Compare up to 50 recent public uploads against channel medians in two duration bands: up to three minutes and longer videos. See the references above or below the sampled baseline, with title observations and ideas to explore.
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Found the pattern? Check your own package against it.
Packaging Check reads your title, thumbnail and first line together and compares them with real videos on your topic that beat their channel.
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How to read your channel
This analyzer compares up to 50 recent public uploads with a sampled channel median. Videos up to three minutes and longer videos use separate duration bands. The result helps select references to study; it does not establish Shorts membership, measured CTR or the cause of a video's views.
The baseline uses at least five other uploads in the same duration band, each at least seven days old. Unknown durations, live/upcoming videos and hidden view counts cannot support a comparison. Topic and upload age still matter.
"My Shorts get 50K and my videos get 5K, so videos are failing."
"This video did 3× my long-form median — what did its title promise?"
The useful signal is the difference. If breakouts name a result and misses name a topic, that's your packaging lesson — not the topic itself.
Make more videos about whatever broke out last.
Keep the promise style of your breakouts and apply it to your next topic.
A miss with a good topic often had a weak title or thumbnail. Changing them on an older video is free and sometimes revives it.
Delete videos that underperformed.
Rewrite the title and thumbnail of a miss whose topic still fits, then watch its views.
Videos younger than seven days are still collecting views, so they're left out of the baseline. Judge a new upload after its first week, not its first hour.
Panic when a video is below median after one day.
Check it against the median after 7 days.
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.
FAQ
No. The analyzer only reads public data — your last 50 public uploads and their view counts — so there's no login and no access to private analytics.
Lifetime views divided by the median of at least five other public uploads in the same duration band, each at least seven days old. The target is excluded. A ratio of 1.5× or more is labeled above the sampled baseline; this is not an age-matched comparison or a prediction.
Those are private YouTube Studio numbers. We only use public data and never estimate what we can't measure.
Yes — any public channel works, which makes it useful for studying channels in your niche too.