Top Gaming Hashtags on YouTube
This week, we sampled 154 public Gaming posts on YouTube. The average view count across the sample is 15430982, up from 11435219 in the previous run. The median engagement rate across all sampled posts is 0.00 percent.
ContentScout's own analysis: we sample real public posts matching gaming search terms on YouTube and score them by how much engagement they're getting relative to how recently they were posted. Hashtags are ranked by the average views of the posts using them, not by how often they appear. The numbers describe those posts, they don't promise results.

#short
3 posts in sample
- 70M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#shortsfeed
4 posts in sample
- 40M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#youtubeshorts
5 posts in sample
- 33M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#shorts
60 posts in sample
- 31M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#funny
18 posts in sample
- 16M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#games
17 posts in sample
- 9.7M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#relatable
2 posts in sample
- 8.8M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#gameplay
35 posts in sample
- 5.5M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#viral
16 posts in sample
- 5.2M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#darksouls
2 posts in sample
- 3.8M
- Avg. views
- 0.5%
- Engagement

#game
4 posts in sample
- 3.1M
- Avg. views
- 0.2%
- Engagement

#ps5
3 posts in sample
- 3.1M
- Avg. views
- 0.7%
- Engagement

#comedy
4 posts in sample
- 2.9M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#youtube
2 posts in sample
- 2.6M
- Avg. views
- 1.4%
- Engagement

#gaming
57 posts in sample
- 2.5M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#foryou
4 posts in sample
- 2.3M
- Avg. views
- 2.1%
- Engagement

#freefire
5 posts in sample
- 2.1M
- Avg. views
- 1.3%
- Engagement

#reels
2 posts in sample
- 1.3M
- Avg. views
- 0.6%
- Engagement

#drdonut
2 posts in sample
- 1.1M
- Avg. views
- 3.1%
- Engagement

#donutsmp
2 posts in sample
- 1.1M
- Avg. views
- 3.1%
- Engagement

#mcyt
2 posts in sample
- 1.1M
- Avg. views
- 3.1%
- Engagement

#subscribeformore
2 posts in sample
- 991K
- Avg. views
- 1.3%
- Engagement

#fortnite
9 posts in sample
- 909K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#minecraft
4 posts in sample
- 903K
- Avg. views
- 0.9%
- Engagement

#ff
2 posts in sample
- 886K
- Avg. views
- 0.7%
- Engagement
Questions, answered.
How is this data measured?+
ContentScout reads social data from public posts and scores them. This page ranks the hashtags based on that scoring system.
Which hashtag has the highest average views?+
The hashtag #short leads the list with 70253840 average views across 3 posts in the sample.
Do these view numbers guarantee results for my posts?+
No. A hashtag's average views describe the posts using it in the sample, not a guarantee of your individual reach. Do not use all of these tags at once.
Which gaming tags appear most frequently in the sample?+
#shorts appears on 60 posts, and #gaming appears on 57 posts. Broad tags like #gameplay appear on 35 posts.
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