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IrelandThis week on the channel +82K views this week
Robert Strong's identity gets the Preston Jacobs treatment
His only new upload questions a familiar Westeros assumption, while the A Clash of Kings reread keeps drawing viewers.
In short
On YouTube, Preston Jacobs has 186,000 subscribers and 105,549,486 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 81,521 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Why GRRM Hasn't Finished: The Dumbest Theories", with 40,364 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,722 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 8 of 10 in category "Books and reading".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
186,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
no significant change in the last month
no significant change in the last month
total views
105,549,486
▲ 81,521 in the last 7 days
▲ 420,736 in the last 30 days
▲ 420,736 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
9,956
on a typical day: 12,638
Videos on the channel
1,082
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
November 9, 2026
Views per subscriber
567
a new long video usually gets 28,768 views
Next milestone
200,000 subscribers
14,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
This week on the channel +83K views this week
Dunk and Egg get the close-reading treatment from Preston Jacobs
His only new upload begins The Sworn Sword, with viewers asking about unfinished analyses as well as Part 2.
The video drawing the most views now
Could Robert Strong Not Be Gregor Clegane
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 19,962
- Video views, pace per day
- 4,146
- Views on its first day
- 16,210
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Books and reading | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,722 of 5,393 | 8 of 10 |
| By views gained this week | 4,679 of 5,274 | 7 of 10 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 4,499 of 5,043 | 7 of 10 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 2.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Books and reading
Views gained this week in the category Books and reading
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 186,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 186,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 105,136,665 views → November 11, 2026: 105,549,486 views · average: 14,235 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Could Robert Strong Not Be Gregor Clegane | November 9, 2026 | 3:15:29 | 19,962 | 4,146 | 16,210 | 310 | 68 |
 Going Over Prologue, A Clash of Kings, Part 2 | November 2, 2026 | 1:14:00 | 20,996 | 343 | 11,388 | 317 | 161 |
 Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 Leaks: Real? | October 26, 2026 | 3:24:00 | 27,477 | 91 | 16,201 | 321 | 114 |
 Going Over Prologue, A Clash of Kings, Part 1 | October 23, 2026 | 1:05:16 | 31,333 | 181 | 15,028 | 519 | 173 |
 Why GRRM Hasn't Finished: The Dumbest Theories | October 19, 2026 | 3:19:12 | 40,364 | 94 | 22,849 | 487 | 212 |
 Bolt-On, Fevre Dream and GRRM's Slow Period | October 12, 2026 | 3:10:21 | 30,059 | 38 | - | 338 | 105 |
 2 Dunk 2 Egg: Reading and Analysis of the Sworn Sword Part 1 | October 7, 2026 | 26:08 | 18,941 | 22 | - | 496 | 75 |
 Head Canon: Mark 2:1-17 w/Trey the Explainer | September 30, 2026 | 1:06:02 | 15,076 | 25 | - | 189 | 49 |
 Euron's Story in the Winds of Winter | September 28, 2026 | 2:55:20 | 31,661 | 63 | - | 378 | 129 |
 Can Jon's Show Story Happen? | September 21, 2026 | 2:53:15 | 31,374 | 18 | - | 398 | 184 |
 Is Ice and Fire Problematic? | September 14, 2026 | 2:42:42 | 33,680 | 16 | - | 378 | 222 |
 Going Over Bran II, Part 2 | September 10, 2026 | 1:11:14 | 19,163 | 18 | - | 369 | 134 |
 Going Over Bran II, Part 1 | September 4, 2026 | 58:53 | 21,486 | 18 | - | 411 | 81 |
 Hold the Door at 10 Years | August 31, 2026 | 2:49:43 | 34,265 | 20 | - | 433 | 136 |
 Bran II, TWoW (Sweetrobin's The Winds of Winter Fan Fiction) | August 28, 2026 | 42:01 | 27,456 | 41 | - | 703 | 395 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 15.0 in the category: 17.9
- comments per 1,000 views
- 5.5 in the category: 1.1
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 16,253 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 26,886
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 A Song of Ice and Fire: Tower, Tower, Joy, Joy Part 1 | July 31, 2014 | 9:23 | 1,086,662 |
 A Song of Ice and Fire: The Littlefinger Debt Scheme Part 1 | January 9, 2015 | 10:42 | 1,074,962 |
 A Song of Ice and Fire: Littlefinger's Mistake | September 13, 2015 | 16:22 | 1,064,849 |
 A Song of Ice and Fire: The Dornish Master Plan Part 1 | May 20, 2014 | 9:34 | 966,520 |
 A Song of Ice and Fire: Ned and Ashara | March 15, 2016 | 15:54 | 915,939 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Arya's Death List and Disambiguation #shorts | February 1, 2023 | 0:59 | 27,440 |
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +82K views this week
Robert Strong's identity gets the Preston Jacobs treatment
His only new upload questions a familiar Westeros assumption, while the A Clash of Kings reread keeps drawing viewers.
This week on the channel +83K views this week
Dunk and Egg get the close-reading treatment from Preston Jacobs
His only new upload begins The Sworn Sword, with viewers asking about unfinished analyses as well as Part 2.