Currently Trending YouTube Videos

Today's trending chart, analysed

As of 28 July 2026, 10:05 UTC, "REACHER Season 4 - Official Trailer | Prime Video" by Prime Video leads the chart with 4.77M views. Close behind, "ILLIT (아일릿) 'I Got Your Back (Feat. JISOO, MOMOKA of HANA)' Official MV" by HYBE LABELS has 4.19M views - a gap of 582.09K.

Together, the 50 videos on this chart have drawn 31.63M views, 1.27M likes and 116.08K comments across 50 channels. The newest entry, "🔴LIVE | DARK & DARKER | w/ GIMMICK | MANY MEN MONDAY | #BUNGULATE" by TheBurntPeanut, went live 2 hours ago. The conversation leader is "1000 Players Build END Civilization in Hardcore Minecraft" by Spoke, with 33.66K comments.

How YouTube trending works

YouTube's trending chart is not a raw view-count leaderboard. The ranking weighs view velocity (how fast a video accumulates views, not just how many it has), where those views come from (a healthy mix of recommendations, search, shares and external traffic beats a single spike from one source), engagement relative to views (likes, comments and shares per view), and the age of the upload. A video that gains two million views in six hours will outrank one that took a week to reach the same count.

YouTube also applies deliberate guardrails: the chart is not personalized (everyone in a region sees the same list), it limits how many videos from a single channel can appear at once, and it filters out content it judges misleading or sensational. YouTube says the underlying list refreshes roughly every 15 minutes.

This page reads the top of that chart through the official YouTube Data API and refreshes it every hour, along with a separate chart for each of the twelve categories linked above. The view, like and comment counts you see are the live values at the time of the last refresh.

Why track trending videos?

Trending is the fastest public signal of where YouTube's attention is going. Creators use it to spot topics and formats while a wave is still forming, and to benchmark packaging: the titles, thumbnails and video lengths at the top of a chart are a live snapshot of what currently earns clicks at massive scale.

Marketers use trending to catch rising creators while sponsorship rates are still reasonable, and to judge which cultural moments are worth joining. Analysts and journalists treat it as a daily census of platform culture. Whatever you make, fifteen minutes studying the chart you compete in beats hours of guessing.

Frequently asked questions

How often does this page update?

The charts on this site refresh every hour through the official YouTube Data API, and the timestamp above the chart shows the last refresh. YouTube itself recalculates trending roughly every 15 minutes, so small differences against the YouTube app are normal.

Why is this list different from the Trending tab in my YouTube app?

The app shows the trending feed for your country and mixes in editorial shelves such as music premieres and Shorts. This page shows the raw most-popular chart from the API, plus per-category charts that the app does not expose directly, so the two views will never match exactly.

Can small channels reach trending?

Yes. The chart rewards view velocity and engagement, not subscriber count, and breakout videos from small channels appear regularly - especially in Pets & Animals, Comedy and People & Blogs. Large channels simply get a head start because notifications hand them their first surge of views.

What can I do with trending data as a creator?

Three things: study packaging (titles, thumbnails and lengths that are winning right now), time your uploads to demand windows (publish while interest in a topic is rising, not after it peaks), and adapt proven formats to your own niche. Each category page below breaks down the patterns specific to that niche.