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Median views per long-form video
279,025
Uploads per week
4.5
Average long-form length
13:20
In the sample
49 long-form · 1 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- Scientists Can't Agree On The First Ancient City
2.6M views · 9.2x the median
- Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?
1.7M views · 6.1x the median
- The Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pass Incident
1.5M views · 5.5x the median
- Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All
1M views · 3.6x the median
- Ancient Octopuses Were MUCH Bigger Than We Thought
756K views · 2.7x the median
Trailed the channel median
- Why You Should Get Your DNA Sequenced After You Die
149.2K views · 0.5x the median
- 6 Ways Animals Pee Weird
110.9K views · 0.4x the median
- What's Really Living in the Subway
99.5K views · 0.4x the median
- Do Penguins Control the Weather?
76.4K views · 0.3x the median
- That Time We Put Spiders in VR
67K views · 0.2x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Channel research pack
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Full breakdown of this channel
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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 Aug 12, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.