youtube is a video-platform query at 80 on Google Search for the week of August 22 2026, pulled August 26 2026, down 5.88% from 85 on July 25 and down 2.44% from 82 on August 15. Estimated weekly volume on that print is 1,614,414,414. get_growth matches the stored series at 80. The 261-week series still peaks at 100 on September 6 2025. Google Play had YouTube at rank 3 as of August 26 2026 14:01 UTC, behind WhatsApp Messenger and Facebook. 80 is a high plateau, 20 points under that September 2025 100 and equal to same-week 2024.
YouTube search interest right now
Google Search interest for youtube is 80 for the week of August 22 2026 on a 0-100 scale, with estimated volume of 1,614,414,414, 30-day change of -5.88% from 85 on July 25, and 90-day change of -10.11% from 89 on May 23, all from the Trends MCP series stored August 26 2026.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of 2026-08-22) | 80 |
| Estimated weekly volume | 1,614,414,414 |
| 30-day change | -5.88% (from 85 on 2026-07-25) |
| 90-day change | -10.11% (from 89 on 2026-05-23) |
| Peak value | 100 on 2025-09-06 |
| First seen in series | 81 on 2021-08-28 |
| 2026 local high | 95 on 2026-01-31 |
| get_growth 7-day | -2.44% (82 to 80) |
| Google Play rank | 3 as of 2026-08-26 14:01 UTC |
The 7-day get_growth print matches the stored series at 80. Same-week Saturday-aligned prints were 96 on August 23 2025, 80 on August 24 2024, and 82 on August 26 2023. Volume on the January 31 2026 local high of 95 was 1,917,117,117. The September 6 2025 peak of 100 carried estimated volume of 2,018,018,018.
The live-video board that sits next to this keyword series is the YouTube Trends page. A catalog neighbor with a similar late-August print is the TikTok topic.
About YouTube
YouTube is the video-sharing platform Wikipedia dates to a February 14 2005 founding by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, all former PayPal employees, with a public launch on April 23 2005 and a Google purchase closed November 13 2006 for $1.65 billion. The first video, "Me at the zoo," went up on April 23 2005, the same day as the public beta. Google announced a $1.65 billion stock purchase on October 9 2006 and closed it on November 13 2006. Headquarters are at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California, under Alphabet. Neal Mohan became CEO on February 16 2023, succeeding Susan Wojcicki. Wikipedia puts monthly active users above 2.7 billion as of January 2024, with more than one billion hours of video watched per day, and 2023 advertising revenue at $31.7 billion.
Search interest at 80 is not a product-launch story. Google Play still had YouTube at rank 3 as of August 26 2026 14:01 UTC, behind WhatsApp Messenger at rank 1 and Facebook at rank 2, with Instagram at rank 4. That board is a phone-app ranking, not a Google Search history. The search series measures relative interest in the word youtube, which stays elevated even when weekly values drift a few points. Wikipedia also notes YouTube Shorts as the short-form product built to compete with TikTok, and YouTube Premium as the paid ad-free tier.
What the time series shows
The 261-week Google Search curve for youtube is a high plateau, with August 22 2026 at 80 after a summer band between 79 and 86, not a spike that already decayed, and with the series peak of 100 on September 6 2025 still the ceiling.
The series opens at 81 on August 28 2021 and rarely leaves the 70s and 80s until 2025, when late summer ran 91, 93, 92, 96, 96, then 100 on September 6 2025. December 6 2025 printed 99. 2026 opened at 84 on January 3, hit 95 on January 31, then eased to 91 on June 13 and 79 on July 18 before this 80. The four-week ramp into the latest print is 83, 79, 82, 80.
Four labels are derived from that series. growth_label is regular because 30-day change of -5.88% is far from +100% and the 100 peak on September 6 2025 is outside the last 90 days (90 days before August 22 2026 is May 24). speed_label is stationary because the absolute 30-day percent change is under 10%; the prior 30-day absolute move from 85 on June 20 to 85 on July 25 was 0 points. seasonality_label is medium: late summer 2025 and year-end weeks lift the series, but the baseline never collapses. volatility_label is low; week-over-week percent-change standard deviation on the last 52 samples is 4.04%. REST and MCP both print 80 for August 22 2026.
Related topics
Same-day Google Search get_growth neighbors in social video and messaging show tiktok down 9.21% over 30 days to 69, facebook down 6.25% to 30, instagram down 5.71% to 66, and whatsapp down 1.54% to 64, while Google Play still ranks YouTube at 3 as of August 26 2026 14:01 UTC.
- tiktok: -9.21% over 30 days, 76 to 69 for the week of August 22 2026, and -8.0% over 7 days from 75
- facebook: -6.25% over 30 days, 32 to 30 (Google Play rank 2)
- instagram: -5.71% over 30 days, 70 to 66 (Google Play rank 4)
- whatsapp: -1.54% over 30 days, 65 to 64 (Google Play rank 1)
- google gemini: +6.67% over 7 days and 30 days, 15 to 16 (Google Play rank 21)
tiktok is the closest catalog neighbor. facebook and instagram print similar mild 30-day dips. google gemini is rising off a much lower base and is a Play-board neighbor, not a video-platform substitute.