Analysis of YouTube Trending Videos of 2019 (US)

This analysis on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science Weekly newsletter (issue of Jul 09 2020), Tubefilter. Around 1.5 years ago, I did an analysis of YouTube trending videos in US. That analysis was performed on trending videos of some months in 2017 and 2018. The analysis received a lot of interest on Kaggle and Reddit; I also received some emails praising the work done. That was 1.5 years ago. Today, I present an improved and expanded version of that analysis. This analysis is more advanced and contains new interesting elements. In this analysis, All trending videos for the whole year of 2019 were analyzed (More than 70,000 videos). Titles, descriptions, thumbnails, tags, views, likes/dislikes, and comments were all analyzed to produce the results shown in this post. Continue reading to know more about the analysis and the data or you can jump directly to the results section. The main goal of the analysis is to find interesting facts and patterns by exploring the data and by using effective visualizations. If you don't have time to read the full analysis, here are some of the insights that were extracted from the data along with links to their sections in the analysis: YouTube, as you know, is the most popular and most used video platform in the world today.