TY - GEN
T1 - Global YouTube Trending Dataset (2022–2025)
T2 - 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
AU - Gonçalves, Alexandre
AU - Ng, Yee Man Margaret
PY - 2026/5/25
Y1 - 2026/5/25
N2 - On July 1, 2025, YouTube retired its decade-long public “Trending” pages, ending platform-curated, non-personalized video discovery. The Trending list had long served as a vital lens into algorithmic influence, cultural diffusion, and crisis communication globally, offering a rare platform-curated baseline to study global attention and cultural salience. We present a three-year archival dataset of YouTube Trending videos, collected from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2025, with four daily snapshots for each of the 104 countries. The dataset includes 446,971 snapshots, each capturing up to 200 trending videos, encompassing 78.4 million video entries (726,627 unique videos) and associated metadata. Each record includes the rank, core identifiers (snapshot time, country) and content metadata (video ID, channel ID, title, description, tags, publication date, category, channel name, language, live status, view counts, and comment counts). Unlike previous datasets with limited geographic scope or short timeframes, our non-personalized data provides exceptional cross-national and longitudinal coverage for studying digital culture, platform governance, and temporal dynamics in content popularity. We document the data collection methodology, schema design, coverage, descriptive statistics for both global and US trending videos, and the ethical safeguards implemented throughout.
AB - On July 1, 2025, YouTube retired its decade-long public “Trending” pages, ending platform-curated, non-personalized video discovery. The Trending list had long served as a vital lens into algorithmic influence, cultural diffusion, and crisis communication globally, offering a rare platform-curated baseline to study global attention and cultural salience. We present a three-year archival dataset of YouTube Trending videos, collected from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2025, with four daily snapshots for each of the 104 countries. The dataset includes 446,971 snapshots, each capturing up to 200 trending videos, encompassing 78.4 million video entries (726,627 unique videos) and associated metadata. Each record includes the rank, core identifiers (snapshot time, country) and content metadata (video ID, channel ID, title, description, tags, publication date, category, channel name, language, live status, view counts, and comment counts). Unlike previous datasets with limited geographic scope or short timeframes, our non-personalized data provides exceptional cross-national and longitudinal coverage for studying digital culture, platform governance, and temporal dynamics in content popularity. We document the data collection methodology, schema design, coverage, descriptive statistics for both global and US trending videos, and the ethical safeguards implemented throughout.
U2 - 10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42784
DO - 10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42784
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781577359081
T3 - Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
SP - 2817
EP - 2827
BT - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
A2 - Blackburn, Jeremy
A2 - Buntain, Cody
A2 - Benevenuto, Fabricio
PB - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Y2 - 27 May 2026 through 29 May 2026
ER -