YouTube Channel Monitor: Track Channels and Views

Watch a list of YouTube channels and see who is actually winning. For every channel: what it published recently, how many views each video got, how often it posts, and whether it is speeding up or slowing down against its own baseline.

No API key, no quota, no login, no proxy.

What does this do?

The YouTube Data API gives you 10,000 quota units a day and a Google Cloud project to set up first. This Actor reads the channel's public feed instead, which needs none of that, and turns fifteen recent videos into a scorecard you can sort.

flowchart LR
    A[Handles, URLs<br/>or channel ids] --> B[Resolve to the<br/>real channel]
    B --> C[Public channel feed:<br/>15 recent videos + views]
    C --> D[Pace, views, momentum,<br/>best and worst video]

Read this before you buy

YouTube's public feed carries the 15 most recent videos of a channel, and nothing older. That is a hard limit of the source, not a setting.

So this Actor is built for monitoring and benchmarking many channels: track 200 competitors every week for cents, see who is accelerating, catch new uploads. It is not a full channel archive, and it cannot fetch a channel's back catalogue. If you need every video a channel ever made, you need a different tool.

What you get instead is speed and reliability: the feed answered 12 out of 12 times in testing with no bot checks, no CAPTCHAs and no proxy bill.

Who is it for?

You are	You use it to
Creators	Benchmark your output and views against rivals in your niche, week by week
Brand and sponsorship teams	Vet channels before paying for a placement: are they still posting, are views holding up
Agencies	Report client channel performance next to competitors, on a schedule
Media analysts	Track publishing pace and audience response across hundreds of channels
Anyone tracking a topic	Get a weekly digest of what a set of channels just published

What data do you get?

One row per channel:

Field	Meaning
channelTitle, channelId, channelUrl, channelCreatedAt	The channel, and when it started
videosInWindow, videosInFeed	How many recent videos fell inside your window
uploadsPerWeek	Real publishing pace, measured across those videos
averageViews, medianViews, totalViews	How those videos performed
averageLikes, totalLikes	Audience response
trend, momentumPercent	Newer half of the videos against the older half: accelerating, steady or slowing
recentAverageViews, earlierAverageViews	The two numbers behind that verdict
mostViewedVideo, leastViewedVideo	Best and worst recent video, with links
latestVideoAt, daysSinceLastUpload, isActive	Whether the channel is still alive

Turn on Also return each video as a row for a second table: title, views, likes, date and link.

Example

Five channels, 90 day window, September 2026:

Channel	Videos	Uploads / week	Average views	Trend
MrBeast	14	1.2	88,560,974	slowing (−22%)
Marques Brownlee	15	1.7	6,662,533	accelerating (+77%)
Veritasium	15	1.7	4,141,153	slowing (−55%)
Linus Tech Tips	15	8.9	1,771,758	slowing (−45%)
Fireship	15	2.0	1,596,360	accelerating (+158%)

Linus Tech Tips posts nearly nine videos a week, seven times MrBeast's pace, and gets about 2% of the views per video. Fireship's recent videos are pulling more than twice its own baseline.

How to use it

1. Add your channels: @mkbhd, a channel URL, or a UC… id. Handles are resolved for you.
2. Pick the window. A narrow window measures only the last few weeks; "all 15" uses everything the feed gives.
3. Run it, then export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

Run it on a schedule with the same channels to watch momentum change over time.

Popular comparisons

Ready to run examples, each one a real set of channels:

• Tech Review Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Programming Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Science Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Personal Finance Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• News Channels on YouTube: Views and Output
• Startup and VC Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Gaming Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Fitness Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• AI Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Marketing Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Design Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Podcast Channels: Views and Upload Pace
• Top Creator Channels: Views and Upload Pace

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.01 per channel scorecard, plus $0.0005 per video row only if you ask for the video table. Monitoring 100 channels costs about a dollar.

Where the data comes from

The public YouTube channel feed at youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml, which every podcast app and RSS reader uses. Handles are resolved through the channel page.

FAQ

Are subscriber counts included? No. They cannot be read reliably from the public page — the patterns that look right return figures that are plainly wrong, so nothing here reports them rather than printing a number you cannot trust.

Why is the star rating missing? YouTube reports 5.00 out of 5 for every video since dislikes were removed, so it tells you nothing. The like count is kept, which does.

What does "momentum" actually compare? The average views of the newer half of the videos in your window against the older half. Above +15% is accelerating, below −15% is slowing. It needs at least six videos, and says "not enough videos" rather than guessing.

Recent videos have had less time to gather views. Does that skew it? Yes, and it is worth knowing: a video posted yesterday has not finished accumulating views. Momentum is most meaningful on channels that post steadily, and over a window wide enough that the newest video is not most of the sample.

Can it find channels by topic? No. It reads channels you name. There is no public search in this feed.