Answers about NollyIndex, its rankings, data, and channel tools.
NollyIndex is a public, weekly leaderboard that tracks Nollywood YouTube channels — how fast they're growing, how consistently they upload, and how they compare to each other. It's built entirely from public YouTube data, refreshed daily.
No. NollyIndex is an independent project. It uses YouTube's public API to read publicly available channel statistics, but it has no official relationship with YouTube or Google.
NollyIndex is independently run. General questions can be sent to info@nollyindex.com.
Yes, completely free — no account or login required to browse rankings.
Every channel is snapshotted daily. Rankings are sorted primarily by 7-day view velocity — how many views a channel gained in the last 7 days — not by total subscriber count or lifetime views. A smaller channel growing quickly can outrank a much bigger channel that's grown slowly.
Total subscriber and view counts mostly reflect history — how long a channel has existed. Velocity reflects what's happening right now, which is what makes the leaderboard change week to week instead of staying frozen with the same channels on top forever.
Every channel is re-checked once a day. The public rankings reflect the most recent daily snapshot.
Directly from YouTube's public API — subscriber counts, view counts, video counts, and upload timestamps. NollyIndex doesn't estimate or guess any numbers.
Rank is a direct result of how many views a channel gained in the most recent 7-day window compared to other tracked channels. A channel doesn't need to do anything "wrong" to drop — it usually just means another channel grew faster that week.
A channel is tagged NEW until it has enough tracking history (about a week of daily snapshots) to calculate a real week-over-week comparison.
This shows up when YouTube's own reported video count for a channel decreased since the last snapshot — usually because a video was deleted, unlisted, or removed. Rather than display a confusing negative number, NollyIndex shows “—” with a tooltip explaining it.
This describes a channel's content format: an Original producer creates its own content, an Aggregator re-uploads or compiles content from other sources, and a Network represents multiple shows or creators under one channel umbrella.
Genres (Romance, Epic, Village, Ritual/Thriller/Mystery, Comedy, Premium, Other) describe the type of content a channel mainly publishes. Classification is based on a channel's actual content and public metadata, reviewed manually — not automated guesswork.
Every channel page shows how that channel is performing compared to others in the same genre/language/format combination (its “lane”) — for example, how its weekly view growth compares to the median for similar channels.
Use the “Add a channel” link on the site to submit it. Submissions are checked automatically against a minimum threshold, then reviewed before going live.
A channel needs at least 10,000 subscribers, 500,000 total views, and 5 uploaded videos. These are checked against live YouTube data at the time of submission, not against numbers you enter yourself.
Submissions that pass the automatic threshold check are queued for manual review rather than added instantly, so every channel on NollyIndex has been looked at by a real person before going live, not just an algorithm.
Most rejections happen because a channel doesn't yet meet the subscriber/view/video thresholds. The submission page shows the exact criteria so you know what's missing.
Yes — once a channel meets the thresholds, it can be submitted again.
Any qualifying channel can be listed without the owner's involvement, since the data is public. “Verified” means the channel's actual owner has proven ownership and can access additional tools, like a media/share kit.
Use the “Claim your channel” link. You'll be given a unique code to paste into your channel's YouTube description temporarily — this proves you control the channel, since only the real owner can edit that description.
It's the simplest way to prove real ownership without needing passwords or account access — only someone with edit access to a channel can add something to its description.
Yes.
A “Verified” badge on your channel page, and access to a share-kit for exporting ready-made promotional cards with your current rank and stats.
Email info@nollyindex.com with details. All numbers come directly from YouTube's API, so most discrepancies trace back to YouTube's own reporting delay or a genuine recent change on your channel — but it's always worth flagging so it can be checked.
Email info@nollyindex.com. Classification changes are made based on evidence (channel content, public descriptions, etc.), so it's helpful to explain specifically what should change and why.
The underlying statistics (views, subscribers, uploads) are never manually edited — they always come directly from YouTube. Classification fields (genre, language, format) are set by human review and can be corrected if shown to be wrong.
Usually not. A sudden drop in weekly views is typically a real slowdown in that week's view growth, not an error. If a channel's video count decreases, that's usually a deleted or unlisted video — also reflected accurately, not a bug.
Claims and submissions collect a name, email, and role — used only to process the request and, for claims, sent as a notification to NollyIndex's own inbox. This information isn't sold or shared with third parties.
Only public channel statistics available through YouTube's API — no private account data, login access, or personal information tied to your YouTube account is ever accessed.
Email info@nollyindex.com.