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Prime Discovery Network

2,050 subscribers ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History, Explainer / Science

3tracked breakouts
1.8×best breakout score
288.2×best reach, views per subscriber
665.8Ktotal views tracked
24.5×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    AI Just Scanned The Terracotta Army — And What It Found Changes Everything About Ancient China

    📖 Documentary / History ·590.9K views · 3.1K/day ·288.2× its audience · 23:40 ·2026-03-21 · English / Global

    1.8×
  2. 02

    The Simpsons Warned Us That 2026 Will Change EVERYTHING!

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·50.3K views · 294/day ·24.5× its audience · 17:13 ·2026-04-07 · English / Global

    0.6×
  3. 03

    Elon Musk Just Asked Grok AI About Jesus — And Its Answer Terrified Experts

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·24.6K views · 176/day ·12.0× its audience · 21:58 ·2026-05-08 · English / Global

    0.3×

How to read this channel

Prime Discovery Network is a 2,050-subscriber channel working mainly in Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 3 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 1.8× the dataset median) reaches 288.2× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 3,143 views a day since it was published 188 days ago, on “AI Just Scanned The Terracotta Army — And What It Found Changes Everything About” (590,895 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: 3 tracked uploads pulling 665,808 views between them, the strongest reaching 288.2× 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 authority claim hook (2), statement / cold open (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), ai-generated visuals declared in the title, ai historical reenactment (period visuals).

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)

Authority claim hook · estimated hook window 18s before the main body.

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

  • Hook 0%–4%
  • Context 4%–18%
  • Escalation 18%–55%
  • Peak 55%–82%
  • Close 82%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI-generated visuals declared in the title
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)

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.