How to Research a YouTube Channel In 3 Minutes

Hey creators, I'm Rob and welcome back to VidIQ. In this video, I want to quickly show you how our browser extension tools can help you research a YouTube channel, which may lead to better video ideas for your channel. So, let's take a look here in the quick channel stats bar. It will show you

information about recent performance of a channel, estimated monthly earnings, and that's always a big estimate because of how CPMs can fluctuate massively. the average video length, how many times a channel uploads per week, and also we can look at the entire channel stats here using this button. It gives you a bigger breakdown. The same information

at the top, plus a little bit more, but views gained, subscribers gained, videos published, all over different time periods that you can change through the little buttons here and to daily and monthly and those all important, not really channel tags at the bottom. And just to confirm that this is publicly available data, I'm now looking at Mr.

Beast's channel, which is accessed through the same button on his channel page, and it gives you all of the same stats and numbers. Somewhat more impressive than ours. We can add Mr. Beast as a competitor if we want to, like we did before. And yeah, this is incredible. hundred billion views and oh my goodness 5 to$15 million in

revenue just from adverts alone. Next to the channel stats button are a couple more Vid IQ tools. The first one view trending videos. Think of realtime stats on your own channel. This is effectively for any channel. So no matter how old the video is, it's all about views per hour right now. what's hot on the