Competitor Analysis

See exactly what your rivals are doing right. and where they're leaving openings.

Pick 2–10 channels in your niche. YTGrowth pulls their last 30 uploads, runs a 7-dimension AI analysis, and returns a ranked list of content gaps, winning patterns, and ready-to-publish video ideas. With a threat level for each rival so you know which ones to focus on.

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Solo plan and above · ~60 seconds per analysis · re-run anytime to capture fresh data

What you get per competitor

A complete read on every rival. not just their numbers, but their playbook.

Each competitor returns a structured report: a threat-level tag, a 2–3 sentence AI assessment naming the actual opportunity against them, their headline stats, and the top 5 videos worth deconstructing. Each with a "why it worked" one-liner.

Threat level scored from subscriber overlap + topic match + posting velocity
AI-written assessment naming the specific weakness to exploit
Top 5 videos by views with deconstruction notes
Re-fetched on demand so the analysis stays current
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TechCreator Pro

142K subs · 4.6% avg CTR · posts every 4 days

High threat

AI assessment

TechCreator Pro publishes twice the cadence you do, but their topic mix is narrow. They ignore tutorials entirely, and that's where 64% of search volume in your shared niche lives. They're beatable on tutorial content within 60 days.

142K

Subscribers

4.2K

Avg views / video

2.1M

Total views

Top videos to study

I tested every YouTube AI tool so you don’t have to

124K views · List + curiosity hook · pulled new subs from 4 niches

My exact YouTube setup in 2026 (under $500)

88K views · Specificity + price hook · evergreen format

Seven dimensions analyzed

We don't just count their videos. We map their playbook.

Every competitor analysis runs the same seven dimensions over their last 30 uploads. The AI cross-references each one against your channel's context. So the output isn't a description of them, it's a list of moves you can actually take.

01

Content topics

Which topic clusters dominate their channel and which ones drive their highest-view videos. Surfaces the topics they’ve never covered that their audience clearly wants.

02

Title & SEO strategy

Title patterns, dominant formats, top keywords, and power words used. Identifies high-volume keywords they rank for that you aren’t targeting yet.

03

Posting frequency & timing

How often and when they post. Pinpoints the day-and-hour windows their audience converts in. Sometimes worth matching, sometimes worth deliberately avoiding.

04

Video length patterns

Their duration sweet spot scored against their own retention. Flags format gaps you can exploit (e.g. they don’t do longform, you do).

05

Engagement patterns

Like-to-view and comment-to-view ratios across their last 30. Identifies whether their audience is engaged or passive and which topics drive the most comments.

06

Thumbnail style

Visual patterns repeated across their thumbnails. Palette, text density, faces, composition. Tells you exactly how to stand out in the same recommendation feed.

07

Content gaps

Topics the competitor has never covered but their audience is clearly asking for. The shortest path to videos that already have demand and no incumbent.

Tutorial content. 0 videos in last 90 days

HIGH

How to capture: Ship a 6-part "How to X in 2026" series. Their audience is searching for these terms but landing on smaller channels.

Posting Tuesday 4pm-2.3x their average CTR

MED

How to capture: Match the slot for your next 3 uploads. Their audience is conditioned to watch on Tuesday.

"Beginner" keyword absent from any title

HIGH

How to capture: Their audience skews intermediate. Beginner-targeted titles in the same niche get 5x search volume on YouTube.

The gap report

Every gap comes with the exact action to take.

The gap report is the highest-leverage output. Each entry names a specific opening. A topic they ignore, a slot they don't cover, a keyword they've never used. Paired with the move you should make and an impact tag (low / med / high). No vague advice; this is what you publish next.

Gap

The specific opening, named with their data.

How to capture

The exact action to take. Specific, not generic.

Impact

Low / med / high. Based on the size of the opening.

Re-runnable

Re-analyze anytime to refresh against their newest uploads.

How it works

From rival channel to publishable idea in under 60 seconds

Five stages, all of them yours to control. Re-run any analysis anytime to capture a competitor's newest uploads.

01

Add a competitor

Paste their channel URL or handle. Or search by keyword and pick from the matches we surface.

02

Public data fetch

Last 30 uploads pulled via the official YouTube Data API: titles, durations, dates, view counts, like counts, comment counts.

03

Pattern derivation

We compute their posting cadence, top day + hour, average title length, top 5 by views, and engagement ratios.

04

AI runs 7 dimensions

Claude Sonnet 4.6 analyzes content topics, SEO strategy, length, engagement, thumbnail style, and the gaps you can exploit. With your channel as context.

05

You see the result

Threat level, summary, top topics, title patterns, ranked gaps with how-to-capture moves, top videos to study, and ready-to-publish ideas.

Output structure

Seven distinct output blocks. Every one is actionable.

We don't hand you a wall of text. The AI returns a structured report, and the dashboard renders each block in its own card so you can scan, mark, and action without re-reading.

Threat level

Low / Medium / High based on subscriber overlap, topic similarity, and posting velocity. So you know which competitors actually pull your audience vs which look similar but aren’t.

Top topics + view data

The 5–8 topic clusters that drive their views, with avg views per topic and video count per topic. Tells you what to model and what to ignore.

Title patterns

Average title length, dominant title formats, top keywords across all 30 uploads, and the power words they rely on. Steal what works.

Gaps to exploit

A ranked list of opportunities. Each gap comes with an exact "how to capture" action and an estimated impact tag (low / med / high).

Top videos to study

Their top 5 by views with the AI’s explanation of "why it worked". Use it as a deconstruct cheat sheet before you ship something similar.

Ready-to-use video ideas

Working titles you can publish, each with the angle ("how this steals or counters") and target keyword. The shortest path from analysis to your next upload.

Winning moves

Tactical, specific recommendations the AI surfaces from the data. Not "post more" generic advice. Moves like "match their Tuesday 4pm slot for next 3 uploads".

What powers it

Public data only. Read-only API. No scraping.

We use the official YouTube Data API to read public information. The same data anyone visiting the channel can see. No private analytics, no impersonation, no terms-of-service grey areas. Each analysis costs one credit and the data is saved per channel so it feeds your channel audit context too.

Last 30 uploads

Titles, durations, dates, views, likes, comments, thumbnails

Channel metadata

Subscribers, total views, video count, channel age, channel keywords

Posting behavior

Average gap, top day, top hour, videos in last 30 days

Engagement signals

Like-to-view, comment-to-view, like rate

Your channel context

Your subs, avg views, posting cadence, niche keywords

AI model

Claude Sonnet 4.6 · 8K-token analysis · ~30s

By plan

How many rivals you can track at once

Re-run any tracked competitor anytime. Counts are per-channel, so multi-channel accounts on Agency can run a full competitor stack per channel under their pooled credit allowance.

Free

0

competitors

tracked at once

Not included on free tier

Solo

2

competitors

tracked at once

20 audits / month · 3 channels

Most popular

Growth

5

competitors

tracked at once

50 audits / month · 5 channels

Agency

10

competitors

tracked at once

150 audits / month · 10 pooled channels

Same 7-dimension analysis across all paid plans.

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FAQ

Questions about competitive intelligence, answered honestly.

Real answers from how the product behaves. Including the limits, the privacy boundaries, and what it won't do.

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No. We only read public data. What is on their channel page and what the YouTube API exposes about videos that are already published. We never scrape private analytics, never pretend to be them, and never contact them. Anyone visiting their channel can see the same numbers; we just structure them and run an AI competitive analysis on top.
Real-time on the first analysis. After that, the data is re-fetched on demand whenever you re-run the analysis on that competitor. Which spends one credit. Most users don't need daily refresh; the patterns the AI surfaces are stable over weeks. If a competitor has a viral moment you can manually re-run to capture the new data.
Start with 2–3 of your closest direct rivals. More dilutes your attention. The AI is very good at finding gaps in any channel, but those insights only matter if you use them. And you can't act on findings from 10 competitors. Most users find 3 well-chosen competitors generate more publishable ideas than 10 loosely-related ones.
The AI scores threat level (low / medium / high) based on three things: how much subscriber overlap is likely (similar niche signal), topic similarity to your channel, and their posting velocity. A creator with 142K subs publishing 2x your cadence in your exact topic gets HIGH. A 1M-sub creator who only tangentially overlaps is usually MEDIUM or LOW because they're not actually pulling your audience.
Yes. The analysis treats Shorts and long-form separately when it sees both, so the patterns don't get mixed. For Shorts-only competitors, "title patterns" downweights and "thumbnail style" reads more loosely (Shorts thumbnails get less play than long-form). Engagement and topic patterns work the same.
You'd need to watch all 30 of their recent uploads, log titles, dates, durations, view counts, then look up search volume for missing keywords, then cross-reference against what your channel covers, then prioritize. That's a 6–10 hour exercise per competitor. The AI does it in 60 seconds with the same rigor. And structures the output so each gap comes with a specific "how to capture" action and an impact tag, not just observations.
Yes. Every analysis carries your channel context (subs, avg views, posting cadence) into the prompt, so insights are framed relative to where you actually are. "Their avg views are 4.2K, yours are 1.8K. These 3 of their topics consistently outperform that gap" is what you get, not "they get 4.2K average views" with no context.
They're titles + angles + target keywords. Not scripts. Treat them as starting points. Your voice and execution still need to do the work. The angle is what's valuable: it explains how the idea takes a slice of the competitor's audience that they're currently not serving. The AI won't write the video for you, and that's on purpose.
The analysis works with whatever public history exists. 10 videos give a rougher pattern read than 30, and the AI flags that explicitly in the summary ("limited data. Patterns may not generalize"). Below 5 videos there's genuinely not enough signal to analyze; we tell you upfront and don't spend the credit.
The analysis stays inside your YTGrowth dashboard for now. Every result is saved per channel and can be re-opened anytime, and it feeds into your next channel audit as additional context (the audit becomes more useful the more competitors you've analyzed). PDF / shareable-link export is on the roadmap; if it's a deal-breaker for your agency workflow, email support and we'll prioritize.

Find the openings your rivals are leaving

~60 seconds per analysis. Solo plan adds 2 competitors, Growth adds 5, Agency adds 10. Most users find their first publishable idea inside 10 minutes of reading the report.

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