Top 100 Google Maps Local Guides Videos (April 2024)

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Caption: Image of a lady using her smartphone and taking a video in a bakery shop.

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Introduction:

When it comes to media contributions on Google Maps, video has clearly become the new frontier. Therefore, measuring and analyzing their impact compared to those of fellow Local Guides, especially our peers, can help us improve the "quality" of our video contributions. This is precisely what this post is all about. 

In the usual Top 100 Google Maps Local Guides Leaderboard post style, this post consists of a series of leaderboards dedicated to showcasing the video view counts of participating Local Guides from over a 100 countries and you can also join in too. You don't have to be a "top gun" Level 10 Local Guide with a mega million views to participate!  So, whether you're an entry level Local Guide or from a small country, town or village, or a top level Local Guide from London, New York or New Delhi, you can participate and showcase your video prowess, and it's simple to do!  If you want to jump on board, then hit this link to get started. Alternatively, if you need any help then add a comment below and someone will jump in to assist you.

Is this just a competition?

While there is an inherent competitive element within them, the Leaderboards are more than just seeing who has the "best" photos or videos, or the most photo or video views, far from it!  They have been specifically designed to motivate us, help us to monitor our contributions and performance, and show us how to improve and make better contributions so that we achieve better results, and all in a fun and enjoyable way!  If this can be done then the objectives of the Leaderboards will have been achieved, mission accomplished! So if you haven't as yet, join in and enjoy!

If you're new here then you may not be aware that this post forms part of a series of leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the contributions made to Google Maps by Local Guides from all over the world. To see an index to these leaderboard and related posts, simply hit this link.

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Readme - How to Read the Video Views leaderboards (April, 2024)

Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details see the leaderboard documentation and the Leaderboard System's online context-sensitive help information.

1. The leaderboards in this post present details about the video views of hundreds of participating Local Guides from all over the world. As well as an overall leaderboard ranking the top 100 Local Guides by video views, you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your video views achievements with that of your peers. There's also a leaderboard that shows the top 100 Local Guides ranked by the Average Views/Video which gives a good indication of the overall "quality" of all videos taken by each Local Guide. This is simply calculated by dividing the Local Guide's total video views value (impact) by the number of publicly visible contributed videos (volume). Of course the use of the term "quality" here refers to the attractiveness of the videos to the Google AI and the viewing public.
2. Where shown, [ ] around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the first time that the Local Guide has participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.
3. Where shown, ( ) around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this Local Guide levelled up/down onto  this leaderboard.
4. An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
5. Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.
6. Hovering over a Local Guide's username will display the integration number that integrates that Local Guide's details on the Leaderboards System and Connect; the umbilical chord if you will between the two disparate systems.
7. Selecting a Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide's Connect Profile.
8. A superscript following a Local Guide's username and the views value shown on a background color indicates that some of that Local Guide's data has been set to private. The Leaderboards System uses 8 different superscripts to indicate the varying states of a Local Guide's profile however only 3 superscripts will likely ever be shown on the Leaderboards. In all the remaining 5 cases the Local Guide has been deleted from participation. On the Video Views Leaderboards you will only ever see the following superscripts used:
   [1] indicates that the number of photos and photo views values are private. 
   [3] indicates that both the number of photos and photo views values and the number of reviews and ratings values are private.
9. A ? or the words "Not set" in a cell indicates that the respective value hasn't been provided by or cannot be determined for the respective Local Guide.
10. The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 6:30 PM on May 2, 2024 (UTC).
11. If you're a participating Local Guide you must check the leaderboards for any errors or omissions and if you find any, then please add the details in a comment on this post. Regarding omissions, please note point 7 above.

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Featured Video (April 2024)

Caption: @snieckarz's Star Video of Mall of America uploaded onto Google Maps on 2023-02-01 and showing star views of 3,793,331 as at 2024-04-30

Caption: @snieckarz's Star Video of JD Sports uploaded onto Google Maps on 2023-02-01 and showing star views of 267,558 as at 2024-02-29

From a number of reasons, I find Lucy's choice for the feature video this month interesting. Firstly, in my view @snieckarz (Steve) hasn't strictly followed the formatting criteria as set out at point 3 of the 2024 Album of Star Videos post.

Secondly, it's really interesting how in just two months (February 29 to April 40), the views of Steve's star video changed so significantly, from 267,558 to 3,793,331 views!  Did Steve incorrectly select his star video back in February or does this indicate a significant shuffle and catch up in views due to the recent Maps media views issues? It would be interesting to hear from Steve on this.

Finally, while Google's stated preference for contributed video orientation is portrait (ore tall than wide) rather than landscape yet as we can see, both Steve's star video of the store entrance to JD Sports at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota USA and the later video pan shot of this mall are both in landscape orientation. We've had quite a lot of discussion before here on Connect about portrait vs landscape for video so Steve's landscape vids got me thinking! How many of our Maps contributed videos are in landscape compared to portrait and does Google really prefer portrait over landscape? 

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Overall Top 100 Video Views Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Video Views
1	@abermans	10	55,107,455
2	@jayasimha78	10	49,293,672
3	@MattGatlin	10	41,868,484
4	@Herve_Andrieu	10	39,947,966
5	@AZ_2021	10	23,641,981
6	@BudiFXW	10	15,444,520
7	@Getzafar [3]	8	14,432,984
8	@Arthur2022 [3]	10	13,669,475
9	@MarkAuchincloss	10	11,167,967
10	@indahnuria *	10	9,231,821
11	@Mikeinthefalls	7	8,888,985
12	@DshottDennis	10	8,246,073
13	@MilesMac	10	8,024,706
14	@Jomo	10	7,898,504
15	@ig_shevchenko	10	7,634,002
16	@Rednewt74	8	7,349,296
17	@TiffanyStockstill	8	7,235,816
18	@photoslinger	8	6,976,008
19	@--GA--	10	6,864,330
20	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	6,811,771
21	@JayDae-SuVega	10	6,619,642
22	@snieckarz	9	5,840,024
23	@Hana_K [3]	10	5,807,076
24	@ZeZe [3]	10	5,570,420
25	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	5,156,403
26	@EtownStickly	10	5,132,830
27	@Ayman88	10	4,813,029
28	@MarcoDavoli	10	4,729,162
29	@JohnDDoe	10	4,023,885
30	@chiefzero	8	3,772,080
31	@TravellerG	10	3,720,999
32	@RooksieN	9	3,348,156
33	@MBommeli	9	3,218,987
34	@LightRich *	8	3,184,327
35	@TerryPG	10	2,904,510
36	@nigelfreeney	8	2,861,705
37	@Theatreperson	8	2,592,712
38	@ManhattanNYC	9	2,475,711
39	@Scheria	8	2,132,709
40	@Caverni	10	2,005,890
41	@Shashank_Singh	9	1,696,888
42	@Berno_Foodoso	8	1,587,714
43	@Ducci	9	1,541,892
44	@Annaelisa	9	1,518,160
45	@GasparKaren [3]	9	1,366,767
46	@Dmytro_Ya	10	1,333,476
47	@MaxPlusFood	8	1,293,803
48	@Nd18	8	1,221,235
49	@Stephanie_OWL	8	1,137,766
50	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	1,119,646
51	@RussKH [3]	10	1,049,088
52	@Roman_Ahmmed [3]	8	1,041,742
53	@tony_b	8	1,028,702
54	@Trail_blazer	10	939,032
55	@38160210003	9	899,805
[56]	@podory	8	897,905
57	@AdriansyahPutera	10	896,631
58	@turaibalazs	9	893,932
59	@Kayimi	10	812,863
60	@ZigaD	10	777,633
61	@Kurt2day	10	757,571
62	@BrokeBritinParis	8	728,834
63	@Frank_H	10	712,605
64	@Tovi	8	697,177
65	@TheLifesWay	10	644,879
66	@turbotapeworm	10	632,931
67	@AT_Rome	9	577,076
68	@SyedR10	8	570,187
69	@JustJake	10	559,755
70	@mbmuhlison	9	556,269
71	@ClaudioMauricio	9	517,516
72	@Kumaarsantosh	10	494,678
73	@ajitthite	9	452,195
74	@FlavioDA	10	401,179
75	@PrateekAgarwal	9	392,812
76	@UrosKosevic	9	391,563
77	@PrasadVR	10	330,163
78	@Alex_kezevadze	8	326,110
79	@efcxp	8	325,801
80	@Raj_Tayade	8	310,684
81	@LovePathak28	10	309,213
82	@GigiR	8	296,243
83	@ogewuru [3]	10	265,042
84	@jakiripsc	10	252,842
(85)	@LudwigGermany *	10	235,171
86	@YuliiaZa	8	179,754
87	@Chuytorres-alc	8	177,494
88	@JitendraKumarprasa	8	169,878
89	@Normalisaverage	8	168,342
(90)	@burakozkarakasli	9	150,530
91	@IzzyOz	6	144,001
92	@Peadar	8	124,729
93	@travellgrapher	7	121,554
94	@Lukas_	10	114,020
95	@QueBall	8	106,630
96	@PaulAtherton	10	100,000
97	@Rahul001	8	94,555
98	@Gavaskee	8	92,637
99	@safni	8	91,198
100	@EvaBar	8	90,495

Who are the Local Guides knocking on the door here?

No	Local Guide	LG Level	Video Views
101	@ModNomad	10	86,545
102	@VictorLins	8	86,482
103	@DilipC	10	79,713
104	@Markus75	10	78,939
105	@AntonioVirgil	10	75,978
106	@anantal	8	72,641
107	@MelTG	7	65,705
108	@JuanEHdzVqz	8	64,746
109	@Mehran-Bhutto	8	56,263
110	@rosanabtl	8	53,841
111	@You ?	?	?

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Million Video Views Club (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Video Views
1	@abermans	10	55,107,455
2	@jayasimha78	10	49,293,672
3	@MattGatlin	10	41,868,484
4	@Herve_Andrieu	10	39,947,966
5	@AZ_2021	10	23,641,981
6	@BudiFXW	10	15,444,520
7	@Getzafar [3]	8	14,432,984
8	@Arthur2022 [3]	10	13,669,475
9	@MarkAuchincloss	10	11,167,967
10	@indahnuria *	10	9,231,821
11	@Mikeinthefalls	7	8,888,985
12	@DshottDennis	10	8,246,073
13	@MilesMac	10	8,024,706
14	@Jomo	10	7,898,504
15	@ig_shevchenko	10	7,634,002
16	@Rednewt74	8	7,349,296
17	@TiffanyStockstill	8	7,235,816
18	@photoslinger	8	6,976,008
19	@--GA--	10	6,864,330
20	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	6,811,771
21	@JayDae-SuVega	10	6,619,642
22	@snieckarz	9	5,840,024
23	@Hana_K [3]	10	5,807,076
24	@ZeZe [3]	10	5,570,420
25	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	5,156,403
26	@EtownStickly	10	5,132,830
27	@Ayman88	10	4,813,029
28	@MarcoDavoli	10	4,729,162
29	@JohnDDoe	10	4,023,885
30	@chiefzero	8	3,772,080
31	@TravellerG	10	3,720,999
32	@RooksieN	9	3,348,156
33	@MBommeli	9	3,218,987
34	@LightRich *	8	3,184,327
35	@TerryPG	10	2,904,510
36	@nigelfreeney	8	2,861,705
37	@Theatreperson	8	2,592,712
38	@ManhattanNYC	9	2,475,711
39	@Scheria	8	2,132,709
40	@Caverni	10	2,005,890
41	@Shashank_Singh	9	1,696,888
42	@Berno_Foodoso	8	1,587,714
43	@Ducci	9	1,541,892
44	@Annaelisa	9	1,518,160
45	@GasparKaren [3]	9	1,366,767
46	@Dmytro_Ya	10	1,333,476
47	@MaxPlusFood	8	1,293,803
48	@Nd18	8	1,221,235
49	@Stephanie_OWL	8	1,137,766
50	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	1,119,646
51	@RussKH [3]	10	1,049,088
52	@Roman_Ahmmed [3]	8	1,041,742
53	@tony_b	8	1,028,702
54	@You ?	?	?

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Level 10 Video Views Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	Video Views
1	@abermans	55,107,455
2	@jayasimha78	49,293,672
3	@MattGatlin	41,868,484
4	@Herve_Andrieu	39,947,966
5	@AZ_2021	23,641,981
6	@BudiFXW	15,444,520
7	@Arthur2022 [3]	13,669,475
8	@MarkAuchincloss	11,167,967
9	@indahnuria *	9,231,821
10	@DshottDennis	8,246,073
11	@MilesMac	8,024,706
12	@Jomo	7,898,504
13	@ig_shevchenko	7,634,002
14	@--GA--	6,864,330
15	@A-Kwon-Fang	6,811,771
16	@JayDae-SuVega	6,619,642
17	@Hana_K [3]	5,807,076
18	@ZeZe [3]	5,570,420
19	@MortenCopenhagen *	5,156,403
20	@EtownStickly	5,132,830
21	@Ayman88	4,813,029
22	@MarcoDavoli	4,729,162
23	@JohnDDoe	4,023,885
24	@TravellerG	3,720,999
25	@TerryPG	2,904,510
26	@Caverni	2,005,890
27	@Dmytro_Ya	1,333,476
28	@RussKH [3]	1,049,088
29	@Trail_blazer	939,032
30	@AdriansyahPutera	896,631
31	@Kayimi	812,863
32	@ZigaD	777,633
33	@Kurt2day	757,571
34	@Frank_H	712,605
35	@TheLifesWay	644,879
36	@turbotapeworm	632,931
37	@JustJake	559,755
38	@Kumaarsantosh	494,678
39	@FlavioDA	401,179
40	@PrasadVR	330,163
41	@LovePathak28	309,213
42	@ogewuru [3]	265,042
43	@jakiripsc	252,842
(44)	@LudwigGermany *	235,171
45	@Lukas_	114,020
46	@PaulAtherton	100,000
47	@ModNomad	86,545
48	@DilipC	79,713
49	@Markus75	78,939
50	@AntonioVirgil	75,978
51	@AdamGT *	42,585
[52]	@HiroyukiTakisawa *	42,585
53	@Bartek_Maryniak	38,896
54	@SergeySud	37,712
55	@adrianprzcb	171
56	@You ?	?

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Level 9 Video Views Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	Video Views
1	@snieckarz	5,840,024
2	@RooksieN	3,348,156
3	@MBommeli	3,218,987
4	@ManhattanNYC	2,475,711
5	@Shashank_Singh	1,696,888
6	@Ducci	1,541,892
7	@Annaelisa	1,518,160
8	@GasparKaren [3]	1,366,767
9	@Mo-TravelleerX	1,119,646
10	@38160210003	899,805
11	@turaibalazs	893,932
12	@AT_Rome	577,076
13	@mbmuhlison	556,269
14	@ClaudioMauricio	517,516
15	@ajitthite	452,195
16	@PrateekAgarwal	392,812
17	@UrosKosevic	391,563
(18)	@burakozkarakasli	150,530
19	@claude_richard	49,510
20	@AMIR_121	21,854
21	@regandas	8,826
22	@You ?	?

[AdamGT]

Level 8 Video Views Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	Video Views
1	@Getzafar [3]	14,432,984
2	@Rednewt74	7,349,296
3	@TiffanyStockstill	7,235,816
4	@photoslinger	6,976,008
5	@chiefzero	3,772,080
6	@LightRich *	3,184,327
7	@nigelfreeney	2,861,705
8	@Theatreperson	2,592,712
9	@Scheria	2,132,709
10	@Berno_Foodoso	1,587,714
11	@MaxPlusFood	1,293,803
12	@Nd18	1,221,235
13	@Stephanie_OWL	1,137,766
14	@Roman_Ahmmed [3]	1,041,742
15	@tony_b	1,028,702
[16]	@podory	897,905
17	@BrokeBritinParis	728,834
18	@Tovi	697,177
19	@SyedR10	570,187
20	@Alex_kezevadze	326,110
21	@efcxp	325,801
22	@Raj_Tayade	310,684
23	@GigiR	296,243
24	@YuliiaZa	179,754
25	@Chuytorres-alc	177,494
26	@JitendraKumarprasa	169,878
27	@Normalisaverage	168,342
28	@Peadar	124,729
29	@QueBall	106,630
30	@Rahul001	94,555
31	@Gavaskee	92,637
32	@safni	91,198
33	@EvaBar	90,495
34	@VictorLins	86,482
35	@anantal	72,641
36	@JuanEHdzVqz	64,746
37	@Mehran-Bhutto	56,263
38	@rosanabtl	53,841
39	@Ankit_Raj	50,292
40	@SadmanRafid	45,872
41	@JakubWarsaw	34,527
42	@Tatsiana_T	18,991
43	@Janko85	17,466
44	@BarkingMice	16,681
45	@HASHIM_AK	14,976
(46)	@ShailendraOjha [3]	12,123
[47]	@Svivek397	12,055
48	@S_Patel	6,551
49	@Marillo	114
50	@You ?	?

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Levels 1-7 Video Views Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	Video Views
1	@Mikeinthefalls	8,888,985
2	@IzzyOz	144,001
3	@travellgrapher	121,554
4	@MelTG	65,705
5	@HuseyinBesguller	47,119
[6]	@Aalin1	36,387
7	@Meniko	35,916
8	@JimmyC6	35,695
9	@Prayag-S	29,449
10	@katydarhel	24,595
11	@CanadianBaconE	18,510
12	@Robert24	14,345
13	@Dunclair	5
14	@You ?	?

[AdamGT]

Top 100 Average Views/Video Leaderboard (April 2024)   2024   Jan   Feb   Mar
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Average Views/Video
1	@Mikeinthefalls	7	253,971
2	@MarcoDavoli	10	73,893
3	@RooksieN	9	55,803
4	@chiefzero	8	55,472
5	@TiffanyStockstill	8	54,817
6	@photoslinger	8	53,662
7	@Herve_Andrieu	10	43,659
8	@JayDae-SuVega	10	40,364
9	@Nd18	8	35,919
10	@MattGatlin	10	28,677
11	@jayasimha78	10	26,848
12	@snieckarz	9	26,425
13	@Rednewt74	8	24,829
14	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	23,762
15	@EtownStickly	10	23,121
16	@MelTG	7	21,902
17	@MaxPlusFood	8	19,027
18	@Getzafar [3]	8	18,528
19	@38160210003	9	18,363
20	@Peadar	8	15,591
21	@Theatreperson	8	14,731
22	@DilipC	10	13,286
23	@tony_b	8	12,700
24	@LightRich *	8	12,488
25	@HuseyinBesguller	7	11,780
26	@JustJake	10	11,662
27	@MilesMac	10	10,422
28	@AZ_2021	10	10,374
29	@Berno_Foodoso	8	9,923
30	@IzzyOz	6	9,600
[31]	@Aalin1	7	9,097
(32)	@LudwigGermany *	10	9,045
33	@JimmyC6	7	8,924
34	@Scheria	8	7,644
35	@JohnDDoe	10	7,316
36	@turbotapeworm	10	7,275
37	@GasparKaren [3]	9	7,270
38	@indahnuria *	10	7,235
39	@JakubWarsaw	8	6,905
40	@RussKH [3]	10	6,902
41	@GigiR	8	6,889
42	@abermans	10	6,864
43	@EvaBar	8	6,464
44	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	6,457
45	@Dmytro_Ya	10	6,350
46	@DshottDennis	10	6,338
47	@ManhattanNYC	9	5,937
48	@BrokeBritinParis	8	5,925
49	@ZeZe [3]	10	5,743
50	@SergeySud	10	5,387
51	@Kurt2day	10	5,373
52	@ajitthite	9	5,198
53	@Meniko	7	5,131
54	@JuanEHdzVqz	8	4,980
55	@Markus75	10	4,934
56	@Kayimi	10	4,810
57	@ig_shevchenko	10	4,801
58	@Jomo	10	4,770
59	@MBommeli	9	4,672
60	@CanadianBaconEH	7	4,628
61	@claude_richard	9	4,501
62	@Stephanie_OWL	8	4,444
63	@Ducci	9	4,431
(64)	@burakozkarakasli	9	4,427
65	@AT_Rome	9	4,405
66	@Roman_Ahmmed [3]	8	4,341
67	@Chuytorres-alc	8	4,329
68	@TerryPG	10	4,316
69	@Tovi	8	4,225
70	@PrateekAgarwal	9	4,224
71	@turaibalazs	9	4,217
72	@BarkingMice	8	4,170
73	@Ayman88	10	3,932
74	@Frank_H	10	3,894
75	@FlavioDA	10	3,821
76	@nigelfreeney	8	3,717
77	@AntonioVirgil	10	3,618
78	@Robert24	7	3,586
79	@Annaelisa	9	3,581
80	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	3,255
81	@Normalisaverage	8	3,176
82	@ClaudioMauricio	9	3,175
83	@LovePathak28	10	3,123
84	@Trail_blazer	10	3,089
85	@AdriansyahPutera	10	3,060
86	@--GA--	10	3,048
87	@TravellerG	10	3,048
88	@Arthur2022 [3]	10	3,046
89	@YuliiaZa	8	2,947
90	@Hana_K [3]	10	2,779
[91]	@podory	8	2,618
92	@mbmuhlison	9	2,599
93	@VictorLins	8	2,544
94	@Gavaskee	8	2,438
95	@efcxp	8	2,378
96	@BudiFXW	10	2,371
97	@MarkAuchincloss	10	2,283
98	@UrosKosevic	9	2,140
99	@Alex_kezevadze	8	2,077
100	@katydarhel	7	2,050

Who are the Local Guides knocking on the door here?

No	Local Guide	LG Level	Average Views/Video
101	@Shashank_Singh	9	2,042
102	@JitendraKumarprasa	8	2,022
103	@Raj_Tayade	8	1,942
104	@SadmanRafid	8	1,911
105	@Tatsiana_T	8	1,899
106	@ogewuru [3]	10	1,880
107	@SyedR10	8	1,857
108	@ModNomad	10	1,841
109	@Lukas_	10	1,629
110	@You ?	?	?