Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 13 segments
This week we brought our team in to rank celebrity YouTube channels in a head to head bracket to figure out who's actually cracked the code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Colin RosenblumHost
Samir ChaudryHostQuichePanelistSidPanelistConnorPanelist
We're starting off with the one seed, Cristiano Ronaldo, against 16 seed, Kevin Hart.
job.
That must have been planned.
It's a mixture of vlogs, training footage, and the weirdest part is trailers for things he is vaguely involved in.
He invested in this MMA company, WOW, and he just posts trailers and event highlights that he's not in just on the channel.
He falls into a category for me, and I think we're going to see a lot of creators like this.
And I'm calling it like the third person YouTube channel where it is not the celebrity presenting themselves as a creator.
It is the celebrity aggregate dumping ground, as Connor said, where it doesn't feel like he is there to connect with the audience.
It feels largely promotional.
feel like he has anything to
But if you can accrue 83 million subscribers, the assumption is, all right, we can put something out.
And I mean, it's not that many views compared to the subscribers he has, but that wow promo video has 460,000 views.
It's kind of interesting to just think like, where would you have put that number? Otherwise, in a previous world, I guess you'd run it as like an ad or something.
There's one video though, when I was looking at this channel, that I think is really interesting, which is Cristiano and Celine meeting for the first time.
We're starting off with the one seed, Cristiano Ronaldo, against 16 seed, Kevin Hart.
job.
That must have been planned.
It's a mixture of vlogs, training footage, and the weirdest part is trailers for things he is vaguely involved in.
He invested in this MMA company, WOW, and he just posts trailers and event highlights that he's not in just on the channel.
He falls into a category for me, and I think we're going to see a lot of creators like this.
And I'm calling it like the third person YouTube channel where it is not the celebrity presenting themselves as a creator.
It is the celebrity aggregate dumping ground, as Connor said, where it doesn't feel like he is there to connect with the audience.
It feels largely promotional.
feel like he has anything to
But if you can accrue 83 million subscribers, the assumption is, all right, we can put something out.
And I mean, it's not that many views compared to the subscribers he has, but that wow promo video has 460,000 views.
It's kind of interesting to just think like, where would you have put that number? Otherwise, in a previous world, I guess you'd run it as like an ad or something.
There's one video though, when I was looking at this channel, that I think is really interesting, which is Cristiano and Celine meeting for the first time.
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