Smosh Games' Subscribers And Views

Since its inception in late September 2012, Smosh Games has been a moderately popular gaming channel, both in subscribers and views. After over five years on YouTube, Smosh Games ranks as the 385th most subscribed and 370th most viewed YouTube channel with over 7.2 million subscribers and over 2.6 billion video views.

Beginning and fast channel growth (2012-2013)
Ten years after the idea of Smosh emerged, Smosh Games debuted on YouTube. From September 26 - October 1, 2012, Smosh Games was YouTube's fastest growing channel in subscribers, gaining 301,845 subscribers within that time period.

Around Christmas Day of 2012, Smosh Games became YouTube's fastest channel to reach one million subscribers, a subscriber milestone which took Smosh nearly four years to do, thus entering the top 100 most subscribed YouTube channels. This happened around the time Smosh surpassed nigahiga to become the second most subscribed channel behind Ray William Johnson, who Smosh surpassed less than a month later.

The current record of the fastest YouTube channel to reach one million subscribers is "Irãmos Neto", (a channel consisting of vlogs by popular YouTubers Felipe and Luccas Neto) doing so in less than a day and 6 hours by August 1, 2017.

Although Smosh surpassed Smosh Games in the fastest growing Smosh branded channel by October 2012, prior on September 27, 2012, Smosh Games gained 139,618 subscribers, being the Smosh branded channel to gain the most subscribers in a day.

On the day prior, Smosh Games became the first Smosh branded channel to gain the most subscribers in a day since June 12, 2012, when Smosh gained over 10,000 subscribers. It is also the last to do so, doing it on October 1, 2012, when the channel gained nearly 25,000 subscribers.

This is due to YouTube transitioning into an era where gaming content was the most popular video genre.

Machinima, who was YouTube's most subscribed and viewed gaming channel at the time was growing at its fastest pace and PewDiePie, another gaming YouTube channel, was on its way to surpassing Smosh to become the first gaming channel to become the most subscribed on YouTube.

Smosh Games would remain one of YouTube's fastest growing channels throughout 2013, reaching 2 million subscribers in early April and 3 million in early August.

In late 2013, Smosh Games surpassed Smosh 2nd Channel (now Smosh Pit) for the second most subscribed and viewed Smosh branded channel position.

Decline (2014)
By the beginning of 2014, average video views for the channel started to decline due to aging, new series and style change, less appearances of the founders of the Smosh brand, Ian and Anthony, and less famous guest appearances. Newer rising, most younger YouTube channels were also a factor. Smosh, on the other hand, saw a big increase in views and subscribers but started to decline slowly around February 2014 as well.

Monthly views and subscribers decreased for the channel as well and by mid 2014, exited the monthly top 100 most YouTube subscriber gains for good. Smosh would stay on the list for half a year more, being the last Smosh branded channel to be on the list.

However, Smosh Games would reach 2 million subscriber milestones again in 2014, reaching 4 and 5 million subscribers in March and September.

Slow Growth (2015-present)
Smosh Games would reach 6 million subscribers in early April 2015 but 2016 was the first year the channel didn't reach a million subscriber milestone.

Also in that year, on June 29, YouTube witnessed the greatest subscriber purge in its history. Many YouTube channels, big and small, lost subscribers due to YouTube deactivating spam, inactive, or other unneeded accounts.

Smosh Games lost some of the most subscribers in the purge and the most in the Smosh brand, losing over 113,000 subscribers on that day.

Smosh Games would reach 7 million subscribers on January 26 the next year, the same year Smosh didn't reach a million subscriber milestone for the first time since reaching its first in 2009.

A couple times in mid 2017, Smosh Games gained more subscribers than Smosh, making it the first time it had done so since late 2012. This was due to some subscribers of Smosh not liking Anthony's last year on there, thus resulting in a drop in subscriber gain and growth for the channel.

From that time until late April 2018, Smosh Games was the second fastest growing channel in the Smosh brand behind Smosh, although both channels and the rest of the Smosh branded channels doesn't grow nearly as fast such as years 2012-2014.

Currently, Smosh Games is the least fastest growing Smosh branded channel in subscribers as it either loses or gains relatively small amounts of subscribers daily. However, it is the second fastest growing Smosh branded channel in views, gaining over 25 million views monthly.