PewDiePie is in trouble. For some time now, he has been fighting with an Indian company for the number 1 spot on the video platform YouTube. For 6 years, PewDiePie was the YouTuber with the most subscribers. Now, in 2019, he has been overtaken several times, but he is fighting back.
Who has beaten PewDiePie? PewDiePie’s major opponent is T-Series. T-Series is an Indian music and film company that reaches millions of viewers through music videos and Bollywood uploads.
Over 60 billion times, T-Series’ videos have already been viewed. The channel now has nearly 90 million subscribers.
For some time now, PewDiePie has been in a battle with the Indians:
- On March 13, T-Series finally overtook PewDiePie with 3000 more subscribers.
- PewDiePie did overtake T-Series again, but soon fell back again, this time with 4000 fewer subscribers.
- And even today, on March 17, it happened again, and T-Series passed by.
This is how the battle went: Since 2013, PewDiePie has been the YouTuber with the most subscribers. For a long time, no one came close to the sheer power of PewDiePie’s subscribers.
Until in the summer of 2018, the Indian channel T-Series suddenly made competition for the Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie. The channel surged.
Experts expected that T-Series would surpass PewDiePie with 70 million subscribers around November 2018.
PewDiePie, however, responded with hard work:
- through an advertising campaign and a “diss track” against T-Series, he became the first to reach 69 million subscribers
- shortly thereafter, he even surpassed 70 and 71 million
- by collaborating with the internet legend Elon Musk, PewDiePie secured his position until the end of 2018
- in February 2019, he reached 85 million subscribers, and in March already 89 million
During his campaign, PewDiePie was at times so desperate that he even streamed Fortnite. This seemed to work, after all, he still held the record until recently.
On March 2, T-Series finally made up some ground and reduced the gap:
- T-Series was only 5000 subscribers behind
- on March 13, T-Series was even in the lead for a few minutes
- whereupon PewDiePie immediately added 9000 subscribers and took the lead again.
In total, PewDiePie has now been overtaken by T-Series 5 times. Then the alarm bells go off for the “PewDiePie” supporters.
This is the current state: Today, on March 17, PewDiePie was overtaken once again. A live stream has even developed from the head-to-head race, which only shows the subscriber numbers of the two channels.
According to the stream, at the time of writing (March 17 at 8:10 PM), PewDiePie is about 4000 subscribers ahead and has taken the lead again.
Over 7000 people are currently watching the stream and observing the race. It could still take a while until a clear winner emerges.
Do you think PewDiePie can hold on?
Perhaps a newcomer will eventually rise to the top:
