Methods and systems that identify classic videos. A classic video is a video that consistently receives high viewership over a long period of time. A video hosting server identifies a number of views that a video received for each day during a measurement period. For each day, the video hosting server determines whether the day is a high view day based on the number of views for the day. The video hosting server identifies the video as a classic video responsive to the video having a number of high view days that are above a threshold number of days.