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Channel profile · tracked by Breakout Signal

Half-a-hamburger

13,800 subscribers · about 128 months old · ~108 subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History

1tracked breakouts
0.6×best breakout score
4.4×best reach, views per subscriber
60.1Ktotal views tracked
4.4×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    The Trident | Roberts Rebellion | Before Game Of Thrones | documentary style Part 3

    📖 Documentary / History ·60.1K views · 3.2K/day ·4.4× its audience · 8:06 ·2026-09-06 · English / Global

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How to read this channel

Half-a-hamburger is a 13,800-subscriber channel (about 128 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 1 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 0.6× the dataset median) reaches 4.4× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 3,163 views a day since it was published 19 days ago, on “The Trident | Roberts Rebellion | Before Game Of Thrones | documentary style Par” (60,098 views). That is a lifetime average, not a current rate — one capture per video means this dataset cannot distinguish a video that is still climbing from one that already peaked. The API reports the audio track language as en-US.

There is one statistic this page deliberately does not print: a per-channel “share of uploads that reached 3×”. Every video on this site cleared that floor before it could be tracked at all, so the figure would read 100% for every channel and would distinguish nothing. What is left instead: this channel has a single tracked upload so far, and it has pulled 60,098 views. Treat a one-video channel as a topic signal, not as proof of a repeatable format. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are curiosity gap hook (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), ai historical reenactment (period visuals), episodic series / numbered parts, ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views.

What to copy and what to skip: copy the packaging pattern (title structure, the promise made in the first seconds, the episode length that keeps working) and skip the parts that only this channel can do — an existing subscriber base, cross-posting, or a back catalogue that feeds recommendations. Then compare this channel against the others on its category board: same niche, different market, different length. That comparison is where the transferable part usually hides.

Reproducible playbook

Opening hook (title-derived)

Curiosity gap hook · estimated hook window 14s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Cold open → context → segmented build → reveal)

  • Hook 0%–6%
  • Context 6%–20%
  • Escalation 20%–60%
  • Turn 60%–85%
  • Close 85%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)
  • Episodic series / numbered parts
  • Ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views

Derived from the title, duration and market — no frame-level video analysis, and no use of the labels this site writes on an entry.

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Niche board and neighbouring channels

Snapshot rebuilt 2026-09-25 · 2557 signals · 954 channels. Metrics come from the YouTube Data API v3 and are stored captures, not live counters; ages are recalculated from each video's publish date at build time.