Do trending YouTube videos still bother adding tags?
According to TunePocket’s research, the answer is yes, quite often.
TunePocket analyzed over 140K trending videos and found that 58.3% had tags populated.
That means tags are still a common practice among trending YouTube videos, even if they are no longer treated as the main ranking signal they once were.
What the data actually suggests
The important part is not to draw wrong conclusions.
This does not prove that tags made those videos trend.
It does show that many successful creators, publishers, and channels still fill out the tags field as part of their upload workflow.
That makes tags a low-risk supporting step rather than something creators need to obsess over.
If tags are quick to add, they can still help clarify related topics, alternate search terms, names, spellings, and common mistakes people may type when looking for a video.
A fast and easy way to add tags
Here’s the approach I recommend.
Do not spend too much time guessing tags manually.
Use tags as supporting metadata, add a clean set of relevant phrases, and move on to the bigger parts of YouTube growth like the title, thumbnail, topic, retention, and audience fit.
If you want to add tags quickly, TunePocket’s YouTube Video Tags Generator can help generate relevant tags, related phrases, and common misspellings in a few clicks.
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