A free YouTube outlier finder that shows the videos beating their own channel's usual views for any keyword.
Type a keyword to find the videos that got far more views than their channel usually gets. Those are proven topics: what pulled viewers beyond the channel's own audience.
Type a keyword
A channel's usual is the median views of its latest long uploads at least 2 weeks old, from its public YouTube feed, leaving out the videos being compared. Shorts are left out, since their views count differently.
This free YouTube outlier finder shows the videos for a keyword that got far more views than their channel usually gets.
Type a keyword and it reads the top 2 pages of results, then each channel's latest uploads. You get each video's multiple of its channel's usual views, marked from 2×, with its views a day and its age.
What is a YouTube outlier?
A YouTube outlier is a video with far more views than its channel usually gets. It means the topic or title pulled viewers beyond the channel's own audience.
A video with 1 million views on a channel whose videos get 1 million is normal. The same video on a channel whose videos get 50,000 is a 20× outlier.
How to use the YouTube outlier finder
How the usual is worked out
A channel's usual is the median views of its latest long uploads, from its public YouTube feed. The median, the middle value, isn't pulled up by one viral video the way an average is.
2 kinds of upload are left out, so the bar is fair:
- Uploads under 2 weeks old. Their views are still coming in, and counting them would pull the usual down.
- The videos being compared. A video never sets its own bar.
The feed holds a channel's latest 15 uploads, so the usual is what the channel gets now, not in its early days. A channel with fewer than 3 long uploads to go on isn't rated.
Shorts are left out: their views count differently, and a Short measured against long videos would mislead.
What to do with an outlier
An outlier is a proven topic. Don't copy the video. Find what it promised:
- The topic. What question does it answer that others don't?
- The title. What does it promise, and to whom?
- The timing. A recent outlier is a topic working right now.
Then make your version for your viewers. To get an outlier's key points fast, use the YouTube video summarizer.
To size up the niche around a keyword, use the YouTube niche finder.
Who is the YouTube outlier finder for?
It's for YouTubers looking for topics that are proven to work:
- YouTube niche finder – creators sizing up a whole niche
- YouTube video summarizer – anyone who wants an outlier's key points fast
- YouTube title checker – creators writing their own title
- YouTube thumbnail downloader – people studying an outlier's thumbnail
The rest of my tools are on the free tools page.
YouTube Outlier Finder FAQs
Questions about YouTube outliers? Here's what to know.
A YouTube outlier is a video with far more views than its channel usually gets.
It means the topic or title pulled viewers beyond the channel's own audience.
Type a keyword into the YouTube outlier finder.
It compares each top video's views with its channel's usual views and lists the ones far above.
An outlier's number is its views divided by its channel's usual.
The usual is the median views of the channel's latest long uploads at least 2 weeks old, from its public feed, leaving out the videos being compared.
2 times its channel's usual is an outlier, 5 times a strong one, and 20 times a rare one.
The finder marks each tier and filters by them, and multiples stop at 99 times, since a channel with very few views makes the number meaningless.
Shorts' views count differently from long videos' views, so comparing a Short with a channel's long videos would mislead.
The finder compares long videos only.
Yes, the YouTube outlier finder is free, with no sign-up.
The YouTube outlier finder is for creators looking for video ideas with proof behind them, and for strategists studying a niche.
To size up a niche, use the YouTube niche finder.
To get any video's key points, use the YouTube video summarizer.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the YouTube outlier finder as one of my free tools on navid.me.
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Navid Moazzez
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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