How ViralTen picks videos

Every video on ViralTen comes from a YouTube channel we have checked and approved. Each day's list is picked automatically from those channels, using published rules.

What "Top 10" means here

The ViralTen Top 10 is ten recent videos selected from our approved channels, spread across our categories. It is not a list of the most-viewed videos on YouTube, the order is not a popularity ranking, and we do not claim it covers every video on the internet.

Which channels we use

We only feature channels that film their own videos, organizations filming their own work (zoos, aquariums, rescues, cooking shows), U.S. government agencies such as NASA, NOAA, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey, and channels that license clips with the permission of the people who filmed them. A person reviews each channel before it is approved, and we remove channels that stop meeting these standards.

How a video gets picked

1. New uploads. Each morning our system collects the latest uploads from our approved channels.
2. Automatic screening. Videos are skipped if the creator has turned off embedding, the video is made for kids, is age-restricted, unavailable in the United States, longer than 10 minutes, or was featured in the last 60 days.
3. Safety filter. We skip any video whose title or description mentions crashes, injuries, violence, police, deaths, or similar harm.
4. Rights check. We skip videos that show clear signs of containing someone else's footage, such as reposts from social media, compilations, or an uploader saying it does not own the video.
5. Selection. For each channel we use YouTube's own sorting to find its most-watched recent upload, then choose ten across different categories and channels. We do not collect or compare view counts.
6. Notes. The short note under each video is written with AI help, using only the creator's own title and description. The ViralTen editor can edit or remove any note or video at any time.

Categories and the past week

Each pick is tagged with one of five categories: Funny Animals, Animal Rescues, Wild Weather, Nature's Power, or Space & UFO Files. The homepage shows today's list followed by the previous six days' lists, and each category page collects that category's picks from the last seven days. Lists older than seven days stay in the archive as plain links to YouTube.

What we leave out

• Real injuries, accidents with victims, fights, arrests, or people in police custody.
• Videos made for kids, and children in embarrassing situations.
• Clips that humiliate private people or invite harassment of anyone shown.
• Videos from channels we have not approved, including re-uploads and compilations of other people's clips.
• Claims we cannot check. We do not call a video "real," "verified," or "authentic."

Votes

Visitors can mark a pick as a "Good pick." These are ViralTen's own votes, not YouTube data. They help us see what visitors enjoy; they never change a published list.

Each day, the pick from the previous day's list with the most "Good pick" votes is shown at the top of the homepage as the viewer favorite, as long as it received at least 3 votes. Ties go to the pick placed higher on the list.

Paid placement

No one can pay to be included or ranked. If we ever offer sponsorships, they will be labeled and kept separate from the daily list.

Corrections and removals

If a pick is yours and you want it removed, or a note gets something wrong, tell us. We review every request and remove videos promptly when a creator or rights holder asks.