When it comes to media contributions on Google Maps, video continues to become increasingly popular with Local Guides and therefore, measuring and analysing their impact compared to that of fellow Local Guides, especially our peers, can help us improve the “quality” and impact of our video contributions. This is precisely what this post is all about. It consists of a series of leaderboards dedicated to showcasing the video contributions of participating Local Guides from over a 100 countries.
Is this just a competition?
While there is an inherent competitive element within them, the Leaderboards are more than just about 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 friendly way.
Want to join?
No matter your level, whether you’re a star Level 10 Local Guide or just starting out, there’s a place on these boards for you. Participation is straightforward—simply Register your interest or comment below for assistance. We’re excited to see you rise and shine on the Leaderboards!!
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 the leaderboard series and related posts and all the posts associated with them, simply hit this link. Alternatively, you can scroll through The BIG List of Leaderboard posts.
Readme - How to Read the Video leaderboards (August, 2026)
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 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 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.
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 ID number used to integrate 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 username will take you to either that Local Guide’s Connect Profile or to their HUB.
If a number shown in small gray circle is displayed following a username, that number indicate the number of times anyone has selected that username to visit the respective Local Guide’s Connect profile or HUB.
If you have changed (a) your Connect username, or (b) your Maps profile in some way (e.g. changed your username or profile picture), (c) your Maps profile status from public to hidden or vice versa then you may not appear on one or more of the leaderboards. If so then you must provide the details in a comment on this post.
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.
The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 1315 on Thursday, September 3, 2026 (UTC).
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 11 above.
Secondly, you’ll see that board #504 has been and now incorporated with a new threshold of 100 million in the first grouping of board #505. Streamlining by doing it this way means we have one less board that needs to be prepared and maintained, and one less needing your checking. We’ll see if we can also carry on this same approach on all other Leaderboard streams. In the meantime, let me know what you think about this new approach.
As always, please do the necessary deep checking of all boards and let me know of any errors and/or ommissions.
Die Neuzugänge, speziell in den Video-Bestenlisten, sind enorm, @AdamGT. Danke für die ganzen Listen.
Bitte die Überschriften korrigieren wir sind alle Level 2-5