Local Guides Movers & Shakers (January 2024)

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This post is about the top Local Guides actively contributing and achieving both the most points and views from photos, star photos, star videos and star 360 sphere contributions on Maps. The leaderboards give some indication as to who are the top Local Guides out there pounding the pavements guiding and impacting on their community most.

If you’re not listed in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards and believe that you should be then you can make this happen by registering and it’s simple to do, just hit this link or if you need some help then add a comment in this post and someone will jump in to help you.

[AdamGT]

Reading the Movers & Shakers leaderboards (January 2024)

Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details about the Top 100 leaderboards see the leaderboard documentation:

1. Simply stated, the term Movers & Shakers in this post is used to describe the Local Guides that have achieved the most in terms of overall Local Guide points, photo views and star views over the past month. Therefore, the leaderboards in this post indicate how active each participating Local Guide has been over the past month as well as the performance of their photos, videos and 360 spheres, and their respective stars in terms of views over the same period.

   To explain the different metrics used in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards we will use the following simple example. Sarah, a Level 8 Local Guide, uses the T100 System and updates her data on the 28th of each month. For simplicity of explanation, she updates her data every 30 days! The following table summarizes her key data as at 28 April and 28 May::

   Data	28 April	28 May	Delta	% Delta
   Points	20,000	24,000	4,000	20%
   Photos	860	900	40	0.5%
   Photo Views	15m	16.8m	1.8m	12%
   Star Photo Views	4.03m	4.06m	0.03m	0.7%

   (a) The Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month. In this way, Sarah’s current Delta Points is 4,000 [ 24,000 - 20,000 ]^*.

   (b) The % Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah’s current % Delta Points is 20% [ (4,000/20,000)*100 ].

   (c) The Delta Views is the absolute value of the total photo views gained by a Local Guide over the past month. Thus, Sarah’s Delta Views for that month is 1.8m [ 16.8m - 15m ]^*.

   (d) The % Delta Views is the value of the total views gained by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah’s current % Delta Views is 12% [ (1.8m/15m)*100 ].

   (e) The Delta Views/Photo is the average photo views gained per photo by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide’s photos in terms of views gained per photo; the higher the Delta Views/Photo the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Photo of 180 2,000 [ 1.8m/900 ].

   (f) The Delta Views/Day is the average photo views gained per day by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this is another metric that gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide’s photos in terms of views gained per day; the higher the Delta Views/Day the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Day of 60,000 [ 1.8m/30 ].

   (g) The Delta Star Views is similar to the Delta Views however in this case, it represents the views gained over the past month by a Local Guide’s most viewed photo, or star photo. Therefore, Sarah’s Delta Star Views is 30,000 [ 4.06m - 4.03m ]^*

   (h) The Delta Star Views/Day is simply the average Delta Star Views per day over the past month. Therefore, Sarah’s star photo has a Delta Star Views/Day of 1,000 [ 30,000 / 30 ]. This metric gives a simple up-to-date measure of the quality of our star photo in terms of views gained per day^*.

2. If you are a participant in the Points, Photo Views, Star Photos and Country leaderboards and haven’t updated your data in the previous month and in time for the leaderboards posted here then you will obviously not be included in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards.

3. If you are a new participant on the Top 100 Leaderboards then you will not be included in the Movers and Shakers this month simply because you do not have a prior month’s history.

4. If you updated in your contributions data in the previous month but not in the month prior to that then you will also not be included in this month’s Movers & Shakers because your Delta Points would be across more than one month and this would unfairly distort the idea behind the Movers & Shakers which looks at the points and photo views movement (i.e. the delta points) in the one month.

5. In summary, the Movers & Shakers leaderboards only include those Local Guides who regularly update and have especially done so over the last couple of months. It’s all about creating that level playing field and comparing apples with apples.

6. Where shown, around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the Local Guide is a new participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.

7. An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.

8. Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.

9. Selecting any of the Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile.

10. Local Guides included in the leaderboards must check their entries for any errors. If you should find any errors or omissions, please add the details in a comment on this post.

    • Please note that making comparisons using metrics such as delta points and delta views must be done carefully. In my view it is better to use points per day or views per day for comparative purposes and you will find these in the Core Vitals section of the T100 Leaderboards System!

[AdamGT]

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Points Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Points
1	@WebVisite	10	295,377
2	@Lukas_	10	70,660
3	@MarcoDavoli	10	43,962
(4)	@JustJake	10	30,748
5	@chenlu	8	23,822
6	@ronexdroid	9	14,425
(7)	@PrasadVR	10	13,948
8	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	13,537
9	@AloGlenn	10	13,480
10	@jayasimha78	10	12,493
11	@Alfi_53	10	11,717
12	@PaulAtherton	10	11,559
13	@Scheria	8	9,952
14	@abermans	10	9,535
15	@Shubhu1	9	9,208
16	@Bartek_Maryniak	10	9,067
17	@J_Fox	8	8,987
18	@Kumaarsantosh	10	8,669
19	@Arthur2022	10	8,220
20	@Tatsiana_T	8	7,508
21	@MilesMac	10	7,142
22	@SamanthaSheehy	10	6,790
23	@Omarfahd	9	6,763
24	@MarkAuchincloss	10	6,682
25	@ZeZe	10	5,512
26	@AZ_2021	10	5,467
(27)	@TerryPG	10	4,901
28	@Rosa	8	4,746
29	@manulc	10	4,729
30	@tamilisa	8	4,637
31	@Kurt2day	10	4,485
32	@SergeySud	10	4,237
33	@Lssong	10	4,067
34	@rashedul-alam	9	3,962
35	@DshottDennis	10	3,828
36	@Rednewt74	8	3,793
37	@SadmanRafid	8	3,701
38	@Ducci	9	3,656
39	@Ketan_Kangankar	8	3,570
40	@Siavash_T	8	3,414
41	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	3,361
42	@rahulbera5220	8	3,319
43	@Douroguy	8	3,231
44	@MichaelReyes	9	3,205
45	@turbotapeworm	10	3,162
46	@Djihad	9	3,019
47	@Bimalangkar	9	2,959
48	@Trail_blazer	9	2,845
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[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

Who are the Local Guides knocking on the door here?

No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Points
101	@RumahBCN	10	1,431
102	@Meniko	7	1,418
103	@uyenple	9	1,410
104	@nigelfreeney	8	1,401
105	@colinforker	9	1,375
106	@SagarDiary	8	1,368
107	@milindkarpe	8	1,364
108	@AhsanBulbul	9	1,362
109	@Ptrivedi	8	1,352
110	@EugeGallardo	9	1,347

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Photo Views Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Views	% Delta Views	Delta Views/Photo
1	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	1,241,043,367	957.3	66,147
2	@RussKH	10	434,737,150	0.0	17,716
3	@Herve_Andrieu	10	309,833,159	2.2	1,484
4	@TorM *	10	123,684,075	2.3	1,434
5	@abermans	10	88,413,062	5.1	2,542
6	@shunsader	9	81,185,890	17.1	7,740
7	@xmen123wood	10	66,791,287	8.4	3,686
8	@StevenBerlin	9	59,686,251	3.1	3,487
9	@photoslinger	8	41,836,229	4.2	5,286
(10)	@TerryPG	10	40,878,651	2.8	5,445
11	@jayasimha78	10	36,856,012	1.8	754
12	@Kurt2day	10	36,374,137	5.6	1,983
13	@Omarfahd	9	35,124,157	0.0	3,919
14	@JordanSB *	10	31,262,919	1.7	1,856
15	@ogewuru	10	27,869,466	0.0	3,889
16	@DshottDennis	10	26,725,789	2.3	741
17	@JakubWarsaw	8	25,641,865	7.1	4,831
18	@Mikeinthefalls	7	24,927,363	2.5	38,949
19	@SvenJacobs	7	24,824,654	10.7	38,428
20	@Timgür	10	24,739,238	1.1	344
21	@AlbrechtH	9	24,728,881	5.5	2,765
22	@JonBekkevoll	10	24,651,399	1.4	654
23	@Rosa	8	24,457,885	0.0	6,023
24	@Briggs	10	22,044,005	0.9	2,000
25	@DougSTL	9	19,974,961	2.1	1,870
26	@AZ_2021	10	19,471,056	8.7	1,007
27	@Jomo	10	19,115,032	3.7	1,113
28	@SamanthaSheehy	10	19,025,476	2.5	1,203
29	@MattGatlin	10	18,605,825	1.2	828
30	@Hana_K	10	18,180,003	0.0	662
31	@ZeZe	10	17,588,372	2.5	342
32	@Alfi_53	10	16,504,019	3.3	384
33	@chenlu	8	16,264,778	0.0	8,792
34	@bkobog	10	15,989,576	3.6	804
35	@PatrickUnson	10	15,741,436	3.2	587
36	@oviabhi	9	15,457,091	4.9	1,036
37	@BeeCee	10	15,379,368	2.2	767
38	@BudiFXW	10	14,652,965	30.0	931
39	@Josevieitez	9	14,126,348	3.8	1,580
40	@DanielTh	10	13,815,696	3.8	1,118
41	@IntranetMiRi	9	13,734,499	8.7	3,078
42	@tunaontour	8	13,612,568	39.0	3,648
43	@zbjas	10	13,590,556	2.0	450
44	@AdamGT	10	13,287,333	2.5	932
45	@pknut53	10	13,051,435	9.4	484
46	@Teana_K	9	12,911,798	8.6	1,252
47	@uyenple	9	12,908,854	4.5	1,105
48	@–GA–	10	12,849,601	3.3	162
49	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	12,426,901	2.4	286
50	@LaloPadilla *	10	12,093,190	2.4	840
51	@mariorosas	9	11,779,575	5.5	2,607
52	@Quin1963	10	11,677,559	2.2	700
53	@DominikGehl	8	11,664,760	7.6	4,488
54	@GYours	10	11,239,273	2.1	1,230
55	@MadsD	10	11,127,942	10.6	440
56	@J_Fox	8	10,946,005	111.8	1,362
57	@ThatJimRyan	10	10,649,206	1.5	441
58	@Erna_LaBeau	9	10,400,669	2.0	1,260
59	@AdrianLunsong *	9	10,229,788	2.6	1,099
60	@JohnDDoe	10	10,025,988	9.2	678
61	@CiaranC	10	9,923,424	1.3	644
62	@Ducci	9	9,910,867	8.0	1,533
63	@MelTG	7	9,674,940	2.4	47,896
64	@chiefzero	8	9,647,856	3.3	2,245
65	@YasumiKikuchi	10	9,576,057	4.2	357
66	@Calicodreamin	9	9,254,572	1.9	1,332
67	@suvankar_paul14	8	8,883,636	49.5	5,059
68	@glewsea	10	8,800,474	6.8	743
69	@PaulAtherton	10	8,770,807	1.7	85
70	@Josef_Bergt	10	8,632,178	10.0	441
71	@Martin_Whitehead	8	8,629,162	1.7	1,634
72	@ig_shevchenko	10	8,078,898	2.5	320
73	@mbmuhlison	9	7,664,405	3.9	491
74	@MaxPlusFood	8	7,627,086	1.2	1,708
75	@JSeng	10	7,571,852	2.5	385
76	@Geethapriya	9	7,124,149	5.6	753
77	@Thomson200	8	6,973,035	1.5	1,497
78	@waza28	10	6,660,312	3.6	323
79	@Firedad	7	6,614,985	5.8	6,543
80	@PennyChristie *	10	6,528,908	1.8	424
81	@HUMBERTO_V	10	6,504,471	3.5	132
82	@JOSEWET	10	6,418,361	4.9	152
83	@AntonioVirgil	10	6,336,376	2.6	283
84	@Rod52	8	6,215,919	1.3	2,887
85	@Dunclair	7	6,127,955	23.3	2,479
86	@RJ1	9	6,109,659	1.9	874
87	@turbotapeworm	10	5,932,049	1.6	504
88	@RumahBCN	10	5,843,226	5.2	361
89	@Filipestr	10	5,836,980	5.5	78
90	@JimmyAwesome	8	5,784,198	6.7	5,183
91	@davidhyno	10	5,751,605	4.4	434
92	@manulc	10	5,741,052	2.3	78
93	@CM_Kuncham	10	5,688,848	1.7	602
94	@MichaelReyes	9	5,629,345	8.8	455
95	@MilesMac	10	5,563,968	4.0	224
96	@Salama2top	9	5,528,190	1.9	669
97	@amandhayal	10	5,430,429	1.6	201
98	@GeoSgrchw	9	5,399,065	3.7	449
99	@Kayimi	9	5,293,610	5.1	705
100	@syaubananas	10	5,289,862	4.9	168

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

Who are the Local Guides knocking on the door here?

No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Views	% Delta Views	Delta Views/Photo
101	@travellite	9	5,232,048	14.5	520
102	@SoniaK *	9	5,216,671	2.2	589
103	@Lssong	10	5,093,174	1.0	101
104	@Jesi *	10	5,037,699	1.7	164
105	@RobertGEsays	7	4,972,604	3.6	3,667
106	@marcorp	10	4,948,387	4.0	391
107	@VikramSingh_Valera	9	4,808,367	10.9	534
108	@gzub	10	4,617,920	1.3	2,268
109	@Arseni_I	8	4,335,766	3.7	847
110	@SP31 *	10	4,266,284	1.2	285
111	You"	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Star Photo Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@suvankar_paul14	7,778,897	2023-08-31	cremation ground	Historical Landmark
2	@Mikeinthefalls	3,654,671	2022-10-30	American	Storefront
3	@JakubWarsaw	1,407,662	2022-06-01	Lake	Lake
4	@TravellerG	1,192,548	2019-12-15	Hindu Temple	Statue or Monument
5	@Mo_TravelleerX	532,716	2023-01-15	Mosque	Historical Landmark
6	@Kumaarsantosh	398,511	2023-03-20	Buddhist temple	Tourist attraction
7	@abermans	331,824	2022-05-01	Health Service	Building
8	@LightRich *	321,707	2022-12-19	Taco Shop	Seating area Internal
9	@mbmuhlison	253,200	2022-09-24	University	Building
10	@IzzyOz	143,562	2023-07-23	Chinese restaurant	Storefront
11	@TiffanyStockstill	119,065	2020-05-05	Bar Listing	Plaza/Piazza/Square
12	@Trail_blazer	105,626	2022-09-08	Hospital	Garden
13	@AT_Rome	90,000	2016-03-01	High school	Building
14	@MortenCopenhagen *	82,014	2020-10-15	Fine dining restaurant	Storefront
15	@Arthur2022	60,679	2022-10-27	Animal Park	Valley or Mountain
16	@Scheria	58,295	2023-12-07	Mexican Restaurant	Building
17	@ajitthite	53,366	2023-05-09	Clothing Store	Storefront
(18)	@JustJake	52,994	2021-07-17	Amusement Park	Park/Playground
19	@Annaelisa	15,915	2021-07-30	Restaurant	Cityscape
20	@EvaBar	845	2020-10-25	Car racing track	Seating area External
21	@efcxp	646	2020-08-26	Hospital	Internal photo
22	@Rednewt74	392	2018-02-15	Mexican Restaurant	Storefront
(23)	@PrasadVR	281	2017-11-15	Electronics store	Storefront
24	@tony_b	228	2019-02-19	Hardware store	Storefront
25	@MarkAuchincloss	146	2019-08-15	Irish Pub	Building
26	@Stephanie_OWL	107	2021-05-06	Fischrestaurant	Seating area External
27	@nigelfreeney	93	2019-09-07	Indian Restaurant	Storefront
28	@MattGatlin	53	2018-04-10	Steak house	Storefront
29	@AdamGT	42	2018-07-07	Department store	Storefront
30	@LudwigGermany *	28	2019-11-15	Airport	Building
31	You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Video Views Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Views	% Delta Views	Delta Views/Video
1	@abermans	10	7,751,126	23.2	1,846
2	@jayasimha78	10	5,718,900	16.3	3,151
3	@MattGatlin	10	5,463,040	20.9	4,071
4	@Getzafar	8	2,993,870	41.4	4,656
5	@Mikeinthefalls	7	2,158,431	116.4	56,801
6	@Arthur2022	10	1,355,492	11.0	315
7	@Nd18	8	1,221,201	999.9	35,918
8	@Rednewt74	8	1,148,434	29.7	4,253
9	@TiffanyStockstill	8	789,223	18.6	6,863
(10)	@TerryPG	10	707,272	112.9	1,987
11	@MilesMac	10	637,493	11.0	947
12	@Hana_K	10	580,482	14.8	298
13	@DshottDennis	10	507,193	7.6	438
14	@Scheria	8	485,988	67.8	2,113
15	@MarkAuchincloss	10	438,384	4.6	97
16	@ig_shevchenko	10	389,808	5.6	171
17	@ZeZe	10	365,103	8.1	394
18	@LightRich *	8	317,031	13.7	1,305
19	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	286,068	6.5	1,356
20	@ManhattanNYC	8	226,547	12.3	599
21	@tony_b	8	203,448	37.0	3,912
22	@MBommeli	9	163,640	6.3	280
23	@nigelfreeney	8	154,256	6.8	433
24	@Caverni	10	146,547	10.0	173
25	@Annaelisa	9	104,227	8.5	322
26	@Kayimi	9	101,834	17.2	693
27	@Kurt2day	10	99,047	19.0	6,190
28	@Frank_H	9	98,772	20.1	778
(29)	@JustJake	10	90,447	33.8	2,319
30	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	83,245	9.7	242
31	@AdriansyahPutera	10	69,427	9.9	238
32	@turbotapeworm	10	66,828	13.6	768
33	@Trail_blazer	9	54,495	7.4	193
34	@mbmuhlison	9	47,877	11.5	257
35	@LudwigGermany *	9	44,708	32.8	2,129
36	@efcxp	8	35,817	16.0	276
37	@ajitthite	9	34,448	10.4	431
38	@Kumaarsantosh	10	30,398	8.0	84
39	@IzzyOz	6	28,859	25.8	2,624
40	@AT_Rome	9	22,412	4.5	172
41	@MelTG	7	22,000	0.0	11,000
(42)	@PrasadVR	10	21,881	12.5	61
43	@burakozkarakasli	8	16,738	16.1	728
44	@38160210003	9	12,209	1.4	249
45	@RussKH	10	9,239	0.9	61
46	@ogewuru	10	7,652	3.3	55
47	@Lukas_	10	7,325	7.9	118
48	@JitendraKumarprasa	8	7,093	4.6	88
49	@EvaBar	8	6,045	8.0	378
50	@HuseyinBesguller	7	5,939	16.2	1,980
51	@FlavioDA	10	5,837	1.6	57
52	@AdamGT	10	5,473	21.8	684
53	@Rahul001	8	3,346	3.7	31
54	@ShailendraOjha	8	2,707	37.3	129
55	@CanadianBaconEH	7	1,794	14.8	449
56	@HASHIM_AK	8	1,402	12.2	22
57	@Markus75	10	1,075	1.4	67
58	@ModNomad	10	974	999.9	37
59	@SadmanRafid	8	761	1.8	33
60	@katydarhel	7	357	4.1	51
61	@regandas	9	211	2.5	8
62	@You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Star Video Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 Oct Nov Dec End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@jayasimha78	233,001	2021-07-11	Restaurant	Seating area Internal
2	@Mikeinthefalls	211,176	2023-09-20	Breakfast restaurant	Storefront
3	@Rednewt74	91,042	2023-05-20	Cafe	Other
4	@MattGatlin	87,044	2022-11-18	Fast Food Restaurant	Storefront
5	@Scheria	82,022	2023-11-11	Live music venue	Building
6	@LightRich *	61,386	2022-01-20	Restaurant	Seating area External
7	@Mo_TravelleerX	49,234	2021-04-08	Water	Tourist attraction
(8)	@JustJake	28,098	2023-10-12	Restaurant	Meal or beverage
9	@MarkAuchincloss	22,935	2023-05-20	Bistro	Menu
10	@Trail_blazer	14,209	2023-11-20	Restaurant	Reception area
11	@IzzyOz	14,072	2023-07-08	Town Hall	Other
12	@AdamGT	9,319	2023-10-20	Restaurant	Meal or beverage
13	@efcxp	6,277	2022-10-01	Beach	Beach
14	@ajitthite	4,679	2022-03-19	Beach	Beach
(15)	@TerryPG	4,336	2019-09-18	Tex Mex	Meal or beverage
16	@Kumaarsantosh	3,942	2023-04-08	Restaurant	Reception area
17	@tony_b	3,596	2023-06-10	Fast Food Restaurant	Building
18	@TiffanyStockstill	3,558	2023-06-11	Restaurant	Meal or beverage
(19)	@PrasadVR	3,462	2023-07-15	Movie theatre	Storefront
20	@Annaelisa	2,931	2021-08-10	Ort	Other
21	@LudwigGermany *	2,629	2022-11-23	Sushi-Restaurant	Meal or beverage
22	@nigelfreeney	344	2021-05-01	Park and Garden	Park/Playground
23	@EvaBar	85	2020-11-13	Car racing track	Tourist attraction
24	@TravellerG	7	2018-09-15	Sculpture	Statue or Monument
25	You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Star 360s Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (January 2024) 2023 Oct Nov Dec End 2023 2024
No	Local Guide	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@AT_Rome	29,447	2017-05-07	Giardino	Garden
2	@TiffanyStockstill	27,430	2022-08-04	Places	Path or Road
3	@Kumaarsantosh	8,044	2023-09-28	Amusement Park	Storefront
4	@LightRich *	5,763	2017-03-16	Sports Complex	Other
5	@efcxp	2,685	2023-09-30	Beach	Beach
6	@nigelfreeney	1,247	2019-11-01	Gym	Internal photo
7	@MattGatlin	204	2017-01-16	Restaurant	Storefront
8	@LudwigGermany *	35	2018-02-05	Historische Sehenswürdigkeit	Tourist attraction
9	You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 7:00 AM on 2 February 2024 (UTC)]

[AdamGT]

Finally you might say, that’s the last of the January leaderboards with a couple missing for final checking before posting. For the reason so rightly pointed out by @MattGatlin , no one was listed in the previous Video Views Movers and Shakers, but they sure are listed this time and well done to all.

[ShailendraOjha]

Much appreciated sir @AdamGT for your hard work.

[Kumaarsantosh]

Thank you @AdamGT for consistently improving and innovating the Leaderboards.

We always look forward to seeing these Leaderboards eagerly.

Regards,

[PrasadVR]

Thank you, @AdamGT , for your continuous efforts in refining and posting new Leaderboards, as you mentioned here.

[Mikeinthefalls]

Another great Leaderboard, well done @AdamGT

It’s great to see the growth in videos Wonder what type of numbers we’ll see on that board at the end of the year?

[Mo_TravelleerX]

@AdamGT Great work as always

[AdamGT]

Thank you @ShailendraOjha , @Kumaarsantosh , @PrasadVR , @Mikeinthefalls and @Mo_TravelleerX for your appreciation. I’m really pleased that, after a crazy month, finally all the January Leaderboards have been posted.

Each of the different leaderboard streams have something different to say however I have to agree with you Santosh, the Movers & Shakers are certainly interesting and given that video is the new frontier on Maps, as Mike mentions here, it will be interesting to see what the growth in numbers we’ll see on the video boards at the end of the year. I can’t wait, can you?

[Tatsiana_T]

@AdamGT

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[JustJake]

Thank you for breaking out the Deltas again @AdamGT . These photo view numbers are nuts (especially @MortenCopenhagen , by the way). It seems Maps is really rewarding active photographers. I had 3.6% growth, month over month, but I’d need 6.7% just to be knocking at the door. That doesn’t seem unreasonable, given the percentage gains we’re seeing here, but I’ve never seen a delta like that.

I’m curious about followers’ role in these massive view count increases. I can’t tell how many followers these LGs have (on PC), but are we getting an instant captive audience to view our newest photos when we have a lot of followers? Or is the algorithm pushing recent photos in a way that allows for these massive bumps? I was testing the new-photo hypothesis, but the view count bug hit right in the middle of my tracking .

[MortenCopenhagen]

@JustJake

The huge delta photo views under my account is my consolation price from @AdamGT because the faulty data validation script that last month stole one digit from my total photo views

Cheers

Morten

[tony_b]

Hey @AdamGT I didn’t even realize the Movers and Shakers were published. Good to see where my shaking has moved me to. Thanks again for your monthly efforts.

PS: Just like last month, this took more than half the month to complete. I’m still worried that this is too much work for one dedicated volunteer.

[tony_b]

@JustJake Interesting that you raised the question of a connection between Followers and Photo Views. I’ve asked many times about Followers and being Followed, but no one has been able to give me any definite response about the benefits or usefulness of the feature.

I don’t think there’s an “instant captive audience to view our newest photos when we have a lot of followers”, because I actually don’t get any special alerts when the people I follow post new stuff.

Some have spoken of the Explore tab as a driver of additional views, but that tab seems to favour videos more than photos. And it certainly doesn’t seem to display ALL of an LG’s new contributions anyway.