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Median views per long-form video
106,751
Uploads per week
1.7
Average long-form length
12:23
In the sample
17 long-form · 33 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- An Update on Emily
1.1M views · 10.5x the median
- An Update on Angie
260K views · 2.4x the median
- I Stopped Her & Got an Unexpected Life Lesson
229.7K views · 2.2x the median
- Wait Until You See Her Reaction...
146.4K views · 1.4x the median
- Extraordinary Encounter with a Stranger on the Streets
125.1K views · 1.2x the median
Trailed the channel median
- I Didn’t Know These People. Now I’ll Never Forget Them
36.8K views · 0.3x the median
- Extraordinary Encounter With 94 Year Old Stranger: Loss & Loneliness
33.6K views · 0.3x the median
- I Couldn't Let Her Just Ride Away | Unedited + Commentary
19K views · 0.2x the median
- He Looked Like He Had a Story to Tell. And He Did.
10.9K views · 0.1x the median
- RARE Painting Stream
4.7K views · 0.0x 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 pale blue wave 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 Apr 4, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.