How it works
Once a day Cover Next asks a few public sources about the same list of games and puts what they say side by side. A game is matched across sources by fixed identifiers, never by its title.
What each number means
| Reading | Source | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia views, last 7 days | Wikimedia page views | How many people looked the game up. A sudden rise often follows an update, a launch or news, and usually comes before a wave of videos. |
| Rising curiosity / Steady / Cooling | Wikimedia page views | The last 7 days against the 7 before: rising at +25% or more, cooling at -20% or less. If either week has a missing day there is no comparison. |
| Top YouTube videos this week | YouTube Data API | The three most-watched of the gaming videos YouTube ranks most relevant for the game among those published in the last 7 days, each with its own view count. It shows what is working right now. We do not add these numbers up or average them: YouTube's rules do not allow figures combined across channels. |
What it does not measure
- Steam players and Twitch viewers are collected privately but not shown yet. Twitch only allows its data to be kept for 24 hours without written permission, which we have asked for.
- PlayStation and Xbox have no public source for player numbers, and reading their stores automatically is against their terms. They are left out.
- Your channel. Nothing here knows your audience, so it cannot predict how a video of yours will do.
When a number is missing
A missing reading says “not measured”. It is never shown as zero, and a week with a missing day is never added up as if it were complete.