See which videos take off before everyone copies them.
Channel Watch is a trend radar for YouTube. It watches the channels you pick, compares every upload with that channel’s normal, and tells you which videos break out, which titles travel between channels and which formats are working right now.
$19 a month, or $190 a year. Cancel anytime.
| Signal | Video | Views | Expected | Since last check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakout 20.5× | I Tested the Viral Repo That Rebuilds Any App Northstack · 6d ago | 1.7M | 85K | +166K/day |
| Breakout 4.2× | How to Survive the Next 2 Years of AI Maple Labs · 7d ago | 501K | 120K | +38K/day |
| Above 1.6× | 5 AI Side Hustles Nobody Talks About Byte Garden · 3d ago | 96K | 60K | +11K/day |
| Normal 0.9× | My Honest Review of the New Model Quiet Builder · 12d ago | 38K | 41K | +900/day |
A radar for your niche in three steps.
List your channels
One per line: a link, an @handle or a channel ID. Up to 60 channels in your niche.
It checks every morning
The 50 newest uploads of every channel, with exact views and publish dates, straight from the YouTube API.
You see what's moving
Breakouts, speed between checks, titles that travel between channels and the formats behind them.
Signals you can act on.
Raw view counts are useless for comparing channels. Channel Watch turns them into signals that tell you what to make next and what to call it.
Signal score
Every video is compared with its own channel's normal, adjusted for age. 2× expected is a breakout, 1.3× is above average. A million views can be a flop; 80K can be a miracle.
Speed between checks
Each check saves the view count, so the next one shows how fast a video is still growing. A lucky first day and a video YouTube keeps recommending look very different.
Matching titles
After every check, all titles on your list are compared with each other. When two channels use almost the same title, you see it, with who had it first on top.
Copy search
When a video breaks out, Channel Watch searches YouTube for that title. Channels that used it first show up as suggestions you can add with one click.
Packaging signals
Click-through rate is private, so the tool uses what you can see from outside: the score, the speed, views per subscriber, and the gap between a channel's best and weakest video.
Formats and their history
Proven title formats get a timeline: who used it first, who copied it, and who got the biggest hit. Then turn one into an idea for your own next video.
One plan. Everything in it.
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
- ✓Up to 60 channels on your watch list
- ✓Automatic check every morning, plus checks on demand
- ✓Breakouts, speed and packaging signals
- ✓Matching titles and copy search
- ✓Title formats with their history and video ideas
- ✓Morning summary by email
Secure payment with Stripe. Tax is added where it applies.
Questions, answered.
Where does the data come from?+
Public data from the official YouTube Data API: uploads, views, likes, comments, durations and subscriber counts. Nothing that only the channel owner can see.
Does it track Shorts?+
Shorts are recognised from the channel's Shorts playlist and marked as such. Matching titles, the packaging signals and the copy search only look at long videos.
How often does it check?+
Once every morning on its own, and whenever you press “Run check”. A full check costs about three API units per channel.
What does it cost?+
One plan with everything in it: $19 a month, or $190 a year (two months free). Tax is added where it applies.
Can I cancel?+
Yes, anytime in Settings → Manage subscription. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
Who makes it?+
Seedflows.ai, the team behind Channel DNA and Scout.
Stop guessing what to make.
Every morning, the videos in your niche that are taking off, and why.
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