The Diamond Minecart becomes most popular YouTube channel
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#JYXS)
British gamer Daniel Middleton's Minecraft videos beat WWE wrestling, Little Baby Bum, BuzzFeed and Taylor Swift with 400m July views
The most popular channel on YouTube now belongs to British gamer Daniel Middleton, whose Minecraft videos published as The Diamond Minecart were watched more than 402m times in July 2015 alone.
That was enough to make him the biggest channel on YouTube that month ahead of wrestling body WWE's 399m views, according to the latest chart published by analytics firm OpenSlate and online-video industry site Tubefilter.
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