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Industry analytics firm Fancensus has researched the most popular YouTubers during E3 2016.
The firm has listed the ten most influential YouTube channels for the week of E3. The firm checked the views of all videos posted that week related to E3 content and ranked them.
Top of the list was Spanish YouTuber elrubiusOMG, whose coverage of Outlast 2, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Watch Dogs 2, resulted in an average view count of 4.3m users.
He posted two videos up during E3 week and boasts almost 19m subscribers.
UK YouTuber jackfrags was the second most impactful YouTuber, producing eight videos that – on average – attracted 925,349 views each. His coverage also featured a lot of Ubisoft content (For Honor, Steep, Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs), but it was his Battlefield 1 video that generated the most attention.
Here is the Fancencus data in full:
The Top Ten E3 YouTubers:
1. elrubiusOMG
Subscribers: 18,884,734
E3 Posts: 2
Average Views: 4,334,758
Top Products:
Outlast 2 (33%)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands (33%)
Watch Dogs 2 (33%)
2. jackfrags
Subscribers: 1,790,616
E3 Posts: 8
Average Views: 925,349
Top Products:
Battlefield 1 (38%)
For Honor (13%)
Steep (13%)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (13%)
Tom Clancy’s The Division (Underground DLC) (13%)
Watch Dogs 2 (13%)
3. MKIceAndFire
Subscribers: 554,791
E3 Posts: 120
Average Views: 61,162
Top Products:
Injustice 2 (6%)
Dishonored 2 (4%)
Final Fantasy XV (4%)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (4%)
Battlefield 1 (3%)
4. LevelCapGaming
Subscribers: 1,536,190
E3 Posts: 7
Average Views: 746,655
Top Products:
Battlefield 1 (71%)
Overview video (14%)
Titanfall 2 (14%)
5. Gameplayrj
Subscribers: 3,728,043
E3 Posts: 31
Average Views: 151,468
Top Products:
Injustice 2 (8%)
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (8%)
Titanfall 2 (8%)
Xbox One (8%)
6. gameranxTV
Subscribers: 2,311,500
E3 Posts: 9
Average Views: 515,068
Top Products:
Overview Video: 33%
Battlefield 1: 11%
Dishonored 2: 11%
God of War 4: 11%
Titanfall 2: 11%
Xbox One: 11%
7. RabidRetrospectGames
Subscribers: 189,073
E3 Posts: 122
Average Views: 31,180
Top Products:
Dishonored 2: 6%
Friday The 13th: 5%
Injustice 2: 5%
Titanfall 2: 4%
Watch Dogs 2: 4%
8. M3RKMUS1C
Subscribers: 2,773,470
E3 Posts: 2
Average Views: 1,702,687
Top Products:
Battlefield 1 (100%)
9: Izuniy
Subscribers: 771,580
E3 Posts: 86
Average Views: 38,567
Top Products:
Final Fantasy XV (7%)
Dishonored 2 (5%)
Injustice 2 (5%)
Gears of War 4 (3%)
Titanfall 2 (3%)
10. Markiplier
Subscribers: 13,595,923
E3 Posts: 2
Average Views: 1,408,123
Top Products:
Outlast 2
Resident Evil VII
