Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Gaming YouTube outliers
17,488 Gaming videos from 123 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 419 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
123
Videos scored
17,488
Reach 2x or more
23.6%
5x or more 5.7% · 10x or more 1.6%
Leaderboard pool
419
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Release calendars govern Gaming more than any other force. A launch concentrates enormous demand into a short window, and channels publishing inside it can post numbers their ordinary content will never approach, which is why the top of this list is partly a record of what came out recently. Underneath the launches the niche is enormous and fragmented: guides, reviews, challenge runs, lore, comedy edits and live clips all behave differently and attract different audiences. Baselines tend to be firm because cadence is high, so a large multiplier is genuinely unusual. Shorts do heavy lifting, especially for clip-based channels. Read the top rows against the release calendar first, then look for the ones that broke out with no launch behind them, because that is where packaging did the work.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aminimii | 2.5M | 6.2K | 419x | ||
| 2 | Aminimii | 1.5M | 6.2K | 251x | ||
| 3 | Crano | 12.6M | 213K | 55x | ||
| 4 | Crano | 8.3M | 213K | 36x | ||
| 5 | My Retro Life | 1.9M | 62.6K | 30x | ||
| 6 | Pryszard Android iOS Gameplays | 102K | 4.4K | 21x | ||
| 7 | ProsafiaGaming | 928K | 71.6K | 19x | ||
| 8 | Pryszard Android iOS Gameplays | 89.8K | 4.4K | 18x | ||
| 9 | Big Dan Gaming | 1M | 78.1K | 13x | ||
| 10 | ProsafiaGaming | 1.1M | 71.6K | 13x |
Showing the top 10 of 419 outliers in Gaming (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Gaming ranking is built
- Every Gaming video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 17,488 videos from 123 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 419 Gaming videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Gaming channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 23.6% of scored Gaming videos reach 2x or more, 5.7% reach 5x and 1.6% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
Is chasing new releases the only way to break out in gaming?
It is the most reliable and the most crowded. A launch supplies demand you do not have to create, but it expires and everybody is competing for it. Rows that broke out without a release behind them are the more interesting study, because they show a premise strong enough to work alone.
Why do guides perform steadily but rarely top the list?
Guides collect search traffic for as long as people play the game, which lifts the channel median without ever spiking above it. That is a good position: a high baseline built from guides makes an occasional breakout genuinely meaningful rather than an artifact of low upload volume.
How should I read Shorts multipliers on a gaming channel?
Separately, which is how they are scored. Clip Shorts can reach far past a channel's usual audience, so a strong Shorts multiplier says the moment was gripping rather than that the channel grew. Check whether long-form on the same channel moved afterward before treating it as a win.
How many Gaming videos are behind this leaderboard?
17,488 scored Gaming videos from 123 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 419 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Gaming leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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