Top India YouTube Trends — October 22, 2026
The fastest growing YouTube topics, creators and viral videos in India, collected and scored once a day.
24 videos analysedRegion: IndiaUpdated 2026-10-22T06:00:00ZSample data
Top trending topics today
The subjects that run through more than one of today's trending videos.
- Street Food3 videos · 2.3M views · Food · average score 76.4
- Cricket3 videos · 9.7M views · Sports · average score 78.0
- AI3 videos · 3M views · AI · average score 76.8
- Cricket Highlights2 videos · 9.2M views · Sports · average score 84.2
- AI Generation2 videos · 2.4M views · AI · average score 80.1
- Food Review2 videos · 2M views · Food · average score 76.5
- Startup Stories2 videos · 1.1M views · Business · average score 68.5
- Travel Vlog2 videos · 850K views · Travel · average score 61.4
Fastest growing categories
How each category's share of trending views moved since the previous report.
Opportunity alerts
Subjects being watched a lot that only a few channels are covering. Competition here means the number of different channels on the subject in today's trending list, not a keyword difficulty score.
- Competition
- Low
- Growth
- Very High
- Channels on it
- 1
- Category
- Sports
- Competition
- Low
- Growth
- Very High
- Channels on it
- 1
- Category
- Food
- Competition
- Low
- Growth
- Very High
- Channels on it
- 2
- Category
- Food
- Competition
- Low
- Growth
- Very High
- Channels on it
- 2
- Category
- Sports
- Competition
- Low
- Growth
- Very High
- Channels on it
- 2
- Category
- AI
Summary
The subjects running through today's trending videos are Street Food, Cricket, AI. Finance moved the most, +48.3% in trending views since the last report. Of the top 20 videos, 10 are Hot, 10 are Viral. 9 channels under 100,000 subscribers are in today's list, led by Example AI Studio.
Read straight off the figures above. No summary model is connected, so this text is assembled from the numbers rather than written by a model.
Predicted next trends
- Street FoodOn the report 3 days running, watched more each day (2,320,000 views today, up from 1,202,679). Confidence: Medium.
- CricketOn the report 3 days running, watched more each day (9,670,000 views today, up from 3,919,440). Confidence: Medium.
- AIOn the report 3 days running, watched more each day (3,030,000 views today, up from 1,833,387). Confidence: Medium.
- Cricket HighlightsOn the report 3 days running, watched more each day (9,250,000 views today, up from 3,635,746). Confidence: Medium.
- AI GenerationOn the report 3 days running, watched more each day (2,390,000 views today, up from 1,521,654). Confidence: Medium.
Top 20 trending videos
Emerging creators
Channels under 100,000 subscribers whose trending videos reached far past their own audience.
| Creator | Subscribers | Growth score | Category | Trending videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example AI Studio | 42K | 63.3 | AI | 2 |
| Example Food Walk | 61K | 59.5 | Food | 2 |
| Example Road Notes | 88K | 45.0 | Travel | 2 |
| Example Creator Lab | 18.5K | 57.0 | AI | 1 |
| Example Night Eats | 9.8K | 53.7 | Food | 1 |
| Example Sketch Co | 26K | 53.5 | Entertainment | 1 |
| Example Founder Diary | 31K | 40.1 | Business | 1 |
| Example Money Basics | 44K | 36.3 | Finance | 1 |
| Example Coaching Club | 76K | 36.0 | Sports | 1 |
How the trend score works
Each video gets a score out of 100 from four parts: how fast it is being watched (40 points), how fast it is being liked (25), how much it is being commented on (20), and its growth since the previous report (15). A video at or above 75 is called Viral, at or above 55 Hot, below that and younger than 48 hours Rising, and older than that Saturated.
The report and the figures behind it are also available as JSON: /api/trends for the newest day and /api/trends/2026-10-22 for this one.