Spot breakout content
before it goes viral.
Viraloop measures every short-form video against its own creator's baseline. What surfaces is what is breaking out — not simply what is already big.
No Supabase project is configured, so both buttons open the product against a generated demo corpus.
| Video | Score | Outlier | Views | Views / hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
POV: The Sun Just Went Out Mars POV · 9d ago | 81Viraloop Score 81 out of 100, Breakout | 50.7× | 4.7M | 20.4K |
POV: You Live In Rome, 79 AD Timeslip · 1d ago | 79Viraloop Score 79 out of 100, Hot | 26.0× | 1.9M | 40.8K |
I Never Told Anyone This BlockMind · 16d ago | 78Viraloop Score 78 out of 100, Hot | 45.5× | 6.2M | 15.8K |
I Was The Only One Left Awake GeoDisasters · 21d ago | 77Viraloop Score 77 out of 100, Hot | 35.4× | 4.2M | 8.3K |
The Only Bread Recipe You Need Reel Chef · 11d ago | 77Viraloop Score 77 out of 100, Hot | 46.3× | 6.1M | 23K |
- 48.2K
- Shorts tracked
- 147
- Live outliers
- 23
- Emerging niches
- 84
- Breakout creators
Four questions, answered before the trend is obvious.
Each one has its own surface in the product, and all of them read from the same measured history.
What is breaking out right now
Every Short is scored against its own channel's median. A 40K-view video on a 2K-view channel outranks a 400K-view video on a channel that always does 400K.
OutliersWhich small creators are climbing
Subscriber and view history per channel, with upload cadence and outlier rate — so a channel accelerating from a small base is visible before it is obvious.
ChannelsWhich niches are gaining momentum
Momentum scored against competition, so you can tell a niche that is growing from one that is already saturated.
NichesWhat patterns are repeatable
Hooks, formats, lengths and title shapes across the videos that broke out — each entry restating an observed measurement, never an inferred cause.
TrendingSnapshots in, one comparable number out.
- 01
Snapshot
A scheduled Cloudflare Worker pulls Shorts through the YouTube Data API and stores a time-stamped snapshot of views, likes and comments — the raw material for velocity and acceleration.
- 02
Baseline
Each channel's own median Shorts performance is recomputed from its history. That baseline, not a global average, is what every video is measured against.
- 03
Surface
Six weighted inputs collapse into one 0–100 Viraloop Score, tapered by freshness. The radar ranks by it; the detail page shows which inputs produced it.
One number, and you can see what is inside it.
A 0–100 composite describing how far a video is breaking out relative to what its own channel normally does. A freshness multiplier tapers to neutral after roughly three days — the same numbers reached in six hours mean more than in six.
The score is descriptive, not predictive. It summarises measured performance. It does not forecast future views.
What the score weighs
- Outlier ratio35%
Views vs. the channel's own median
- Velocity25%
Views per hour, log-normalised
- Acceleration15%
Still climbing, or decaying
- Reach10%
Views relative to subscribers
- Engagement10%
(Likes + comments) / views
- Niche momentum5%
Momentum of its strongest niche
The questions worth asking first.
- Does Viraloop predict how many views a video will get?
- No. The score summarises measured performance — how far a video has broken out from its channel's baseline, and how fast. There is no forecasting model behind it, and no copy in the product claims one.
- Where does the data come from?
- The YouTube Data API v3, sampled on a schedule by a Cloudflare Worker. Snapshots accumulate over time, which is what makes velocity and acceleration measurable rather than guessed.
- Why measure against a channel's own baseline?
- Because absolute view counts mostly measure audience size that already existed. A video doing 20× its channel's median is a signal; a video doing 1.1× on a huge channel is not.
- What happens after I sign in?
- You pick the niches you care about during a short onboarding, then land on the dashboard with the radar, watchlists and saved items scoped to your account.
See what is breaking out today.
Pick your niches once. The radar keeps measuring against every creator's own baseline from there.