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Minecraft YouTube Videos have been Watched 47bn Times

Children and adults alike aren't playing Minecraft in millions of people: they're also watching YouTube videos made using Minecraft and those videos are getting billions of views.



Octoly, an online video company has released a study that attempts to quantify this. It claims that Minecraft videos were watched 30.8 billion times as of June 2014. Only 318 million of those views came from Mojang, Mojang's publisher.



This is almost three times the number of views for Grand Theft Auto videos. Octoly estimates that Grand Theft Auto was the second most-watched gaming brand on YouTube, with nearly 12 billion views. It was ahead of Call of Duty (10.2 Billion), Angry Birds (6 Billion) and Halo (4.8 Billion).



The company claims that since June, Minecraft videos have been watched another 16 billion times, taking its total to 47 billion views. "In June, our Octoly360 system found 81,000 different YouTube creators talking about Minecraft," explained Octoly. "Today there are nearly twice the number of creator channels with Minecraft videos than there were in June," Octoly explained.



Anyone who has been following Minecraft or the evolution of YouTube over the last few years will not be shocked to see Minecraft so much ahead of its competitors.



Tubefilter published a chart listing the top 100 YouTube channels in September 2014. It utilized data from analytics firm OpenSlate to reveal that Stampy the channel, which is a kid-friendly Minecraft channel, was the third largest with 189.6 million views.
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Also popular that month were channels that had a heavy or total Minecraft focus including Vegetta (eighth in the world with 164 million views in September) and The Diamond Minecart (10th with 161.8 million views).).



Mojang has been assisting its YouTube community since the start of Minecraft. They have avoided disputes over copyright with video creators and are non-judgmental towards the content of their videos.



"We have many people who earn their living making videos about Minecraft. Vu Bui Mojang's chief operating officer said to the Guardian that the economics of Minecraft are amazing.



"That does not mean anything to anyone I'd say that it actually adds to Minecraft, to witness people who are incredibly skilled in their work. We have effectively outsourced YouTube videos to millions of users. The results they generate are more innovative than anything we could ever make.



YouTube is a major reason Minecraft is so popular in 2014. It's also a significant factor in Microsoft's decision to buy Mojang at $2.5bn.



Microsoft isn't just buying a game that's sold more than 54 million copies across computer console, mobile and desktop: it's buying one of the world's biggest television brands. Despite its immense popularity online, it is not on television in the traditional sense.


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