YouTube Channel Analytics

You can see everything YouTube shows publicly — views, likes, comments, durations, upload dates — and everything that can be computed from it. What stays private is watch time, retention, click-through rate, traffic sources and demographics. Any tool claiming to show you a competitor’s retention is guessing.

Because one viral video wrecks an average. A channel with nine videos at 10,000 views and one at 5 million has an average of about 509,000 — a number no video on that channel has ever come close to. The median stays at 10,000, which is what a typical upload actually gets.

The 30 most recent uploads. Far enough back to have a stable median, recent enough that it reflects what the channel is doing now rather than what it did three years ago.

Likes plus comments over views, typically between 1% and 6% for a healthy channel. It varies enormously by topic: educational content gets fewer likes than entertainment, and a channel below 1% is not automatically in trouble.

It tells you where the audience comes from. Median views well above the subscriber count means the channel is carried by recommendation and search. Well below means it depends on a subscriber base that is no longer watching — the more fragile position of the two.

Yes, pulled when you ask, then cached for a few hours so that two people asking about the same channel do not trigger two fetches.