Video taking off 44x its usual first day

Belgrade celebrates student-led bloc's victory as Vucic concedes

The Associated Press captures flag-waving crowds and a student's account of the protests, sit-ins and marches that preceded the result.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 780,583 views a day, 44 times a normal first day on this channel (17,803).

People celebrate in Belgrade after Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat

For student Igor Pantelic, the celebrations in Belgrade were the culmination of two years of work: protests, university sit-ins and marches. "This is the most beautiful night we've seen in the past two years," he says in the Associated Press report.

Around him, crowds cheer and wave Serbian flags. People dance in circles, and someone holds a white chair above the gathering. Citizen Alina Juhart offers her own brief verdict: "I feel amazing. Finally, the best times have come."

The report then cuts from the streets to Aleksandar Vucic at a lectern. He acknowledges his party's election defeat and the student-led bloc's majority of seats. The parliamentary result marks a major change for Serbia, where his Serbian Progressive Party had governed for more than a decade.

The Short drew more than 720,000 views in its first 20 hours, far beyond an ordinary start for an AP Short. A separate AP dispatch about the concession also drew an unusually large early audience.

But this report gives most of its opening to the people outside, before the formal acknowledgment of defeat. Pantelic's account connects the night's dancing to the sustained organizing that came before it.

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The facts

Channel: Associated Press
Subscribers: 4,700,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 15,843,917
Channel views, pace per day: 3,191,043 (on a normal day: 2,256,081)
Video published: October 26, 2026
Video views so far: 722,442 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 780,583

The numbers

The Belgrade celebrations report drew an early audience far larger than AP's usual Shorts audience. Its separate dispatch on Vucic's concession also had a strong start.

the video's first day

usual first day here

17,803

this video

780,583

subscribers

4,700,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,646,221,633

views per day

3,191,043