Well the way I see it, you are at least in the candy jar @tagliaficojuan and congratulations for getting there. Because we are now in the New Year, what I recommend that you do when you have a few minutes, is add your star photo to the 2025 Album of Star Photos but before you do, make sure that you read the steps indicated there and then follow these steps when adding your star photo to the new album 
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Hier folgt die Übersicht @AdamGT
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Well done @JustJake. The Average Daily Views list is “usually” a good indicator of “current quality” of the star in terms of attracting views as seen by Google Maps. I do hope that everyone checks their numbers to make sure that my calculations are right.
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Well done @anon24291235. If your star photo has only just updated and at 1% then perhaps it’s following the findings of @StephanFink and discussed by many including @WilfriedB and @Yaryman
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So not as bad as my star photo then @Kumaarsantosh.
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You’re painting a fairly grim picture for your star photo @tony_b. Have I understood you correctly Anthony? Are you saying that while the monthly average reported in the Leaderboards is 980+ you believe it to be more like 200 views per month? If so, that’s a fairly large difference so what’s the explanation?
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hehehe…you defeated me 
@AdamGT.
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Not much of a defeat @Kumaarsantosh 
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Well done @Annaelisa, if I’m understanding your comment, your star photo unlike so many others, had an increase in views in December! I’m sorry to hear about the break again.
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Tracking all my photos in detail since May 24, I never found any exception to this 1% rule until today. Not sure, if it applies to all regions and profiles. My photos were all taken in Europe with my German profile.
Talking about my own “star photo”, I made a similar estimate as @tony_b did and I don’t expect any increase of views soon - possibly within some months. The numbers are still the same as they wer by the end of December 2023.
@AdamGT @anon24291235
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Given the general pattern being seen by so many, your total star views increase of 290,000 views since early February is quite significant @TerryPG so well done you! You said it’s easy to find this number by using the Star Tracking table but did you mean the Star History table Terry?
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Yes this I think is what @TerryPG was referring to here @Annaelisa but just in case, let’s wait to hear Terry’s confirmation.
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oh dear!!!
Exceptions to the rule are often quite interesting @WilfriedB so can you share more about this photo and it’s numbers. Is it an up and coming star photo candidate?
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No, it is indeed the photo with the most views, @AdamGT. It did gain almost 2 millions of views within 3 or 4 months during summer 2023, then only dozens daily and on February 7, 2024 it was reduced to 1,982,879, the number it already showed by the end of December 2023 and never changed until today.
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Thank you for clarifying our statement @WilfriedB and so we can expect to see the increase in star views in the February leaderboards.
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Certainly, if you don’t specify the year, @AdamGT 
… I guess, February 2026.
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Yes Adam and Jake, it is “usually” so, except when it is a “red” star. (Will explain in my next post).
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Haha I see that you picked up the fact that I specifically enclosed the word usually in quotation marks @tony_b and now I have hunch where you follow on post is going I look forward to reading it.
It is indeed grim Adam. Let me start by saying I stated the situation incorrectly yesterday - it is rather worse. The 984 average you listed for my Star Photo is per day (not month), and my true figure of 200+ is per month.
You derived the figure in your chart by dividing my total Star Photo views 2,137,896 by the number of days the photo was up on Maps 2,172 (19th Feb 2019 to 30th Jan 2025) to get average daily views of 984.
My records of the true picture started in July 2022, and never was there a whole MONTH with the number of views you’re indicating here per DAY. Maybe there were some super excellent days in the beginning when the photo was first posted, but that’s not the case now. Please see the table below. Note the - and + swap that happened over February and March 2024 with zero movement in the months following.
| Month | Views | Month | Views | Month | Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-23 | 226 | Jan-24 | 219 | ||
| Feb-23 | 173 | Feb-24 | -78807 | ||
| Mar-23 | 230 | Mar-24 | 79250 | ||
| Apr-23 | 92 | Apr-24 | 0 | ||
| May-23 | 192 | May-24 | 0 | ||
| Jun-23 | 207 | Jun-24 | 0 | ||
| Jul-22 | 372 | Jul-23 | 208 | Jul-24 | 0 |
| Aug-22 | 117 | Aug-23 | 319 | Aug-24 | 0 |
| Sep-22 | 229 | Sep-23 | 273 | Sep-24 | 0 |
| Oct-22 | 376 | Oct-23 | 213 | Oct-24 | 0 |
| Nov-22 | 269 | Nov-23 | 231 | Nov-24 | 0 |
| Dec-22 | 252 | Dec-23 | 253 | Dec-24 | 0 |
Notice that the highest month between July 2022 and January 2024 was 376 views. That’s just above 12 views per day.
Yes you are absolutely correct @tony_b, the average calculation on the Star Photo Average Views/Day leaderboard is based on the life of the star and hence inversely proportional to the number of days the photo/video has been live on Maps. While one could argue that a star’s birthdate is the date the photo/video was shot, as you know we instead use the date when the media was first uploaded onto Maps, after all the photo/video doesn’t have the potential to gain public views until then.
So being inversely proportional to the life of the star in days, as the days move on, unless there is exceptional growth in views, the average views per day decreases as time moves on and this is especially so once your star reaches “red star” status which I think your star photo did around April 2024.
Anyway this is why I have often said, we need to be careful when using averages and I have mentioned quite a few times now that I had thought about also providing a moving average as it may provide a better trend indication. The moving average would much closer align to your records of the “true picture”. Moving averages are commonly used in technical analysis such as in the stock market… (see my comment here). Moving averages might also provide better forecasting in Star Tracking which I know you and other Local Guides including @TerryPG regularly use. It would be interesting to provide such alternative comparative analysis…if I only had time!
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