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Median views per long-form video
598,027
Uploads per week
0.3
Average long-form length
24:00
In the sample
43 long-form · 7 Shorts
Beat the channel median
- Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?
5.1M views · 8.5x the median
- In Praise of Great Exposition
4.1M views · 6.8x the median
- Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?
2.2M views · 3.6x the median
- The Best Acting I've Ever Seen
2.1M views · 3.5x the median
- Why They Just Don't Care About Continuity
1.9M views · 3.3x the median
Trailed the channel median
- In Praise of Comfort Films
229.7K views · 0.4x the median
- Why Is It So Hard To Make A Good Musical Biopic?
148.1K views · 0.2x the median
- How Disaster Media Fails
136.7K views · 0.2x the median
- How The Art of Filmmaking Is Still Evolving
119.2K views · 0.2x the median
- He Went To Prison For Directing, Then Kept Making Movies
106.6K views · 0.2x 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 Thomas Flight 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 6, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Apr 27, 2023 to Oct 24, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.