Minecraft Most Popular Game on YouTube in April - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 May 2015 / 4,005 Views
Minecraft continues to dominate gaming on YouTube in terms of views, according to a report released by Newzoo. It accounted for 34 percent of the views of the top 20 most popular franchises with 3.9 billion views last month.
Overall, the top 20 franchises had 11.5 billion views in April. That is down from 12.3 billion views in March. This is the first time since Newzoo has been reporting YouTube views that there was a drop month-over-month. 98.2 percent of video views were made by fans.
Grand Theft Auto was the second biggest franchise with 1.39 billion views and 12 percent of the views. Five Nights at Freddy's was third with 1.17 billion views and 10 percent of the views.
Mortal Kombat X helped drive the franchise up nine spots in April with a 170 percent increase month-over-month.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I really don't think Minecraft will leave the top position any time soon.
Yeah. It's premise of building and crafting things ensures it's place at the top for a long... LONG time.
And this is why Microsoft's 2.5 billion purchase is justified:-)
Minecraft is the SMB of today's generation.
You don't say.
