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MotorTrend Channel

MotorTrend Channel

@motortrendwatch📍 US📅 21 yrs🔄 Updated 10/15/2026
VehicleLifestyle (sociology)
7M
subscribers
#952 United States

MotorTrend Channel had 7M subscribers as of October 15, 2026, ranked #952 in United States. The channel has accumulated 1.7B views across 4,055 videos since 2006.

Relative to its audience, that is 240 lifetime views per subscriber and 114.5K views generated per day.

1.7Btotal views
4,055videos
114.5Kviews / day
86.4Kmedian views

Where does MotorTrend Channel rank on YouTube?

Ranked by subscriber count, MotorTrend Channel sits 952nd in United States and 3183rd worldwide.

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The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.14% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.

When did MotorTrend Channel start on YouTube?

MotorTrend Channel published their first video on September 18, 2008, "First Drive: 2008 Callaway Corvette C16 video", which has 45K views. Their biggest hit since does 2,980 × that number.

First Drive: 2008 Callaway Corvette C16 video
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First Drive: 2008 Callaway Corvette C16 video
45K views

MotorTrend Channel published 3,861 videos between 2008 and 2025, peaking at 438 in 2023. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 41% of output, against 25% before.

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What is MotorTrend Channel's most-viewed video?

MotorTrend Channel's most-viewed video is "Bugatti Veyron vs Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA vs McLaren MP4-12C - Head 2 Head Episode 8", with 134M views. That is 325 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 16.8% of the channel's total views.

325 ×outlier multiplier on its best video

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Performance analysis

Which format works best for MotorTrend Channel?

On MotorTrend Channel, mid-form (3 to 20 min) performs best: a median of 120.9K views across 2,267 videos analysed. That is 3.1 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.

Short< 3 min
38.6K1,217 videos
Mid3 – 20 min
120.9K2,267 videos
Long> 20 min
102.8K569 videos

How often does MotorTrend Channel publish?

MotorTrend Channel currently publishes 5,4 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 28 views per video per day.

5.4videos / week
197videos / year lifetime
1.5 ×vs lifetime pace

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How much does MotorTrend Channel earn on YouTube?

MotorTrend Channel's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $4,903 and $17,806 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 54% short-form, 46% long-form. At this scale, advertising is typically a minority of a creator's actual income, behind brand partnerships and merchandise, which are not measured here.

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How many views does a typical MotorTrend Channel video get?

The median MotorTrend Channel video has 86.4K views, computed across 4,053 analysed videos.

How long has MotorTrend Channel been publishing on YouTube?

MotorTrend Channel has been publishing for 21 years, averaging 197 videos per year.

Which country is MotorTrend Channel from?

MotorTrend Channel is registered in US.

Is this data up to date?

Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on October 15, 2026. Per-video measures cover 4,053 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.

Methodology

Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 10/15/2026). Per-video measures computed across 4,053 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.

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