Playboard announces the most objective YouTube rankings.
Playboard collects the data for YouTube channels worldwide to determine and announce reliable rankings.
How to rank channel popularity
- The channel popularity ranking is selected based on the number of views and likes of the video recently registered to each channel.
- Likes are weighted because they are a measure of viewers' active engagement.
Popularity score = number of views + ( number of likes * 10 )
| Aggregate target | |
|---|---|
| Daily Chart | Videos that have not been 3 days since registration |
| Weekly Chart | Videos that have not been 30 days since registration |
| Monthly Chart | |
| Yearly Chart | |
| Total Period Chart |
Methodology
To ensure an accurate ranking, Playboard analyzes anywhere from millions to tens of millions of data every day.
Changes to the number of subscribers in a channel is checked once a day.
Checking period for data such as the number of views and likes differ depending on the elapsed time since the video was posted.
- Videos posted in the past 7 days are checked daily
- Videos that are viewed more than 5,000 times are checked daily regardless of the date of posting
- Other videos are checked once from a minimum of every 2 days to a maximum of every 365 days depending on the elapsed time since the video was posted
Chart update schedule
| Time | Aggregate period | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Chart | Every day 10:00 AM | Yesterday |
| Weekly Chart | Every Monday 12:00 PM | Last week |
| Monthly Chart | 1st of every month 1:00 PM | Last month |
| Yearly Chart | 1st of every year 5:00 PM | Last year |
| December 5th 5:00 PM | This year | |
| All-time Chart | Every day 11:00 AM | Total Period |
- Depending on the time it takes to aggregate, the update time may vary.
- Aggregation periods are based on Greenwich Mean Time.
Requirements for channel registration
Only channels with a minimum of 1,000 subscribers and 1,000,000 cumulative views are registered and ranked.
Video information are aggregated for channels with a minimum of 23,000 subscribers or 10,000,000 cumulative views.
Channel category
Channel categories are set by aggregating the categories of each video in the channel.
The category with the highest number of views through videos that has the same category is set as the representative category.
This operation is done automatically and updated on an average of once a week.
Channel tag
Channel tag is selected based on the keywords entered by the channel owner through YouTube Studio.
How to set tags : YouTube Studio > Settings > Channels > Basic info
Only identifiable keywords among the ones entered in the channel such as ASMR and Travel are selected as channel tags.
If there are too many keywords, only the first five keywords are used.
This operation is done automatically and updated on an average of once a week.
Super Chat
The Playboard provides you with the information about Super Chat and Super Sticker statistics.
- Live streaming before January 10, 2020 : Aggregate only if stream is saved
- Live streaming After January 10, 2020 : Aggregate all Super Chat
- All Premiere Video are counted.
- The amount may change due to exchange rate fluctuations.