Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Art YouTube outliers
4,216 Art videos from 80 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 155 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
80
Videos scored
4,216
Reach 2x or more
27.2%
5x or more 9.7% · 10x or more 4.2%
Leaderboard pool
155
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Process is the product in Art. Viewers come to watch something being made, so a channel's ordinary video is a timelapse, a tutorial or a materials test, and its baseline sits low relative to subscriber count because much of the audience watches occasionally rather than habitually. Outliers here usually break one of the niche's quiet rules. They show a transformation with a visible before and after, they put a price or a constraint in the title, or they answer a question beginners are embarrassed to ask. Medium matters too: the audience for digital painting and the audience for oil on canvas overlap less than the shared label suggests, so a breakout in one does not predict demand in the other. Read the top rows for the promise made in the thumbnail, then ask whether the result could be shown in a single still image, because art videos that photograph well travel much further.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emirates | 39.7M | 332K | 124x | ||
| 2 | My Art | 13.9M | 144K | 84x | ||
| 3 | Amarins Lyklema | 506K | 9K | 59x | ||
| 4 | Emirates | 15.8M | 332K | 50x | ||
| 5 | Izzy Webber Art | 332K | 7.7K | 43x | ||
| 6 | My Art | 6.3M | 144K | 38x | ||
| 7 | gwendolyn | 661K | 23.2K | 29x | ||
| 8 | Art with Flo | 512K | 21.6K | 23x | ||
| 9 | Serena Art | 517K | 26.8K | 19x | ||
| 10 | Amarins Lyklema | 91.4K | 9K | 11x |
Showing the top 10 of 155 outliers in Art (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Art ranking is built
- Every Art video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 4,216 videos from 80 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 155 Art videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Art channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 27.2% of scored Art videos reach 2x or more, 9.7% reach 5x and 4.2% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
What makes an art video break out beyond the usual audience?
Nearly always a visible transformation. A thumbnail showing where a piece started and where it ended gives a stranger a reason to click without knowing the artist, while a finished piece alone asks them to already care. The same logic explains why constraint videos — one tool, one color, one hour — outperform open-ended process footage.
Do tutorials or finished-piece videos perform better here?
They do different jobs. Tutorials build a steady baseline because they keep arriving from search for years, while showcase pieces spike and fade. A channel whose outliers are all tutorials has found durable demand; one whose outliers are all showcases is renting attention. Check which kind is on top before planning your next month.
How many Art videos are behind this leaderboard?
4,216 scored Art videos from 80 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 155 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Art leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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