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YouTube began to put a bow on 2021 by sharing its top 10 lists of top ads, trending videos, top creators, top YouTube Shorts creators, top music videos and breakout creators for the year.
The top 10 ads in the U.S. this year were:
- Amazon: Alexa’s Body
- T-Mobile: #TheGOATin5G
- HBO Max: Justice League (Official Trailer)
- Netflix: The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Official Trailer)
- Apple: Privacy on iPhone
- Peloton: Beyonce Classes (video no longer publicly available on advertiser’s channel)
- Uber Eats: Wayne’s World & Cardi B’s Shameless Manipulation
- Toyota: The Pitch
- State Farm Insurance: Drake from State Farm (video no longer publicly available on advertiser’s channel)
- Nintendo: OLED Model (Announcement Trailer)
The top trending video in the U.S. this year was I Spent 50 Hours Buried Alive, by MrBeast.
MrBeast was also the top creator in the U.S. for 2021, while Zhong was the top YouTube Shorts creator and Kallmekris was the top breakout creator.
Back In Blood (featuring Lil Durk) from Pooh Shiesty was the year’s top music video in the U.S.
YouTube’s top trending videos for 2021 in the U.S. were:
The Google-owned video site’s top U.S. creators for the year were:
- MrBeast (75.7 million subscribers)
- Dhar Mann (13.6 million)
- SSSniperWolf (30.2 million)
- CoryxKenshin (11.7 million)
- Dream (27.2 million)
- TommyInnit (11.2 million)
- Mark Rober (20.4 million)
- Kallmekris (4.24 million)
- Technoblade (9.4 million)
- The Royalty Family (15.4 million)
2021’s top YouTube Shorts creators in the U.S. were:
- Zhong (5.98M subscribers)
- Desmond Dennis (3.93 million)
- Dental Digest (6.11 million)
- Greg Renko (3.45 million)
- Nick DiGiovanni (3.74 million)
- The Bentist (2.25 million)
- Milad Mirg (2.48 million)
- SeanDoesMagic (4 million)
- Dylan Lemay (2.62 million)
- DankScole (1.79 million)
The top music videos in the U.S. were:
And YouTube’s breakout creators of 2021 were:
- Kallmekris (4.24 million)
- Ranboo (3.71 million)
- Adin Live (2.21 million)
- Beluga (6.1 million)
- Ryan Trahan (4.96 million)
- TapL (3.57 million)
- Kinigra Deon (1.48 million)
- Tubbo (3.01 million)
- BrentTV (1.8 million)
- Casual Geographic (1.51 million)