Damien Wilde / Android Authority
TL;DR
- YouTube is sunsetting its Trending web page a decade after its launch.
- The corporate has urged customers to depend on personalised suggestions and YouTube Charts to find trending content material.
- The Trending web page and Trending Now record might be eliminated throughout all platforms on July 21.
YouTube is pulling the plug on its Trending web page, a few decade after its debut. The web page and the Trending Now record might be eliminated throughout all platforms later this month, and the corporate is directing customers to its category-based YouTube Charts to find trending movies.
YouTube introduced the change in a current submit on its group boards, attributing the choice to a gentle decline in site visitors to the Trending web page over the previous 5 years. The corporate famous that customers at present uncover traits in other places throughout the platform, together with suggestions, search solutions, Shorts, feedback, and Communities. Due to this fact, it’s “shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending record in the direction of category-specific charts.”
YouTube Charts at present presents charts itemizing the most well-liked content material for a couple of classes, together with music movies, podcasts, and film trailers. YouTube plans so as to add extra classes over time. Within the meantime, it urges viewers to depend on personalised suggestions or head to the Gaming Discover web page to find trending gaming movies. Viewers may proceed looking content material that isn’t personalised within the Discover menu, on creator channels, and of their subscription feed.
YouTube has additionally urged creators who depend on the Trending web page to analysis video concepts to make use of the Inspiration tab in YouTube Studio. This tab presents personalised video concepts based mostly on what’s fashionable with the creator’s viewers.
The help web page for YouTube’s Trending function notes that the web page might be eliminated on July 21, 2025. As of now, YouTube hasn’t revealed what new chart classes are in improvement or once they’ll be made obtainable to customers.
