Based on your feedback, we've tweaked the formula just a tad (the full criteria is listed below), with September's data showing an even more entertaining and diverse top 10. Our top four performers did remarkably well, with the 4th place show, Auto-Tune The News, cracking the 10 million monthly views milestone. It's in strong company alongside 3rd place Smosh, 2nd place The Station, and 1st place Fred.
Overall, we saw a nice bump in online viewership across the board, totaling more than 93 million views for all shows that made our chart, which means that online audiences are more engaged than ever before.
The Chart: September 2009
Current Month's Rank
Series
Studio
Genre
Current Month Views
Sample Episode
1
Fred
-
Comedy
21,495,367
[img src="/wp-content/themes/v5/img/visible-measures/09-09/video_1.png" caption="" credit="" alt="TheStation"]Almost clearing 15 million views for the month of September across the web, The Station takes home the silver medal.
It's certainly not web TV your parents will appreciate, more like high school potty humor with a modern twist. But with YouTube stars — think Shane Dawson and Lisa Nova — attached to the product (even iJustine makes a few cameos), it certainly makes sense that this YouTube collective would rack up a massive online viewership.
Double Trouble
The Onion, famous for its video content and parodies, has two top 10 shows on this month's chart: News Room and In the Know.
News Room often explores mock breaking news stories, exaggerating content typically seen on 24 hour news channels. This month the show accrued over 8.6 million online views across the web. In the Know secured the number 6 spot with upwards of 6.5 million views.
College Humor also has two sure-fire online content hits. Their shows Hardly Working and Jake & Amir snagged 9th and 10th place respectively on this month's chart.
Web TV Repeats
Smosh dropped a spot to third place, but actually rose in online viewership. The show surpassed 13 million video views for the month, which was about 2 million more video views than in the previous month.
While lower in the rankings, gamer shows The Guild and Red vs. Blue are still neck and neck, though they've flip-flopped in order, with The Guild bringing in about a million more views than its gamer cohort. Both shows, however, saw slight downturns in total online video views for the month.
93 Million and Counting
93 million views is nothing to scoff at, and we can only expect this number to continue to grow as we move into the holiday season. Clearly made-for-the-web shows no longer have to live in the shadows of their studio-produced network television counterparts.
We're excited to see to the space continue to develop. Will we see new shows disrupt the status quo, or consistent competitors solidify their place atop the webisode food chain? Only time will tell.