# The 25 Best American YouTubers of All Time

> Vloggers, reviewers, engineers, streamers and a few people who moved on to television, all of them American. Big audiences meet cult followings on this one.

*By YPB Team · Published October 24, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-25-best-american-youtubers-of-all-time*

---

## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **MrBeast** — score 1000/1000
   Greenville, North Carolina native who became the most-subscribed creator on the platform in 2022.
2. **Jenna Marbles** — score 640/1000
   Rochester, New York comedian who was the most-subscribed woman on YouTube for most of the 2010s.
3. **Mark Rober** — score 587/1000
   Orange County engineer who left NASA's Curiosity team and made science videos a mass-audience genre.
4. **David Dobrik** — score 551/1000
   Chicago-raised Vlog Squad leader whose four-minute vlogs defined 2018-2019.
5. **Rhett & Link** — score 468/1000
   North Carolina duo behind Good Mythical Morning, the longest-running daily talk show on YouTube.
6. **Logan Paul** — score 468/1000
   Ohio vlogger turned WWE wrestler and Prime co-founder.
7. **Liza Koshy** — score 468/1000
   Houston comedian who went from Vine to hosting Double Dare and the MTV Movie Awards pre-show.
8. **Hank Green** — score 468/1000
   Alabama-born co-founder of Vlogbrothers, VidCon and Crash Course.
9. **Casey Neistat** — score 468/1000
   Connecticut-born New York filmmaker who set the template for the daily vlog.
10. **IShowSpeed** — score 419/1000
   Cincinnati streamer whose travel streams made him the most-watched American creator abroad in 2024-2025.
11. **Michelle Phan** — score 419/1000
   Boston-born beauty pioneer who turned makeup tutorials into the Ipsy company.
12. **Vsauce** — score 419/1000
   Kansas-born Michael Stevens, whose Vsauce explainers made curiosity a genre.
13. **Tyler Oakley** — score 363/1000
   Michigan vlogger who became the face of LGBTQ YouTube and a Trevor Project fundraiser.
14. **Philip DeFranco** — score 363/1000
   New York-born host of the longest-running daily news show on the platform.
15. **Jake Paul** — score 363/1000
   Ohio creator who turned the YouTube-boxing craze into a promotion company and a Netflix fight with Mike Tyson.
16. **MatPat** — score 363/1000
   Ohio creator whose Game Theory network of channels ran for a decade before his 2024 retirement.
17. **Emma Chamberlain** — score 299/1000
   California vlogger whose editing style reshaped the genre and who now co-hosts the Met Gala red carpet.
18. **Dream** — score 299/1000
   Florida Minecraft creator whose Manhunt series made him the fastest-growing channel of 2020.
19. **Kai Cenat** — score 299/1000
   New York streamer whose subathons broke Twitch's subscriber record twice.
20. **Jacksfilms** — score 299/1000
   Maryland comedian whose YIAY and Your Grammar Sucks ran for more than a decade.
21. **Markiplier** — score 140/1000
   Cincinnati-raised horror Let's Player who directed and self-funded the 2026 theatrical film Iron Lung.
22. **Ryan Higa** — score 140/1000
   Hawaii-born sketch comedian who held the most-subscribed title from 2009 to 2011.
23. **Smosh** — score 0/1000
   Sacramento duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, the first sketch channel to be YouTube's most-subscribed.
24. **Ninja** — score 0/1000
   Detroit-born Fortnite streamer who put gaming on the cover of ESPN The Magazine.
25. **Marques Brownlee** — score 0/1000
   New Jersey tech reviewer whose MKBHD channel became the industry's reference for phone reviews.

Tags: usa, youtube, video, internet, creators