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aghani.org was created to answer a simple but increasingly difficult question:

What Arabic digital content is people actually paying attention to—collectively?

Most modern platforms are built around personalization, recommendation engines, and individual feeds. While useful, these systems often fragment attention and obscure broader trends.

Aghani intentionally takes a different approach.

The project exists to provide a stable, collective view of what is trending in Arabic digital content by measuring group-level popularity within clearly defined time windows, without personalization or editorial intervention.

Why this approach?

Collective, not individual

Rankings on aghani.org reflect aggregate audience behavior, not individual taste.
There are no user profiles, recommendation engines, or personalized feeds.

Fewer signals, more clarity

Rather than combining opaque metrics, aghani.org relies on clear, publicly observable signals to reduce noise and increase interpretability.

Stability over immediacy

Rankings are generated using fixed snapshot windows. Once a window closes, results are finalized and remain unchanged until the next cycle.
This allows rankings to be compared, cited, and referenced over time.

What the rankings represent?

Rankings describe:

• What audiences are watching collectively
• Where attention is concentrating within a given period
• Relative momentum, not absolute quality

They do not define what is “best” or what should be watched.

What the rankings do not do

Rankings on aghani.org do not:

• Recommend content to individuals
• Personalize results
• Promote or suppress viewpoints
• Accept payment for inclusion or ranking

Editorial judgment does not influence ordering.

Independence

aghani.org operates independently of:

• Content creators
• Media organizations
• Advertisers
• Political entities

The credibility of the rankings depends on consistency and transparency, not influence.

Relationship to methodology

This page explains why the project exists.
For details on how rankings are calculated, filtered, and updated, see: Sources & Methodology