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All percentages are versus a typical video, unless the text says otherwise.

Every upload, graded

Each upload since Oct 5 gets one of two grades. Keep making this means the topic and format earned it. Shouldn't have released this means it cost us more than it earned.

Views in the first day

Views each upload had about 24 hours after it went live (logged between hours 23 and 30). The dashed line is the typical long-form first day.

Views over time, per upload

Pick uploads to compare. The x-axis is hours since the upload went live; every point is a real daily reading.

Topic mix

Share of uploads by topic

Uploads per week, by topic

How each topic is doing

"Typical" is the median long-form video (about lifetime views). Only uploads at least 4 days old are counted in the percentage.

Best and worst lanes

12-month view of every video we have published, grouped by subject. Performance is the median video in the lane versus a typical video. Lanes with fewer than 8 videos in the last 12 months are left out.

Best lanes

Worst lanes

All lanes

Title words

How titles containing each word performed over the last 12 months, versus a typical video. Only words used in at least 8 titles.

Words that help

Words that hurt

Lives vs long-form vs Shorts

Typical views by format

The bar is the median. The thin range is the middle half of uploads.

How lives start

Views each tracked live had about 5 to 6 hours in.

Subscribers and the road to 3 million