Type a niche. We search YouTube and measure every result against its channel's usual views — so a small channel's breakout ranks above a big channel's average upload. Then borrow the pattern.
Free, no sign-up. Public YouTube data, measured when you search.
A million views on a ten-million-subscriber channel is a normal day. Fifty thousand views on a channel that usually gets two thousand is a signal: the topic, the title or the thumbnail did something the audience didn't usually get. That's what this finder ranks by.
Each badge is the video's views divided by the median views of that channel's recent uploads. A 5× video pulled five times what its own audience normally delivers — that's the packaging or topic you want to study.
Copy the most-viewed video in the niche.
Study the video with the highest multiple, even if its view count is smaller.
One outlier can be luck. When three titles in the same niche share a structure — a price, a comparison, a named audience — that's a pattern you can use.
"This one video blew up, so I'll remake it."
"Three breakouts all name a budget in the title — mine should too."
Copying a title makes you the second video on the same promise. Keep the mechanism — the specific number, the contrast, the audience — and apply it to your own angle.
Reupload the same title with one word changed.
Same structure (budget + outcome), your own topic and your own proof.
Long-form and Shorts outliers work for different reasons. Search the format you actually make — a Shorts hook pattern won't carry a 15-minute video.
Use a Shorts breakout as the model for a long tutorial.
Toggle the format to match your upload, then compare like with like.
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.
A video that performed far above its own channel's usual level. HookSignals measures it as the video's views divided by the median views of the channel's recent uploads.
Raw views mostly measure channel size. Comparing each video with its own channel surfaces what worked for that audience — including breakouts from small channels.
Yes, no account needed. Lookups are limited per hour and per day because YouTube limits how many searches any app can run.
The public YouTube Data API, measured at the time of the search. Nothing is estimated or predicted. Results are cached for a few days per search.