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Today in the News & Politics category, "That time a BBC anchor realized too late the camera was already live 💀" by Foeko (5.2M views) is leading YouTube trending. Today's top 10 spans 10 different creators.
THE PODIUM
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HOT STREAK
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News & Politics trending, analysed
As of Jul 1, 2026, “That time a BBC anchor realized too late the camera was already live 💀” by Foeko is the #1 trending video in the News & Politics category, with 5.2M views. The top 20 have drawn 25M combined views across 20 different creators.
The largest creator on the board is Fox News (15M subscribers, top 0.1% of all YouTube channels worldwide, per CreatorDB). CreatorDB tracks 19 of the 20 creators on today’s board — 8 are verified — 9 actively run brand deals (47% of the tracked set). Worth a marketer’s attention: US News is trending despite a smaller channel (19K subscribers) — the kind of early-momentum creator brands can reach before rates climb.
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