Written by David Roberts
Reviewed by Lucas Walter
Updated
The top Canadian influencers in 2026 are Jeff Nippard, SMii7Y, Jeremy Ethier, Phone Repair Guru, and Linus Tech Tips. This list ranks 16 Canadian influencers by median views across their recent videos, not by follower count. Each one was found by searching across hundreds of thousands of top-performing posts from Canada.
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| Rank | Creator | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff Nippard @JeffNippard | 8.8M | 4.5M | 3.1% | Evidence-based training and nutrition |
| 2 | SMii7Y @SMii7Y | 9.1M | 4.1M | 2.9% | Party and horror games with friends |
| 3 | Jeremy Ethier @JeremyEthier | 8M | 4.1M | 2.2% | Fitness experiments with test subjects |
| 4 | Phone Repair Guru @PhoneRepairGuru | 6.3M | 1.6M | 1.9% | Phone teardowns and repairs |
| 5 | Linus Tech Tips @LinusTechTips | 17M | 1.5M | 1.7% | PC builds, tech news, and reviews |
| 6 | Unbox Therapy @UnboxTherapy | 26M | 1.4M | 0.4% | Gadget unboxings |
| 7 | Spencer Barbosa @spencer.barbosa | 3.5M | 1.4M | 3.2% | Get-ready-with-me and relatable skits |
| 8 | Gal Akbari @gal.qal | 950K | 1.3M | 2.2% | Fast-food and room-service taste tests |
| 9 | Will Tennyson @WillTennyson | 5.5M | 930K | 2.5% | Bodybuilding documentaries and diet stunts |
| 10 | Dave2D @Dave2D | 3.7M | 884K | 2.5% | Laptop and phone reviews |
| 11 | Celina Spooky Boo @celinaspookyboo | 4.2M | 799K | 6% | Ghost-hunting comedy |
| 12 | Girl With The Dogs @GirlWithTheDogs | 3.5M | 725K | 4% | Dog and cat grooming |
| 13 | Richelle Zhang @richelle_zh | 2.2M | 618K | 11.2% | Outfit try-ons and styling |
| 14 | Steve | The Vivaldi Way @SteveatVivaldi | 1.3M | 562K | 4.2% | Recipes from a restaurant kitchen |
| 15 | Kurtis Conner @kurtisconner | 2.4M | 520K | 16.5% | Deadpan sketches and impressions |
| 16 | Sarah Nicole Landry @thebirdspapaya | 2.5M | 504K | 1.7% | Body image, aging, and family life |
The best influencers in Canada aren’t simply the accounts with the most followers. YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok all show videos to people based on how the video performs individually, not just based on who follows the creator. As a result, a small or midsized account can reach more people than one several times its size.
That’s why we rank Canadian influencers by median views of their videos (the average number of people a typical video reaches). As of November 2026, the five most watched are Jeff Nippard, SMii7Y, Jeremy Ethier, Phone Repair Guru, and Linus Tech Tips.
Split into five groups, from training science to try-ons. The number beside each name is the creator’s overall rank.
Training science, gym experiments, and bodybuilding documentaries. All three sell an app, programs, or a cookbook.
Whiteboard, lab, and gym videos that rank exercises, foods, and supplements against the research. Long reviews run about 20 minutes; the Shorts answer one question each.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Gym experiments with recruited test subjects and on-screen data, each answering one training or fat-loss question. A kinesiology graduate who ends every video with the takeaway.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Documentary-style fitness stunts: a diet, a gym, or a training routine tried for real, then reported on. Lately a series on the cost of pro bodybuilding and steroid use in young lifters.
4 sponsored videos in the last 90 days.
Gadgets unboxed, reviewed, built, and taken apart, from a repair bench in Toronto to a studio in Vancouver.
Teardowns, repairability tests, and phone mods filmed at a repair bench, mostly as Shorts. The bench is the whole set, with only the hands and the phone in shot.
5 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in phone cases and power banks.
Daily tech news, reviews, and big builds, fronted by Linus Sebastian with a staff cast in their own studio. Recent projects include a local AI workstation and a GPU memory upgrade.
56 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in networking gear, chargers and storage, and cybersecurity software.
Unboxings and first impressions of phones, chargers, TVs, and cameras, filmed at a table in close-up. Fronted by Lewis Hilsenteger, with Shorts now outnumbering the long videos.
28 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in smartphones and cameras.
Short, calm laptop and phone reviews filmed at a desk, with the verdict up front. Launch-day first impressions sit beside the full reviews.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Sketches, impressions, ghost hunts, and party games with friends, made to get a laugh.
Recorded multiplayer sessions with a regular group of friends: fishing games, party games, and horror maps. Fast cuts and nonstop commentary, all long-form, with no Shorts.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Comedy-horror Reels from ghost hunts in haunted houses, asylums, and Halloween events, cut with to-camera reactions. Usually filmed as a couple, with a regular crew of investigators.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in insurance, cars, and personal care.
Deadpan sketches shot close to camera: characters, impressions, and one repeated line delivered straight. Self-shot and short, with a text sticker carrying the joke.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Taste tests, recipes from a family restaurant in Quebec, and full grooms from a salon in Ontario.
Solo food videos: oversized orders, chain-menu items, and room service, eaten and judged to camera in one continuous take. A running cost tally often sits on screen.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in energy drinks.
Full grooms of dogs and cats in a salon, narrated in a dry, deadpan voice. A professional groomer of 14 years, grooming pets in exchange for donations to local rescues.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Daily recipe Shorts filmed in the kitchen of Resto Vivaldi, the family restaurant behind the channel, talked through step by step and plated at the pass. Staff drop in, and family-style dishes sit beside the menu.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Try-ons, get-ready-with-me videos, and talk about body image. The three ran 26 sponsored posts in 90 days.
Get-ready-with-me, outfit, and relatable-girl Reels, mostly to camera at home in Toronto. Talk of body image and kindness runs through them, with trips to Disney parks and Portugal in between.
5 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in theme parks and smartphones.
Fast try-on videos built on transitions: one dress after another, or one piece styled six ways. Work, wedding-guest, and black-tie looks, filmed at home and on downtown streets.
6 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in fast fashion and makeup.
Talking-head and voiceover Reels about body image, aging, and raising four children, mixed with carousels of outfits and favourite finds. Brand campaigns run in the same personal-essay tone.
15 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in tourism, apparel, and entertainment.
We analyzed the 205 posts these 16 creators published on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok in the last 30 days. Of those, 10 beat their creator’s usual views by 3× or more.
Here is how this month’s breakouts open, read from what each video says in its first seconds, or from its caption when nobody speaks.
“I can’t believe it took me 48 years to try beef stroganoff.”
Two of the month’s biggest videos opened on a bit of personal history before getting to the point: a restaurant cook who first tried beef stroganoff at 48, and a young bodybuilder saying how early the steroids started.
Steve | The Vivaldi Way 4M views · 7.2× their usualThe usual posts we compared from the same creators never opened this way. Both breakouts spend a sentence or two on the story, then go straight into the work: the pan goes on, or the documentary begins.
“Cloud AI is becoming an incredibly powerful tool.”
Two breakouts opened on a flat statement: that cloud AI is now a powerful tool, and that chicken drumsticks will always be the go-to for families eating on a budget. Linus Tech Tips then spent half an hour building a workstation to run that AI at home.
Linus Tech Tips 5.5M views · 3.6× their usualThe same channels’ usual posts open on a joke, a question from off camera, or the dish of the day, not on a position the viewer can argue with.
“This is the first ever folding iPhone or maybe the second if you include the iPhone 6.”
Two breakouts opened by putting the subject straight in front of the viewer: a folding iPhone on a teardown bench, and a movie service sold as a Netflix for millionaires. Phone Repair Guru supplied one of the two.
Phone Repair Guru 5.4M views · 3.3× their usualTech channels open their usual videos this way too, so the opening alone is not what lifted these two. What changed is the next line: a phone that may not survive the repair, and a promise of picture quality better than 4K Blu-ray.
Richelle Zhang: “can you tell which i like better😗😗” reached 3M views, 4.8× their usual.
This table shows what the Canadian accounts on this list do at each size on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Use it to judge whether a creator’s numbers are strong for their tier.
| Tier | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Posts a week | Sponsored posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macro | 500K to 2M | 906K | 3.2% | 2.6 | 7% |
| Mega | 2M to 10M | 907K | 3% | 2.7 | 11% |
| Mega | Over 10M | 1.5M | 1.1% | 4.9 | 60% |
The figures are medians across these 16 accounts, from each account’s recent videos. “Sponsored posts” is the share of posts in the 90 days to Nov 6, 2026, that carry a paid-partnership or paid-promotion label or a stated sponsor, or are part of a brand campaign.
A Canadian brand with no niche picked yet ends up comparing a repair bench with a haunted house. Four questions separate the 16 before you reach out.
Almost every one of these accounts posts in English to a North American audience, and several filmed abroad this month: a resort, a family trip to Portugal, the Cayman Islands. If the campaign is for Canadian shoppers, ask for the share of viewers in Canada before you agree on a fee.
Most of the list is on YouTube, where a sponsor usually buys a short read inside a longer video, not a video of its own. Agree where the read sits, how long it runs, and whether the brand appears in the title or only in the description.
Several of these creators run a business beside the channel: a nutrition app, a repair course, a phone-case brand, a cookbook. A creator with a training app is unlikely to post for a rival app, so ask before you pitch.
Several brand posts on these accounts carry a tag or a campaign hashtag and no ad label. Canada’s Competition Bureau says that tagging a brand or posting a discount code is unlikely to be enough on its own. Ask for a clear disclosure on screen and in the caption.
We identified and ranked these creators by searching hundreds of thousands of top-performing posts on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok from Canada with Klint.
We rank by median views across each creator’s recent videos, so one viral post can’t lift an account up the list. Creators qualify when they were born or grew up in Canada, live there now, and reach a median of at least 500,000 views; we searched English- and French-language creators, and everyone who qualified this month posts in English.
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As of November 2026 the top five Canadian influencers by median views are Jeff Nippard, SMii7Y, Jeremy Ethier, Phone Repair Guru, and Linus Tech Tips.
Unbox Therapy leads the 16 on followers, with 26M on YouTube. Kris Collins has more on TikTok but now lives in Texas and is not on the list.
All three grew up in Canada but live in the United States now, and this list counts only creators who live in Canada. MissDarcei, who now lives in Seoul, is off the list for the same reason.
It covers YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. YouTube holds 10 of the 16, Instagram 4, and TikTok 2. A creator with big accounts on two platforms sits under the one where videos get more views.
They were part of the search, but none reached the list’s floor this month: the most-watched French-language creator we found had a median of about 395,000 views a Reel. Everyone on this list posts in English.
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Prices turn on the platform, the format, and the size of the audience a typical video gets. On YouTube most deals are a read inside a longer video; on Instagram and TikTok a brand usually pays per post or for a short series, with usage rights priced separately.
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