YouTube Trending Videos Explorer
Browse what's currently trending on YouTube by country and category — a quick way to check the pulse of a market, spot content patterns, or find inspiration for your next video.
Results are sorted with the most recently published trending video first, so the freshest uploads surface at the top instead of getting buried under older videos that are still riding a popularity wave.
How it works
- 1Pick a region and a category (or leave it as "All categories").
- 2Click Load trending videos.
- 3Browse the current top results — click through to watch any of them.
When to use this
- You're looking for content inspiration and want to see what's actually resonating right now.
- You want to compare what's trending in a specific country versus your own, if you're targeting an international audience.
- You want to narrow trending videos to your specific category instead of scrolling YouTube's general Trending tab.
A worked example
Select United States and Gaming and you'll see the current trending gaming videos for that region, sorted newest-first — useful for spotting a fresh format or topic before it saturates, rather than seeing only the videos that have already been trending for days.
Frequently asked questions
How often does this update?+
YouTube's trending list itself updates frequently throughout the day — every time you load this page, you're seeing the current live list for that region and category.
Is this the same as the YouTube "Trending" tab?+
Yes — this pulls from the same underlying chart YouTube uses for its own Trending page, via the official API, filtered to the category you pick.
Why does a category sometimes show no results?+
YouTube's trending chart is genuinely sparse for some region/category combinations — not every category has an active trending list in every country. That's a real gap in YouTube's own data, not something this tool can work around.
Why do I sometimes see similar videos across loads?+
YouTube's own trending chart — the same one behind its Trending tab — doesn't refresh every single request; a video can stay on it for a day or more if it's still popular. This tool sorts that chart's current videos by publish date so the newest ones are always on top, but the underlying set of trending videos itself is controlled entirely by YouTube, not this tool.