YouTube Channel Growth Analyzer

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Analyze any YouTube channel's recent upload history and get the derived growth metrics that actually tell you how a channel is performing — upload cadence, engagement rate, best posting time, momentum, and shorts mix — in a single row per channel.

Stop scrolling through video dumps. This actor turns a channel's uploads into a clean scorecard you can sort, filter, and compare in a spreadsheet.

What you get

One summary record per channel with:

• Channel basics — title, URL, subscriber count, lifetime views, total video count, channel age in days
• Upload cadence — uploads per week across the analyzed window, plus lifetime videos per month
• Performance — average views, median views, average likes, average comments
• Engagement rate — average (likes + comments) / views across recent uploads
• Best posting time — the day of week and UTC hour that correlate with the highest median views
• Title insight — average title length and the correlation between title length and views
• Shorts share — the fraction of recent uploads that are Shorts (60 seconds or less)
• Momentum — a score comparing the median views of the most-recent half of uploads vs the older half (above 1 = accelerating, below 1 = declining), with an accelerating / steady / declining label
• Views per subscriber — average views divided by subscriber count, a quick reach-efficiency signal

Export to JSON, CSV, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console.

Use cases

• Competitor analysis — benchmark rival channels on cadence, engagement, and momentum side by side
• Influencer vetting — verify that a creator's recent videos still perform before a sponsorship
• Sponsorship and media buying — compare views-per-subscriber and engagement across a shortlist of channels
• Content strategy — find the best day and hour to publish, and whether longer or shorter titles win
• Trend spotting — surface channels with accelerating momentum early

How to use

1. Enter one or more Channels — accepts @handles (e.g. @mkbhd), full channel URLs (youtube.com/@handle, youtube.com/channel/UC..., /c/Name, /user/Name), or raw UC... channel IDs
2. Set Max Videos Analyzed — how many of the most-recent uploads to analyze per channel (default 50, range 5–200). More videos give more accurate metrics
3. Run the actor — results appear in the Dataset tab, one row per channel

Output format

Each dataset record:

{
"channelId":"UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"channelTitle":"MrBeast",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@mrbeast",
"subscriberCount":494000000,
"totalViews":126759143417,
"totalVideos":984,
"channelAgeDays":5216,
"uploadsPerWeek":2.96,
"avgViews":177799734,
"medianViews":113701504,
"avgLikes":2209470,
"avgComments":117168,
"engagementRate":0.01988,
"bestDayOfWeek":"Wednesday",
"bestHourUTC":16,
"avgTitleLength":31.6,
"titleLengthViewsCorr":-0.225,
"shortsShare":0.8,
"momentumScore":1.218,
"momentumLabel":"accelerating",
"viewsPerSubscriber":0.3599,
"videosPerMonthLifetime":5.74,
"oldestAnalyzedDate":"2026-03-20T16:00:03.000Z",
"newestAnalyzedDate":"2026-05-30T16:00:02.000Z",
"videosAnalyzed":30,
"status":"success",
"error":null
}

Channels that cannot be resolved are emitted as a single row with status set to error and a human-readable error message, so a bad input never silently disappears.

Notes

• Metrics are computed over the most-recent uploads only (up to Max Videos Analyzed), so cadence and performance reflect the channel's current behavior rather than its entire history.
• titleLengthViewsCorr is null when fewer than 3 videos are analyzed; momentumScore is null when the older half has no measurable views.
• Only public channels and videos are included. Private or deleted uploads are skipped.

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