How it works

Step by step

1. Niche to channels. Your phrase is searched against YouTube with up to six variations. Each pass returns videos ordered by view count, and the channels behind them become the candidate pool. Cost: 100 quota units per pass.
2. Channel filtering. Subscriber counts are fetched in batches of fifty for a single unit, and channels outside your subscriber range are dropped.
3. Recent uploads. Each surviving channel's last fifty uploads are listed, one unit per channel.
4. Video statistics. Views, publish dates, durations, likes and comment counts are fetched fifty at a time for one unit.
5. The baseline. Views per day is calculated for every video, and the median across that channel's own uploads becomes its normal.
6. Flagging. Any video beating its channel's median by your chosen multiple is an outlier. Results are capped per channel so one prolific channel cannot flood the list.

Quota arithmetic

Google grants 10,000 units per key per day, resetting at midnight Pacific. A typical four-pass scan costs roughly 450 to 900 units depending on how many channels survive filtering, so a working day holds somewhere between eleven and twenty full scans. The meter on the scanner counts every unit as it is spent, and calls that Google rejects before metering are refunded.

Guards against false positives

Erratic channels. If more than a quarter of a channel's catalogue beats its own median, that median is not describing a normal upload — it usually means the channel posts mostly duds with occasional hits. Those channels are flagged so you can discount their multipliers, or hidden entirely.

Off-topic uploads. A channel's upload feed contains vlogs, announcements and unrelated experiments. The relevance filter requires the title to mention your niche, which stops a channel update with freak view numbers being presented as a niche insight.

Too-new videos. Videos under a week old have unstable views-per-day figures, so they are excluded by default. You can lower the threshold if you want the earliest possible signal and accept more noise.

What no tool can tell you

Click-through rate, audience retention, impressions and revenue are visible only to the channel owner through YouTube Studio. No public API exposes them for other people's channels. Any tool showing you a competitor's CTR is modelling it from public numbers, and the model is a guess. findbangers reports only what is genuinely public and says so rather than inventing precision it does not have.

Your key and your data

The API key lives in your browser's local storage and is sent only to googleapis.com. There is no account, no server storing your scans, and no analytics on what you search for. Saved ideas stay in your browser until you export them.