Rako imagines an ant's fall from the Empire State Building
The animated channel adds a skyscraper-sized predicament and a flight from nighttime as its subscriber count grows by more than a third.
Why this story? The channel went from 613,000 to 842,000 subscribers this week.
Rako has added a different kind of cliffhanger to its run of last-second rescues: an ant dropped from the Empire State Building. Another new short proposes flying around the world to escape the night. The premises are getting farther from home, even as unlikely protectors remain part of the channel's repertoire.
Nearly 230,000 subscribers joined Rako over the past week. Its daily views are also running at more than triple their usual pace, alongside a slate that mixes impossible situations with rescue stories.
These are animated dramatizations, not accounts viewers should take as documentary fact. Rako says some stories draw inspiration from real events, while others are invented. The ant's predicament sits alongside new shorts about a rescuing friend and an unpromising-looking rock, continuing a pattern that has already given a tree and a snowman heroic roles.
There is movement beyond those newest uploads, too: the short about thoughts nobody can hear has passed a million views. Behind the rapid succession of premises, Rako says its team writes the scripts, builds the animation, records the voiceovers and designs the sound, starting each story from a blank page.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Rako
- Subscribers
- 842,000 ▲ 229,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 112,978,071
- Channel views, pace per day
- 32,086,862 (on a normal day: 10,044,027)
The numbers
Rako's subscriber growth comes alongside a sharp rise in daily views. Here is how the week adds up.
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