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>If you look at US top videos on YouTube any given day, 40-60% of the videos are IP-based. Star Wars, Nintendo, Marvel, music, etc. Where can I get this data?

• echelon 7mo ago
  Hm, turns out they removed these last year: https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-trending-page-shutting-down-1236452150/ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-trending-page-... Bummer. It used to be at: https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending So last year, these were the top videos: https://web.archive.org/web/20250324155132/https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending https://web.archive.org/web/20250324155132/https://www.youtu... There's this, but it's nowhere near as good as seeing the actual videos: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?gprop=youtube https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?gprop=youtube
• ipaddr 7mo ago
  Top videos are Mr Beast and other youtube personalities.
  • jinushaun 7mo ago
    Only because they promote it. The default experience for a new user on Youtube is to show you content from creators with 5M+ subscribers. It’s a positive feedback loop. I find all of it lame and cringe, so I downvote all of that. However stuff still sneaks by…
• GorbachevyChase 7mo ago
  A theme I have noticed in content oriented towards young children is a very heavy use of probably unlicensed depictions of famous characters from popular franchises. Is Nintendo collecting a royalty from “it’s raining tacos“? Probably not.