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Channel snapshot

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We don't publish anyone's private channel data — watch time and revenue are estimates from public signals and stay blurred.

ExoSci. channel has gotten 14,909,072 views so far

Views 14.9M
Watch time (hours) 739.5K
Subscribers 128.0K
Estimated revenue $15,207.25
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What the numbers show

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based on public channel data
  • Publishing at roughly 10.8 videos/year since joining in Jul 22, 2016
  • Averaging about 136,690 views per video against a 128,000-subscriber base — a views-to-subscriber ratio of 106.8%
  • Personal Finance is a competitive US niche — upload consistency and repurposing across platforms usually move the needle most here

Opportunity & fit

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what the recent-upload data actually shows
  • Opportunity size: 109 — videos, with two past uploads that hit 161K and 216K views — a repeatable format
  • Recent performance: Recent uploads (4,400–27,000 views) are running well below two standout hits from the archive (161K and 216K) — the channel has proven it can go viral in this format but recent videos haven't repeated it.
  • Market demand: Space/physics/quantum content is a booming YouTube category — audience appetite is not the constraint here.
  • What's being missed: Whatever worked in the 161K/216K videos (topic angle, thumbnail, hook) hasn't been revisited. That's a specific, testable opportunity rather than a guess.

How we'd approach it

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what SM Growth Agency would do
  • Content research & strategy — start with your goal, then map the niche: multiple creators across the country, thousands of comments read across their videos to see what audiences actually want (and don't), upload patterns, market patterns, which hooks are working right now, and who's the fastest-growing creator in the niche and why
  • Content repurposing — cut long-form into short-form for Shorts/Reels/TikTok
  • Content packaging — titles and thumbnails built around what this audience actually clicks
  • Distribution — push repurposed content across additional platforms beyond YouTube
  • Clippings — pull the strongest moments from long-form uploads into standalone clips

This audit is based on public channel data — we don't make our clients' sensitive data public. If this is useful or you'd like to talk, get in touch.