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Phediuk · Dec 9, 2015

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/20...utm_content=news_module&utm_campaign=homepage

It's that time of year again. Time for big companies like YouTube to announce year-end lists of what was most popular during the latest year. YouTube has now published lists of the top games and gaming videos for 2015.

YouTube's most popular games list for 2015, based on views and total watch time for games released in the past year, is topped by--you guessed it--Call of Duty: Black ops III. Rounding out the top five are FIFA 16, Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Agar.io. See the full list below.

2015 Top Overall Games

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
2. FIFA 16
3. Five Nights at Freddy's 3
4. Ark: Survival Evolved
5. Agar.io
6. Five Nights at Freddy's 4
7. Fallout 4
8. Mortal Kombat X
9. Batman: Arkham Knight
10. Until Dawn

YouTube also shared a list of the "top trending" gaming videos for 2015. Based on views, shares, comments, and likes (among other things), the list includes trailers, fan-made videos, and let's plays. Clash of Clans' Super Bowl ad from February tops the chart, while that amazing "Real GTA" video landed at the No. 2 spot. You can see the complete top ten list below.

2015 Top Trending Gaming Videos on YouTube

1. Clash of Clans: Revenge (Official Super Bowl TV Commercial)
2. Real GTA
3 Star Wars Battlefront Reveal Trailer
4. Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Teaser Trailer
5. WARNING: YOU WILL DIE | Five Nights at Freddy's 3 - Part 1
6. Discover Pokémon in the Real World with Pokémon GO!
7. Fallout 4 - Official Trailer
8. Elders Play Grand Theft Auto V (Elders React: Gaming)
9. Halo VS Call of Duty
10. Final Fantasy VII - E3 2015 Trailer | PS4

Finally, YouTube shared some new facts about YouTube's gaming community. First, 30 percent of YouTube gamers (those who watch gaming videos on YouTube at least once a month) are women, while 35 percent are aged 35 and up. YouTube's study, which included a survey of close to 5,000 people aged 18-54, confirmed that 47 percent of YouTube's gaming community are now parents.

enigmatic_alex44 · Dec 9, 2015

Until Dawn and Fallout 4 are great but the rest of that top 10 games list is pretty dire.

Meier · Dec 9, 2015

I knew Five Nights at Freddy's was super successful on iOS but that is crazy to me to see it up there twice in the Top 10.

Venfayth · Dec 9, 2015

RIP Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation

Denton · Dec 9, 2015

That is one terrible list as far as my tastes are concerned. Ugh.

On Demand · Dec 9, 2015

People trying to find out how to play Shadows of Evil.

Auctopus · Dec 9, 2015

Good lord, youtube has bad taste.

ebullientprism · Dec 9, 2015

What is it with people's fascination with Five nights? Is it a genuinely good series or is it one of those so bad its good games?

ItIsOkBro · Dec 9, 2015

Well I'm glad MKX is there.

Arttemis · Dec 9, 2015

Hey, I'm happy to see MKX on that list!

OléGunner · Dec 9, 2015

Love seeing Until Dawn sneak in there.

I'm sure Super Massive had an inkling they had a streaming hit on their hands.

Man Called Aerodynamics · Dec 9, 2015

Wow, really feeling like an old man now. There are games on that list I've never even heard of.

Cow Goes Moo · Dec 9, 2015

pokemon go will be HUGE

pizzacat · Dec 9, 2015

Venfayth said:
RIP Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation

Why was that popular again?

antitrop · Dec 9, 2015

ebullientprism said:
What is it with people's fascination with Five nights? Is it a genuinely good series or is it one of those so bad its good games?

It's for kids. Kids that either play it themselves on the iPad their parents bought them or just watch Markiplier scream through it on YouTube.

king grimlock · Dec 9, 2015

Wow at ARK being up there, people really want dinosaur games.

Adam Blue · Dec 9, 2015

Remember a lot of this stuff is being watched by people who don't really care for games or may not even play games. It's a pretty wide audience. It's not like some elite chosen 'gaming' audience was the only sample.

SliceSabre · Dec 9, 2015

What is it with kids and Five Nights at Freddy's?

I've watched Let's Plays of it and I just don't fucking get it. I feel like an old man or something.

hawk2025 · Dec 9, 2015

Nice job Until Dawn.

I wonder how Twitch's list would look.

Dangansona · Dec 9, 2015

OMG DaE <3 Markiplier and FNAFs loollll!! He gets so scared!!!

At least Until Dawn is on there.

Ray Wonder · Dec 9, 2015

It's crazy how big Agar.io got. I was in that thread here when there was like 25 subscribers on their subreddit.

Gorger · Dec 9, 2015

Of those games I've only played Arkham, Fallout 4 and Until Dawn. Though surprising I am glad Until Dawn gets some love, it was a very cool concept I want to see more of.

Dreavus · Dec 9, 2015

Agar.io?

One of the most low effort games to play and all you need is a browser. Why are people watching it on Youtube?

Servbot24 · Dec 9, 2015

Auctopus said:
Good lord, youtube has bad taste.

What's worse is that it seems like a lot of new games are being designed with the sole purpose of appealing to the YouTube reactions crowd. :/

Dangansona · Dec 9, 2015

SliceSabre said:
What is it with kids and Five Nights at Freddy's?

I've watched Let's Plays of it and I just don't fucking get it. I feel like an old man or something.

It can produce jump scares faster than any other game, so assholes can go on YouTube and overreact to them, caption the "lol so random" things they scream, and slap on a thumbnail with them comically horrified at a mobile game. Kids eat it up.

And yes I know the streamers play it on PC.

Ray Wonder · Dec 9, 2015

I think this thread is why Agar.io got big.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1037959&highlight=agar+io

Messofanego · Dec 9, 2015

Venfayth said:
RIP Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation

Funnily enough, Eurogamer (Wesley Yin Poole) did an article about that video. It's brilliant!

The unlikely story behind YouTube's most-viewed gaming video

Does your child like Pixar's Cars 2 movie? He or she is not alone. Cars is one of the biggest child-focused entertainment franchises in the world. A Cars-based attraction opened at Walt Disney Studios Paris in 2007 and a Cars Land opened in Disney California Adventure in June 2012. Estimates from the New York Daily News indicate sales of Cars merchandise two weeks out from the release of the film amounted to $600m. Cars was already a $1bn franchise in 2006. Together, the two films have received over $1bn in box office revenue worldwide.

So, there are a lot of kids - or at least there were circa 2012 / 2013 - on the hunt for Cars-related videos on YouTube. And so there were a lot of parents. Bung Cars 2 into YouTube, check out the first 20 seconds or so of the video, and you'd get the impression it was the movie, such is the quality of the video game cutscene and the voice acting. We hear what sounds like Michael Caine as Finn McMissile and Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen (in the game they're voiced by sound-a-like actors). This must be the film, you'd be forgiven for thinking, so over the tablet goes into the child's anxious arms. That's entertainment.

By putting the game's opening cutscene at the beginning of the video, Dominic has fooled millions of parents into thinking his video is the actual Cars 2 movie. Most parents won't stick around long enough to see the Mario Kart clone revealed. They're just happy with the peace and quiet.

So, you'd imagine adverts on Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation, with its 120m views in four years, would have made Dominic a hell of a lot of money. Tragically, not so.

Dominic did monetise the video so that it carries a 30-second skippable "pre-roll" advert and AdSense pop ups (the ones that appear at the bottom of a video on YouTube you can make disappear by clicking the tiny "x") - but only two years after it was uploaded back in August 2011, meaning he failed to cash in when the video was at its most popular.

He tells me his initial effort to monetise the video was blocked because of an audio-related copyright claim. At the time Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation wasn't pulling in the punters in huge numbers, so Dominic shrugged his shoulders and moved on. "I didn't keep a track of much back then, as I was a newbie YouTube holder who didn't know what exactly you could do with the service," he says.

"Then one day I came back and it had gone," he recalls. "We were like, okay, let's try it. Click it on." That was at the end of September 2013 - Dominic was late to his own party. He messed up, and he holds his hands up - the idea of making serious money out of the DarkZero YouTube channel didn't occur to him until it was too late. "If you look at the graph, it's like, ah! It's a shame I didn't catch that."

FloweryMarston · Dec 9, 2015

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Ivan 3414 · Dec 9, 2015

Auctopus said:
Good lord, youtube has bad taste.

How so? None of these games are particularly bad games

Servbot24 said:
What's worse is that it seems like a lot of new games are being designed with the sole purpose of appealing to the YouTube reactions crowd. :/

Mind sharing some examples?

Turin Turambar · Dec 9, 2015

2015 Top Overall Games

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
2. FIFA 16
3. Five Nights at Freddy's 3
4. Ark: Survival Evolved
5. Agar.io
6. Five Nights at Freddy's 4
7. Fallout 4
8. Mortal Kombat X
9. Batman: Arkham Knight
10. Until Dawn

Not The Witcher 3, nor Bloodborne.

GAF on suicide watch.

Scientist Supreme! · Dec 9, 2015

Not finding anything surprising but it's all ways interesting to see what's popular in the industry.

Dangansona said:
OMG DaE <3 Markiplier and FNAFs loollll!! He gets so scared!!!

At least Until Dawn is on there.

Dangansona said:
It can produce jump scares faster than any other game, so assholes can go on YouTube and overreact to them, caption the "lol so random" things they scream, and slap on a thumbnail with them comically horrified at a mobile game. Kids eat it up.

And yes I know the streamers play it on PC.

You seem upset.

Triggerhappytel · Dec 9, 2015

Glad Until Dawn managed to just sneak into the top 10 there.

ChaosZeroX · Dec 9, 2015

Not surprised to be honest seeing BLOPS 3 there.

Lowlander2 · Dec 9, 2015

I actually expected the Pro Drums TTFAF FC to sneak in lol

Dangansona · Dec 9, 2015

Scientist Supreme! said:
Not finding anything surprising but it's all ways interesting to see what's popular in the industry.

You seem upset.

How did I know you would come crawling out the woodwork?

Well it kind of sucks that well made and intelligent content is getting neglected for this lowbrow attempt at humor that gives gamers on YouTube and gamers in general a bad image, but ultimately it's a response to the post. It's not anger, at this point it's disappointment.

Eggbok · Dec 9, 2015

ChaosZeroX said:
Not surprised to be honest seeing BLOPS 3 there.

Same COD is huge on youtube, for example:
- Let's Plays
- Class Set Us
- How to make Emblems/Camos
- Commentaries
- Glitches
- Montages
- Kill clips
- Trickshots
- Zombies gameplay
- Zombies Easter Egg Guides
- Trophy/Achievement videos
- Campaign Collectibles

etc.

Reset · Dec 9, 2015

Edit: I can't read. :[

Scientist Supreme! · Dec 9, 2015

Dangansona said:
How did I know you would come out the woodworks?

Well it kind of sucks that well made and intelligent content is getting neglected for this lowbrow attempt at humor that gives gamers on YouTube and gamers in general a bad image, but ultimately it's a response to the post.

I guess I have a reputation. I like that.
To your main point, that's very odd thing to worry about and actually believe.

Sealed · Dec 9, 2015

Agar.io? Really? People like to watch other people play that?

That's beyond me. Also SMH at Clash of Clans being #1 most watched gaming video.

Ray Down · Dec 9, 2015

Surprised Until Dawn broke the top 5.

Videoneon · Dec 9, 2015

zzzzzzz

bad list. not surprised

zsynqx · Dec 9, 2015

Really surprised Until Dawn is above Life is Strange. Loved both but LiS seemed more popular among the big lets players..

J-Skee · Dec 9, 2015

OleGunner said:
Love seeing Until Dawn sneak in there.

I'm sure Super Massive had an inkling they had a streaming hit on their hands.

I honestly don't think they knew until that E3 presentation. That sealed it for them.

viHuGi · Dec 9, 2015

Great for Black Ops 3, love the game <3

Cormano · Dec 9, 2015

Glad to see that a football game made it to the top 3

Anth0ny · Dec 9, 2015

only nintendo game on the list is Pokemon on Mobile

what a time

to be alive

elmars369 · Dec 9, 2015

Phediuk said:
5. Agar.io

Wait, people make videos about this?

Elios83 · Dec 9, 2015

Really surprised that Witcher 3 is not on the list.
Just like I'm surprised that Until Dawn is.
A guess a sequel is a given at this point.

Rainbow In The Dark · Dec 9, 2015

Surprised at the absence of Minecraft. I thought it was popular on youtube.

entremet · Dec 9, 2015

Kinda crazy how less and less relevant Japan has become.

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