Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Storytelling YouTube outliers
6,313 Storytelling videos from 20 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 204 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
20
Videos scored
6,313
Reach 2x or more
20.1%
5x or more 3.2% · 10x or more 0.9%
Leaderboard pool
204
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Craft is the subject and also the constraint in Storytelling. Channels here analyze narrative, teach writing, or perform stories directly, and each builds a different kind of baseline: analysis accumulates like an essay channel, teaching accumulates like an education channel, and performance behaves like entertainment. Because the work is slow, upload cadence tends to be low and medians rest on relatively few videos. Outliers usually attach to a widely known work, since analysis of something the audience has already seen arrives with demand built in, or to a structural insight that changes how viewers watch everything else. Read the top rows for the claim in each title, and notice how many promise to explain why something worked rather than to summarize what happened.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philipp Humm | 176K | 3.9K | 44x | ||
| 2 | Philipp Humm | 101K | 3.9K | 25x | ||
| 3 | Kallaway | 925K | 60.7K | 15x | ||
| 4 | Vinh Giang | 1.4M | 103K | 14x | ||
| 5 | Tim Runia | 312K | 30.7K | 12x | ||
| 6 | Vinh Giang | 1.1M | 103K | 11x | ||
| 7 | Kallaway | 630K | 60.7K | 11x | ||
| 8 | Tim Runia | 260K | 30.7K | 10x | ||
| 9 | Waveform Clips | 719K | 93.6K | 9.8x | ||
| 10 | MrBallen Shorts | 3.1M | 327K | 9.6x |
Showing the top 10 of 204 outliers in Storytelling (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 Storytelling ranking is built
- Every Storytelling video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 6,313 videos from 20 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. 204 Storytelling videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Storytelling channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 20.1% of scored Storytelling videos reach 2x or more, 3.2% reach 5x and 0.9% 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 does analysis of famous work outperform original stories?
Because it inherits an audience. A familiar film, book or game supplies the demand, while an original story has to create interest from nothing. Original work is not disadvantaged by quality; it is disadvantaged by discovery, which is a packaging problem rather than a writing one.
Does a slow upload schedule hurt my standing here?
It makes the baseline thin, so numbers move more sharply in both directions. One strong essay can post a very large multiplier, and the next video is then judged against a raised bar. Read your own trend across several uploads rather than reacting to either result on its own.
What transfers from these videos to my own writing channel?
The shape of the question. The strongest rows do not summarize; they identify a decision the author made and explain what it bought. That approach works on any text, including ones nobody has covered, which is where a smaller channel has room to build something of its own.
How many Storytelling videos are behind this leaderboard?
6,313 scored Storytelling videos from 20 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 204 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Storytelling 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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