How TubeGrade calculates channel stats

Every number on a TubeGrade channel page comes from information YouTube shows publicly on the channel: subscriber count, total views, number of videos, join date, country and the channel’s recent uploads. TubeGrade reads these regularly for the channels it tracks, and people using the TubeGrade Chrome extension contribute readings as they browse YouTube.

We never show private data. Contact emails are never published on channel pages.

Subscriber counts are the public figures YouTube displays. For channels above 1,000 subscribers YouTube rounds them (for example 1.23M), so the count moves in steps rather than one by one. When a creator hides their subscriber count, we show it as hidden — no outside tool can see it.

Total views and video counts are the channel’s public totals at the time of the reading. Each page shows the date its data was last updated.

TubeGrade stores a reading of each tracked channel over time. “Gained in the last N days” compares the newest reading with the one from at least 28 days earlier, and N is the real gap between them, so it is never padded or extrapolated.

Growth only appears once we have about a month of history for a channel. A channel looked up for the first time starts its history that day.

Average views is what a typical recent upload of the channel gets. It is the baseline for TubeGrade’s outlier score: a video’s views divided by its channel’s average. An outlier score of 8x means the video got eight times the views that channel usually gets.

Monthly earnings are estimated from the views a channel gained over roughly the last month, multiplied by an RPM range of $0.50 to $5.00 per 1,000 views. RPM is what a creator keeps after YouTube’s share, and it varies widely with niche, audience country and how many views come from Shorts.

Per-video earnings use the channel’s average views with the same RPM range. These are ballpark figures for YouTube ad revenue only — they exclude sponsorships, memberships, merchandise and other income, which for many creators is larger than ad revenue.

Ranks compare a channel with the YouTube channels TubeGrade tracks — tens of thousands of channels, but not every channel on YouTube. Each page says exactly that, and shows a country rank only where we track enough channels in that country for it to mean something.

The weekly YouTube rankings (fastest-growing and breakout channels, worldwide and by country) compare each channel’s subscriber count with its count from 28–45 days earlier and scale the change to 30 days, so channels compare fairly. Only fresh readings (at most 10 days old) count, channels near the top are re-checked on YouTube just before each weekly ranking is built, and gains are shown rounded to the precision YouTube publishes.

Breakout lists cover channels that started the period with 50,000 to 2,000,000 subscribers and grew at least 10%. A jump of more than 100% only counts when an earlier reading confirms the starting point, and anything above 1,000% is treated as a data error. A country list is only published when it has at least 50 channels.

Milestone dates are shown only when our own history brackets the moment a channel crossed the milestone. “At the current pace” projections assume the channel keeps gaining subscribers at its rate over the last month, and are not shown beyond ten years.

YouTube writes numbers differently in different languages — “984 mil” in Portuguese is 984 thousand, not million. TubeGrade only accepts counts in an unambiguous format, and readings that cannot be real (for example far more subscribers than total views) are left out of rankings, charts and history. Channels that YouTube no longer serves are shown as unavailable rather than with stale numbers.

If a number looks wrong, or you own a channel and want its page removed, email support@tubegrade.com with the channel link and we will look into it.