Currently Trending YouTube Videos in Film & Animation

Today's trending in Film & Animation, analysed

As of 28 July 2026, 11:05 UTC, "Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18" by Marvel Entertainment leads the chart with 52.34M views. That is more than three times the views of the runner-up, "The hand" by Sunshine chinonso tv (11.92M views).

Together, the 50 videos on this chart have drawn 231.37M views, 10.8M likes and 250.77K comments across 50 channels. The newest entry, "He Crawled Out After 40 Years And Scared Them 🔥😂" by Silly Jokers, went live 16 hours ago. The #1 video also leads on likes and comments - a clean sweep of the chart.

What trends in Film & Animation on YouTube

Two very different species share this chart: studio marketing (trailers, teasers and clips, capable of tens of millions of views in 24 hours) and actual animation (indie shorts, animated music videos, fan animation and studio clips). Trailer weeks flatten everything else; between them, breakout animated shorts show there is still room for independent work to reach the top.

Fan-made content orbits the big franchises. Trailer breakdowns, edits and animated parodies often chart in a major release's slipstream, riding the same search surge as the official upload.

Why track trending film and animation videos?

If you make reaction, breakdown or video-essay content, trailer drops on this chart are your production schedule: the search window opens the moment a trailer lands and closes within days. For animators, the shorts that chart are a live catalog of which styles, lengths and formats currently earn distribution - and which franchises have audiences hungry for more.

Frequently asked questions

Why do movie trailers dominate this chart?

A trailer concentrates months of fandom anticipation into one scheduled moment, and studios amplify it with premieres and media pushes across every platform. That produces exactly the burst of first-hour views YouTube's trending algorithm rewards most.

Can independent animators still trend?

Yes, and they regularly do. Breakout shorts usually get there through Shorts-feed spillover, heavy sharing on Reddit and X, or a franchise fanbase adopting a fan animation as its own. Production scale matters less than a hook that survives being clipped and reposted.

How is Film & Animation different from the Entertainment chart?

Creators pick the category at upload, so the two overlap heavily and big trailers often appear in both. In practice this chart carries proportionally more actual animation and film-craft content, while Entertainment leans toward TV clips, celebrity moments and large creator productions.