Fuse was lit with a collection of interviews and performances from the 12-12-12 concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. Madison Square Garden’s channel gained 2.9M views for a total of 5.2M, and jumped seven spots to No. 4 in our tally of Google-funded YouTube services for the week that ended December 19. The…

Juan Manuel Marquez’s startling sixth-round knockout of Manny Pacquiao in their WBO world welterweight fight on Saturday helped SB Nation to emerge as the big winner in the universe of Google-funded YouTube channels for the week ending December 12. The sports channel’s coverage of the fourth meeting between the…

Soul Pancake’s video of people given a chance to open their hearts to each other paid off in our tally of Google funded YouTube channels for the week that ended on December 5. “Street Compliments” helped the channel to rise 35 slots in the ranking, to No. 16 — the biggest jump by far. Jay Z’s Life+Times also made…

Life was relatively quiet in the universe of Google-funded YouTube channels during the week that began on Thanksgiving and ended on November 28. The Onion — helped by a hilarious send-up of the TED Talks — led a group of just eight channels that gained views over the previous week. Not surprisingly, Hungry was among…

It’s fitting that THNKR stands out on our ranking of Google-funded YouTube channels in the week heading into Thanksgiving with an inspiring video about a 15-year-old engineering prodigy from Sierra Leone given a chance to visit MIT. The tale of Kelvin Doe, who built and powered a radio station with materials he found…

Fans of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, and Justin Bieber and/or Selena Gomez, made this a good week for the entertainment news providers in our list of Google-funded YouTube channels. Clevver News, ENTV (from Deadline.com-parent PMC), and Young Hollywood were all over news about the final installment of the Twilight…

Due to some technical problems with the data-gathering process we won’t be able to run our ranking of the Google-funded YouTube channels for the week that ended November 7. Our apologies — and not to worry: Things should be fixed so we can return soon with the results for the week that ends this Wednesday. Related: Dea…

Machinima Prime made its first appearance at the top of our weekly ranking of the Google-funded YouTube channels as it continued to roll out new episodes of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn — the live-action series based on the upcoming “Halo 4” combat-based video game. Microsoft spent about $10M on the web series; it began…

Views at the Google-funded YouTube channels looked a lot more normal in the seven days that ended October 24 than they did the previous week — which benefited from the outsized performance at Redbull with skydiver Felix Baumgartner's supersonic 120,000-foot freefall. Noisey stood out after it introduced a…

Once again the universe of Google-funded YouTube channels stood in the shadow of Red Bull and the record-setting views for its October 14 webcast of skydiver Felix Baumgartner's supersonic 120,000-foot freefall. The channel had 70.1M views in our tally for the week that ended October 17. That’s three times more than…

Red Bull was already stampeding YouTube audiences even before it set a record this past weekend with its live stream of skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic 120,000-foot freefall. The channel had 23.4M views in the week that ended on October 10, an increase of 19.8M from the previous week. That was far more than it…

If you want to see how important a single video can be to a YouTube channel, then look at what happened to The NOC and Awesomeness TV in the week that ended on October 3. A musical send up of football’s replacement refs, set to Flo Rida’s tune Whistle, helped kick The NOC — an entertainment channel about athletes — up…