YouTube
A whole channel against the video anchor model
In one sentence
The YouTube channel check reads every upload on a channel, runs the twelve-row video check on each, and tallies the results into a fix list for the channel: how many videos have authored chapters, uploaded rather than auto-generated captions, a description over 150 words, a list under a how-to title, and a specific topic category. Each video links to its own check. Included with Watch for one channel.
Every upload read through the Data API, checked the way one video is checked, and tallied. Captions and transcripts count only for videos the browser vantage has observed.
Questions about this page
QHow many videos does it read?
Up to 200 uploads per channel, 50 per Data API call, cached for an hour. Captions and transcripts count only for videos the browser extension has observed.
QWhat does a channel usually fail?
Across the first channel measured here, no video of ten over two minutes had authored chapters, none of 38 captioned videos had an uploaded track, and 3 of 86 descriptions reached 150 words. Those are the three anchor sources the leak says Google mines.
QIs the channel check free?
A single video is free. The whole-channel tally is part of Watch and above, with one channel on Watch, three on Studio and ten on Agency.