Find breakout videos before everyone else notices them

Stop judging YouTube videos by views alone.

YouTube Viral Video & Competitor Analyzer compares videos and Shorts with each channel's own recent performance, helping you discover content that is significantly outperforming that creator's normal results.

Enter a YouTube channel, handle, Shorts page, video, playlist, or search query and get structured competitor insights in seconds.

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🔥 Find true breakout content

A video with 100,000 views can be average for a large channel but extraordinary for a smaller one.

Channel View Multiplier

Video views ÷ recent channel median views

Example:

31.75x

means the video received about 31.75 times the channel's recent median views.

This helps you spot real outliers instead of simply sorting by total views.

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🚀 What you get

• Breakout videos and Shorts
• Channel View Multiplier
• Channel Average View Multiplier
• Viral Score
• Views per day
• Recent channel benchmarks
• Publish dates
• Likes and public engagement data
• Channel information
• Shorts detection
• Search and trending results
• Structured public YouTube metadata

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🎯 Built for

YouTube creators — Find video ideas already outperforming competitors.

Agencies — Research niches and identify winning content formats.

Marketers — Track competitors and discover fast-growing topics.

Researchers — Export structured YouTube data for deeper analysis.

Automation builders — Connect results to spreadsheets, databases, APIs, n8n, Make, and dashboards.

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⚡ Quick start

1. Enter a competitor channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@YourCompetitor

2. Choose your maximum results.
3. Run the Actor.
4. Open Viral / breakout finder.

For the strongest outliers use:

Rank results by → Channel outlier multiplier: high to low

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📊 Example

Recent channel median:

31,500 views

Breakout Short:

1,000,000 views

Result:

Channel View Multiplier: 31.75x

You instantly know the video massively outperformed the channel's normal performance.

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🔍 Supported sources

• YouTube channels
• @handles
• Shorts pages
• Individual videos
• YouTube Shorts
• Playlists
• Search keywords
• Search URLs
• Public trending content

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📈 Viral / Breakout Finder

Metric	Meaning
Channel View Multiplier	Performance vs recent channel median
Channel Average View Multiplier	Performance vs recent channel average
Viral Score	Derived breakout indicator
Views Per Day	Current viewing velocity
Median Recent Views	Recent channel baseline
Average Recent Views	Alternative baseline
Is Short	Whether the result is a Short

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💾 Export results

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS. Use the results in Google Sheets, Excel, databases, dashboards, reporting systems, or your own applications.

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🔁 Monitor competitors automatically

Use Apify schedules to repeatedly analyze competitor channels and discover new breakout videos as they appear.

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Why channel-normalized analysis matters

Raw views can be misleading. A video with 50,000 views may be weak for a huge creator but exceptional for a small channel. This Actor compares each video with that channel's recent performance so you can identify content that is genuinely unusual for that creator.

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Important

This Actor works with publicly accessible YouTube information. Viral Score is an analytical metric created by this Actor and is not an official YouTube metric. Performance metrics describe observed public data and do not guarantee future views or virality.

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Start finding winning YouTube content

Enter a competitor channel, run the Actor, and open Viral / breakout finder.