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Median views per long-form video
1,273,022
Uploads per week
0.5
Average long-form length
21:14
In the sample
50 long-form · 0 Shorts
Beat the channel median
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3.9M views · 3.1x the median
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3.4M views · 2.6x the median
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3.2M views · 2.5x the median
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2.9M views · 2.3x the median
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2.4M views · 1.9x the median
Trailed the channel median
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614.8K views · 0.5x the median
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548.4K views · 0.4x the median
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547.8K views · 0.4x the median
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502.7K views · 0.4x the median
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265.5K views · 0.2x the median
Latest uploads
The 50 most recent uploads, newest first. Shorts are included; the badge marks them.
Channel research pack
How Wendover Productions 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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- the first 30 seconds of a YouTube video
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- YouTube hook examples
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- YouTube audience retention guide
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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 30, 2026. Refreshed at least every 7 days. The sample covers uploads published Nov 14, 2024 to Oct 21, 2026. A channel that would rather this page did not exist can ask for its removal through the contact page, and it is removed.