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John Nellis puts £1,000 on staying in the stadium

A stadium endurance challenge joins pizza-delivery exercise and a football-game strength test as his subscriber growth surges.

Why this story? The channel is adding 99,994 subscribers a day, 8.7 times a normal day (11,450).

Leaving the stadium is usually what happens after the entertainment. In John Nellis's latest challenge, staying is the point: "Last To Leave The Stadium, Wins £1,000" sets a cash incentive for hanging around.

The upload arrives as Nellis adds about 100,000 subscribers in a day, nearly nine times his usual pace. It is a fresh burst for a creator whose self-described football side quests keep finding questions well beyond the scoreline.

His other October uploads offer quite different tests. "Can I Burn Off a Pizza Before it Arrives?" turns a delivery wait into an exercise deadline, while "Is FC27 Strength Actually Accurate?" questions a video game's player ratings. The titles supply the premises, without giving away the results.

Meanwhile, the football-pumping experiment we covered earlier, "How Many Pumps to Explode a Football?", has continued climbing toward twenty million views. The stadium challenge gives that growing collection another setting, with patience rather than pressure as its central test.

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The facts
Subscribers
16,700,000 ▲ 200,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
78,257,011
Channel views, pace per day
15,222,945 (on a normal day: 10,870,667)

The numbers

Subscriber growth is running much faster than usual. Daily views across Nellis's channel are also above their typical pace.

new subscribers per day
typical day
11,450
now
99,994
subscribers
16,700,000
▲ 200,000 in the last 7 days
total views
11,310,237,153
views per day
15,222,945
typical day: 10,870,667
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Futcrunch
24,100,000
Sidemen
23,400,000
KSI
19,200,000
John Nellis
16,700,000
Miniminter
10,600,000
Life Football
6,510,000
As of October 15, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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