AI-powered
YouTube Channel Audit
Paste a channel — get a channel-wide grade across title, description, hashtags, and chapters, plus AI-flagged recurring issues across the last 10 uploads.
Paste a channel — get a channel-wide grade across title, description, hashtags, and chapters, plus AI-flagged recurring issues across the last 10 uploads.
Video Audit answers "is this video well-packaged?" Channel Audit answers a different question: "am I weak at one thing across everything I publish?". The second question is the more valuable one — fixing a recurring problem across your next 10 uploads compounds far more than perfecting one video.
Paste your channel; the tool pulls the last 10 uploads, runs each through the Video Audit engine, then aggregates: per-dimension averages, band distribution (how many Strong / Good / Fair / Weak across all 10), an overall channel grade, and a Claude-generated list of the top 3 recurring issues. The dimension with the lowest average score is flagged as your "worst" — fix it there first.
playlistItems.listreturns the latest 10 video IDs.videos.listbatched on those 10 IDs returns snippet + statistics + contentDetails.Total YouTube quota per non-cached analysis: ~3 units. The cheapest of our YouTube-API-backed tools.
Video Audit scores ONE video against 5 dimensions. Channel Audit runs the same scoring against your channel's last 10 uploads and AGGREGATES the result, showing which dimension is consistently weak across your work. The video-level view tells you 'this video needs work'; the channel-level view tells you 'I have a pattern of weak descriptions across the entire channel'.
A: most videos optimized across most dimensions. B: strong overall with one or two consistent gaps. C: mixed packaging — look at the dimension breakdown. D: recurring gaps in most dimensions. F: systematic issues across the channel. The grade is based on the average overall score of the 10 audited videos.
The Video Audit scores 5 dimensions including tags. Tags are hidden from YouTube's public API for non-owners (since 2022), so for a channel-wide audit using the API we can't get them reliably. We skip the tags dimension here — title, description, hashtags, chapters are what's measured. Run the individual Video Audit on a specific video if you need tags too.
Channels evolve. Videos from 3 years ago tell you about a previous era. The last 10 captures your current packaging discipline — which is what's actually shipping today. We want this to surface CURRENT recurring issues so you can fix them in your next upload.
The dimension with the lowest average score across all audited videos. If that flag is on Description, it means description quality is your single biggest channel-wide gap — fixing it across your next 5 uploads would lift more overall scores than any other change. The amber border on its row makes it visually obvious.
Yes — works on any public YouTube channel. Useful for benchmarking competitors and for figuring out which dimensions they consistently win on. Run yours and a competitor's side by side and the contrast usually reveals where to invest.
Each audit burns ~3 YouTube API units. Combined with our quota (10K/day) and the other API-heavy tools, 5/IP keeps the daily budget safe against abuse. Cached results don't count.
Channel Audit lives in the Analyze stage. The natural next steps from here: