YouTube analytics that show which format is growing.
Each tracked video, twice a day
Free 7 days, Starter 60 days, Creator everything recorded, Network everything recorded
Shorts against long cuts
Why snapshots and not a total
A lifetime total is a single number with the shape removed. Two videos on twelve thousand views can be completely different events: one took nine days and is still going, the other took two and stopped. Only the second derivative tells you which format to make more of, and you cannot get it from a number that only goes up.
Runsheet records views, likes and comments twice a day for each video it tracks: the most recent 50 on Free and Starter, every video on Creator and Network. After a fortnight you have curves. After a month the curves start disagreeing with each other in useful ways.
The split that matters
Shorts and long cuts have different physics, different audiences and different half-lives. Averaged together they produce a number that describes neither. Every figure in Runsheet that can be split by format is split by format.
Every finding shows its sample
Every finding declares the sample it needs and appears once your channel has it: the publishing window, for instance, needs 8 published videos. So a finding on your screen is one your own numbers support. The methodology page publishes the thresholds.