Youtube Flashback: August 2007 Top 100

Picture from 2007 curtesy of Wayback Machine

What were you doing in August 2007? Were you even on Youtube either as someone who watched the videos of others or were you one of the few who uploaded clips and got listed in this Top 100 from August 5, 2007?

Look at the numbers these people had just 4 short years ago and compare them with the millions of subscribers that the Top 100 Most Subscribed have today and you can see the astounding growth this website has generated. How many of these channels do you remember and how many are still actively uploading videos? Each channel can still be found by the links provided unless they have been closed which is the case for some of them. Others just have not been updated in years.

1 smosh 148,992
2 lonelygirl15 97,821
3 esmeedenters 70,844
4 miaarose 68,787
5 WilliamSledd 66,743
6 HappySlip 62,098
7 thewinekone 59,781
8 LisaNova 59,764
9 CBS 57,144
10 BaratsAndBereta 54,542
11 JamesNintendoNerd 54,114
12 Brookers 53,693
13 kevjumba 47,251
14 GayGod 46,685
15 LittleKuriboh 45582
16 TheHill88 45,127
17 geriatric1927 44,479
18 universalmusicgroup 43,518
19 linkinparktv 42,705
20 FueledByRamen 40,914
21 NBC 39,259
22 blamesocietyfilms 38,070
23 digitalfilmmaker 35,965
24 derrickcomedy 35,483
25 boh3m3 35,255
26 Daxflame 34,712
27 Blendtec 34,586
28 ashleytisdale 33,847
29 mYcheMicALroMaNcE 33,396
30 renetto 29,418
31 impytherap 29,039
32 charlestrippy 28,828
33 ysabellabrave 27,612
34 communitychannel 27,593
35 lassegg 26,945
36 abbegirl 26,930
37 RonPaul2008dotcom 24,379
38 vlogolution 23,505
39 Danielbeast 23,431
40 Emmalina 21,678
41 ItTakes5IVE 21,439
42 smpfilms 21,192
43 warnerbrosrecords 20,748
44 MadV 20,704
45 littleloca 20,194
46 rockongoodpeople 19,996
47 EclecticAsylumArt 19,937
48 mrpitifulband 19,761
49 sxephil 19,735
50 terranaomi 19,641

51 FilthyWhore 19,200
52 Katers17 19,040
53 MarkDayComedy 18,854
54 francisstokesdotcom 18,626
55 RyanLeslieTV 18,521
56 Blunty3000 18,467
57 valsartdiary 17,798
58 nalts 17,675
59 drewtoothpaste 17,477
60 cutiemish 17,448
61 NHLVideo 17,260
62 liamkylesullivan 17,072
63 prettyrickyvideos 16,978
64 ItsJustSomeRandomGuy 16,936
65 IanH 16,672
66 wantlieswiththat 16572
67 StevenTsapelas 16,450
68 davidchoimusic 16,288
69 NBA 16,239
70 mystoandpizzi 16,227
71 boburnham 16,107
72 BadBoyRecords 16,095
73 DiGiTiLsOuL 16,038
74 JustinSandercoe 15,768
75 phatfffat 15,689
76 ParisHilton 15,621
77 judsonlaipply 15,551
78 NeilCicierega 15,532
79 LazyLionsProductions 15,247
80 BBCWorldwide 15,217
81 jonastko 15,174
82 MediocreFilms 15,123
83 Paperlilies 15,019
84 NoHoGirls 14,718
85 Rubix89 14,713
86 ArtieTSMITW 14,680
87 GiR2007 14,615
88 JiveHonky81 14,549
89 gemmers19 14,483
90 roadrunnerrecords 14,387
91 YouTube 14,293
92 hoiitsroi 14,289
93 Rabix99 14,139
94 macpulenta 14,028
95 spricket24 13,674
96 MysteryGuitarMan 13,579
97 anafree 13,463
98 underoathmusic 13,329
99 peron75 13,206
100 citizenchong 13,051

Right at the top is of course smosh who remain right there, showing incredible staying power. In August 2007 Anthony and Ian had garnered an incredible 148,992 subscribers and had taken over top spot from the rapidly declining lonelygirl15. Now smosh enjoys the support of over 3 million subs. HappySlip is right at the top along with Lisa Nova's channel. Kevjumba was in 13th spot with only 47K subs?!

Charles Trippy had a mere 28,828 subs and CTFxC was still a long way off (this was pre-Alli and obviously Ms Speed and soon-to-be Mrs Trippy had a great effect on Charles' life). Natalie Tran's communitychannel had only 27,593 subscribers at this point.

Whoa. Way down at number 49 is sxephil (Philip DeFranco) with 19,735 subscribers. These days Phil gets 19K a week in subs across his many channels and is hovering near the Top 10 Most Subscribed. Katers17 is still making videos on her main channel but does daily vlogs as katersoneseven and is temporarily located in the states from her native England. Uncle Nalts is up there at number 58 with only 17K subs.

Looking towards the bottom of the list there is spricket24, MysteryGuitarMan (with only 13,579!) and peron75 which is Michael "WhatTheBuck" Buckley's 2nd channel.

If you're looking at these numbers in surprise, don't be shocked. Youtube has grown, mutated and grown again exponentially during the intervening 4 years and who knows who will still be around in another 4 years.

One thing to point out is that this list does not show a Ray William Johnson, Nigahiga or Fred. Some of the most popular Youtube channels today were active in August 2007 but were not even listed in the Top 100. Food for thought. There were many who gave up trying to be successful on Youtube back at this time thinking that the window of opportunity had already closed when actually it was being pried open even further. Look at the numbers in this list again and tell me you don't see potential for the future with this website.

Updated List Of The Top 100 UK Youtubers

I posted the Top 100 Most Subscribed UK Youtubers list way back in mid-July and I've been getting requests for an updated version because it is pretty much out of date.

There's been quite a bit of movement in the list with some new channels coming onto the list and others slipping off. Like I always point out with these things, you shouldn't only look at the top 10 most subscribed and screw the rest - there's a LOT of great channels farther down the list and more importantly, many, many who just don't have enough subs to get on this list, but that does not mean they should be ignored by you or me.

If you go to any channel on this list they will usually have links to other channels that you should take a look at. Creep around a bit - if you see a link to someone's channel with an interesting name or thumbnail, click on it and see what they're all about! Check out the channels of people who are commenting on the people you like. You never know what you will find.

Here is the list of those UK YouTube channels with the highest number of subscribers. Leading the way is Charlie McDonnell with his charlieissocoollike of course. Actually, the first 4 are all on the worldwide Top 100 Most Subscribed List.

First, here's the Top 10 Most Subscribed In The United Kingdom:

charlieissocoollike

621,006

bubzbeauty

432,041

panacea81

425,081

TopGear

373,771

simonscat

286,032

miaarose

263,279

nerimon

256,317

BBCWorldwide

240,605

eddsworld

203,318

THEMIDNIGHTBEAST

202,248

1. charlieissocoollike - Charlie McDonnell is still the most highly subscribeed Youtuber in the United Kingdom and increasing his lead over 2nd place Lindy Tsang aka bubzbeauty who added another 70,000-plus subscribers since late July 2010. McDonnell's channel was at 498K when I last updated this list in July 2010 and has added another 123K. He might be the first UK youtuber to hit a million subs, but that's still in the distance. There's a couple of posts on Bradshaw's Blog about Charlie/Alex Day/Tom Milsom/Eddplant and their band Sons of Admirals if you want to take a look.

2. bubzbeauty - This would be Lindy and she is now the 2nd most subbed UK youtuber and also the most followed makeup guru. She just zipped past 400K subs on her main channel and has a further 183K on her 2nd channel called bubbiosity where she does random skits and vlogs.

3. panacea81 - Lauren Luke is one of the top make-up gurus from the UK and has a book out called Lauren Luke as well as a popular personal blog: About Lauren Luke.

4. TopGear - TopGear is all about cars, motorcycles and the like. Besides their popular YouTube channel, you can find more about them at their website topgear.com/uk/.

5. simonscat - Simple animation about a man (Simon) and his mischievous cat. Good news is that there's some new videos just recently uploaded! You can also visit the website simonscat.com. There's also the book, Simon's Cat that you can pick up from Amazon.

6. miaarose - Lovely Mia Rose has 52 videos posted where she sings and plays guitar. On her most recent video she sings Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream."

7. nerimon - Alex Day's vlog. He is in with Charlie McDonnell on another channel, but this is where Alex gets to ramble on about his life. I subbed awhile back and have yet to plow through all 100-plus of Alex's videos, but will do so and post a review of his channel.

8. BBCWorldwide - From the national television we have BBCWorldwide which currently has about 4788 various videos uploaded from different TV shows. Everything from Fawlty Towers to dinosaurs, you will find great fare on this channel.

9. eddsworld - Up one spot is Edd with his odd animation series "eddsworld." Edd is the creator and only animator and has his friends voice various characters (usually with the same name as his friends). Currently has 62 videos uploaded. More than worth a look.

10. THEMIDNIGHTBEAST - Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Neil Horne make up the group that says "We mock the living hell out of stuff for a living." Haven't been able to get past their latest video called "Daddy" but plan to review them as well. They just got their 200,000th sub, raising the bar for all trying get into the top 10 and are currently sitting at 202,248 for 10th spot on the Top 100 Youtubers in the United Kingdom.

That's the Top 10 for the United Kingdom, but there are a LOT of other equally good or better channels the further down the list.

11 To 25 Most Subscribed In United Kingdom

11. bubbiosity

183,162

12. muse

179,987

13. pixiwoo

177,829

14. HazardCinema

155,230

15. TheXFactorUK

150,380

16. TotalHalibut

148,314

17. mrweebl

145,175

18. BritainsGotTalent09

142,913

19. AmazingPhil

135,570

20. patcondell

134,802

21. lollipop26

126,841

22. sosolid2kk

124,049

23. UKFDubstep

123,337

24. leonalewis

123,049

25. BBC

122,039

The biggest increase in sheer numbers was by the gamer channel TotalHalibut. They had 39,417 subs good enough for 98th place last July, but they've been on fire since then, and now have 148,314 subscribers and sit at number 16 on the list. That is quite a jump! Another channel that's really moving is UKFDubstep who went from 63,088 subscribers to 123,337 to move from number 52 to 23. Do you watch any of their videos? Let me know in the comments.

26 To 50 Most Subscribed In the United Kingdom

26. mememolly

120,535

27. TheMoodieSwede

116,032

28. parlophone

114,810

29. Scoutthedoggie

112,829

30. VideoJug

112,129

31. ZerkaaHD

112,071

32. JustinSandercoe

110,173

33. HDCYT

106,450

34. ashens

103,828

35. TomSka

103,272

36. lifeinaday

101,545

37. journeymanpictures

98,850

38. NufffRespect

98,797

39. Doki66

96,152

40. BritainsSoTalented

87,927

41. Pyropuncher

87,543

42. Foxylocksextensions

87,248

43. cyriak

85,296

44. SmallishBeans

84,201

45. PS3Comedy

83,844

46. ColdplayTV

83,512

47. UKFDrumandBass

83,457

48. HarryPartridge

82,978

49. JustinSandercoeSongs

82,299

50. futureshorts

82,166

In the 26-50 Most Subscribed U.K. List, there's several that I plan on taking a closer look at. There some that have made some big jumps as far as increasing their subscriber base like Foxylocksextensions. Granted hair extensions probably won't enhance my own look, but it looks like that channel is becoming popular. I'll probably pass on subbing even though Imogen is exheedingly easy on the eyes. And I still like Harry Partridge's stuff.

51 To 75 Most Subscribed In the United Kingdom

51. MrBean

80,892

52. TheRealParis

77,639

53. hexachordal

76,576

54. katem3

76,456

55. whatstyleistonickel

76,402

56. damienwalters

75,390

57. Katers17

74,885

58. SAM5000i

72,161

59. Paperlilies

70,056

60. SteveAATW

69,147

61. QuantumDNB

68,873

62. bexboop878

67,184

63. 4oDComedy

67,155

64. bullettv

66,638

65. Dinozambas

66,505

66. JAMIExELITE

66,055

67. anafree

64,454

68. GUN1T123

64,256

69. silentc0re

63,327

70. Thereaper123666 ~ NEW!

63,172

71. queenofficial

62,187

72. Jacqueline92

61,875

73. islandrecords

58,516

74. RuneScape

58,470

75. whataboutadam

58,359

There's some new channels in the 50-75 group, namely Thereaper123666 with Ash who is a girl gamer. Also I subbed to Jacqueline92 even though she hasn't posted anything in 7 months because I play guitar (actually I OWN some guitars that sit forlornly behind me as I type this). I just watched a couple of Jacqueline's videos because she's a good guitarist and I'm a bad one and maybe I can pick up a tip or two. Sure wish she would start posting again. If you know her or are subbed to her channel, give her a kick in the pants and tell her to get posting! She's slipped to the 72nd spot on the Top 100 and could get much higher if she posted regularly.

76 To 100 Most Subscribed In the United Kingdom

76. timwestwoodtv

57,706

77. JohnnyDurham19

57,343

78. theunforgiving

55,541

79. geriatric1927

55,086

80. BBCEarth

54,709

81. oasisinetofficial

53,764

82. ellaskins

53,297

83. EastEnders

52,573

84. channel4

52,284

85. lilhagan

52,013

86. littleloca

51,714

87. itn

51,697

88. pixi2woo ~ NEW!

50,132

89. madbaddog05

49,749

90. diagonaluk

49,733

91. eaglerocktv

49,344

92. FuZioNHD ~ NEW!

48,354

93. ProdigyChannel

47,160

94. SWalkerMakeup ~ NEW!

47,061

95. danisnotonfire ~ NEW!

46,958

96. assassinscreedUK

46,623

97. polydor

46,292

98. glyphmedia

45,268

99. TheTingTingsTV

45,212

100. fiveawesomeguys

44,850

That is the list for the United Kingdom as of October 25, 2010. I'll make sure I get it updated each month and posted on Bradshaw's Blog. I mentioned when I did the list last July that there seems to be few actual vlogs in the United Kingdom and would like to see some more of those. There's tons of great channels that do skits, music, makeup etc., but you might be able to really stand out if you considered trying your hand at just yapping at the camera. Don't think I'm criticizing in a negative way - I love what I am seeing on the UK channels and they need more play over on this side of the Atlantic.

When I did the last list in July 2010, it took 40,000 subscribers to break into the Top 100 and here it is only three months later and fiveawesomeguys is number 100 with 44,850 so you can see an overall increase in the subscriber bases of those on the list. Perhaps when I do this list again towards the end of November I will also show what each channel had as far as subscribers the month before.

Is there anything else you would like to see? I'm writing another post in a few days showing the top youtubers in Ireland and I will be doing a similar post updating the Top 100 Canadian youtubers.