Study competitor videos. Find ideas for your next edit.

From a public video to an editing idea

1. Find a video to study

   Explore suggestions based on your connected channel's public uploads, search YouTube, or open a supported public video. Search results follow YouTube's ordering; they are not a ranking of audience overlap or retention.

2. Review the footage and observations

   Watch the video around a marked timestamp. Check the explanation against what is visible and audible, then decide whether an idea fits your own format.

3. Compare with your own analysis

   Choose a saved analysis of your own video to review the observations together. Save an idea to your playbook and choose one change to try in a future upload.

Measured retention and content estimates

Your own eligible video can have measured retention supplied by YouTube Analytics. Competitor curves are unvalidated AI estimates based on content. They are not the creator's measured audience-retention data and cannot establish which video retains viewers better.

Public view counts also do not establish watch time, audience retention, or why a video performed well. Treat an estimated drop-off as a prompt to inspect the footage.

Which videos are supported?

Competitors supports public, processed, embeddable regular videos longer than three minutes and no longer than one hour. Shorts, livestreams, private or unlisted videos, and restricted videos are unsupported. You need to sign in and connect a channel; provider and usage availability still apply.