Each day we’re seeing more and more Local Guides contributing videos on Maps, sharing their experiences so that others can get a much better appreciation and make better informed decisions about visiting the places they enjoy. This post is about such videos and more specifically, it’s about showcasing the “best” videos taken by Connect Local Guides from all over the world. In the absence of a better metric, we use the number of views that a video has gained as a measure of that video’s “quality” and we refer to the video having the most views as being our star video.
The post includes leaderboards for different Local Guide levels and in this way, whether you are a level 10 or a level 5 Local Guide, if you have contributed video on Maps, you can join in to showcase your star. and it’s simple to do. Simply hit this link or leave a message on this post and someone will help 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’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 Maps contributions made by Local Guides. To see an index to these different leaderboard posts and all posts associated with them, simply hit this link.
Readme - How to Read the Star Video leaderboards (November 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.
Local Guides suspended or who have left the Local Guides program as well as those who have hidden their Maps profile are excluded from the Leaderboards.
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 1313 on Friday, December 6, 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 15 above.
So @AdamGT I added the Star Table to my Star Video here
Like a couple of other guides we have had issues when entering a table that has more than 1 Star video, meaning our original one was replaced by a higher producing video.
This is what it looks like
The first 8 entries were my numbers for my 1st Video Star “Lone Star”
The second 3 entries were my numbers for my 2nd Video Star “Wing Spot”
The final 2 entries are my numbers for this Video Star " Oshawa Centre"
These are my actual numbers for the Oshawa Centre Video
TerryPG Actual Star Video Monthly Totals
Thanks heaps @TerryPG for posting the issue you and others including @tony_b have mentioned over several months. I have been thinking about a solution for this issue since it was first mentioned and the main issue I have is that until a photo, video or 360 sphere becomes a star and has been added by the Local Guide we don’t have the historical data. So to clarify, forgetting the T100 star tracking as not everyone has access to this, in your case for your current star, you will only have the data points having ID’s 608 and 650. So the best solution at the moment is to (a) only show the current data for your star (in your case the data points having ID’s 608 and 650) or (b) show the change in star place name in the place name column
@AdamGT I managed to manually change the names and it looks good, Will this affect anything else? Should I leave it or erase everything up to ID’s 608 & 650 ???
Yes of the 2 options I like this option best as it shows how, while the star has changed, the star views have grown so leave it for now Terry and we’ll see if there are any other thoughts on this. Please remember to always add a link back to any specific comment you are referring to (in your case, this is the link) making it easy peasy for the reader to understand better and visit the comment if desired.
This is what I would expect. The old name next to the numbers generated by that POI, and the new name from the point where a different POI started showing higher numbers than the original one.
Thanks for your efforts Adam, but something has gone wrong. When I went to update my Star Video information for December I found a blank page which had to be filled all over again. This is in contrast to the Star Photo page where all the previous info was there as usual, and I only had to make minor edits as needed.
In addition to that, my Star Video Views History table now shows December, January, and February with my first Star Video, March to November missing, and just December 2024 with the new Star Video. The new one should be all of March to December.
You mentioned the amended list for @TerryPG and that looks more correct, although I observe the January date four times, and February, March, and April missing.
Happy New Year, and I look forward to further comments on this.
Hapy New Year Anthony. I’m sneaking in before I must accompany the lady shopping. What you’ve described is unclear so would you please do as @TerryPG kindly did. Generate the T100 Star Video Views History table as it auto comes out then copy and paste it here as is. Then if you could you either in the same comment, or in your actual star video post in the album, manually adjust it to what ti should be. Then let me know. This is a one time effoert to help me automate this process for you. Thanks for your help.
