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ViewStats – YouTube Channel Statistics
- bluesounddirect 3y ago[flagged]
- r87 3y agoWhy?
- yNeolh 3y agoIt makes sense. He loves stats and uses them a lot to improve his videos so with this, he can have a platform that can monitor the entire ecosystem. Right now it's pretty basic but I would bet it will become more complex and have some paid membership for advanced stats and suggestions for your videos.
- 6stringmerc 3y agoLet's please clarify the term "improve" and remove the positive implication - What he's doing is making his videos "more effective at monetization" and that has fuck all to do with quality. You may disagree with my tone here but I'm biting my tongue at the Little Bobby Tables view of children's attention and development (qualified Educator so I can talk shit about Mr Beast any day) so I'd like to keep it analytical as possible. I very much appreciate Ed Bolian at VinWiki for his behind the scenes discussions about monetization. They are healthy! Because of those, I genuinely have tried to follow quality channels and bring them revenue via their presence (Ammo NYC, VinWIKI, TomleyRC) sitting through ads or maybe checking out sponsors. It's not that hard to be adult about it. One of these days I hope we get to see a breakdown of where all Mr Beast's money is / was used, how it was sheltered, taxed, moved, or otherwise employed because that didn't just sit in the bank. Reference: Taylor Swift. Citation: Scott Swift FINA Report.
- master-lincoln 3y agoI wonder why you are downvoted. I have no skin in talking about your second part (other channels + breakdown of MrBeast money), but I sympathize with your first part. Optimizing for monetization seems to degrade quality most of the time. E.g. click bait video names/thumbnails that do not tell the viewer what they are about to watch. Or reducing the feature set of apps so no casual user is confused, but advanced users are left behind. Or stretching video lengths to improve ad income without actually adding any valuable content. ...
- yreg 3y ago> Optimizing for monetization seems to degrade quality most of the time. True, but it is also natural. The vast majority of businesses optimize for profit (the publically traded ones are even obliged to do so). I agree a profit maximization motive doesn't lead to an absolute global maximum of quality, but it still generally leads to quality nevertheless.
- adaml_623 3y agoI suspect others downvoted due to the waffly style of the comment. What was that last Swift thing about? Reads like someone with multiple bees in their bonnet
- paulcole 3y agoDo you think MrBeast is lying when he says that his videos on his main channel lose money because of the production costs and that he just puts the money he makes back into making more videos?
- micromacrofoot 3y agoyes
- paulcole 3y agoOK just checking.
- yNeolh 3y agoOf course, if you take "improve" to your terms. For MrBeast, it is to have more views (other than monetization itself); he deliberately works towards it and is public about how he uses YouTube tools to get more views and retention. So, I think my comment is on point. Other creators will fight for different ways to improve their content, which can technically be 4K HDR or having better guests, etc. Do youn't like Mr. Beast's "empty" content? Then you don't like society, which is the one taking MrBeast to the top, and I would completely agree with you.
- utybo 3y agoIs there more context on why this platform was created somewhere? I don't really know what's wrong with SocialBlade or other platforms like it.
- 3836293648 3y agoSocialblade lost access to most of the data they used. Unclear how this improves on that
- noirscape 3y agoPretty sure socialblade is unmaintained, if the state of their blog is of any indication. There's been no updates there since 2020, with the last subject relating to COPPA enforcement on YouTube. Given that specific subject did have a few follow-ups with no relevant notes published, my guess is that the site is mostly in maintenance mode/runs until it breaks with no active features being developed.
- rmorey 3y agoThis was previously an internal tool built by the MrBeast team that they decided to open to the public
- regnerba 3y agoApparently it was created internally for MrBeast and they then decided to release it for public use as well. https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1735360557711065234 https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1735360557711065234
- dangoodmanUT 3y agoIs this doing something different than other tools? Feels very similar other than being promoted by MrBeast
- djtango 3y agoI'm surprised that anything like this exists. I considered what it might be like to build some analytics for something like YouTube but figured that I would be killed or copied by YouTube the second the project got any traction
- frankdenbow 3y agoThere are a ton of these.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoSocialBlade has existed for years without issue.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoIs it likely that Mr Beast negotiated some kind of access to data with YouTube? He has the pull to do that.
- sorenjan 3y agoWhy would he have any pull to make Youtube do anything? What's he gonna do if Youtube refuses, stop using Youtube? He needs them much more than they need him.
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- hobofan 3y agoThere is nothing special here in terms of data. I've worked with the Youtube API before and basically everything that's displayed on this website is easily available there (as long as you snapshot it, which it looks like they started doing in October this year). I think the only thing they are doing here that I haven't seen on any competitors website is the differentiation between shorts and normal videos. Last time I checked, there was no reliable way to detect whether a video is a short via the API, so you either have to build ugly heuristics for it or build a scraper that tries to access the video as a short. I think this might be quite valuable as the introductions of shorts has disturbed view numbers and accordingly channel/audience valuations quite a bit. Per-video analytics are also not something that's freely available on competitor platforms IIRC.
- nbzso 3y ago[flagged]
- sys42590 3y agoAre these revenue estimations given out by the platform realistic? If the revenue numbers are right, I'm strongly considering opening my own Youtube channel. Edit: And if the numbers are right, why are so many mid-sized creators begging people for more money on their Patreon?
- Etheryte 3y agoWithout commenting on the accuracy of the numbers, Youtube is very much a rockstar platform. Similar to the music industry, it's largely a winner-takes-all situation, where a few top players make almost all of the income. The top channels are not single people doing it as a hobby, they're production companies, often with considerable teams working behind the scenes.
- canadianfella 3y ago[dead]
- trollied 3y ago> If the revenue numbers are right, I'm strongly considering opening my own Youtube channel. Starting the channel is the easy bit. Gaining any sort of traction whatsoever is the difficult bit.
- sys42590 3y agoYes, you're correct. I mean, what do I loose? 2 to 3 hours per week, half of it for editing? Some $$ for equipment? If I get some 1k subscribers, it's already worth the ongoing effort. If not I can still drop it and look out for another hobby.
- Etheryte 3y agoYou're grossly underestimating the effort. There are many ballpark measurements, but a common one is one man-hour of work for one minute of video. It's an open market and you're literally competing with the world's best.
- steveBK123 3y agoThis seems like a more "honest grift" than a lot of the influencers trying to monetize "how to be an influencer" type content. If anything this is an anti-grift as it's most useful only to existing high follower count type "creators" and will illuminate lack of success to those who might otherwise be pulled into buying BS how-to content.
- Oras 3y agoIt'd be great to see top videos by country, not just top 50 videos from yesterday/last week/...etc. Are there YouTube API rate limits? I'm sure YouTube can pull the plug anytime, like other platforms did recently. edit: clarifying the last sentence
- theGnuMe 3y agoI am amazed the top two aren't even in English... Who is the self help guru guy Acharya Prashant?
- WJW 3y agoWell there are two countries each with at least four times the amount of inhabitants of the USA and both are non-English. It's not really surprising that the most popular channels would be non-English tbh.
- loufe 3y agoThis is really neat, I expected it to be a priced service but I was able to look up my friends' channel for free. Great stats, though I'll have to ask them what information this has that isn't available on their own platform. Shameless plug for them: https://www.viewstats.com/@nickandmaela/channelytics https://www.viewstats.com/@nickandmaela/channelytics
- AlexanderTheGr8 3y agois there any way for you to confirm if their estimated revenue is accurate?
- loufe 3y agoI mean, I could ask, but I don't think they'd ever consent to me confirming that to a stranger on the internet. Sorry
- Copenjin 3y agoSo... another, but less functional (has some stat bugs from what I can see), SocialBlade.
- slyall 3y agoLook at a channel I watch (RMTransit). 269k subscribers and only the 191,056th most popular channel. Never would have guessed there were over 200,000 channels each with over 200,000 subscribers.
- robbiejs 3y agoGood looking website! And my mind is blown by the figures some of these Youtubers make! $4.6M in revenue. "Last 28 days". (Well, that's Mr. Beast, I think world's most popular Youtuber) Insane!
- rowanG077 3y ago$4.6M a month in revenue is not that much honestly. I'm disappointed. The average Hollywoord blockbuster could pay for that about 2 years. And the views/$ are most likely staggeringly lower. If I do the napkin math: $600 million dollar revenue for Oppenheimer. A movie ticket costs about $10. That means Oppenheimer was viewed 60 million times. Mr. Beast JUST on his main channel has 1.6 BILLION views. And that only for the meager price of $4.6M. Oppenheimer cost $100M to make and it doesn't even touch Mr. Beast.
- anonu 3y agoMovie ticket sales not comparable to Youtube revenue numbers. Studio gets probably 50% of a ticket sales. Movies are getting longer as well and that needs a big cast and crew. Whereas Youtube movies are optimal around the 10 minute mark - so the cost of production will be a lot lower. We're comparing apples and oranges.
- 1f60c 3y agoIf ViewStats is to be believed, that's nothing compared to T-Series—estimated revenue: $19.8 million in the last 28 days. https://www.viewstats.com/@tseries/channelytics https://www.viewstats.com/@tseries/channelytics
- apwell23 3y agodo indian views pay less than USA views ? Sounds like they should but i am not sure.
- mrtksn 3y agoThey will pay whatever the advertisers pay. Certain categories in certain countries can be extremely valuable, and other categories in other countries can be much less. India, being a poor country, certainly will generate much less revenue than a country like US in the same category because the advertisers will be willing to pay much less per click.
- anonu 3y agoI wonder if the revenue stats are accurate. The #1 site on YouTube according to this is https://www.youtube.com/@tseries https://www.youtube.com/@tseries making near $20m in the last month. However, it is India focused. My understanding is that India has the lowest monetization rates.
- ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y agoPer capita figures do not matter in such comparisons when the population involved is massive. YouTube is huge in India.
- jtokoph 3y agoI’m pretty sure this is just estimating Adsense revenue based on some fixed CPM. Many large YouTubers make the bulk of their revenue from sponsorships and brand deals. I would take the numbers with a large grain of salt.
- vient 3y agohttps://www.viewstats.com/@sssniperwolf/channelytics https://www.viewstats.com/@sssniperwolf/channelytics -77m views on December 15, removing bot views? Choosing 7 days here gives a negative revenue - now I wonder what happens when somebody got paid and then a lot of views were removed, does YouTube actually subtracts paid extra from next payment?
- popey 3y agoMore likely they made some videos private or unlisted. Given that creator's recent clash with other creators, this is a likely outcome.
- hobofan 3y ago> -77m views on December 15, removing bot views? If it works like on Socialblade, a drop in views usually indicates video delistings (potentially due to copyright claims as she runs a "reaction" channel). Detection of view botting is usually punished a lot more harshly with whole channel demonetization, which I'd be surprised if any big creator were to risk that. Even if it were view botting, in those cases they rarely reverses payments AFAIK (as that would mean them having to pay back advertisers and losing out on revenue).
- DueDilligence 3y ago[dead]
- the_arun 3y agoHow do you make money?
- starwin1159 3y agoCocomelon - Nursery Rhymes $18.3M ( last 28 days) Crazy~ https://www.viewstats.com/@cocomelon/channelytics https://www.viewstats.com/@cocomelon/channelytics
- AlexanderTheGr8 3y agois there any way to see the avg time users watch the videos? Long videos get fewer views naturally but the views can be longer. So the total user time can be the same (more views * less time spent per view = less views * more time spent per view). So I am interested in how yt determines monetization for this case. also, is it possible to see distribution of users based on geography? would be very interesting
- solarkraft 3y agoI don't know much about Youtube analytics, only that a German Youtuber (Rezo) is building a similar tool for ad agencies: https://nindo.de/ https://nindo.de/ I had thought this would long be a solved problem, but apparently not.