What This Channel Analyzer Measures
Every video gets an outlier score: its views divided by the median views of the ten videos the channel posted before it. The median is the middle number once those ten are sorted, so one old hit cannot drag it upwards.
- Under 5x is inside the channel’s normal range.
- 5x or more is an outlier. The video beat what that channel normally gets.
- 10x or more is a big outlier, usually worth taking apart properly.
- Shorts and long videos are scored separately, because they earn views in different places.
It is the same formula as the YouTube outlier checker, so a video scores the same in both. The checker does one video; this does the whole channel at once.
How To Read The Outlier Chart
Each bar is one video, oldest on the left. The grey line across the middle is the channel’s normal, 1x. Bars above it beat the normal, bars below it fell short, and the red ones crossed 5x.
The scale is logarithmic, which means every step up multiplies instead of adds. So 10x above the line and 10x below it are the same height, and a 700x video does not flatten everything else into the floor.
I think the pattern matters more than the peak. A channel with one red bar had a moment. A channel with red bars every few months has found something it can repeat, and that is the one worth studying.
What The “After It” Column Tells You
“After it” answers one question: did the channel’s normal move after the outlier? It is the median views of the next five videos, divided by the median before the outlier.
- About 1x means the channel went straight back to its old normal. The outlier was a one-off.
- 2x or more means the next videos kept doing double the old normal. The outlier moved the channel.
- “Too soon” means fewer than three of the next videos are two weeks old yet.
This is the closest public numbers get to the luck-or-strategy question I ask in every breakdown. A video that lifts everything after it usually brought in viewers who wanted more of the same.
How To Use It For YouTube Competitor Analysis
Scan three to five channels your viewers also watch, and list every red bar. Then look for the topic, title or thumbnail idea that shows up on more than one channel.
- Scan each competitor and sort by score.
- Open every video at 5x or more, and write down what it promised in the title and thumbnail.
- Mark any idea that broke out on two or more channels. One channel can be luck; two is a pattern.
- Before you make your version, test your thumbnail next to theirs in the YouTube thumbnail tester.
If you would rather hunt for outliers by hand, the free manual method walks through it with a spreadsheet. And for why the thresholds sit where they do, read what a YouTube outlier score is.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this YouTube channel analyzer free?
Yes, with no account and no card. There is a daily cap on scans set by the free YouTube quota. If it runs out, the tool says so and works again the next day.
Can I analyse any channel, not just my own?
Yes. Everything it reads is public: titles, upload dates and view counts. That is the point. You can scan a competitor exactly the way you would scan yourself.
Why does it only look at the last 50 videos?
Because a channel from three years ago was a different channel, with a different audience and a different normal. It reads the last 150 uploads so that each of the newest 50 has ten earlier videos to be measured against.
Why are Shorts scored separately?
A Short and a long video earn views in different places, so a Short doing 50,000 views says nothing about a long video doing 5,000. Each format is only ever compared with itself.
How is this different from the outlier score in YouTube Studio?
YouTube Studio has started testing its own outlier multiplier in the Research tab. It lives inside Studio, and I could not find a published formula for it. This analyzer works on any channel without logging in, and shows the division for every video.
Can I download the data?
Yes. Newsletter subscribers can download every score as a CSV, including the baseline median behind each one, so you can redo the maths in a spreadsheet.