Platforms
YouTube: what Opah reads for any artist you add, every 72 hours
For any artist you add to Opah, yours included, Opah reads YouTube every 72 hours: subscribers, total views and video count for the artist’s own channel, and every recent video and Short with its title, views, duration, type and date. Links in the descriptions are classified by where they send people. The Topic channel is never mistaken for the artist.
$0.99 a month for your first 3 months on Opah Core, then $19. Cancel any time. Chartmetric is $60 a month for 10 artists; Opah is $19 for 3 or $39 for 10.
- June
- 154K
- Views gained
- 4.3M
- Uploads
- 166 to 185
Measured , artists anonymised.
Views arrive every week; subscribers arrive in thousands
One artist’s channel gained 4.26M views between June and October from 19 uploads, and 17,000 subscribers. YouTube publishes the subscriber count rounded to three figures, so Opah keeps it as the stepped series it is and reads the exact view count beside it; the views say which week moved.
YouTube is also the platform the audience-against-output read was built for. One artist: 383,000 subscribers, 26% of their audience across the three platforms, and 1 upload in 90 days, 2% of their output. The audience is there and the posting is not. No single platform’s dashboard can show that, because each one only sees itself.
The YouTube read also carries a format mix (videos, Shorts, lives and premieres) and the organic funnel: every link in a description, classified by destination, so you can see where an artist sends people when no ad is paying for the click.
What Opah reads from YouTube
Every 72 hours, for every artist you add.
- Channel
- Subscribers, total views, video count, description, country, verified flag, the outbound links
- Every 72 hours
- Videos and Shorts
- Each recent upload with its title, description, type (video, Short, live, premiere), duration, views and date; Shorts from their own tab
- Every 72 hours
- Topic channel
- YouTube's auto-generated artist channel, told apart from the artist's own and never attached as it
- On discovery
- Organic funnel
- Every link in a description, classified: streaming, link page, tickets, store, sign-up, the artist's site
- Computed
- Cadence
- The median gap between uploads, banded against YouTube's own norms
- Computed
- Format mix
- The share of videos, Shorts and lives among recent uploads
- Computed
- Nothing connected
- No Google login; the artist is never contacted
How it reads in the Niche Playbook
The same fields, read across the artists you study.
Subscribers and uploads join Audience vs Output for every artist in the niche, so a whole niche’s neglect of a platform shows as one gap. Cadence joins the Behavior section. The organic funnel sits beside the paid Spend Funnel the ads give, so the niche’s two sets of destinations read on one page.
The artist page keeps YouTube as one tab beside Instagram and TikTok, with the day of each read printed.
The other platforms Opah reads
Every artist slot reads all five platforms. Each has its own page.
The other half: the paid funnel beside the organic one
The links an artist posts in descriptions are where they send people on their own time. The links in their Meta ads are where they send people when they pay. Opah classifies both the same way and prints them side by side, for one artist and for the niche.
Questions
More on the FAQ.
Can I see YouTube analytics for an artist that is not mine?
Which channel does Opah read, the artist's or the Topic channel?
Does Opah read likes and comments on YouTube videos?
What does Opah do with the links in video descriptions?
How often do artists post on YouTube?
YouTube, read every 72 hours, for any artist you name
The first numbers arrive the same day.
$0.99 a month for your first 3 months on Opah Core, then $19. Cancel any time. Chartmetric is $60 a month for 10 artists; Opah is $19 for 3 or $39 for 10.