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Median views per long-form video
195,413
Uploads per week
0.2
Average long-form length
8:34
In the sample
47 long-form · 3 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- How Marlon Brando Changed Acting
1.2M views · 6.3x the median
- The Real Danger Of ChatGPT
773K views · 4.0x the median
- Two Ways To Film The Same Scene (#1)
591.3K views · 3.0x the median
- Why Sargent Painted Outside The Lines
551.2K views · 2.8x the median
- Why This Art Is In Every Hair Salon
529.4K views · 2.7x the median
Trailed the channel median
- Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?
95.2K views · 0.5x the median
- How John Lennon Wrote "A Day In The Life"
91.7K views · 0.5x the median
- The Film That Attacks You
89.1K views · 0.5x the median
- The Age Of Innocence: Adaptation Done Right
85.2K views · 0.4x the median
- The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
61.7K views · 0.3x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Channel research pack
How Nerdwriter1 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 3, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Aug 25, 2022 to Sep 25, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.