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October 22, 2026 3.2x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 833,775 views a day, 3.2 times a normal day (263,340).

This week on the channel +556K views this week

Glen Powell's first answer to Top Gun was no

Esquire's What I've Learned interview with Michael Sebastian explores Tom Cruise's collaboration lessons, fame and Powell's garage-living d…

Channel: Esquire · Story of October 11, 2026

Video surging 19x the video's usual pace

Peter Krause, once Truman's boss, in Esquire's 'That's show business for you'

The short tagged with The Truman Show had the slowest start of the magazine's Peter Krause run, then pulled far ahead of the rest.

Channel: Esquire · Story of October 5, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The kids don't play about #Fortnite.#ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #Scrubs

Video published

October 14, 2026

Video views so far

990,644

Video views, pace per day

8,058

Views on its first day

15,601

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.4% on this channel, 0.3% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
#MattFriend Wasn’t Beheaded After Impersonating #KingCharles	October 20, 2026	0:19 short	13,317	1,599	9,530	165	2
#MattFriend’s Most Humbling #TonightShow Internship Task In…	October 20, 2026	0:29 short	15,677	248	14,045	194	1
#MattFriend Has a Spot-On #AustinButler Impression	October 20, 2026	0:28 short	20,604	2,036	12,829	269	0
#MattFriend’s Joke About #KristiNoem Had White House Dinner…	October 19, 2026	0:52 short	5,664	282	3,566	99	0
#JeffGoldblum and #HowardStern Gave #MattFriend Unforgettab…	October 19, 2026	0:44 short	26,068	169	22,668	404	6
#MattFriend's impersonations took him off the phone and ont…	October 19, 2026	0:58 short	6,442	477	3,075	166	4
No context #ZachBraff and #DonaldFaison. #Scrubs	October 16, 2026	0:44 short	7,348	243	1,708	158	1
#DonaldFaison has no chill. #ZachBraff #Scrubs	October 16, 2026	0:33 short	80,570	1,442	28,620	1,114	2
Agree to disagree. #ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #Scrubs	October 16, 2026	0:39 short	260,450	2,303	57,129	6,181	55
Right is right. #ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #Scrubs	October 15, 2026	0:18 short	122,454	1,328	27,685	2,057	17
Eagle? Eagle.#ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #Scrubs	October 15, 2026	0:14 short	27,888	241	3,579	543	2
#DonaldFaison's not loving it.#ZachBraff #Scrubs	October 15, 2026	0:15 short	188,905	2,300	36,365	3,085	19
Matt Friend on Impersonating Barack Obama & King Charles to…	October 15, 2026	7:40	2,765	48	1,957	20	1
Hard to come back from that one.#ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #S…	October 14, 2026	0:15 short	347,843	2,512	31,329	7,375	51
The kids don't play about #Fortnite.#ZachBraff #DonaldFaiso…	October 14, 2026	0:52 short	990,644	8,058	15,601	31,040	366

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

25.0 in the category: 21.3

comments per 1,000 views

0.2 in the category: 0.5

a video's usual first day on this channel

5,224 views

short vs long

14 short (up to 3 minutes), 1 long
average views per short video: 150,991
average views per long video: 2,765

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
BTS Reacts to BTS on the Internet (방탄소년단) | Explain This | …	November 23, 2020	6:05	11,275,518
David Blaine's Card Tricks Revealed	March 27, 2012	7:54	3,000,672
Funny Joke From Alexandra Daddario	March 27, 2012	1:32	2,424,065
Inside Daniel Craig's Iconic James Bond Watch Collection | …	November 17, 2023	8:26	2,289,842
ATEEZ Reacts to ATEEZ on the Internet (에이티즈) | Explain This…	March 10, 2021	7:52	1,924,297

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Family Guy Cast on How Their Voices Have Changed #esquire #…	April 28, 2024	0:57	10,216,808
#JenniferLawrence and #RobertPattinson weigh in on In-n-Out…	November 20, 2025	0:34	4,643,247
Bill Skarsgård on making Pennywise's crossed eyes #esquire …	June 1, 2024	0:20	4,065,912
The Family Guy cast on making Mila Kunis sing #esquire #fam…	May 5, 2024	0:59	3,900,815
Taking a look back at Tombstone #esquire	March 23, 2024	0:47	3,429,925

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 22, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 833,775 views a day, 3.2 times a normal day (263,340).
2. October 19, 2026Video surgingZach Braff & Donald Faison on the “Scrubs” Dance … The video ran that day at 21,513 views a day, 3.3 times its usual pace (6,587).
3. October 18, 2026Video surgingThe kids don't play about #Fortnite.#ZachBraff #D… The video ran that day at 307,586 views a day, 8.4 times its usual pace (36,722).
4. October 18, 2026Video surgingZach Braff & Donald Faison on the “Scrubs” Dance … The video ran that day at 21,030 views a day, 4.2 times its usual pace (4,983).
5. October 17, 2026Video taking offAgree to disagree. #ZachBraff #DonaldFaison #Scru… The video opened at a pace of 49,162 views a day, 9 times a normal first day on this channel (5,444).
6. October 17, 2026Video surgingThe kids don't play about #Fortnite.#ZachBraff #D… The video ran that day at 136,117 views a day, 5.3 times its usual pace (25,678).
7. October 5, 2026Video surgingThat's show business for you. #PeterKrause #TheTr… The video ran that day at 20,431 views a day, 19 times its usual pace (1,062).Read the story
8. September 29, 2026MilestoneOther than that, #MatthewMcConaughey and #WoodyHa… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
9. September 29, 2026Video surgingOther than that, #MatthewMcConaughey and #WoodyHa… The video ran that day at 549,375 views a day, 3.3 times its usual pace (164,503).