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Analyze your competitors with Channelytics
Here's how Channelytics works
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How to study your competitors on YouTube
- Step 1: Visit any competitor's YouTube page give Channelytics a second to load competitor's data.
- Step 2: Compare your performance and learn what's working for them.
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Frequently asked questions
Channelytics is TubeBuddy’s YouTube competitor analysis tool that helps you compare your channel’s performance against others. It shows real-time data directly on YouTube, making it easier to learn from top creators and improve your strategy.
Channelytics tracks key performance indicators like views, subscribers, and video uploads. It provides side-by-side data comparisons between your channel and competitors, helping you identify strengths and areas for growth.
You can monitor metrics such as total views, subscriber count, recent growth in the last 30 days, upload frequency, and even the tags used by competing channels. This gives you a complete performance overview.
By seeing what works for similar creators, like fast-growing videos or trending topics, you can fine-tune your own content strategy. Channelytics helps you replicate successful patterns while avoiding ineffective tactics.
Visit a competitor’s YouTube channel and let Channelytics load their data automatically. You’ll then be able to compare their 30-day growth, performance trends, and optimization strategies directly alongside your own.
Regular use is ideal. Checking weekly or bi-weekly helps you stay up-to-date on competitor activity and assess whether your own channel strategy is driving meaningful progress.
Yes. Channelytics provides current performance data while also showing changes over the last 30 days, giving you insight into both real-time shifts and recent trends.
It shows how competing channels grow and what kind of videos attract more views and subscribers. By analyzing their engagement patterns, you can better understand what your own audience may respond to.
Simply install TubeBuddy’s browser extension and visit any YouTube channel, including your own or a competitor’s. Channelytics will automatically appear and display relevant data for that channel.
By analyzing what’s driving growth for others, like successful content formats or posting frequency, you can identify trends you haven’t tried and apply those learnings to boost your own channel performance.
Focus on high-performing competitors in your niche, track their recent growth, and observe which content types are gaining traction. Use that data to plan your topics, titles, tags, and upload schedules.
Channelytics helps you understand what kinds of videos, tags, and formats are performing well in your niche. With that knowledge, you can create more targeted, timely content that aligns with viewer demand and proven trends.
