site and found this out without spending huge money on random channels and has-been celebrities. Regardless, Google is cutting the funding of all but the top 30% to 40% of its Original Channels. Survivors will receive additional funding, with YouTube carefully monitoring watch time for each as Google tries to sell more ads. Here now are the 10 best YouTube Original Channels -- which will definitely be around next year. SourceFed was the earliest clear winner among premium channels back in August when it was the first to get 500,000 subscribers. Sourcefed's audience is very active and loyal precisely because of the YouTube celebrity behind it: Philip DeFranco has been on YouTube since 2006. The pop-culture and news-commentary show is YouTube entrepreneur DeFranco's latest digital baby. The 26-year-old DeFranco has killed on YouTube for years. Anything he touches on YouTube is magic at this point, and various YouTubers owe their celebrity status to his guiding hand. (To: illustrate: During the election, DeFranco's talk show outperformed any other show on the YouTube-backed political initiative known as the Election Hub, and TV viewers may have seen him this year hosting Discovery Channel's Shark Week.) SourceFed is a bit like DeFranco's signature show, The Philip DeFranco Show, except he doesn't star in it. He has found hosts like Lee Newton and Joe Bereta to do the commentary. It's a safe bet that SourceFed will be around next year. The reasons for SourceFed's success -- DeFranco has been builing his million-strong audience for years