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Due diligence data on YouTube channels and creator businesses

Check a channel's real history before you buy or invest: subscriber and view trajectories, output, breakout dependence and how it compares with its peers.

The problem

A seller's dashboard shows what the seller wants you to see. Public subscriber counts are rounded, and a single snapshot hides whether the channel is rising or fading. Judging whether growth is broad or rests on a few lucky videos needs history and a fair comparison, neither of which comes with the deal.

What Viewershift answers

We have recorded channels independently over time. A channel report shows its measured subscriber and view history, an estimate of the earlier years with its reliability stated, how its growth ranks among comparable channels, how much of its success comes from breakout videos, and how steadily it publishes. Exports give you the underlying series for your own models.

Questions it answers

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Category growth

Which categories grow their views fastest: the median monthly view growth of channels in each category.

  • Education+1.3% a month
  • Music+1.3% a month
  • Sports+1.3% a month

15 categories · data as of 4 Nov 2026

On request

Channel age vs growth

Do young channels grow faster than old ones? Median monthly view growth by the year a channel was created.

Available on request

21 creation years · data as of 4 Nov 2026

On request

Breakout rate by category

In which categories channels most often have a video that far outperforms their usual views.

Available on request

15 categories · data as of 7 Nov 2026

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Channel size distribution

How many channels sit in each subscriber band, and how many of them still upload.

  • 10K–100K subscribers3,698,718 channels
  • 100K–1M709,393 channels
  • 1M–10M77,255 channels
  • 10M+3,116 channels

4 size bands · data as of 10 Nov 2026

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