Examples · Brands and agencies
Check if a creator’s views are real
A public view count tells you how many times a video started. It does not tell you how many people stayed. The gap between those two numbers is the part that decides whether a sponsorship was worth it, and YouTube shows it to the creator and to nobody else.
1Start with the video, not the channel
Paste the video URL into the tracker. You get the public view count read from the YouTube Data API, with the moment we read it printed beside it, so you can compare it against the number on YouTube yourself.
2Ask the creator to connect the channel
Engaged views — views that got past the first frame — come from the YouTube Analytics API, and only with the channel owner’s authorization. A creator confident in their numbers connects in under a minute. One who refuses has told you something too.
3Read the Verified Rate against the raw inputs
Verified Rate is engaged views divided by public views. Both inputs are printed next to it so you can do the arithmetic by hand. Nothing is modelled, weighted or smoothed.
4Look at how the views arrived, not only how many
A verified page shows the shape of arrival per period. Earned attention tends to spike and decay; steadily paced delivery tends not to. We show the curve and draw no conclusion from it, because a flat curve has innocent causes including a paid ad campaign.
What this cannot tell you
- Without the creator’s authorization there is no engaged-view figure, and we will not estimate one.
- Analytics data trails real time by one to three days. Every page dates its figures rather than claiming to be live.
- A real figure on a purchased channel is still a real figure. Verification does not tell you the account’s history is authentic or that the audience was earned.