Editorial Policy

Who writes this

All content on this site is written by Shivraj N., who also builds and maintains the tool. There is no editorial team and no contributor network. Where an article carries a byline, it is that one person; where it does not, it is still that one person.

This matters for how you should read the guides. They reflect working experience with the YouTube Data API and with playlist structure, not academic research or proprietary data.

How claims are sourced

Every factual claim published here must be one of:

• Documented behaviour of the YouTube Data API or the YouTube product, linked to the relevant documentation.
• Arithmetic a reader can check themselves, with the inputs shown — for example, how long a 12-hour playlist takes at 1.5×.
• Reasoning from mechanism, clearly framed as such: explaining why something plausibly works, without attaching a number to it.

A statistic with no source does not get published. If we cannot attribute a figure, we say so in the text rather than quietly rounding it into something that sounds authoritative.

What we will not publish

• Invented statistics, including plausible-sounding percentages with no origin.
• Case studies about people who do not exist, or outcomes that were not observed.
• Claims of original research we did not conduct.
• Testimonials, ratings, or review counts that no one submitted.
• Usage figures we cannot substantiate from analytics.

Corrections and updates

Substantive changes are recorded in the changelog. Pages carry a last-updated date. If you find something wrong, tell us through the contact form — a specific pointer is more useful than a general complaint, and gets fixed faster.

How the tool's own numbers are derived is documented separately on the methodology page.

Funding, affiliate links and independence

The core analyzer is free. Running costs may be covered by an optional one-time Pro upgrade, reader tips through Ko-fi and a small number of affiliate links, each shown only once it is switched on. If display ads run, they are served by a third-party network and we do not choose which advertisers appear.

Affiliate links are labelled “Partner link” where they appear and use rel="sponsored". If you buy through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We currently partner with vidIQ (shown to creators) and with online course providers (shown under course playlists). No partner has any input into what is written here, how tools work, or which tools we recommend, and there are no sponsored posts. When partners change, this section changes with them and the change is logged.