Measure the pace.
CreatorHat divides public views by the video's age to estimate its current views per day.
YouTube outlier finder for Safari
Find videos beating their channel's normal.
A million views on a giant channel may be ordinary. Fifty thousand on a small one may be the idea worth studying. CreatorHat shows the difference inside YouTube.
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Video inspectionLive page data
1,482Views / day
4.3xVs. channel
Breakout video
The problem with raw views
The biggest number is not always the best idea.
Lifetime views mostly tell you how large a channel is and how long a video has been online. They do not tell you whether the video surprised its own audience.
A useful YouTube outlier finder asks a different question: how fast is this video moving compared with that channel's recent uploads? That turns a raw count into context.
CreatorHat's method
Views per day, measured against the channel.
Find the channel baseline.
Recent long-form uploads establish the median pace for that channel. One oversized hit cannot drag the baseline upward.
Show the multiple.
A video running at 4.3 times the channel's normal is clearly different, even if another channel has more total views.
Same topic / Different signal
One number flatters size. The other finds surprise.
Big channel video1,000,000 lifetime views
0.8xBelow its usual pace
Small channel video52,000 lifetime views
4.3xReal breakout
Where the signal appears
Research without opening another dashboard.
Inspect one video.
See views per day, the channel comparison, tags, and the surrounding SEO evidence next to the video.
Scan recent uploads.
See the recent median, upload cadence, and strongest breakouts while you study a channel.
Combine what is working.
CreatorHat can collect breakouts from watched channels and use their patterns as evidence for new video ideas.
Straight answers
What the score means.
What is a YouTube outlier video?
A YouTube outlier is a video performing materially above the recent normal for its own channel. It can reveal a topic or packaging choice that worked unusually well.
How does CreatorHat find YouTube outliers?
CreatorHat calculates views per day for recent long-form uploads, finds the channel's median pace, and compares each video with that baseline.
Does an outlier score predict a viral video?
No. It describes public performance relative to a channel's recent results. It is research evidence, not a prediction or guarantee.
Do I need to connect my YouTube channel?
No. CreatorHat reads public YouTube information in Safari. There is no CreatorHat account, YouTube authorization flow, or API key to paste.
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