Each day we’re seeing more and more Local Guides contributing videos on Maps, sharing their experiences at the places they enjoy so that others can get a much better appreciation of these places and make better informed decisions about visiting them. This post is about such videos and more specifically, it’s about showcasing the “best” videos taken by Connect Local Guides.
Like photos, videos have a view count and in the absence of a better metric, in this post we use the number of views that a video has as a measure of that video’s “quality” and we refer to the video having the most views as being our star video.
As you will see, this post includes a set of leaderboards that showcase the star videos of Local Guides from all over the world and whether you are a level 10 or a level 2 Local Guide, if you have contributed video on Maps, you can join in to showcase your star, and it’s simple to do. Just hit this link and register or if you need any help with this, then add a comment in this post and someone will jump in to assist you.
So what can you learn from the Star Videos Leaderboards?
By sharing our video contributions and achievements we can learn a lot about how to improve the quality of our videos so that we can achieve even better outcomes in terms of the impact that they have on our communities. We have been doing this successfully with photos over many years and so we can do the same with videos so join in and let’s see if together we can learn what type of videos work “best” on Maps.
If you haven’t as yet shared your star video thenregister nowas we’d all love to see it!
Readme - How to Read the Star Video 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.
The leaderboards in this post present details about the star videos of participating Local Guides from all over the world. If you have contributed videos on Maps then you will have a star video, it’s your video that has the most views and we call this, the star video.
As well as an overall leaderboard, you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your star video’s performance with that of your peers. Finally, there’s a leaderboard ranking the top 100 star videos by average star views per day which gives an indication on how good your star video is. To be included in this leaderboard, you must have updated your star video’s views in the period since the date of the last average star views per day leaderboard as posted here on Connect last month.
The average star views per day is calculated by dividing the star views by the life of the star video expressed in days. The life of the star video is equal to the number of days between when you first uploaded your star video on Maps and the date that you last updated the star views and thus, will be different for each participating Local Guide. Therefore, for accuracy of the information it is important that you enter the correct dates. When it comes to the date that you last updated the star views, point #2 above is very important.
As well as the star views and the date uploaded onto Maps, each listing on the leaderboards shows the Maps Category, and a description (e.g. Storefront, Building or Park) of the respective Local Guide’s star video.
If the Maps Category of a star video is shown as a link and if the name of the relevant Place of Interest was provided by the respective Local Guide, then hovering over that link will show you the name of the place and selecting that link will take you to a screenshot with details of that place as stored on the Local Guides, 2024 Star Videos post, a “star video album” if you will, of star videos.
If the Maps Category of a star video is shown on a colored background then that star video has been selected as one of the best that meets the formatting requirements as specified in the star video album post. Select that star video’s category and see why it has been rated as one of the best and read more about that star video on the “star video album” post.
Preceding some of the leaderboards, you may see a number of screenshots of featured star videos. If so, these are a selection from those that best meet the requirements as detailed in the “star video album” post.
Clicking or selecting any of the featured star video images shown will take you to where you can view the Local Guide’s video.
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.
Where shown, ( ) around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this Local Guide levelled up/down onto this leaderboard.
An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.
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.
Selecting a Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile.
A superscript following a Local Guide’s username and the star 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 Guides have been deleted from participation. On the Star Photo 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.
A ? or the words “Not set” in a cell indicates that the respective value cannot be determined or hasn’t been provided by or for the respective Local Guide.
The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 6:30 PM on May 2, 2024 (UTC).
Local Guides included on 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. Regarding omissions, please note point 17 above.
From a group of selected star videos for April, I chose @TerryPG 's star video taken some time ago with his Samsung 8 at Lone Star Texas Grill, a Tex-Mex restaurant. It looks like Terry hasn’t updated his star video since end-January and possibly this is because it’s views haven’t increased. Now what’s interesting here is…(sorry I’m being interrupted…I’ll be back to finish what I would like to say soonest LOL)
Thanks for the Video board, @AdamGT . Congrats to @TerryPG for being featured. Maybe one day Adam will finish his interesting thoughts on the fantastic Texan meal.
Thanks @AdamGT A little history on the video, we were out shopping away back in 2019, I was still very new to the local guide program. My wife decided to take me out for lunch for my birthday. I enjoyed the meal. This was my first ever video, I knew nothing about editing. I actually completely forgot about this video, but I did enjoy the sizzle and the meal.
In answer to your question, yes the first month I had no growth on the views, Since then it has increased a few thousand views but I ahem… I mean I think that…, no I mean that It’s possible,… No I don’t mean that… Ah… I ah…ummm… Okay. I’ll be honest I forgot to update.
Apologies I had to rush off to a meetup @JustJake and so my list of things to finish off continues to grow. I will handle the featured star video post later today and you will be very pleased to ear that I am making special time later in May for all of those other things on my list of things to finish off
Oh @TerryPG I didn’t think that you forgetting to update was a possibility. You’ve been regularly updating since the very first leaderboard back in July 2020 so that possibility didn’t even cross my mind
