Open Channel Stats

Open Channel Stats is where YouTube creators publish their real, full analytics — retention, CTR, impressions, traffic sources, watch time, for every video and every quiet day — so you can see how other channels actually grow instead of guessing from public estimates. Connect your own channel free to compare it and see where it's headed. You connect by signing in with YouTube using two read-only scopes (videos and analytics — it cannot upload, edit, or delete anything, and never asks for revenue access); that owner authorization is what lets it show the numbers public trackers structurally can't reach.

Each channel gets a one-line daily read (Today), forecasts shown with the range they could fall in, per-video detail, day-by-day traffic sources, a Changes feed that flags the days a metric moved enough to notice, and a Data page where the whole record downloads as a single documented SQLite file. There is no advice engine: it reports what happened and what's likely next, without algorithm explanations or growth prescriptions.

Dashboards start private — visible only to the signed-in owner; to anyone else the page doesn't exist. One switch publishes a channel by name at openchannelstats.com/@handle for anyone to browse, no account needed. Because access is owner-authorized, only channels whose owners have connected them appear — it's not a universal lookup for arbitrary channels.

Data refreshes once a day (around 06:00 UTC), and YouTube itself finalizes each day's numbers 2–3 days later; the dashboard shows that lag honestly rather than showing zeros. No paid tier, no ads.