Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Pets YouTube outliers
8,130 Pets videos from 50 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 303 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
50
Videos scored
8,130
Reach 2x or more
29.9%
5x or more 12.7% · 10x or more 5.9%
Leaderboard pool
303
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Inside Pets sit two businesses that barely resemble each other. Entertainment channels built around an animal's personality behave like any performance niche: enormous ceilings, volatile baselines, and Shorts doing most of the discovery. Advice channels about training, health and care behave like an education niche, with steady search demand, high medians and videos that keep working for years. Outliers in the first group are usually a moment the feed carried; outliers in the second are usually a problem stated exactly as an owner would state it at two in the morning. Read the top rows to see which business each belongs to before drawing conclusions, because a viral clip and a housebreaking guide are not competing for the same viewer.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan | 20.3M | 49.4K | 300x | ||
| 2 | Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan | 7.7M | 49.4K | 113x | ||
| 3 | Tom Davis Dog Training | 1.1M | 14K | 86x | ||
| 4 | Amber Aquart | 1M | 14.9K | 68x | ||
| 5 | American Standard Dog Training | 2M | 44.7K | 45x | ||
| 6 | Tom Davis Dog Training | 496K | 14K | 39x | ||
| 7 | McCann Dog Training | 230K | 9.6K | 24x | ||
| 8 | Beckman's Dog Training | 685K | 30.9K | 22x | ||
| 9 | McCann Dog Training | 197K | 9.6K | 21x | ||
| 10 | American Standard Dog Training | 649K | 44.7K | 20x |
Showing the top 10 of 303 outliers in Pets (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 Pets ranking is built
- Every Pets video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 8,130 videos from 50 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. 303 Pets videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Pets channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 29.9% of scored Pets videos reach 2x or more, 12.7% reach 5x and 5.9% 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 training and health videos hold such steady numbers?
Because the questions never stop being asked. A new owner appears every day with the same problem, and they search rather than browse, so these videos accumulate instead of spiking. The result is a high median, which makes any genuine breakout on the same channel meaningful.
Is building a channel around one animal risky?
It concentrates everything into a single personality, which raises the ceiling and the risk together. The rows at the top of entertainment leaderboards show how far that can go. Channels that survive the animal's absence usually built a second thing alongside it: a format, a household, a skill.
How should I read a very large multiplier on a pet channel?
Check the format first. Shorts are scored against other Shorts precisely because a clip can reach far past a channel's usual audience, and pet clips do that routinely. A large long-form multiplier on an advice channel is the rarer and far more instructive result.
How many Pets videos are behind this leaderboard?
8,130 scored Pets videos from 50 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 303 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Pets 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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