5. Channel analysis

Analyzing a channel (or playlist) is how you study a body of work — your own or a competitor's — instead of a single video.

How it differs from a single video

1. On the home screen, choose Analyze a Channel.
2. Paste a YouTube channel or playlist URL and choose Find Videos. For playlists, discovery is limited to the 50 newest videos.
3. Pick the videos you want from the list, then configure and run as usual. Each video is analyzed and gets its own full report.

The cost scales with how many videos you select — the estimate on the Configure screen accounts for the whole batch.

What the channel view gives you

A channel analysis is a collection. At the top you get channel-wide context — a Summary, Categories breakdown, and a Duration vs Scenes view — and tabs to move between the Overview, per-video Videos, and the run Logs.

The value is the synthesis across videos: patterns you can't see one video at a time. What to do with it:

• Find what your best videos share. Sort by the strongest hook or thumbnail scores and look for the common thread.
• Spot the weak spot that repeats. If pacing is low across many videos, that's a channel-level habit worth fixing.
• Study a competitor's formula. Run their channel and read the synthesis to see how they open, structure, and package videos.

Open any individual video from the collection to read its full report, exactly as described in Chapter 4.