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Lost-at-sea shipping containers, and 100,000 new subscribers in a day for Brent Rivera

After a stretch without uploads, his new run of videos includes an ocean expedition with his Amp crew and a short about someone copying Levels.

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Why this story? The channel is adding 99,973 subscribers a day, 12 times a normal day (8,101).

"Exploring Mysterious Shipping Containers Lost at Sea!" is the biggest of Brent Rivera's new videos. The description says he and his friends find two abandoned containers floating in the ocean and open them up. It tags the Amp World channels and two familiar faces from his circle, Drew Beilfuss and Caleb Burton.

The video went up on Saturday and has passed six and a half million views. Around it, the channel itself is moving faster than usual. Brent Rivera gained close to 100,000 subscribers in a single day, about twelve times his usual daily gain, and his daily views are running well above their normal pace.

That is a change of rhythm. Two weeks ago, as we reported here, the channel had no new uploads, and a four-month-old short was carrying it. Now there is a fresh run of videos. "Someone tried copying Levels!" passed a million views within two days of going up. So did "Should I keep her??👀😩", which took a week to get there. There is also a short teasingly titled "I need your help…" and another promising a trick that "works every time."

Brent Rivera built his name on Vine before moving his sketches and pranks to YouTube, and the Amp group in the container video grew out of that same circle. Did the ocean adventure bring in the new subscribers, or the steady drip of shorts? Perhaps a little of both, since he is posting long videos and shorts side by side again.

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The facts
Subscribers
44,300,000 ▲ 200,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
31,056,515
Channel views, pace per day
6,197,528 (on a normal day: 3,686,302)

The numbers

The figures show a channel with more than 44 million subscribers adding new ones far faster than usual.

new subscribers per day
typical day
8,101
now
99,973
subscribers
44,300,000
▲ 200,000 in the last 7 days
total views
13,631,650,995
views per day
6,197,528
typical day: 3,686,302
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Brent Rivera
44,300,000
Smosh
27,200,000
Mini Katana
23,100,000
BuzzFeedVideo
19,600,000
Luke Davidson
18,200,000
Speed McQueen
16,500,000
As of October 7, 2026 · 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.
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