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Video comparison snapshot
Pick two videos from any channel and get a side-by-side card of how they really performed, as a PNG and a PDF.
Two videos, the same channel, wildly different results. Everyone has the pair. Working out what actually separated them usually means flicking between two Studio tabs and holding six numbers in your head, which is why most people look once, decide it was the thumbnail, and move on.
This puts them next to each other properly. Views, views per day, likes and comments per 1,000 views, length, and age, with the winner of each row marked. It reads the public YouTube API live, so it needs no access to your channel and works on anybody’s: the video that beat yours is as readable as your own.
Read views per day before anything else. Total views mostly measure which video has been out longer, and half the comparisons creators make are really just measuring that. The per-1,000 rows are the other half of the story, because they take the size of the audience out. When the smaller video wins those, the content did its job and the packaging did not, which is a completely different problem from the one most people assume they have.
Frequently asked questions
- Where do the numbers come from?
- The public YouTube Data API, read live when you press compare. Views, likes, comments, length, and publish date are what YouTube publishes for every video, so this needs no access to your channel and works on anyone’s.
- Why do you need my email?
- Because the snapshot is delivered as well as displayed. The PNG lands in your inbox attached, so it is already somewhere you can forward to an editor or a sponsor without saving a file first. It is asked once, then remembered in this browser.
- Why is views per day the row that matters?
- Because total views mostly measure which video has been out longer. A video from last year will beat one from last week on raw views while earning a fraction of the daily traffic, and comparing the two on totals tells you nothing you did not already know.
- What does “per 1,000 views” tell me?
- How strongly the people who watched reacted, with the size of the audience taken out. A video with a tenth of the reach can win on likes per 1,000, and that is the video worth studying: the packaging underperformed while the content did not.
- Why is a number missing?
- Because that creator hid it. Likes and comment counts can both be turned off, and a hidden count is not a zero, so the row says it is not public instead of scoring it as a loss.
- Can I compare against another channel’s video?
- Not in one snapshot: the picker reads one channel at a time. It is all public data though, so you can run a channel that beat you and take the numbers from its snapshot.
- What is in the download?
- Both thumbnails, both titles, every metric row with the winner marked, and the headline verdict, on a 1200×675 card. The PDF is the same card page-sized, so what you email, what you download, and what is on screen are always the same picture.
This tool lives inside Chewbr
Chewbr does comparisons like this the moment a video lands, plus the other 46 jobs between filmed and published.
The full app is the finishing system for YouTubers: every video gets a 47-step checklist from Plan to Promote, with tools like this one built into the step where you need them. It has not launched yet, so join the waitlist and you will be first through the door.