriber growth rate during various time periods.
Throughout December 2024 and early January, which saw very little to no advertising, the channel gained roughly 220-230K subs/day on average. With Subscribe For An iPhone but without ads, the average daily growth jumped up by about 100K. Through the rest of January, February, and March, the channel grew significantly faster, nearly double the channel's December rates. Ads continued until a brief period in April where none were run, at which point the channel’s growth dropped to around 120K subs/day. When ads were restored, the growth resumed at its previously high rate.
Graph comparing the daily like growth on Subscribe For An iPhone (seen in red) and daily subscriber growth on MrBeast's channel (seen in blue).
The growth of Subscribe For An iPhone also shows similarities to the channel’s overall growth. The correlation isn’t exactly 1 to 1, but there are some patterns that occur in both. For example, the sudden dip in growth on both the short and subs around February 17th and during the adless week in April, and the bumps in growth around 3/3 and 3/24.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from May 1st to August 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
Continuing until September, Subscribe For An iPhone would continue to dominate the longterm fastest growing list. It wasn’t as consistently high as before, now floating around 70K likes/day. As a result of this, it would find some competition with other subscriber shorts. Subscribe To Win $50,000 and I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 would both be boosted during their ad campaigns, but not consistently to the extent of the iPhone short. The iPhone short’s best competitor would be Can I Teach A Penguin To Subscribe?, which was able to keep up with its pace for over a month straight in June, before dropping off in July.
2 graphs in one image, with the top one showing MrBeast's daily subscriber growth, and the bottom showing the daily like growth, excluding the first 10 days after upload, of 4 different shorts on the channel, from May 1 to August 31, 2025.
In this graph's timeframe, the $50,000 short and the Penguin short were published, on May 7th and May 31st respectively. Spikes in growth there come from those videos' boosts upon video upload.
The comparison between likes and growth once again is not 1 to 1, but certain similarities do stick out. The jumps in subscribers around 5/15, 6/5, 6/26, and the three between 7/31 and 8/21 all align with the jumps in likes. The dips around 7/17 and just before 7/31 also align.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from August 1st to October 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
In September, the iPhone short would begin to fade out, outright ending its run on October 4th. What took its place for the month was the short of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated from the end of TeamWater. This short did insane numbers throughout September, consistently gaining 450K likes/day, until its primary ads ended around October 1st. In 2025, only 2 new videos managed to enter the list of MrBeast’s Most Liked Videos of all time, those being the iPhone one, and this TeamWater one.
Graph showing MrBeast's daily subscriber growth, from August 1 to October 31, 2025.
Similarly to the above graph of likes, the channel’s sudden subscriber growth that starts and ends in roughly the borders of September is very noticeable.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from October 1st to December 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
The impact of advertising is significantly less visible throughout the last 3 months of the year. 2 main factors are at play here, namely that 1, many of the heavy hitters for growth end their runs in October, and 2, a general site-wide decline in growth on YouTube occurs around this time period. So many of YouTube’s fastest growing channels, such as T-Series, the Stokes Twins, KIMPRO, and others, all got hit hard at around the same time. This event has been nicknamed The Flattening. It was brought about by recent UI changes on YouTube’s homepage, as well as changes in the way that YouTube recommends older shorts. These changes started around September, but were obscured by the TeamWater short on MrBeast’s channel. A good video on the Flattening can be found HERE.
Through the final 3 months, no one video was able to consistently stay at the top of the list by a huge margin in the same way as in previous months. However, of the few that stood out on this graph, such as Answer The Call, Win $10,000, many were advertisements. This time period was likely the least impacted of the year by the advertisements, of the time while ads were running. Due to the Flattening though, not a exactly a fair comparison to early 2025.
Graph showing estimated subscriber growth for MrBeast Gaming, from January 1st to December 31st, 2025.
The impact on MrBeast Gaming is much more evident, with a clearer before and after due to only one piece of content, Subscribe For A Laptop, running as an advertisement. Between the channel’s first upload of 2025, on April 19th, and September 19th, the day before the giveaway was announced in a longform video, the channel averaged 13,382 subscribers/day. In the time since between giveaway got its own standalone short on October 1st, and the end of 2025, the slowest growth the channel saw was around 17,779 subscribers/day, and the channel’s average growth increased to 33,164 subscribers/day.
YouTube’s New Advertising Meta?
As 2025 went along, more and more channels which use advertising to gain subscribers began to appear on the list of fastest growing channels. Changes such as YouTube’s Flattenning didn’t help with this either.
Calendar showing the profile pictures of the fastest growing channels during each month.
In 2025, only 3 other channels were able to have a month where they beat MrBeast in subscriber growth As has been established, MrBeast uses advertising. Of these 3 other channels, we can verify that 2, Masters Of Prophecy and The Game Awards, used advertising to grow.
Several channels in the list of YouTube’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Channels in 2025 also ended up using advertising to assist in their growth. AI music channel Masters Of Prophecy, who ended up as #4 for 2025, is the most notable of these advertising channels. Others there include Bispo Bruno Leonardo, who is Brazil’s #1 most subscribed channel and was the 7th fastest channel of 2025, Toyota GAZOO Racing, who was #21 of 2025, and 유창조 You Chang Jo, who was #30 of 2025. A channel that started to use advertising too late to join 2025’s Fastest List was John Fairclough, who ended up as the #2 fastest channel of November 2025. Fairclough was briefly the fastest growing channel on YouTube in a given 30 day period, but not for enough time to win a month.
Graph showing the Top 20 Fastest Growing YouTube channels of 2026, as of February 20th.
So far in 2026, 6 of the Top 20 Fastest Growing Channels of the year have been boosted by advertisements. A channel called Alan’s Factory Outlet is currently #5, and one called Joey Yap Is #12. Nick DiGiovanni is currently #18 of 2026, and is using advertisements to help him reach his goal of becoming YouTube’s largest food channel. For those who are able to afford it, especially during the recent slump of growth on YouTube following the Flattening, advertising has become a very effective way at gaining new subscribers, used by a variety of creators.
Picture showing the Indian and Indonesian instances of Subscribe for an iPhone (2026) as an ad, and the same short being the channel's 5th video to reach 1B views.
For MrBeast, on January 13th, 2026, the main channel posted a new video called Subscribe for an iPhone, nearly the same title as the one uploaded on January 17th, 2025, with a minor difference in capitalization. The video promotes another iPhone giveaway. Originally, the giveaway period was going to last for a week, but it was changed to last until February 12th. The boost from this short wasn’t nearly as major as the one from 2025. The short began running as an advertisement on the day it was published, and is still running as of today.
On February 21st, 2026, Subscribe for an iPhone became the 5th MrBeast upload to ever reach 1 BILLION views. It reached this milestone in 39 days, becoming likely the fastest ever YouTube upload from 0 to 1B views! At its current pace, it will become the channel’s most viewed video ever in around 40 days.
As of now, roughly 150 advertisements are still running between CreatorGlobal’s 2 Google Ads profiles. Advertising helped the channel dominate 2025, and looks poised to help it dominate once again in 2026.
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7:11 PM · Feb 22, 2026
Graph showing the Top 20 Fastest Growing Channels of 2025.
In 2025, MrBeast’s main channel had one of the most dominant years for growth in YouTube’s history. The channel gained 117M subscribers overall, making it the best performing year for any channel. MrBeast’s 2025 performance was also the 3rd time that the fastest growing channel of the year gained doubled the subscribers of the 2nd fastest growing channel of the year. MrBeast beat out the 2nd place channel, KIMPRO, by 67M subscribers, more than her 49.6M subs gained. It was the largest margin of victory in the “fastest growing of the year” race by raw subs in the site’s history.
The other 2 instances of #1 doubling #2 include PewDiePie’s victory over VanossGaming in 2014, and MrBeast’s victory over ZAMZAM ELECTRONICS TRADING in 2023. 2025’s performance saw MrBeast gain 2.36 times as many subs as 2nd place. Better than PewDiePie’s 2014 ratio of 2.11 times #2, but worse than MrBeast’s 2023 performance of 2.45 times #2. All things considered, it was a year for the books.
Various instances of various MrBeast shorts running as advertisements, featuring the large subscribe button in the UI.
One of the tools that Beast used in order to pull off such a victory was advertising. Using it, Beast can promote its shorts to a targeted audiences in countries with a lot of people, helping new people learn about the channel. In some instances, the advertisements make usage of a much larger “SUBSCRIBE” button than YouTube usually has on its shorts interface. The channel used Advertising all throughout the year, from January to December, all of which will be covered in this article.
This article will be broken into 2 main parts. Part 1 is a timeline highlighting important shorts to the channel’s growth, and when they appeared as advertisements. Part 2 will show much more data related to the advertisements themselves, highlighting their demographics, runtime, and relationship to the channel’s subscriber count.
The source for the main topic of this article, the advertisements, is Google’s Ad Transparency Center. On the Ad Transparency pages under the names of CREATORGLOBAL, LLC and CreatorGlobal, a full list of the advertisements run by Beast within the last 365 days can be found. CreatorGlobal is the name of the company under Beast that provides the channels with their audio dubs, using YouTube’s multi-language audio track feature.
ViewStats’ public Live MrBeast Count is the primary source of tracking the channel’s subscriber growth, however for the times when it’s frozen, linear million-to-million estimates are used.
Data for the views and likes for the various videos discussed come from Charlie Ashford’s VideoStats site, which focuses on the stats of the videos published, tracking the Beast channels’ videos statistics hourly.
PART 1: THE TIMELINE
December 2024 – Early January 2025
The year started off with CreatorGlobal running very few ads. During December 2024, all the advertising the channel did was in promotion of the launch of Beast Games Season 1, running the series’ trailer for roughly 2 weeks (~12/6/24 – 12/19/24) in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and most of South and Central America. Following the release of the series’ Episode 0 on the main channel, that video also ran as an ad in its place, (~12/19/24 – 12/27/24,) running in the same places as before. The first ad of 2025 followed a similar pattern to these 2, with MrBeast’s first longform video of the year, I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again, running in the same list of countries, for about a week (~1/11/25 – 1/20/25).Late January 2025 – Mid March 2025
On January 17th, the short Subscribe For An iPhone was uploaded. The short itself is a quick, 17-second-long video, promoting a 10-day long giveaway of 1,000 iPhones to new subscribers, similar to 2024’sGiving 1000 Phones Away. The analytics of that short’s first year were covered in a thread posted HERE.
A Hindi and an Indonesian instance of Subscribe For An iPhone running as an advertisement.
The short was first run as an ad around January 25th, running in 5 countries, including India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Thailand. For the remainder of January, the entirety of February, and most of March, these 5 ads would be the only ones CreatorGlobal was running, boosting the channel significantly. The Thai ad would end on January 30th, the Vietnamese one on February 11th, the Turkish one on March 3rd, the Indonesian one on March 27th.
Late March 2025 – April 2025
On March 24th, CreatorGlobal would increase its ad count up from 2 to 31, with 29 new ads launching that day. Of the 29, 6 were unique videos, those being more instances of Subscribe For An iPhone, and new instances of Giving 1000 Phones Away, I Got T-Series To Subscribe To Me, Last One To Fall Wins, and Last Person Hanging Wins $10,000. All of these ads were run exclusively in India and Italy, running in just Italian in Italy, and running in the local languages of Telugu, Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, and Marathi, in India.All of those ads would end on April 4th, leaving the ~January 25th Hindi instance of Subscribe For An iPhone as the channel’s lone ad from April 4th to April 15th, the last day it would be run. From April 16th to April 21st, no ads would be run by CreatorGlobal. As of writing, this remains the most recent time period when this was the case.
On April 22nd, a new instance of Subscribe For An iPhone in Hindi would be launched, which would be CreatorGlobal’s only ad going into May. This instance would go on to run until October 4th.
May 2025
On May 7th, MrBeast turned 27! Since 2023, he’s done an annual giveaway for his birthday on Instagram, giving away $50,000 split across 5 people in 2023, and 26 Teslas in 2024. In 2025, he posted a video as a reel on Instagram and as a short on YouTube to promote the year’s birthday giveaway. Uploaded on YouTube as Subscribe To Win $50,000, MrBeast collaborated with Jack Link’s Jerky to give out $500,000 split across 10 people who subscribed in the next 2 weeks. The short on YouTube would be run by CreatorGlobal as an ad starting on the 7th, running in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Turkey, all running until the 20th, except Indonesia’s, which ran until June 4th.On May 30th, CreatorGlobal ran 4 new ads in Turkey, including the recent Subscribe For An iPhone and Subscribe To Win $50,000, and brought back 2024’s 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny, and 2023’s
I Sent a Subscriber to Disneyland. These ads ran for a very short moment, with 2 ending on June 4th, and 2 ending on June 9th.
June 2025
Two Thai instances of Can I Teach This Penguin To Subscribe? running as an advertisement.
On May 31st, MrBeast uploaded Can I Teach a Penguin To Subscribe?, a 9-second-long short featuring a penguin climbing a staircase to press the Subscribe button on the MrBeast channel. As of writing, this is the shortest piece of content on the MrBeast channel, and its 10th most viewed short. A day after it was published, MrBeast’s channel reached 400M subscribers! This major milestone also occurred on the 1 year anniversary of MrBeast passing T-Series! The short also ended with establishing the channel’s next large goal, reaching 500M subscribers.
On June 3rd, that short began running as an ad. 7 instances of the short began running, in India, (in Hindi, Punjabi, and Marathi), Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Turkey. 4 of these instances ended their run on June 9th. 3 of them, those being India’s Hindi, Vietnam’s, and Indonesia’s, are still running as of writing.
On June 30th, CreatorGlobal launched 18 new ads, all in Hindi in India, for its second big ad buy of 2025.
July 2025
July of 2025 would be the channel’s biggest month for launching new advertisements. CreatorGlobal launched several hundred throughout the month, making July the month with the most new ads of any month in 2025.On July 8th, 176 new ads launched, followed by an additional 27 on the 9th, making 203 new ads begin in 48 hours. In this ad buy, only 3 countries were targeted, just India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. India received 90 of the 203 ads, Indonesia got 56, and Vietnam got 57. Among these ads, many heavy hitters for subscriber growth were included, such as even more instances of Subscribe For An iPhone, Subscribe To Win $50,000, and Can I Teach a Penguin To Subscribe?, and bringing back I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 and 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny for longer runs.
Various instances of I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 as an ad, as seen in the Google Ad Transparency Center.
On July 11th, another 32 ads would launch. Of the 32, 13 were instances of 2023’s short I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥. This short was the one that gave the channel an insane boost in October 2023, helping it reach 200M subscribers! It also resulted in October 2023 breaking the record for most subs gained for a channel in one month! This short’s ads specifically were unique with where they ran, running in the common locations of India (in multiple languages), Indonesia, and Bangladesh, but it also ran in Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, the only instances of those countries being targeted of all of the ads.
Between July 18th and July 24th, another 21 ads would begin. These also stand out among the rest of the ads CreatorGlobal has run for 2 big reasons. Firstly, 11 of the 21 are Longform videos, being the first Longforms to be run as ads since January. Secondly, these were all much more blanketed than all the other advertisements. All of these ads run in English across dozens of countries, rather than running in a local language in one country as most of the others have been.
Overall, 256 ads began during July 2025. 9 would end between July 2025 and October 2025, 148 would end during October 2025, 14 would end in December 2025, and 85 of them are still running today.
August 2025 – September 2025
No new ads began running on CreatorGlobal’s account in the months of August or September of 2025. Only 5 of the ads CreatorGlobal launched would end in these two months as well, those being an Italian run of Last Person Hanging Wins $10,000, and 2 worldwide runs each of Baseball Tic Tac Toe vs MLB Pro and Running With Bigger And Bigger Feastables.Some examples of advertising from BFA Non-Billable Test Profile. The main short that boosted the channel in September, 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated, can be seen on the left.
At the beginning of the month of August, MrBeast and Mark Rober, in collaboration with hundreds of other creators, launched TeamWater. It was a movement with the goal of raising $40M to provide access to clean water for communities worldwide, in the span of only a month. The goal was reached within the timeframe, reaching the $40M mark on the final day of the month! During the TeamWater campaign, some advertising was done, with several unlisted videos for the campaign appearing on TeamWater’s designated YouTube channel. The ads were run under the name of BFA Non-Billable Test Profile, an unverified Google Ads account, and not on CreatorGlobal.
On August 29th, MrBeast published 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated, a short where, as the title suggests, MrBeast, explains that for every subscriber he gains from the short, a he’ll donate a penny to TeamWater. The short blew up, becoming the channel’s best performing short in its first 24 hours, gaining 68M views, and 3M likes! It also resulted in the channel’s current most recent day where it gained over 1M subs in a day!
The pinned comment on the short read “Go donate to TeamWater and if you can’t just subscribe before the end of September and I’ll donate a penny on your behalf!” The short was run as an advertisement by BFA Non-Billable Test Profile until around September 30th, when the short’s growth suddenly plummeted. On October 1st, the comment’s deadline would be changed to say “the end of October”, and CreatorGlobal would launch its first ads since July, with 7 new instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated. The 7 instances would run in the usual countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and also in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and several Arabic-speaking countries under one instance. These ads would run until the end of October 2025.
October 2025
In MrBeast Gaming’s Survive 1000 Days, Win $100,000, uploaded on September 20th, 2025, a laptop giveaway was announced, that would be running for a month after the video’s upload. The giveaway in the video boosted the channel significantly, with it gaining roughly 300K subscribers in a day, making it one of the channel’s fastest days for growth! On October 1st, the giveaway would receive its own dedicated short, Subscribe For A Laptop. This was also MrBeast Gaming’s first and only short uploaded in its entire history. The short would appear as one of CreatorGlobal’s ads the next day, running in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. As of writing, these ads are still running.Back on the main channel, many ads are both ended and started all throughout the month. In total, 72 new ads are launched on CreatorGlobal’s profile in October. 10 of these, those being the mentioned instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated and Subscribe For A Laptop, began in the month’s first 4 days. 41 of the 72 were started between October 7th and October 8th, 11 were started on the 16th, and 10 started between the 29th and 31st. Similarly to July’s buy, October’s ads were primarily in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, though this time, Thailand had several ads, with those 4 countries receiving about a quarter of the 72 ads each. Of the ads launched in this batch, a few were subscriber-based, including 1 Subscriber = 1 Second In The Arctic, Subscribe To Explode The TNT, and the short Every YouTube Play Button I Have, with its ad-exclusive alternative title, Subscribe To See My 500M Playbutton. Another short that started, Answer The Call, Win $10,000, though not subscriber related, had a strong subscriber-based opening which would be repeated in subsequent shorts.
On the flip side, 176 ads would end throughout October, with many of the big names making their final appearances. The instances of I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 would all stop on October 3rd. 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny, and the star of the show, Subscribe For An iPhone, would make their final appearances on October 4th. Subscribe to Win $50,000 would end on October 16th. Of the 176 ads that ended in October, 77 ran in India, 37 ran in Indonesia, 40 ran in Indonesia, 8 ran in Thailand, and the remaining 14 ran in various other countries.
November 2025
After an eventful October, November has a lot less ad action. 12 new ads are launched, 7 of which were unique shorts. Of these, only Call Your Ex, Win $10,000 and I Arrested IShowSpeed received multiple instances. Of the 12, 2 were in India, 4 were in Indonesia, 1 was in Thailand, and 5 were in Vietnam. All of the instances of Call Your Ex, Win $10,000 would end in December, but the rest are ongoing as of writing.Of the November ads that ended, there’s only 3, being 2 leftover instances of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated that ended on November 3rd, and an instance of Subscribe To Explode The TNT that ended on November 27th.
December 2025
In the first half of December, 11 new ads would begin, all being instances of 3 unique shorts, those being Flip a Coin, I’ll Pay For Your College, Hit The Target, Keep The Prize, and Whatever You Hold Onto, You Keep. All of these ads were in the usual countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand, with the exception of a Thai run for Hit The Target, Keep The Prize. All of these ads would end on December 21st, with the exception of the Indonesian ones, which as of writing, are still running.Also in December, 37 ads would end. On December 2nd, 4 ads that were running in Turkey would end. On December 9th, the 2 final instances of I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 would end. All the remaining ads that would end in December ended between the 21st and the 23rd. Of the 37 that ended, 10 had run in India, 2 in Indonesia, 1 in Italy, 9 in Thailand, 4 in Turkey, and 11 had run in Vietnam.
An Indonesian instance of Answer The Call, Win $10,000. The first instance where CreatorGlobal's rename to CREATORGLOBAL, LLC was seen.
On December 13th, CreatorGlobal would change its Google Ads account name from CreatorGlobal to CREATORGLOBAL, LLC, leaving it unverified between December 13th and February 4th, 2026. It would regain verification on February 5th, 2026. During this time, a second account called CreatorGlobal with verification would appear, and it ran 1 more short as new ads for the year.
On December 21st, MrBeast would post Giving Away $1,000,000 in Gifts To My Subscribers, the main channel’s first giveaway short since May. The short would first appear as an advertisement on the second CreatorGlobal on December 22nd, with instances in India, Vietnam, and Thailand, with an Indonesian instance appearing on the 23rd. In the short’s first 4 days and 12 hours, the time between publishing and the end of Christmas in US Eastern Time, the short would gain 197M views, and 2.6M likes. It is currently the channel’s 2nd fastest video from 0 views to 200M views, behind only Slippery vs Sticky Stairs. 3 of the 4 instances of this short would stop running after Christmas Day, with the exception of the one in India, which is still running today. With that short, that takes us to the end of 2025.
PART 2: THE DATA
Overall Ad Breakdown
Chart showing which targets were the most common for advertising done by CreatorGlobal.
Overall, 428 ads were ran by CreatorGlobal in 2025. India alone makes up roughly 40% of these ads. Indonesia and Vietnam together both make up roughly another 40%. The remaining roughly 20% is composed of mostly Thailand, with a few others included as well.
With an advertisement demographic breakdown like this, it’s worth noting that according to YouTube’s 2025 Global Culture and Trends Report, MrBeast gained 47M Indian subscribers in 2025. For scale, this means more Indians subscribed to MrBeast in 2025 than total people did to T-Series, India’s (and formerly YouTube’s) #1 most subscribed channel, during their best performing year for sub growth. These 47M currently make up over 10% of the channel’s subscribers. MrBeast also gained the most subscribers from Indonesia of any channel, though we don’t have an exact number.
Chart showing how many advertisements started and ended during each month of 2025.
By month, July by far saw the most advertisements launched, with almost 60% of all the advertisements launched that month. October saw both the second most ads launched in one month, and the most advertisements ended in one month. Of the 428 ads that launched in 2025, 278 didn’t make it to 2026, while 150 did.
Graph showing how many ads were being run by CreatorGlobal & CREATORGLOBAL, LLC throughout 2025, by day.
October 16th saw the most ads run in a day of any day in 2025, peaking at 298 unique ads having run. Many of these ads would then end the next day, only to be replaced by other new ads. The drop on October 30th, however, wasn’t recovered from.
The Ads Themselves
List of every video that appeared as an ad on CreatorGlobal's profiles in 2025. Red represents giveaways, Yellow represents shorts about subscribing, Green represents shorts with good subscriber call-to-actions.
Overall, 98 unique videos were seen as advertisements in 2025. Of these, 90 were shorts, and 8 were longforms. All were of videos on the main MrBeast channel except 1, that being MrBeast Gaming’s Subscribe For A Laptop. As of the end of 2025, there were 148 shorts on the MrBeast channel, meaning that 61% of the channel’s shorts had been seen running as advertisements at some point in time during 2025. Despite there being so many advertisements, the overwhelming majority of them didn't show a significant increase in views while running as ads.
In the list of what videos were ads, some are denoted with yellow, green, and red. Shorts in green are shorts with strong subscriber call-to-actions that boosted the channel. Shorts in yellow are content where the act of subscribing is what the short is based around. Shorts in red are subscribe-to-enter giveaways.
The various giveaways, notably, have been seen as advertisements outside of their giveaway periods. I’m Giving My 250M Subscriber $25,000 was seen in December 2025, over a year after the channel reached 250M in April 2024. Giving 1000 Phones Away was last run in April 2025, after the giveaway period ended in June 2024. Subscribe For An iPhone was last run in October 2025, after the giveaway period ended in January 2025. Subscribe to Win $50,000 was last run in October 2025, after the giveaway period ended in May 2025. Subscribe For A Laptop’s giveaway period ended in October 2025, and is still running today. Giving Away $1,000,000 in Gifts To My Subscribers, the final giveaway of 2025, ended on February 1st, 2026, and is still running today.
Videos with the most instances as advertisements on CreatorGlobal's profiles.
These were the most common ads of the 428. 6 of them managed to have 10 different instances. The top 4 are all filled out by shorts that impacted the channel’s subscriber count heavily upon upload. Overall, the average number of instances a video would get was around 4.4 instances, well over 3 due to the common trio of India, Indonesia, and Vietnam being heavily targeted by the advertising.
The Subscriber Count Impact
The number of subscribers that MrBeast and MrBeast Gaming have gained both in total and in 2025 as a result of advertising is not a number that is known. But using data for the videos that received advertising, we can analyze places where it may have had significant impact throughout the year.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from January 8th to May 6th, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
During its prime, Subscribe For An iPhone was especially dominant in longterm growth compared to every other upload on the main channel. The video would routinely get over 100K likes/day as a result of the advertising, while most other videos would consistently stay under 50K. The impact of the advertising is shown in April, where without ads, the growth drops to around 5K likes/day.
List showing the channel's average daily subscriber growth rate during various time periods.
Throughout December 2024 and early January, which saw very little to no advertising, the channel gained roughly 220-230K subs/day on average. With Subscribe For An iPhone but without ads, the average daily growth jumped up by about 100K. Through the rest of January, February, and March, the channel grew significantly faster, nearly double the channel's December rates. Ads continued until a brief period in April where none were run, at which point the channel’s growth dropped to around 120K subs/day. When ads were restored, the growth resumed at its previously high rate.
Graph comparing the daily like growth on Subscribe For An iPhone (seen in red) and daily subscriber growth on MrBeast's channel (seen in blue).
The growth of Subscribe For An iPhone also shows similarities to the channel’s overall growth. The correlation isn’t exactly 1 to 1, but there are some patterns that occur in both. For example, the sudden dip in growth on both the short and subs around February 17th and during the adless week in April, and the bumps in growth around 3/3 and 3/24.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from May 1st to August 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
Continuing until September, Subscribe For An iPhone would continue to dominate the longterm fastest growing list. It wasn’t as consistently high as before, now floating around 70K likes/day. As a result of this, it would find some competition with other subscriber shorts. Subscribe To Win $50,000 and I NEED 1 MORE 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 would both be boosted during their ad campaigns, but not consistently to the extent of the iPhone short. The iPhone short’s best competitor would be Can I Teach A Penguin To Subscribe?, which was able to keep up with its pace for over a month straight in June, before dropping off in July.
2 graphs in one image, with the top one showing MrBeast's daily subscriber growth, and the bottom showing the daily like growth, excluding the first 10 days after upload, of 4 different shorts on the channel, from May 1 to August 31, 2025.
In this graph's timeframe, the $50,000 short and the Penguin short were published, on May 7th and May 31st respectively. Spikes in growth there come from those videos' boosts upon video upload.
The comparison between likes and growth once again is not 1 to 1, but certain similarities do stick out. The jumps in subscribers around 5/15, 6/5, 6/26, and the three between 7/31 and 8/21 all align with the jumps in likes. The dips around 7/17 and just before 7/31 also align.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from August 1st to October 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
In September, the iPhone short would begin to fade out, outright ending its run on October 4th. What took its place for the month was the short of 1 Subscriber = 1 Penny Donated from the end of TeamWater. This short did insane numbers throughout September, consistently gaining 450K likes/day, until its primary ads ended around October 1st. In 2025, only 2 new videos managed to enter the list of MrBeast’s Most Liked Videos of all time, those being the iPhone one, and this TeamWater one.
Graph showing MrBeast's daily subscriber growth, from August 1 to October 31, 2025.
Similarly to the above graph of likes, the channel’s sudden subscriber growth that starts and ends in roughly the borders of September is very noticeable.
Graph showing the daily like growth of every MrBeast upload since Squid Game IRL, from October 1st to December 31st, 2025. Excludes first 10 days of data for 2025 uploads. Some notable high performing shorts are labeled.
The impact of advertising is significantly less visible throughout the last 3 months of the year. 2 main factors are at play here, namely that 1, many of the heavy hitters for growth end their runs in October, and 2, a general site-wide decline in growth on YouTube occurs around this time period. So many of YouTube’s fastest growing channels, such as T-Series, the Stokes Twins, KIMPRO, and others, all got hit hard at around the same time. This event has been nicknamed The Flattening. It was brought about by recent UI changes on YouTube’s homepage, as well as changes in the way that YouTube recommends older shorts. These changes started around September, but were obscured by the TeamWater short on MrBeast’s channel. A good video on the Flattening can be found HERE.
Through the final 3 months, no one video was able to consistently stay at the top of the list by a huge margin in the same way as in previous months. However, of the few that stood out on this graph, such as Answer The Call, Win $10,000, many were advertisements. This time period was likely the least impacted of the year by the advertisements, of the time while ads were running. Due to the Flattening though, not a exactly a fair comparison to early 2025.
Graph showing estimated subscriber growth for MrBeast Gaming, from January 1st to December 31st, 2025.
The impact on MrBeast Gaming is much more evident, with a clearer before and after due to only one piece of content, Subscribe For A Laptop, running as an advertisement. Between the channel’s first upload of 2025, on April 19th, and September 19th, the day before the giveaway was announced in a longform video, the channel averaged 13,382 subscribers/day. In the time since between giveaway got its own standalone short on October 1st, and the end of 2025, the slowest growth the channel saw was around 17,779 subscribers/day, and the channel’s average growth increased to 33,164 subscribers/day.
YouTube’s New Advertising Meta?
As 2025 went along, more and more channels which use advertising to gain subscribers began to appear on the list of fastest growing channels. Changes such as YouTube’s Flattenning didn’t help with this either.
Calendar showing the profile pictures of the fastest growing channels during each month.
In 2025, only 3 other channels were able to have a month where they beat MrBeast in subscriber growth As has been established, MrBeast uses advertising. Of these 3 other channels, we can verify that 2, Masters Of Prophecy and The Game Awards, used advertising to grow.
Several channels in the list of YouTube’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Channels in 2025 also ended up using advertising to assist in their growth. AI music channel Masters Of Prophecy, who ended up as #4 for 2025, is the most notable of these advertising channels. Others there include Bispo Bruno Leonardo, who is Brazil’s #1 most subscribed channel and was the 7th fastest channel of 2025, Toyota GAZOO Racing, who was #21 of 2025, and 유창조 You Chang Jo, who was #30 of 2025. A channel that started to use advertising too late to join 2025’s Fastest List was John Fairclough, who ended up as the #2 fastest channel of November 2025. Fairclough was briefly the fastest growing channel on YouTube in a given 30 day period, but not for enough time to win a month.
Graph showing the Top 20 Fastest Growing YouTube channels of 2026, as of February 20th.
So far in 2026, 6 of the Top 20 Fastest Growing Channels of the year have been boosted by advertisements. A channel called Alan’s Factory Outlet is currently #5, and one called Joey Yap Is #12. Nick DiGiovanni is currently #18 of 2026, and is using advertisements to help him reach his goal of becoming YouTube’s largest food channel. For those who are able to afford it, especially during the recent slump of growth on YouTube following the Flattening, advertising has become a very effective way at gaining new subscribers, used by a variety of creators.
Conclusion / 2026
Based on the data, a good amount of the channel’s growth in 2025 seems to have been impacted by advertising done by CreatorGlobal, for at least the first 3 quarters of 2025 on the main, and for the last quarter of 2025 on the gaming channel. Moving into 2026, we’re seeing a similar story play out to 2025. An example already mentioned would be the many channels on the 2026 Toplist that are there from advertising.Picture showing the Indian and Indonesian instances of Subscribe for an iPhone (2026) as an ad, and the same short being the channel's 5th video to reach 1B views.
For MrBeast, on January 13th, 2026, the main channel posted a new video called Subscribe for an iPhone, nearly the same title as the one uploaded on January 17th, 2025, with a minor difference in capitalization. The video promotes another iPhone giveaway. Originally, the giveaway period was going to last for a week, but it was changed to last until February 12th. The boost from this short wasn’t nearly as major as the one from 2025. The short began running as an advertisement on the day it was published, and is still running as of today.
On February 21st, 2026, Subscribe for an iPhone became the 5th MrBeast upload to ever reach 1 BILLION views. It reached this milestone in 39 days, becoming likely the fastest ever YouTube upload from 0 to 1B views! At its current pace, it will become the channel’s most viewed video ever in around 40 days.
As of now, roughly 150 advertisements are still running between CreatorGlobal’s 2 Google Ads profiles. Advertising helped the channel dominate 2025, and looks poised to help it dominate once again in 2026.
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