YouTube maintains a list of the top trending videos on the platform. According to Variety magazine, “To determine the year’s top-trending videos, YouTube uses a combination of factors including measuring users interactions (number of views, shares, comments and likes). Top performers on the YouTube trending list are music videos, celebrity and/or reality TV performances, and the random dude-with-a-camera viral videos that YouTube is well-known for.
This dataset is a daily record of the top trending YouTube videos.
This dataset includes several months (and counting) of data on daily trending YouTube videos. Data is included for DE with up to 200 listed trending videos per day. This notebook dives into the YouTube Trends from Germany in order to understand the Germany video pattern
This dataset was collected using the YouTube API.