Your category's chart, not the whole of YouTube
The global trending page is one chart for everyone. This starts from YouTube's own most-popular chart for the category your channel sits in, in the country you choose — the room you actually compete in.
Rising in your niche
A niche scan looks for videos published in the last 14 days that match the phrases your own titles are built from — the kind of project, the piece of gear, the format you use.
It is the expensive call on this page, so it runs only when you press it, never when the page opens, and the page shows how many scans you have left.
Measured against your own pace
A video doing 200,000 views a day means nothing to a channel whose median upload earns 300, and everything to one whose median earns 150,000. So the page states your median first, and shows every trending video's daily rate against it.
Ask about what you see
Ask a question right on the page — which of these could I realistically make, what do the working titles have in common — and get an answer about the trends in front of you.
From a trend to an upload
Take a rising topic to the studio and turn it into a scored title, description and thumbnail — or add it to your plan and find out whether it worked.
How it works
Connect your channel
The trend finder starts from your channel's category, so it needs to know which channel is yours.
Read your category's chart
YouTube's most-popular videos for your category, in the country you pick, each against your own median.
Scan your niche when you want the long tail
Videos from the last 14 days that match your own title phrases — run only when you press it.
What you get
- YouTube's most-popular chart for your category and country
- A niche scan over the last 14 days, on the phrases your titles use
- Every rate set against your own median
- Scans run only when you press, never on page load
- Questions answered about the trends on screen
- One step to the studio or your plan
Who it is for
- Creators who want to catch a topic while it is still rising, not a week after.
- Niche channels the global trending page never reflects.
- Anyone deciding between two ideas and wanting evidence for one.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find trending topics in my YouTube niche?
Connect your channel to VidTraffic. The trends page shows YouTube's most-popular chart for your category and country, and a niche scan finds videos from the last 14 days that match the phrases your own titles use.
Is this the same as YouTube's trending page?
No. YouTube's trending page is one chart for everyone. This starts from the chart for your channel's category, in a country you pick, and adds a scan of your own niche.
Why is every number compared with my median?
Because a trend is only useful if you could ride it. Setting each video's daily views against your own median upload shows what is big for a channel your size, not just what is big.
How far back does the niche scan look?
Fourteen days — recent enough that what it finds is still rising.
Is the trend finder free?
Yes, on the free plan: it shows the trends in your niche from our shared scans. Creator and Pro add your own live scans each week, and the page shows how many you have left.
Can I change the country?
Yes. Pick the country whose chart you want to compete in.