How BoardGameVideo.com Works

Video discovery

Videos enter the catalogue through monitoring curated YouTube channels that regularly produce board game content. Not every board game video on YouTube is in the catalogue — we focus on channels and videos that are linked to specific games.

Video classification

Each video is automatically classified into one of several types: review, instructional (how-to-play), session (playthrough), interview, unboxing, humour, news, collection showcase, and other. The classification is based on video metadata and is not always perfect — if you spot a misclassified video, please let us know.

Trending and scoring

The trending feed blends several signals: a video's exposure score on YouTube, how recently it was published, and whether the game it covers is currently popular or newly released. Videos from the last few days are scored and ranked — the result is the feed you see at /feed.

Creator content

Channel descriptions shown on creator pages are sourced from each channel's YouTube profile. Video descriptions, where available, are the creator's own words from YouTube. All content is attributed to its source.