Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Course Creators YouTube outliers
1,754 Course Creators videos from 16 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 177 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
16
Videos scored
1,754
Reach 2x or more
29.5%
5x or more 11.4% · 10x or more 5.6%
Leaderboard pool
177
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Every video in the Course Creators niche is also a sales argument, and that is the first thing to notice about this leaderboard. Channels here teach people to build, price and sell a course, and their audience is small, commercially motivated and willing to sit through long videos about business models. Views are not the point for many of these creators, so baselines can sit low while the channel is doing perfectly well. An outlier usually means a video escaped that narrow audience — a revenue disclosure, a platform change, a public failure, or a critique of the industry itself. Watch for the survivorship problem, since the loudest videos are made by people selling a course about courses. Read the top rows for the claim being made and the evidence attached to it.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Millie | 1.5M | 9.7K | 161x | ||
| 2 | Modern Millie | 1.1M | 9.7K | 115x | ||
| 3 | Tanya Aliza | 200K | 2.5K | 85x | ||
| 4 | Molly Keyser | 318K | 6.2K | 54x | ||
| 5 | Richard Yu | 474K | 11.5K | 48x | ||
| 6 | Richard Yu | 292K | 11.5K | 30x | ||
| 7 | Molly Keyser | 163K | 6.2K | 27x | ||
| 8 | Tanya Aliza | 40.4K | 2.5K | 17x | ||
| 9 | Pera University | 153K | 11.7K | 17x | ||
| 10 | Simon Squibb | 678K | 52K | 14x |
Showing the top 10 of 177 outliers in Course Creators (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 Course Creators ranking is built
- Every Course Creators video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 1,754 videos from 16 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. 177 Course Creators videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Course Creators channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 29.5% of scored Course Creators videos reach 2x or more, 11.4% reach 5x and 5.6% 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
Why do channels with modest view counts appear on this list?
Because the ranking measures each channel against its own median rather than against the niche. A business-focused channel with a small, valuable audience can publish a video that vastly outruns its normal result while still showing a modest number. That gap is the whole reason a multiplier beats a leaderboard sorted by views.
Are the revenue claims in these videos trustworthy?
Treat them as marketing until shown otherwise. A number without a source, a period or a cost line is a hook, and this niche has an obvious incentive to inflate one. The useful reading is structural: notice which claims earn attention, then decide what you could say with documentation behind it.
What should a course creator take from this leaderboard?
The questions that pulled in an audience beyond the usual one. Pricing, refunds, platform fees and launches that failed are all things buyers want explained and few sellers discuss. Those topics build trust with the people who eventually buy, which matters more here than the view count ever will.
How many Course Creators videos are behind this leaderboard?
1,754 scored Course Creators videos from 16 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 177 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Course Creators 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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