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Median views per long-form video
253,623
Uploads per week
14.2
Average long-form length
54:05
In the sample
25 long-form · 25 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- The ElevenLabs Situation Is Crazy
1.4M views · 5.7x the median
- "Japan Pissed Off The Wrong Guy" - The Fat Electrician
1.3M views · 5.3x the median
- The Most Hardcore War Stories In History - The Fat Electrician
1.1M views · 4.2x the median
- Clear Signs You Might Be a “Late Bloomer” - Robert Greene
337.2K views · 1.3x the median
- A Generation of Men Are Giving Up On Women - Daniel Cox
329.2K views · 1.3x the median
Trailed the channel median
- The Rock Bottom Moment That Almost Ruined Dr K
245.8K views · 1.0x the median
- Why Pessimism Makes Dumb Ideas Sound Smart - David Deutsch
171.8K views · 0.7x the median
- Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman
155.7K views · 0.6x the median
- 9 Harsh Truths No One Wants To Admit - Shaan Puri
147.9K views · 0.6x the median
- People Dumber than You Have What You Want - Shaan Puri
85K views · 0.3x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Transcripts on Prepublish
Transcripts of this channel's videos that have already been read from YouTube's own caption tracks.
Channel research pack
How Chris Williamson 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 Nov 8, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Oct 13, 2026 to Nov 7, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.