EA’s Weekly SmackDown Live YouTube Report (10/2/18)

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 SmackDown Live YouTube Report (2:30 PM EST, 10/4/18):

1. Aiden English presents ‘One Night In Milwaukee’ – 1 million views
2. Paige is ready to fire Samoa Joe – 987k views
3. Becky Lynch reveals her Super Show-Down surprise – 770k views
4. Randy Orton assaults Tye Dillinger – 721k views
5. R-Truth & Carmella vs. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas & Zelina Vega – 567k views
6. The Bar ruins The New Day’s pancake cooking – 373k views
7. Daniel Bryan vs. Shelton Benjamin – 311k views

SmackDown Live fell short last week, but the anticipation of what exactly Aiden English has been referring to gets one clip from this week to hit the million mark. Easily, this was what fans looked forward to most this week, but I think a lot of them were left disappointed. What we got was a bit of the “easy way out” and right now it appears as if everybody can predict the outcome. Here’s to hoping WWE swerves us all.

For number two, we’re back under a million views, but not by much as General Manager Paige opens to show to discuss Samoa Joe’s actions from last week. The Styles/Joe feud hasn’t done well in our YouTube reports lately, but the same could be said for most everything on SmackDown Live outside of the spotty up-and-down movement from what comes in at number three, the Becky/Charlotte rivalry. Becky’s reveal was again likely another disappointment, showing that she merely made her own version of the Super Show-Down poster. Can we not tease surprises if they don’t deliver?

Coming in at number four, Randy Orton’s rampage continues as ‘The Viper’ is by far more invested than he’s been in quite some time and that’s translating into interest in his angles. With the way he’s tortured Jeff Hardy over recent months, people just plain want to see what Orton is going to do next. Believe me, nobody’s watching this clip because of Tye Dillinger, who has been pretty absent for nearly a year.

We continue to slide down in views the lower we go on the list, number five being nearly 200k less than number four. R-Truth and Carmella are certainly on the come-up and have turned into one of the more entertaining parts of WWE television in recent weeks. It will make them some noise in our weekly YouTube reports, but I’m not so sure they can climb much higher in numbers than where they’re at unless they are matched up with more star power.

Our final two spots this week are my “best of the rest”, as there is only four clips remaining from the entire show after our top five. Daniel Bryan gets number seven because…well, he’s Daniel Bryan and he should be beating out a Susan G. Komen presentation and an Asuka vs. Peyton Royce match. Unfortunate that’s what he’s contending with though. Same goes for number six.

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