المصطبة (el-mastaba) is the stone bench outside a village house in Egypt, where people sit in the evening and talk. That's what a podcast is, so that's what we named the chart.
mastaba.fm is a weekly chart of Arabic podcasts on YouTube, starting with Egypt. Every day we read public data about podcast channels and episodes through the YouTube Data API: titles, durations, publish dates, and view, like and comment counts. From those daily readings we work out how many views each show's recent episodes gained during the week, and rank the shows.
The view counts come from YouTube. The rankings, weekly gains and any scores are our own calculations, not YouTube metrics. We're independent: mastaba.fm is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google, we don't produce or own any show, and no one can pay to appear on the chart or to move up it.
There's nothing to sign up for. The site has no accounts or sign-in and doesn't collect personal data from visitors. We've been collecting data since 19 September 2026 and track more than 200 shows. The chart itself isn't public yet, so the examples on this page use fictional names and numbers.
- What
- A weekly chart of Arabic podcasts on YouTube, Egypt first
- Data
- Public YouTube data, via the YouTube Data API
- Rankings
- Our own calculations, not YouTube metrics
- Independence
- Not affiliated with YouTube or Google. No paid placement.
- Visitors
- No accounts, no sign-in, no personal data collected