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Unknown Frequencies

67,800 subscribers · about 23 months old · ~3.0K subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Explainer / Science, Documentary / History

9tracked breakouts
4.8×best breakout score
21.0×best reach, views per subscriber
5.7Mtotal views tracked
9.0×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    The ENTIRE Story of The Odyssey Explained

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.4M views · 21.2K/day ·21.0× its audience · 13:09 ·2026-07-20 · English / Global

    4.8×
  2. 02

    Your Life as Every German Army Rank in WW2

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.0M views · 4.9K/day ·15.6× its audience · 9:01 ·2026-02-26 · English / Global

    2.0×
  3. 03

    The ENTIRE History of WW2 Explained

    📖 Documentary / History ·614.5K views · 8.4K/day ·9.4× its audience · 13:43 ·2026-07-14 · English / Global

    1.1×
  4. 04

    D-Day From the German Soldier’s Perspective

    📖 Documentary / History ·786.2K views · 4.0K/day ·12.0× its audience · 12:01 ·2026-03-10 · English / Global

    1.0×
  5. 05

    The Entire Story of The Trojan War & Iliad Explained (Before The Odyssey)

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·308.8K views · 5.9K/day ·4.7× its audience · 13:15 ·2026-08-04 · English / Global

    1.0×
  6. 06

    The ENTIRE History of WW1 Explained

    📖 Documentary / History ·592.4K views · 4.6K/day ·9.0× its audience · 12:33 ·2026-05-18 · English / Global

    0.9×
  7. 07

    What It Was Like to be Every British Army Rank in WW2

    📖 Documentary / History ·319.4K views · 1.7K/day ·4.9× its audience · 10:04 ·2026-03-19 · English / Global

    0.4×
  8. 08

    Iwo Jima from the Japanese Soldier's Perspective

    📖 Documentary / History ·230.2K views · 1.4K/day ·3.5× its audience · 12:13 ·2026-04-14 · English / Global

    0.4×
  9. 09

    Why It Sucked to Be a U.S. Soldier (in WW2)

    📖 Documentary / History ·401.5K views · 1.8K/day ·6.1× its audience · 8:57 ·2026-02-17 · English / Global

    0.3×

How to read this channel

Unknown Frequencies is a 67,800-subscriber channel (about 23 months old) working mainly in Explainer / Science, Documentary / History, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 9 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 4.8× the dataset median) reaches 21.0× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 21,234 views a day since it was published 67 days ago, on “The ENTIRE Story of The Odyssey Explained” (1,422,671 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: 9 tracked uploads pulling 5,703,392 views between them, the strongest reaching 21.0× 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 completeness promise hook (4), statement / cold open (4), direct address hook (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), 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)

Completeness promise hook · estimated hook window 14s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Question → mechanism → example → takeaway)

  • 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)

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.