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Median views per long-form video
3,979
Uploads per week
7.8
Average long-form length
16:43
In the sample
46 long-form · 4 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis | Planet Money
66.4K views · 16.7x the median
- Is our national debt finally too much? (update) | Planet Money
12.5K views · 3.1x the median
- Why are used cars priced like new cars? | The Indicator
12K views · 3.0x the median
- Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs | Planet Money
12K views · 3.0x the median
- Where all those weird new drinks are coming from | Planet Money
10K views · 2.5x the median
Trailed the channel median
- How Hemp-THC businesses are bracing for a near total ban | The Indicator
2K views · 0.5x the median
- A Beautiful Bill, Mamdani's Market, and Stock Subscriptions | The Indicator
1.9K views · 0.5x the median
- SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty | The Indicator
1.7K views · 0.4x the median
- The proper etiquette of the Venmo nudge | The Indicator
1.6K views · 0.4x the median
- The echo of the bison (Encore) | The Indicator
1.2K views · 0.3x the median
Latest uploads
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Guides for your own video
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- 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
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- YouTube audience retention guide
What audience retention measures and how to read the graph in YouTube Studio.
- what a good YouTube retention rate is
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- 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 27, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.