DeMarco’s WWE Raw & Smackdown YouTube Ratings Analysis (2/10/19)

A look at the YouTube performance for this week’s editions of WWE Raw and Smackdown!

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.

A note of apology: As some of you know, the real job took a dump on everyone back on 1/22/19, leaving a now 900 employees jobless. That took some priority this week, as Big Daddy is starting his new job on Monday! Thus, this is late. However, we have placed a priority on YouTube ratings, and here they are! This should resume its normal schedule next week. No one covers YouTube like The Chairshot!

WWE Raw on YouTube

Here are the YouTube views for Monday’s Raw, as of Sunday night:

• Braun Strowman & Kurt Angle vs. Baron Corbin & Drew McIntyre: 2.48 million views
• Becky Lynch attacks Stephanie McMahon: 2.36m views
• Dean Ambrose tries to turn “A Moment of Bliss” into “The Ambrose Asylum”: 1.58m views
• EC3 vs. Dean Ambrose: 1.45m views
• Finn Balor vs. Lio Rush: 1.06m views
• Ronda Rousey vs. Sarah Logan: 1.06m vuews
• Becky Lynch is forced out of the arena: 943k views
• Jeff Jarrett vs. Elias: 542k views
• Ronda Rousey vs. Liv Morgan: 500k views
• Baron Corbin and Drew McIntyre interrupt Kurt Angle’s emotional address: 462k views
• Banks & Bayley vs. Fox & Cross – WWE Women’s Tag Title Qualifying Match: 442k views
• Paige presents a special look at “Fighting with My Family”: 298k views
• Lucha House Party vs. Heavy Machinery vs. The B-Team vs. The Revival: 290k views
• Natalya inadvertently gives Dana Brooke the silent treatment: 212k views
• Elias disrespects Jeff Jarrett, Road Dogg and the people of Portland: 202k views
• Mojo Rawley refuses to be a team player: 188k views
• Ruby Riott on why she didn’t get in the ring with Ronda Rousey: 166k views
• Rezar confronts Apollo Crews in the locker room area: 163k views
• Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins won’t be losers for long: 168k views
• Finn Balor is still standing: 149k views

Dean Ambrose eclipses 2 million views between his two videos this week (also good for EC3), but Kurt Angle proves why WWE is still using him by topping 3 million between his two videos. Hopefully it can turn into more of a push for Drew McIntyre, because Kurt needs to stop.

Not a good look for the tag team division, as operation #SaveTagTeamWrestling isn’t doing so well with 290k views for the 4-way. Also surprising to see Finn Balor coming in dead last with his backstage moment.

WWE Smackdown on YouTube

Here are the YouTube views for Tuesday’s Smackdown, as of Sunday night:

• Becky Lynch slaps Triple H: 3.00m views
• Jeff Hardy vs. Daniel Bryan: 914k views
• Mustafa Ali vs. Randy Orton: 658k views
• Gallows & Anderson vs. Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura: 411k views
• Naomi & Carmella vs. Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville vs. The IIconics: 398k views
• Daniel Bryan files a complaint against WWE: 371k views
• Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles exchange heated words: 269k views
• Relive Asuka’s path of destruction: 165k views
• Andrade & Zelina Vega vow to end the legend of Rey Mysterio: 130k views
• The Usos tell The Co-Besties to beware ahead of “McMiz TV”: 123k views

Becky Lynch and Triple H delivered in a big way this week, surpassing 3 million views and beating any video on Raw (despite Raw videos being out a week longer). #SaveTagTeamWrestling did a little better on Smackdown with the Good Brothers vs. RuNak getting above 400k views.

All total, Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair were responsible for 6.92 million YouTube views this week–and that’s huge. If you didn’t already see it, you should see it now: this is why all three women will be in your WrestleMania 35 main event. Kudos to WWE for letting it happen, and to Becky Lynch for making it happen.