Here is a disappointing page. It’s the top sponsored channels on YouTube sorted by the most amount of subscribers of all time in Australia.

These brands must be paying for this privilege. I’ve been told they do receive banner ads as part of that package, but that’s about it. They’re pretty much normal accounts, ones that you or I could register.

But of all the brands who are sinking money into these channels, the most popular channel has just 1,300 subscribers. And it’s the Government.

I find it beyond disappointing that’s the best we can do, particularly with the budgets they would have been allocated. Where’s the ROI on that? Maybe they’d have been better off with a normal, free account.