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YouTube research for creators

Find what's winning in your niche before everyone else.

VidPulse searches YouTube for you, scores every video against its own channel's usual views, and hands you the outliers in your niche every day. Then it keeps watching: views hour by hour, and every thumbnail and title change.

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#1 · YouTube research

Search YouTube and see what actually outperformed, not just what's big.

Every result comes with an outlier score: how many times more views it got than its channel's usual video in the same format. A 600-subscriber channel with a 20× video tells you far more than a famous channel's average upload.

  • Filter by format (long-form or Shorts), upload date, sort and view range
  • Hover any channel for its size, median views, and exact long-form vs Shorts counts
  • Filter any feed by channel size and YouTube category
  • Open any video for its view history, top comments, and title and thumbnail changes
#2 · Thumbnail A/B testing

Test up to 3 thumbnails before you publish, and let real people vote.

Upload two or three thumbnail options with your title. VidPulse gives you a public link to share with your audience, your Discord or your community. Anyone can vote, no sign-up needed, and you see which one people would actually click.

  • A/B/C test up to 3 thumbnails with your title, shown the way they'd look on YouTube
  • Share a public voting link anyone can open, no account needed
  • A "none of these" option is always added, so you know when none of them land
  • Voters can leave comments that only you see
  • Vote on other creators' tests to earn credits for your own
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#3 · VP outlier

Your video against channels like yours, not only against yourself.

A normal outlier score tells you how a video does compared with your own channel's usual videos. The VP outlier tells you how it does compared with peer channels: channels with the same number of subscribers and the same age, in the first 7 days after upload.

  • On every long-form video under a week old, wherever you see it in VidPulse
  • Built from the first week of hundreds of thousands of launches we follow hour by hour
  • Recalculated every day as new launches come in
  • Add your own channel to Launch benchmark and see each new upload's day 1 to day 7 against its peers
Then it keeps working for you

Recommendations for your niche, and every change tracked

Tell VidPulse what you make once. It searches for you every day and watches what happens next.

Outliers in your niche, recommended daily

Describe your niche in your own words. Every day VidPulse plans fresh searches around it, keeps up with what's trending, and fills your feed with channels and breakout videos you haven't seen yet, ranked by how far they beat their channel's usual.

Personal to you · new searches every day

Thumbnail change history

When a creator swaps a thumbnail, you see it: before and after, with the exact time, marked on the video's view chart. Learn which redesigns actually moved the numbers.

Before / after · exact timestamp

Title change history

Every rewritten title is logged next to the one it replaced, so you can see how creators re-package a video after launch and what happened to its views right after.

Old title → new title

Hourly views on the videos you care about

Star any video and VidPulse checks it about every hour. Watch a launch unfold hour by hour and spot the moment it takes off, or when it stalls.

Hour-by-hour curves

Channel tracking

Follow your own channels or competitors'. Every upload is checked automatically, and the feed flags the ones beating that channel's usual numbers.

Saved thumbnails

Save thumbnails that inspire you into your own lists, then sort them by views or outlier score when you're designing your next one.

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Learn from the data with other creators

Join the VidPulse community for insights pulled from what we track every day: which formats are breaking out, how fast small channels grow in their first week, and what thumbnail and title changes actually do. Ask questions, share your outliers, and get help reading your numbers.

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Start free, grow with your own API key

A YouTube Data API key is free from Google Cloud. With it, your searches run on your own quota, so we can give you a lot more.

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  • 2 YouTube searches a day, with outlier scores
  • Daily outlier recommendations for your niche
  • 3 tracked channels
  • 50 favorite videos checked about every hour
  • 50 saved thumbnails, organised in lists
  • Thumbnail and title change history, Thumbnail Lab
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More searches, more channels

For community members who add their own YouTube API key.

  • 20 YouTube searches a day
  • Niche searches every 4 hours instead of once a day
  • 25 tracked channels
  • Everything in Free, plus the community
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