2026
100.41Mmedian of captured values at the provider’s Day 30
AVERAGE DAY 30 VIEWS95.39M
DAY 30 CAPTURES / ELIGIBLE13 / 13
100M+ BY DAY 307 / 13
MEDIAN RUNTIME · CONTEXT32:15
YOUTUBE · CONTENT ANALYSISPreview
MrBeast now vs MrBeast primeFirst-month viewing. The same reported video age.
How do MrBeast’s new videos perform in their first month compared with a prime-era reference? We checked historical Day 30 counts for Jan–Jun uploads in 2023 and 2026. Seventeen values are verified; two older videos remain uncaptured, so the sample’s limits stay visible.
Evidence reviewed Oct 27, 2026 · Public data and source records
Scope: main-channel uploads longer than 3 minutes, published Jan 1–Jun 30 in each year. Performance = the same provider’s historical Day 30 cumulative views. Now = 2026; prime-era reference = 2023. Both first-month windows finish before the Aug 24, 2026 public-count definition change.
PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE · THE SAME REPORTED VIDEO AGE
Jan–Jun uploads · 2026 vs 2023First 30 days, on both sides.
THE RESULT IN THIS SAMPLE
Day 30 verified: 13 of 13 current videos; 4 of 6 reference videos.
Both columns use the same third-party historical chart measure: the cumulative view count explicitly labeled Day 30. Two reference videos remain uncaptured at Day 30 and are excluded from its summary. That missing coverage may bias the reference median; no era-wide percentage change is claimed. This compares launch-period reach in the retrieved sample, not lifetime totals or video runtime.
2023
143.08Mmedian of captured values at the provider’s Day 30
AVERAGE DAY 30 VIEWS139.74M
DAY 30 CAPTURES / ELIGIBLE4 / 6
100M+ BY DAY 304 / 4
MEDIAN RUNTIME · CONTEXT12:39
| Same measure | Now · 2026 | Reference · 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Publication window | Jan 1 – Jun 30 | Jan 1 – Jun 30 |
| Format eligibility | Main-channel uploads longer than 180 seconds | Main-channel uploads longer than 180 seconds |
| Video age measured | Viewstats chart: Day 30 | Viewstats chart: Day 30 |
| Median Day 30 views | 100,412,190 | 143,082,229 |
| Average Day 30 views | 95,387,703 | 139,744,143 |
| Day 30 range | 54,380,718 – 137,312,773 | 116,889,597 – 155,922,518 |
| Data captured / eligible | 13 / 13 | 4 / 6 |
Day 30 is the provider’s displayed daily age bucket. It is not independently verified as an exact publication + 720-hour YouTube Analytics total. Original tooltip dates and text are retained with every observation.
EACH VIDEO · THE SAME VIEW-COUNT SCALE
See the sample, not just its average.
Now · Jan–Jun 2026
Chronological order · each bar is the reported Day 30 count.
Survive 30 Days Stranded With Your Ex, Win $250,000 ↗
110.26MPublished 2026-03-07
Day 30 • Apr 7, 2026 · 30:04
Last To Leave Grocery Store, Wins $250,000 ↗
137.31MPublished 2026-04-18
Day 30 • May 19, 2026 · 42:57
I Stranded 100 People In The Wilderness For $250,000 ↗
118.36MPublished 2026-05-02
Day 30 • Jun 2, 2026 · 37:00
Survive 30 Days On An Island With Your Ex, Win $250,000 ↗
83.42MPublished 2026-05-16
Day 30 • Jun 16, 2026 · 39:09
Survive 30 Days Chained To A Stranger, Win $250,000 ↗
80.56MPublished 2026-06-27
Day 30 • Jul 28, 2026 · 35:05
Reference · Jan–Jun 2023
Chronological order · each bar is the reported Day 30 count.
I Paid A Real Assassin To Try To Kill Me ↗
Not capturedPublished 2023-03-18
Day 31 • Apr 19, 2023 · 12:17
1,000 Deaf People Hear For The First Time ↗
Not capturedPublished 2023-05-06
Day 29 • Jun 5, 2023 · 6:14
WHAT THIS COMPARISON ANSWERS
Launch reach, with a defined scope.
The lifetime-age advantage is removed.
An older video has had years longer to accumulate views. Here, every included performance value comes from the same provider’s Day 30 tooltip. The 2023 reference is measured near its original launch, rather than at its current lifetime total. That directly addresses how much viewing a video attracted during its first month.
The median describes a typical video within each selected window; the mean and individual bars show how larger or smaller launches affect the average. Both sample sizes remain visible. The reference is one explicitly chosen period, not a data-selected all-time peak.
Video length is context, not the score.
Runtime appears as a supporting field. A longer video does not automatically perform better or worse, and these public counts do not measure retention, watch hours or earnings. Different premises, audiences, competition and the channel’s scale can also influence reach.
The comparison therefore supports a narrow statement about reported first-month viewing in these two samples. It does not isolate the cause of a change or prove that every recent upload performs the same way.
Dates, coverage and exact source labels.
Why Jan–Jun on both sides?
Both publication windows use the same calendar months and duration filter. Their first-month observation windows finish before Aug 24, 2026, when YouTube’s official documentation says the public view-count definition changed. Later 2026 uploads are excluded from this benchmark.
YouTube’s view-count definition ↗How were the values read?
Historical video pages were inspected after authorized sign-in. Only a tooltip explicitly reading Day 30 was accepted. Two old charts yielded adjacent Day 29 or Day 31 points during this capture; those values were rejected, not interpolated or treated as evidence that Day 30 history does not exist. Current totals, estimated rank, revenue and typical-performance bands were not substituted. This is third-party tracked history, not access to MrBeast’s private Analytics.
What could still be missing?
Eligibility comes from the returned public upload catalog; deleted, private or unavailable videos may be absent. Provider tracking, daily sampling and corrections can affect the historical record. Captured tooltip dates are shown verbatim rather than converted into unsupported hourly precision.
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- Inspect the captured Day 30 tooltip text, source links and retrieval times ↗
Audit all 19 eligible videos and source dates
| Published | Video | Day 30 views | Source label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-28 | 1,000 Blind People See For The First Time ↗ | 116,889,597 | Day 30 • Feb 28, 2023 |
| 2023-03-18 | I Paid A Real Assassin To Try To Kill Me ↗ | Not captured | Day 31 • Apr 19, 2023 |
| 2023-04-01 | $1 vs $500,000 Plane Ticket! ↗ | 140,890,067 | Day 30 • May 1, 2023 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1,000 Deaf People Hear For The First Time ↗ | Not captured | Day 29 • Jun 5, 2023 |
| 2023-05-27 | Ages 1 - 100 Fight For $500,000 ↗ | 145,274,390 | Day 30 • Jun 27, 2023 |
| 2023-06-10 | $1 vs $1,000,000,000 Yacht! ↗ | 155,922,518 | Day 30 • Jul 11, 2023 |
| 2026-01-07 | 30 Celebrities Fight For $1,000,000! ↗ | 100,412,190 | Day 30 • Feb 7, 2026 |
| 2026-01-24 | $1 vs $1,000,000,000 Futuristic Tech! ↗ | 106,677,281 | Day 30 • Feb 24, 2026 |
| 2026-02-07 | Ages 1 - 100 Race For $250,000! ↗ | 74,815,776 | Day 30 • Mar 10, 2026 |
| 2026-02-21 | I Built 10 Schools Around The World ↗ | 54,380,718 | Day 30 • Mar 24, 2026 |
| 2026-03-07 | Survive 30 Days Stranded With Your Ex, Win $250,000 ↗ | 110,258,904 | Day 30 • Apr 7, 2026 |
| 2026-03-21 | Trapped On An Island Until I Build A Boat ↗ | 109,826,769 | Day 30 • Apr 21, 2026 |
| 2026-04-04 | 50 Streamers Fight for $1,000,000 ↗ | 101,816,819 | Day 30 • May 5, 2026 |
| 2026-04-18 | Last To Leave Grocery Store, Wins $250,000 ↗ | 137,312,773 | Day 30 • May 19, 2026 |
| 2026-05-02 | I Stranded 100 People In The Wilderness For $250,000 ↗ | 118,359,742 | Day 30 • Jun 2, 2026 |
| 2026-05-16 | Survive 30 Days On An Island With Your Ex, Win $250,000 ↗ | 83,416,672 | Day 30 • Jun 16, 2026 |
| 2026-05-30 | 7 Days Stranded in The Arctic ↗ | 89,620,278 | Day 30 • Jun 30, 2026 |
| 2026-06-13 | 50 YouTube Legends Fight For $1,000,000 ↗ | 72,580,933 | Day 30 • Jul 14, 2026 |
| 2026-06-27 | Survive 30 Days Chained To A Stranger, Win $250,000 ↗ | 80,561,285 | Day 30 • Jul 28, 2026 |
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