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Median views per long-form video
1,792,365
Uploads per week
0.1
Average long-form length
23:28
In the sample
34 long-form · 10 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- I Ran A Marathon In Banned Shoes
7.9M views · 4.4x the median
- I Rode a Sleep Pod Train Across Europe
7.5M views · 4.2x the median
- I Built a Micro Stealth Camper
6.2M views · 3.5x the median
- I Tried a Secret Billionaire Hotel
6.1M views · 3.4x the median
- I Stayed in Earth’s Deadliest Hotel
5.4M views · 3.0x the median
Trailed the channel median
- I Learnt To Unicycle In 2 Hours
20.5K views · 0.0x the median
- I Spent 6 Months Learning To Code
17.8K views · 0.0x the median
- CS50 Final Project Using OpenAI
12.7K views · 0.0x the median
- First vlog ! BMX and chills riding local spots
10.7K views · 0.0x the median
- Can AI Code Super Mario Bros? Watch ChatGPT Try
8.8K views · 0.0x the median
Latest uploads
The 44 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Channel research pack
How Chris Howett opens its videos, how it builds them, and how it sounds, read from its public videos and transcripts and quoted in its own words.
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Full breakdown of this channel
What this channel's overperformers do differently, quoted from its own transcripts.
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Guides for your own video
The guides behind the choices this video already made, from the opening line to the length of the script.
- the first 30 seconds of a YouTube video
What the Intro metric measures, and how to build an opening that earns the next minute.
- YouTube hook examples
Opening lines you can copy, grouped by type, with a note on when each one works.
- YouTube audience retention guide
What audience retention measures and how to read the graph in YouTube Studio.
- what a good YouTube retention rate is
The benchmark ranges for a good retention rate, by video length and format.
- how long a YouTube script should be
Word counts by video length, measured from the videos Prepublish has stored.
- YouTube Shorts retention
What YouTube Help says about Shorts retention, and how to fix a low rate.
Where these numbers come from
Counts from the YouTube Data API, read Oct 30, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Sep 27, 2015 to Oct 2, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.