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Marcus Ward — History

8,030 subscribers · about 6 months old · ~1.4K subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History, Feature Films & Series

5tracked breakouts
3.1×best breakout score
65.9×best reach, views per subscriber
951.5Ktotal views tracked
14.2×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    The Second Greco-Persian War | Epic AI Film | Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea & Mycale

    📖 Documentary / History ·529.0K views · 4.6K/day ·65.9× its audience · 50:52 ·2026-06-01 · English / Global

    3.1×
  2. 02

    The Siege of Vienna 1683 | 16,000 vs 110,000 | Epic AI Film

    🎬 Feature Films & Series ·256.9K views · 2.9K/day ·32.0× its audience · 36:30 ·2026-06-29 · English / Global

    2.2×
  3. 03

    How Rome Outmaneuvered the Unbeatable Hannibal and Destroyed Carthage | Battle of Zama, 202 BC

    📖 Documentary / History ·113.0K views · 856/day ·14.2× its audience · 41:00 ·2026-05-16 · English / Global

    0.4×
  4. 04

    The Siege of Constantinople 1453. Reconstruction | 7,000 vs 100,000

    📖 Documentary / History ·27.3K views · 155/day ·3.4× its audience · 34:13 ·2026-04-02 · English / Global

    0.2×
  5. 05

    Siege of Jerusalem 1099. Reconstruction | The Most Contested City in the World

    📖 Documentary / History ·25.4K views · 155/day ·3.2× its audience · 26:48 ·2026-04-14 · English / Global

    0.1×

How to read this channel

Marcus Ward — History is a 8,030-subscriber channel (about 6 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, Feature Films & Series, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 5 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 3.1× the dataset median) reaches 65.9× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 4,560 views a day since it was published 116 days ago, on “The Second Greco-Persian War | Epic AI Film | Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, ” (528,968 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.

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: 5 tracked uploads pulling 951,469 views between them, the strongest reaching 65.9× its audience. Repeated strong reach across several uploads is the part that suggests a format; one outlier is not. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are statement / cold open (3), contradiction hook (2), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), single-sitting long-form (30min+), ai-generated visuals declared in the title, 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)

Statement / cold open · estimated hook window 35s before the main body.

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

  • Hook 0%–3%
  • Setup 3%–15%
  • Act 2 15%–55%
  • Climax 55%–85%
  • Resolution 85%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI-generated visuals declared in the title
  • Single-sitting long-form (30min+)
  • 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.