YouTube Channel Growth Analyzer

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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