YouTube believes its Trending page has served its purpose, and the video streamer is set to shut it down in the next couple of weeks. Both the Trending and Trending Now features within YouTube will be removed on July 21, 2025.
Announced in a blog post, YouTube says, “We’re making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.”
As part of this change, YouTube points users toward three new pages, and an older charting tool. Those are Trending Movie Trailers, Trending Music Videos, Weekly Top Podcast Shows, and the preexisting Gaming Explore Page. As part of that last link, there’s a dedicated Trending Gaming Videos list.
Interestingly, these pages don’t appear to use the same algorithms as YouTube’s original feature. At the time of writing, a music video for a Blackpink’s song JUMP is the number one video on the Trending page, but it is in position four on the company’s music charts.
The second most popular video on the original tool is from the band TWICE with their single This Is For, which is in position seven on the music chart. One theory is that YouTube Music is being taken into account for the new chart, which may not have been the case on the original Trending page.
YouTube says it will expand into other charts over time. For example, personal vlogs often appear in YouTube’s lists, but these won’t have a place in the new system. We may see the company expand into a personality-led chart at a later date.
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YouTube may have put together this feature for launch quickly as there’s a mistake on the company’s chart for film and TV trailers. The tab reads, “YouTube music charts: United States Trending Movie Trailers.” We’d expect this to be fixed before July 21.
The race is now on for every YouTuber to try and attempt to take the final ever top spot on the Trending page on July 20. The original Trending page was first introduced in 2015.
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