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Median views per long-form video
2,279,418
Uploads per week
0.1
Average long-form length
43:04
In the sample
40 long-form · 10 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)
8.3M views · 3.7x the median
- The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
5.9M views · 2.6x the median
- The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes
5.7M views · 2.5x the median
- Why is Cats?
5.3M views · 2.3x the median
- I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil
5.2M views · 2.3x the median
Trailed the channel median
- Queering Michael Bay | The Whole Plate: Episode 8
900.9K views · 0.4x the median
- Marxism! | The Whole Plate: Episode 9
820.3K views · 0.4x the median
- 400k Q&A!
606.9K views · 0.3x the median
- 9 things I wish I knew before publishing my first novel
462.1K views · 0.2x the median
- Axiom's End Q&A
319K views · 0.1x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Channel research pack
How Lindsay Ellis 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 Oct 31, 2017 to Sep 21, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.