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Median views per long-form video
13,167
Uploads per week
0.8
Average long-form length
10:11
In the sample
17 long-form · 7 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- I was laid off from my AI software engineering job at Amazon
292.7K views · 22.2x the median
- My Office Tech Bag as a Software Engineer
244.8K views · 18.6x the median
- pov: you're a 28 year old software engineer at microsoft
46.9K views · 3.6x the median
- What software dev was like my last year at Amazon
35.8K views · 2.7x the median
- A Day in the Life of a Remote Software Engineer in Chicago
33.8K views · 2.6x the median
Trailed the channel median
- Software Engineer Reviews Claude Agent Teams
1.4K views · 0.1x the median
- I re-built an app because it was too expensive
1.1K views · 0.1x the median
- Should software engineers be paid less?
921 views · 0.1x the median
- Why You Don't Feel Like Coding Anymore
763 views · 0.1x the median
- Software Engineers Answer Your Unhinged CS Questions
554 views · 0.0x the median
Latest uploads
The 24 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 Dan & Jun 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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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 2, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Mar 29, 2026 to Oct 14, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.