Research & Growth Tools
These are the tools for deciding what to make and understanding what happened after you made it — competitive tag research, keyword and trend exploration, outlier detection, public statistics and revenue estimates.
10 tools
Tag Extractor
See the exact tags a competitor’s video is using, straight from YouTube’s own data.
Open tool →Hashtag Generator
Generate relevant hashtags for your video or Short based on your topic and niche.
Open tool →Earnings Calculator
Estimate how much a YouTube video or channel could earn from ad revenue based on views and niche.
Open tool →Video Stats Lookup
See every public stat for any video — views, likes, comments, duration, publish date — in one view.
Open tool →Trending Explorer
Browse currently trending videos by region and category for content inspiration.
Open tool →Tag Generator
Generate 15-20 SEO keyword tags for YouTube's Tags field from just a video topic.
Open tool →Category Selector
Get a suggested YouTube upload category for your video topic, picked from the real 15 official categories.
Open tool →Keyword Research
Find related keyword ideas for your topic and see how competitive the top term already is on YouTube.
Open tool →Outlier Finder
Find which videos on any channel wildly outperformed their normal average — a shortcut to "what worked, do more of that."
Open tool →Hashtag Generator
Generate relevant hashtags for your Instagram post or Reel based on your topic and niche.
Open tool →Outliers tell you more than top-ten lists
The most useful question about a channel is not “what are its biggest videos”, it is “which videos beat its own normal by the widest margin”. Absolute view counts mostly measure how big a channel already is. The ratio between a video and its channel’s baseline measures whether the format, title or topic did something unusual.
That ratio is what makes small channels worth studying. A video doing eight times its channel’s average has found something repeatable, and it is a much cleaner signal at 5,000 subscribers than at five million.
How much tags still matter
Less than most tag tools imply. YouTube has said tags play a minimal role in discovery, and the title, thumbnail, description and actual viewer behaviour do the heavy lifting. Tags mainly help with misspellings and genuine ambiguity in your topic.
Reading a competitor’s tags is still worth doing, but for a different reason than ranking: it tells you how that creator understands their own niche and which terms they think they compete on. Treat it as market research rather than as a ranking tactic.
Frequently asked questions
How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?+
It varies enormously by niche, audience country, video length and season — finance and B2B topics command far higher advertiser rates than gaming or entertainment. That is why the Earnings Calculator asks for a niche and produces a range rather than a single number, and why you should treat any flat per-1,000-views figure with suspicion.
Can I see another channel’s real analytics?+
No. Watch time, retention, impressions and click-through rate are private to each channel’s own YouTube Studio. Everything here is built on public data: views, likes, comments, duration, publish dates and declared tags.
Do YouTube tags still affect rankings?+
Only marginally. YouTube has stated that tags play a minimal role in discovery. Spend the effort on the title, thumbnail and first 30 seconds; use tags to catch common misspellings of your topic and to disambiguate genuinely ambiguous terms.