For publishers, media & agencies

Cultural intelligence from social video.

Every beat has a wire — politics, finance, sports. Culture has none; it breaks on social video, on its own timeline. TubeTrends is that missing wire.

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Official YouTube partner · 110 countries · refreshed hourly · 120M+ videos analysed

The problem

Mainstream media is always a step behind culture.

Culture emerges on social video. By the time a shift reaches the newsroom, the story has already formed and someone else has told it.

What's being reported

yesterday

Last week's traffic

Engagement rate

+3%

Audience report · Q1

Returning readers

41%

What's forming now

now

Live

Craft & restoration surging — DIY, 3 markets +2m

Authenticity wave forming — food, US +5m

The gap between those two columns is the story you didn't tell.

Why this signal

The earliest read on culture is what people choose to watch.

Opinion, search and headlines tell you what people say or look for. Watch behaviour — at the scale of social video — is the first place a cultural shift shows up.

what each source actually captures →

Social video watch behaviour
Behaviour
Social conversation
Opinion
Search interest
Intent
News & analyst reports
Reporting

Watch behaviour captures what people do — at scale, in near real time.

source: YouTube Global Culture & Trends Report

What a finding looks like

Hands-on car restoration is surging into the mainstream.

This is the output you get — a shift surfaced early, scored, and sourced, with the opening it creates for you. Audiences are gravitating to raw, DIY rebuilds and repair stories — a broader turn toward authenticity and craft.

The pattern

6 weeks ago now
Watch time ↑ +290% · 6 wks

Engagement

Well above category average

Sentiment

Overwhelmingly positive

Durability

Sustained shift, not a spike

Who's driving it

Specialist solo creators, not brands

The opening for you Still early — the story is forming now, before the peak.

Editorial angle · sponsorship · branded content

Computed from 11 videos · 5.4M views · 3 markets

Two things you can act on — refreshed every hour.

Daily insights by email, the full picture in the web app, one-click export to CSV or Sheets.

The engine

Monitor social video

Trends tracked continuously across 110 markets and hundreds of categories.

Discover what's next

The pattern, ready-made

We do the pattern recognition across every category and surface the shifts worth covering.

Go deeper on the news

Sentiment on the news you cover

How the stories you already report are landing with audiences, as they land.

Who it's for

Where the signal gets used.

Publishers & media

Commission earlier, own the topic

Decide what to cover while the story is still forming, and own the topic as it breaks.

Agencies

Bring the trend first

Walk into the room with a cultural shift your client hasn't seen anywhere else, backed by behaviour data.

Brands & strategy

Place bets before the crowd

See what audiences are turning toward before competitors sponsor it, and put budget where culture is heading.

Holding a topic early compounds.

Higher search rankings News-aggregator pickup Cited as a source by LLMs Stronger licensing value

Why we're different

The credibility behind the signal.

120M+ Videos analysed
8.5B Data points
2M+ Creators
110 Countries
13 Macro categories, hundreds of micro
Hourly Refresh
1.5 yr+ History and counting
Now Last updated…
Official YouTube partner

The workflow

Before

Instinct, scattered tools, and manual digging.

Track

Monitor trends across 110 countries, every hour

Collect

Pull data from YouTube, tabs, exports, dashboards

Clean

Strip noise, dedupe, normalize across regions

Analyze

Spot what's actually moving vs. what's just viral

Report

Turn it into something your team can act on

After

Built and maintained for you.

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  • Live signals across 110 countries, updated hourly
  • Noise stripped, momentum scored, ready to read
  • Every market, every category, one view
  • Decision-ready — no analyst required

See it on your market and your categories.

We'll send a live category snapshot straight from the product — no call required. Or walk through TubeTrends on your own market in a 45-minute working session.