Trenvid
What is the world watching today? Comparing YouTube trends across 11 countries
Trenvid's World page puts the #1 in 11 countries, and videos charting in several at once, on one page. How to compare categories, rank by country, and past charts.
On the same day, what is climbing in Korea and what is climbing in India or Brazil barely overlap. The Trenvid guide covered picking a country and a category. This time we use it to compare countries against each other.
ZZXXCCVV siteTrenvid · WorldTrending YouTube videos from around the worldOpen1. Eleven countries on one page: World
A mock of the layout. The real page shows video thumbnails and titles.
World in the top menu puts the #1 in each of the 11 countries, and the videos charting across the most countries at once, on a single page. The cards under "Charting in the most countries" carry:
| Label | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Charting in N countries | How many national charts the video is on |
| US 1 · GB 1 · DE 1 | Where it sits in each of them |
Further down, "Each country's #1 right now" lists the top video of all 11 countries. Videos on many charts at once tend to be music and film or game trailers with a global release. Videos on a single chart are usually local shows, vlogs or news. Reading the two together separates a worldwide hit from a national one.
2. Same category, different countries
Each country's front page has a "Right now in 11 countries" section: a card per country with its People & Blogs #1, Entertainment #1 and Music #1. When the same song tops several countries, the card says "Same song in N countries". The People & Blogs and Entertainment picks, on the other hand, usually differ from country to country.
To go deeper, open a category with "See all →". On a category page, the category stays selected when you switch country, so you can hold one subject still and move across countries.
3. One video, country by country
On a video page, "Rank by country, by day" lays the countries where the video has charted against the dates. Each cell holds that day's best position on the country's overall chart, coloured from #1 down to #31 and below.
A mock with example numbers.
You can read where a video took off first, how it spread, and where it lasted longest. A trailer that opens at #1 in several countries on the same day looks very different from a song that climbs one country after another.
4. How fast something is growing
The Fastest growing page sorts by speed rather than position. Each video shows how many views it has added in a day, its running total, and the percentage it has grown, along with the country and category charts it appears on. Each country's front page also has a short "Growing fastest right now" list.
A ranking only shows what has already arrived; this page shows what is arriving right now.
5. What people are searching for
Trending keywords leaves videos aside and lists the searches rising in a country, each with a rough volume ("200+ searches"), a few news headlines with their outlets, and a link to see videos for that keyword.
Searches often tell a different story from the video charts: a football match and celebrity news in one country, a domestic league and local politics in another.
6. Looking back at past days
A live ranking is gone the next day. Trenvid keeps the record in three ways.
| Menu | What it keeps |
|---|---|
| Daily charts | Pick a country and a date to see that day's ranking. Once fixed, it does not change |
| Daily brief | One page summing up a single day, chosen from a list of dates |
| Weekly | The same for a week, Monday to Sunday |
Use the daily charts when you want to know exactly what was trending on a given date, and the briefs when you only want the shape of it.
Coming up
In the next posts, we will keep introducing the ZZXXCCVV sites and how to use them.
Frequently asked questions
Which countries can I compare?
Eleven: the United States, Brazil, Russia, Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Mexico, Türkiye and South Korea.
How is the World page different from a country page?
A country page shows one country's charts. The World page collects the #1 from each of the 11 countries plus the videos charting in the most countries at once, and marks how many charts each video is on and where it sits in each.
How often do the rankings change?
Country charts are collected every 4 hours, and trending keywords every 6 hours.
Who writes the video summaries?
They are generated automatically from the video's subtitles. The site says they may not be accurate, so treat them as a rough guide.