MrBeast Added 4 Million YouTube Subscribers in July. FIFA's Channel Grew Almost As Much, From a Fifth of the Size.

Aug 13, 2026 · ShinyPull Team

The name at the top, and the one the calendar explains

MrBeast's subscriber count grew by 4,000,000 in July, more than any other channel we track. He ended the month at 510,000,000 subscribers, still comfortably YouTube's largest individual creator channel. That's expected. It happens most months.

FIFA's number isn't a mystery once you check what else happened in July. The 2026 World Cup, hosted across the US, Mexico and Canada, wrapped up with the Final on July 19, right in the middle of the window we're measuring. FIFA's official channel is where a huge share of that audience went for match coverage, highlights and reaction content. The channel added 3,700,000 subscribers in July, going from 31,100,000 to 34,800,000, a channel roughly a fifth of MrBeast's size adding almost as many subscribers as he did.

The full July leaderboard

Ranked by raw subscriber growth, not percentage. A channel with hundreds of millions of subscribers adding a few million and a mid-sized channel nearly doubling its monthly pace can land in a similar range, so we're showing both the count and the rate.

What actually moved these ten channels

Six of the ten are exactly what you'd expect on a list like this: T-Series, Stokes Twins and Cristiano are already enormous, and even a small percentage move on that size of audience produces a huge raw number. Mark Rober, Nick DiGiovanni and Jesser are established creators posting at a steady pace, the kind of channels that show up on this list most months.

FIFA's spot on this list traces directly to the World Cup Final landing in the same window we're measuring. That's the cleanest cause-and-effect story on the entire board. Pokémon Kids TV and Minecraft also grew faster in percentage terms than any of the big personal channels here, both official franchise channels rather than individual creators, though neither has a single event as obvious as FIFA's driving the number.

MrBeast's 4,000,000 is still the biggest number on the board, and it's still worth noting on its own. Very few channels his size add that many subscribers in a month without a specific stunt or launch driving it. But July's real story is a governing body's official channel outgrowing every individual creator we track, because thirty-two countries' worth of football fans all went looking for the same place to watch.

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