Chosen from 62 uploads across 26 major channels, and counting. Updated weekly, with the full calendar so you can find everything else.
By LA Today·Updated Oct 21, 2026 Verified October 2026
The short answer
Start with MrBeast's $1 million grocery store, 202 days in one store in North Carolina and his biggest first 24 hours ever. Then Logan Paul quitting Pokémon, which lasted days. All ten picks play right here. We add new uploads every week until Oct 31. Last updated October 21.
Four contestants lived inside a grocery store in Greenville, North Carolina, for 202 days and had to eat through roughly 4.2 million calories of stock to split $1 million. Wasted food came off the prize: 6,614 calories of it. Juan Garcia, Jackson Smith, Reyhan Dzeko and Eldin Dzeko also left with cars and jewelry, and Smith proposed to his fiancee inside the store (WECT).
BroBible reported more than 98 million views in under 48 hours. His follow-up on Oct 18, Lose 150 Lbs Together, Win $250,000, tracked an engaged couple through 163 days of training before their wedding.
The number worth knowingSince August, YouTube counts a long-form view from the first frame instead of after a viewer sticks around. Tubefilter notes this video's total may be partly inflated by the change, so records set this fall are not directly comparable to older ones.
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Airrack Hid in MrBeast's Store
Oct 4Same setGreenville, NC
Why it mattersWatch it right after pick one: it is the same challenge, seen by someone who was not supposed to be there.
Airrack hid on the set of MrBeast's grocery store challenge while the contestants ate their way through the shelves (Tubefilter). Both videos went up the same day.
Tubefilter's weekly branded-video chart counted 16.8 million views, third on its list.
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Logan Paul Quit Pokémon. Briefly.
Oct 10Live opening Oct 296 p.m. ET
Why it mattersThe title says he is done. Within days he announced his biggest card stunt yet.
Days after the vlog, Paul was posting on X about $400,000 in sealed boxes and $800,000 in unpeeled sheets. Men's Journal reports he will open all of it live on YouTube on Oct 29 at 6 p.m. ET: two 2002 Legendary Collection boxes and two 1996 CoroCoro sheets, chasing a PSA 10 Pikachu he says could be worth over $5 million.
It caps his year in cards: a Pikachu Illustrator that sold for $16.5 million at Goldin in February, then a July live peel that graded PSA 9 and PSA 8, not the 10 he wanted.
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Lexi Rivera's Theme Park Suites
Oct 4Theme park hotelsTravel
Why it mattersThe most useful video on this list if you are planning a theme park trip.
Lexi Rivera books the best room at every theme park she visits and walks you through each one. It is part challenge video, part hotel review, and an easy watch before you pick where to stay.
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Dhar Mann Studios, Made in Burbank
Oct 15Ft. Gia Rose8 dramas so far
Why it mattersEight scripted dramas by Oct 17, all made in Burbank. No studio on this list ships more fiction.
Dhar Mann Studios works out of a 125,000-square-foot production facility in Burbank, and its October slate is the most consistent scripted output of any channel we track. Our pick is Controlling Mom FORCES DAUGHTER To Be Popular, featuring Gia Rose: setup, turn and lesson, the format at its tightest.
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Smosh Made a Dinosaur Music Video
Oct 17Fred DartsPlus a BTS cut
Why it mattersAn LA sketch studio putting real production money into a song about dinosaurs.
Bring 'Em Back (We Want Dinos) is credited to Fred Darts and went up alongside a behind-the-scenes video the same day. Smosh opened a new Los Angeles studio last December, and this is what it was built for.
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Veritasium on the Internet's Plumbing
Oct 13Long-form explainerScience
Why it mattersThe best answer this month to a question nobody thinks to ask: how does any of this reach you?
The Absurd Engineering Behind the Internet walks through the physical network under every other video on this list, the cables and light that carry it.
Also from the Veritasium teamElectrify, the channel's majority investor, launched a new channel called InGenius on Sept 30, covering business and geopolitics. Veritasium's Oct 1 upload, We're trying something new..., landed the next day. We could not confirm the two are linked.
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Markiplier's Nine-Upload Month
Oct 29 uploads so farGaming
Why it mattersNine uploads by Oct 19, second only to SSundee among the channels we track.
The run goes from indie games like Don't Stare and Nagaisan to Part 8 of his Supermarket Simulator series. Start with Don't Stare, his first upload of the month. His film Iron Lung has been on sale on YouTube since May 31.
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Ninja on Fortnite's Biggest Update
Oct 8FortnitemaresGaming
Why it mattersThe one upload this month where the face most people still connect to Fortnite talks about the game right now.
Fortnitemares arrived with patch v42.30 on Oct 1, adding Five Nights at Freddy's skins, Freddy Krueger and a Nightmare Neighborhood. Ninja's other three October uploads look back at past seasons. We could not confirm which update this title refers to.
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Dude Perfect's Real-Life Rocket League
Oct 3Only upload so farSports
Why it mattersThe cleanest idea on the list: a video game, rebuilt at full scale.
Dude Perfect's only October upload so far takes the car-soccer video game into the real world. It is a new video, not the crew's 2018 version of the same idea.
The LA Creator Map, Corrected
In LA: Dhar Mann Studios in Burbank, the area's largest creator employer. Smosh, in its new Los Angeles studio. The Stokes Twins, whose Netflix series is set for 2027.
Not LA: MrBeast is in Greenville, North Carolina. Logan Paul has lived in Puerto Rico since 2021. Dude Perfect is in Frisco, Texas. Veritasium's Derek Muller moved to Portugal in 2025.
Everybody files this one wrong: Brent Rivera lives in Huntington Beach. That is Orange County, not LA County.
The industry came to town: CreatorIQ Connect was at The Ebell of Los Angeles on Oct 13, and the Social Commerce Festival took over the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica on Oct 17.
The Business Underneath
Beast Industries is now valued around $5 billion with more than 1,000 employees, per Fortune (Oct 21, citing PitchBook). A MrBeast-linked company also cleared trademark hurdles on Oct 6 for MRBEAST FINANCIAL, covering banking and crypto. No product has launched.
Creators are a small business now, officially. On Oct 16 the SBA classified creator businesses under the same industry code as film and video production, which opens the door to loans and grants (Tubefilter).
YouTube is the top news source in America in a Syracuse University survey released Oct 9: 16.5 percent, just ahead of TV at 16.1.
The Full October Calendar
All 62 uploads through Oct 19 from the 26 channels we track, each linked straight to the video. Filter by category, then open the channel you want. Nine have posted nothing yet: Alan's Universe, Mark Rober, Zach King, IShowSpeed, Brent Rivera, Jake Paul, CoryxKenshin, Ryan Trahan and Danny Duncan. Mark Rober is appearing live at Boston's Museum of Science on Oct 24, and Jake Paul is recovering from jaw surgery after his December loss to Anthony Joshua.
What was the biggest YouTube video of October 2026?
MrBeast's Eat Everything In A Grocery Store, Win $1,000,000, posted Oct 4. MrBeast called it his most-viewed video ever in its first 24 hours, and BroBible reported more than 98 million views in under 48 hours. Four contestants spent 202 days inside a grocery store in Greenville, North Carolina, to split $1 million.
Where was the MrBeast grocery store challenge filmed?
In Greenville, North Carolina, where MrBeast's company is based. It was not filmed in Los Angeles. Airrack's companion video, I Hid In MrBeast's Grocery Store, was shot on the same set.
Did Logan Paul quit Pokémon?
Not for long. His Oct 10 vlog is titled I'm Officially Done With Pokémon, but within days he announced a $1.2 million live opening of sealed boxes and 1996 CoroCoro sheets on YouTube, set for Oct 29 at 6 p.m. ET, per Men's Journal.
Which big YouTubers are based in Los Angeles?
Of the channels we track, Dhar Mann Studios (Burbank), Smosh and the Stokes Twins are verifiably LA-based. MrBeast is in North Carolina, Logan Paul in Puerto Rico, Dude Perfect in Texas, and Veritasium's Derek Muller moved to Portugal in 2025. Brent Rivera lives in Huntington Beach, which is Orange County.
How many videos did the biggest YouTube channels post in October 2026?
Across the 26 major channels we track, 62 uploads through Oct 19. SSundee posted the most with 13, then Markiplier with 9. Nine channels had posted nothing yet, including Mark Rober, IShowSpeed, Jake Paul and Ryan Trahan. We update the count every week until Oct 31.
The Verdict
Watch MrBeast, then Airrack, back to back. Same store, same day, two very different videos.
Mark Oct 29 for Logan Paul. The quit was a bit. The $1.2 million live opening is the real event.
And for something made here, take Dhar Mann Studios or Smosh. Both are LA studios having a busy month.
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