EA’s Weekly RAW YouTube Report (9/24/18)

As we all know, social media and other outlets have become a huge means of drawing in interaction and viewers for WWE. Most people will point to television ratings like they did during the Monday Night Wars in the late 1990’s, however that can be skewed with so many various means of watching today that do not include cable television.

As you’ve become accustomed to, here is this week’s RAW YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 9/26/18):

1. Dean Ambrose receives an unexpected offer – 2.5 million views
2. The Shield vs. Baron Corbin & AOP – 1.5 million views
3. Dolph Ziggler tries to sway Dean Ambrose – 589k views
4. Stephanie McMahon tells Baron Corbin his job is on the line – 489k views
5. Drew McIntyre looks for answers from Dean Ambrose – 450k views
6. The Bella Twins & Natalya vs. The Riott Squad – 432k views
7. Triple H leads a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ for Stephanie McMahon – 400k views

The top of the list remains strong for RAW this week, while anything outside the top two more resembles a Weekly SmackDown YouTube Report. It has been a recurring theme now for The Shield to dominate the red brand and that continued again this week with what was basically the only intriguing storyline on the whole show. ‘The Hounds Of Justice’ control the board with the numbers one, two, three and five spots, but only the top two post up big numbers. On top of that, I could even split hairs a little and point out that despite being ranked one and two, even the digits there are down some.

Coming in at number four this week is a simple task as the opening of RAW that saw Stephanie McMahon back on-screen backslides in with only 489k views. Like I stated, it was an overall disappointing episode of the red brand this week with a big ratings drop (read about that here) that is almost mirrored with YouTube. So much so that Triple H singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to his wife lands at number seven. Essentially, every clip from 4-7 really could have swapped around as they’re all within 90k of one another.

With so little parody in our rankings this week, that leaves only one other clip to talk about with our 6-Woman Tag coming in at number six. I do find this a little surprising after Brie Bella kicking Liv Morgan in the face has become such a hot topic. My assumption was this might do a little better just purely out of curiosity and people trying to see the clip of the incident, even though that was not what was chosen as the YouTube clip.

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