Hey there nerds, it's me, ya spreadsheet gremlin.

I first started paying attention to YouTube views back in March 2019. I got curious what the most popular BFU videos were by viewcounts and I recorded all of them one day while I was bored at work. Then a week or two later, I checked them again as a new season of True Crime started. And well, the rest is history.

I wasn't as consistent with BFU recording as I am with Watcher, although I did take them every week after a new episode premiered. Now that the finale has aired, I don't have plans to record these again, at least not for a long time. So, without further ado, here are some final thoughts on BFU's viewcounts. (full spreadsheet here)

Hey there demons, ya spreadsheet gremlin here with a lot of very good news in the world of Watcher’s viewcounts!

Too Many Spirits already has HALF A MILLION views on its 4th day out! It went out a day earlier than the previous record holder for best premiere weekend (Puppet History’s The Dancing Plague with 435k) so I’m not sure that it’s quite the same to compare, but it is easily their best premiere episode of a series. This is so exciting for the month going forward! Plus, it’s a fucking great show, so it’s a win for everyone.

The pilot episodes of Weird and/or Wonderful World and Are You Scared? have both hit a million since I last updated! AYS just hit it this past week, gaining 42k views. The other s1 AYS eps also gained a lot, with Being Home alone jumping up 51k.

The premiere of s2 of AYS is also doing well, currently at 270k. That’s on track with s1, although slightly down. I imagine all of these will continue to grow though now that we are in spooky season.

The next closest ep to 1 million is the Kate Warne ep of Puppet History at 804k. There are 6 Watcher episodes in the 700k range, as well, so we should see a few more hit that mark in next month or so.

Donner Party is having the best second week of all the s2 Puppet History eps, with 564k views. Really smart to end the season on a spooky note, good job team. 

Fascinatingly, Top 5 Beatdown Fast Food Chains has retaken the title of their most watched video, gaining 100k (!) views in the past week (1.719 million total). Since July 6, this ep has been gaining on average 15k views a week. So this bump is very out of nowhere, but a good one, of course.

Been a minute since a spreadsheet update! I come bearing Puppet History (and others) stats!

As of today, September 14 2020, Puppet History 1x01 Life During the Black Death, is the most watched Watcher video with 1.567 million views!

1x02, Stealing the World’s Most Expensive Necklace, is right on its heels with 1.562 million. The previous title holder, Top 5′s Fast Food Chains is at 1.557 million. 

Season 2 of Puppet History is going strong. Two out of five episodes have trended so far and both of those did slightly better than the rest, so that’s good to know. (I am furious at myself though - I forgot to record last week’s on Monday so I’m a day off there)

All but the newest have already crossed the half a million mark!

These opening numbers are all in line with season 1 PH as well. The Dancing Plague still has the best opening week numbers for any Watcher video so far (435k) but everything else is higher the rest of PH s1. Growth! You love to see it.

I am completely flabbergasted by whatever is going on with Watcher Weekly lately. I think the show has been the best it’s been since quarantine started but the numbers don’t really reflect that, at least until you hit the newest one where they tried to guess Gen Z slang. I truly don’t understand why some of these do better than others. 

Watcher hit 800k subscribers this week! Do we think they’ll hit 1 million before the end of the year? I hope so.

Now that we’re a month out from the end of season of WAOWW, we can that season performed pretty evenly against itself. Not the heights of the Mystic Museum, but I think our boys doing anything spooky is bound to be a little inflated. 

I think Mystic Museum will be the next 1 million, but the first Are You Scared? has a bit of a higher growth rate. (it’s at 938k right now) Plus it’s gonna be spooky season soon. Regardless, these will be the next two million views videos. After that? I honestly have no idea. There are a bunch of videos in the 600k range so we’ll just have to see which one of those has the fastest growth.

As of today, they have a total of 30,849,387 views across 84 videos! 

Obviously, I know nothing about how YouTube videos make money and what Watcher’s costs are and how they feel about their business, but I think they’re in a good place. Doing a second season of PH was a great idea (thank you Katie Leblanc) and will give them 2 straight months of solid weekly views. I’m 99% sure they’re going to do more Are You Scareds? for October, so that’s another surefire hit for them to ride out most of the rest of this garbage year. And then hopefully a new Steven show they’ve been teasing for awhile.

Oh, speaking of, Worth It is airing right now! They’ve given Steven a youtube.com/Watcher card on a couple of episodes but I haven’t seen a view increase to any of his shows. But maybe it’s helping the channel! Hard to say with PH airing right now too.