Gag Concert Topped Korea's Weekly YouTube Ranking, and the Source Was 858 Broadcast Shorts
Key Takeaways
- · KBS 멀티플랫폼 통계 포털 스톰 집계 기준 개그콘서트 공식 유튜브 채널은 2026년 7월 6일부터 12일까지 주간 조회수 1억 799만 회로 국내 유튜브 채널 순위 종합 1위에 올랐습니다.
- · Dhesy 수집 범위 기준 최근 90일 업로드 1,068편 중 1,030편(96.4%)이 KBS2 본방송 클립이고 조회수로는 99.6%입니다. 제목의 방송일로 묶으면 개그콘서트 본방 1회가 클립 43.6편, 말자쇼 1회가 19.5편으로 나갔습니다.
- · 90일 내내 업로드가 하루도 비지 않았고 하루 평균 11.9편입니다. 74.1%인 791편이 KST 저녁 6시와 7시대에 올라왔고 요일은 월요일이 270편으로 가장 많습니다.
- · 편수의 80.3%인 쇼츠 858편이 조회수의 93.8%인 4억 76만 뷰를 가져갔습니다. 100만 뷰를 넘긴 112편 중 109편이 쇼츠이고 최고 기록은 864만 7,472뷰입니다.
- · 한 채널 안에 프로그램이 둘입니다. 90일 기준 개그콘서트 본편 클립 698편이 2억 9,103만 뷰, 말자쇼 클립 332편이 1억 3,487만 뷰를 기록했고 나머지 38편은 방송 클립이 아닙니다.
The channel that topped Korea's overall weekly YouTube ranking for the second week of July 2026 was not a news channel but Gag Concert. That is 107.99 million views for the week, according to StoRRm, KBS's multiplatform statistics portal. Sports Today and Sports Chosun both carried the figure on July 15. A Korean variety show usually gets its report card the morning after it airs, which means there is now a second place where the score is tallied.
Most of what lands in that second place is a clip cut from the previous night's KBS2 stage. Within Dhesy's collected range, 1,030 of the 1,068 uploads over the last 90 days (April 29 to July 28, 2026, KST) are clips of that kind, and they account for 99.6% of the views.
Korea's No.1 YouTube channel in the second week of July was Gag Concert, not a news channel
By the StoRRm tally, the official Gag Concert YouTube channel recorded 107.99 million views for the week of July 6 to 12, 2026, taking first place in Korea's overall YouTube channel ranking. That ranking includes news channels. Sports Today and Sports Chosun both carried the figure on July 15, with Sports Chosun putting the phrase "a sketch is a clip" in its headline.
A second figure sits alongside it. In a July 14 report on KBS surpassing 11.2 billion cumulative YouTube views, Gag Concert was counted as having added more than 590 million views over the same period a year earlier, the largest growth of any KBS program. One program is pulling a large share of the broadcaster's entire YouTube gain.
The production team said it was grateful to viewers who enjoy Gag Concert on YouTube as well as on air. What none of the articles spelled out is which videos add up to those 107.99 million views. That is where the remaining question starts.
96% of what this channel posts is a KBS2 stage from the night before
Most uploads carry a broadcast date at the end of the title, in the form "KBS 260726 broadcast." Of the 1,068 uploads over the last 90 days, 1,030 follow that format, or 96.4%, and they hold 425.90 million views, 99.6% of the channel's total.
The 38 uploads without such a date fall into groups. By the titles Dhesy stores: 14 episode teasers, 3 compilation reels, 3 episodes of the web sketch "Gaepan Obunjeon," 6 in the "Go Go Tour" line, and 12 other Shorts. YouTube-only originals live in that group. Those 38 come to 3.6% of the count and 1.53 million views, averaging 40,348 per video, which is 0.4% of the channel's reach. The 400 million views this channel has built come almost entirely from one source, the broadcast clips.
The vertical videos here are mostly edits of the aired show rather than standalone productions, so this analysis treats one broadcast episode as the unit.
The channel opened on November 5, 2021 and has 1.31 million subscribers. The show airs Sundays at 10:35 p.m. on KBS2. The stage happens once on Sunday night, then returns in pieces over the following days.
| Item | Figure |
|---|---|
| Subscribers | 1.31 million |
| Channel opened | November 5, 2021 |
| Broadcast slot | Sunday 10:35 p.m., KBS2 |
| Uploads, last 90 days | 1,068 |
| Of which broadcast clips | 1,030 (96.4%) |
| Of which Shorts | 858 |
| Of which long-form | 210 |
| Days with an upload | 90 of 90 |
| Average uploads per day | 11.9 |
A channel with 1.31 million subscribers produced 1,068 videos in 90 days. The volume alone sets it apart from how variety show channels are usually run.
One broadcast episode goes out as 44 clips
Grouping by the broadcast date in each title, 16 Gag Concert episodes turned into 698 clips over the last 90 days, an average of 43.6 clips per episode. In the same window, 17 episodes of Malja Show became 332 clips, or 19.5 per episode. The 38 titles without a broadcast date were left out of the episode grouping.
The method is simple. Six-digit dates in the "KBS 260726 broadcast" format were pulled from the titles Dhesy has stored, grouped by episode, and clip counts were divided by episode counts. One Sunday night stage is cut into forty-four pieces.
A channel that posted each episode whole would have published 33 videos in 90 days. The actual broadcast clip count was 1,030. That factor of 31 is the starting point for the numbers that follow.
Not a single day in 90 went without an upload
There was no gap in uploads across the last 90 days. New videos appeared on all 90 days, averaging 11.9 per day, with a peak of 29 on Monday, July 13, 2026.
The timing clusters as well. Of the 1,068 videos, 791 (74.1%) went live in the 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. hours KST, with 499 in the 7 p.m. hour alone. By day of week, Monday leads with 270 and Sunday follows with 159.
최근 90일 요일별 업로드 편수 (KST, Dhesy 수집 범위)
* Source: Dhesy
The show airs Sunday night, and Monday evening the stage pours out in pieces. If Gag Concert clips start filling your feed from Monday evening, that rhythm is the reason.
Shorts, 80% of the uploads, took 94% of the views
Of the 112 videos that passed one million views, 109 were Shorts. Of the 1,068 uploads in the last 90 days, 858 were Shorts, 80.3% of the count, and they accounted for 400.76 million views, 93.8% of the channel's 427.43 million. The 210 long-form clips drew 26.67 million views, or 6.2%.
This is not a place to rank two formats against each other as separate productions. It is a split of how far the same stage travelled depending on the length it was cut to.
| Segment | Videos | Views | Share of count | Share of views | Average per video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 858 | 400.76M | 80.3% | 93.8% | 467,085 |
| Long-form | 210 | 26.67M | 19.7% | 6.2% | 127,020 |
| Channel total (90-day baseline) | 1,068 | 427.43M | 100% | 100% | 400,218 |
최근 90일 포맷별 편수 비중과 조회수 비중
* Source: Dhesy
The most-watched video in the 90-day window is a clip from the June 28 broadcast, "Wait... you're Cho Su-yeon's family?" Published on June 30, 2026, it has 8,647,472 views.
Averages suggest a wide gap, but the medians are 148,546 views for Shorts and 76,539 for long-form. The distance between average and median marks how concentrated views are in a handful of top clips. The 90-day total of 427.43 million views is roughly 326 times the 1.31 million subscriber base, and vertical clips built most of that reach. That also explains where the 107.99 million weekly views cited at the top came from.
There are two programs inside this one channel
Clips on the official Gag Concert channel come from more than one source. Of the 1,068 videos in the last 90 days, 698 are Gag Concert clips and 332 are Malja Show clips. By views, Gag Concert accounts for 291.03 million and Malja Show for 134.87 million. The 112 videos above one million views also split, 79 to Gag Concert and 33 to Malja Show. The remaining 38 belong to no episode group, and none of them passed one million views.
| Segment | Clips | Views | Above 1M views | Episodes | Clips per episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gag Concert | 698 | 291.03M | 79 | 16 | 43.6 |
| Malja Show | 332 | 134.87M | 33 | 17 | 19.5 |
| Not a broadcast clip | 38 | 1.53M | 0 | - | - |
| Channel total (90-day baseline) | 1,068 | 427.43M | 112 | 33 | - |
The split was made on titles: videos containing Malja Show, Maljating or Sotongwang were grouped as Malja Show. That classification is why the top-viewed list mixes the two programs.
Malja Show is a cross-generational talk show hosted by comedian Kim Young-hee in her Grandma Malja character alongside Jung Beom-gyun. It began as a Gag Concert sketch, was spun off into its own program, and now airs Mondays at 9:30 p.m. on KBS2, as Etoday reported on July 27. A sketch becomes a program, and that program's clips return to the original channel.
The new sketch that started two days ago travels the same path
Episode 1183, broadcast on July 26, 2026, introduced a new sketch called "Live As You See It." It is a comedy set around mishaps during a live home shopping broadcast, and Edaily and Sports Kyunghyang reported on July 26 that comedian Yoo In-seok of KBS's 27th class returned to the Gag Concert stage after about 11 years. Bok Hyun-gyu, Seo Seong-gyeong and Seo Yu-gi appeared with him.
Yoo In-seok previously performed in the sketch "Nom Nom Nom" alongside Song Pil-geun, Ryu Geun-ji and Bok Hyun-gyu, and has worked as a home shopping host since 2017. The choice of a home shopping studio for an 11-year comeback is written into that résumé.
Clips from the July 26 broadcast landed in the July 27 evening batch, exactly on the rhythm described above. As collected, view counts in that batch range from under 10,000 to the 280,000 range. On this channel the high marks arrive days after publication, not on day one.
The new sketch will show its reception in clips before episodes
Next quarter, a new sketch's reception is likely to be read first through whether its clips reach one million views rather than through episode numbers. As with Malja Show, another sketch may cross over into its own program slot. Two checkpoints: whether "Live As You See It" clips pass one million views within two weeks of publication, and how many of the Monday evening upload batch the sketch accounts for.
One baseline to keep. The last 14 days (July 14 to July 28, 2026, KST) brought 212 uploads, 67,910,404 views in total, and 15 videos above one million. Clips from "Live As You See It" join that count starting this week.
The frame needs narrowing too. A weekly No.1 and 400 million views over 90 days cannot carry the same weight as watching a full episode through, because they are the sum of clips consumed in roughly 30 seconds on a vertical screen. They are also a single cross-section of one 90-day window, not a figure with seasonal factors such as summer scheduling or school holidays stripped out. The more videos a channel publishes, the further the median individual clip sits below the average, and the Shorts median of 148,546 views is that marker.
Frequently asked questions
What is behind the popularity of the Gag Concert YouTube channel
Volume and distribution of broadcast clips, not YouTube-original content. Within Dhesy's collected range, 1,030 of the 1,068 uploads over the last 90 days (96.4%) are clips cut from KBS2 stages, and the 858 Shorts that make up 80.3% of the count took 93.8% of the views. One broadcast episode goes out as an average of 43.6 clips, and no day in the 90 passed without an upload.
Which videos get the most views on the Gag Concert YouTube channel
Within Dhesy's collected range, the 90-day high is a clip from the June 28 broadcast, "Wait... you're Cho Su-yeon's family?", with 8,647,472 views since its June 30, 2026 release. In the same window 112 videos passed one million views, 109 of them Shorts. The top list mixes Gag Concert clips with Malja Show clips.
What is the new sketch marking Yoo In-seok's return after 11 years
"Live As You See It," which premiered in episode 1183 on July 26, 2026. It is a comedy about mishaps during a live home shopping broadcast, with Yoo In-seok of KBS's 27th class appearing alongside Bok Hyun-gyu, Seo Seong-gyeong and Seo Yu-gi. Edaily and Sports Kyunghyang reported that Yoo previously appeared in the sketch "Nom Nom Nom" and has worked as a home shopping host since 2017.
Can Malja Show be watched on the same channel as Gag Concert
Both appear on the same official channel. Within Dhesy's collected range, 332 of the 1,068 uploads over the last 90 days are Malja Show clips, drawing 134.87 million views. The show itself airs as a separate program on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. on KBS2, hosted by comedian Kim Young-hee in her Grandma Malja character with Jung Beom-gyun.
When does Gag Concert air
Sundays at 10:35 p.m. on KBS2. YouTube clips start appearing the following day, and over the last 90 days 74.1% of uploads went live in the 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. hours KST. By weekday, Monday leads with 270 uploads.
Methodology: All 1,068 videos published between April 29 and July 28, 2026 (KST) on the official Gag Concert channel (1.31 million subscribers) were counted from data stored on the Dhesy platform. Shorts and long-form were separated using the format flag Dhesy stores, with no duration estimation. Per-episode conversion was derived from six-digit dates in the "KBS 260726 broadcast" title format. The 38 titles without a date (14 episode teasers, 3 compilation reels, 3 "Gaepan Obunjeon" episodes, 6 in the "Go Go Tour" line, 12 other Shorts) were excluded from both the episode counts and the per-program clip counts, while remaining inside the 1,068 channel total. Programs were separated by whether titles contained Malja Show, Maljating or Sotongwang. The 14-day figures are a re-measurement of 212 videos from July 14 to July 28, 2026. All counts and view figures are limited to Dhesy's collected range and may differ from YouTube's cumulative channel totals due to collection timing. The weekly ranking is based on press reports citing StoRRm, KBS's multiplatform statistics portal. Analysis period: 2026-04-29 to 2026-07-28 (KST). Data source: Dhesy Last updated: 2026-07-28