Built by creators responsible for 115M+ views and 450K+ subscribers grown

Find the gaps.
Create the patterns.
Grow faster.

Metarch is the YouTube research, ideation, and production tracking system that takes 55% off the time you spend scaling. Your channels, and every client you strategize for, grow faster from one place.

The only tool you need to grow on YouTube

What it is best at

Metarch is best at the one thing that actually grows, or kills, a channel: deciding what idea to make next and what niche to enter.

Every tool you already pay for is good at one thing, and Metarch is better at each of them. One finds outliers, one holds your ideation strategy, one shows your analytics. None of them continue helping you make the best decisions based upon that idea once it's released.

No other tool can be the only one you use to run your YouTube business.

Channel Discovery
The idea keeps its numbers
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Channel Discovery
Before

Move an outlier between tools and it arrives stripped of the data that made it an outlier, because that data belongs to WHEN it was released.

After

Metarch keeps the numbers attached to the idea the whole way through, so your views, your engaged views and every repackage are measured day by day against the thing that inspired them.

The vault and discovery

Would you rather scroll 200 million videos that have nothing to do with your niche, or 50,000 videos you can use today?

Most outlier tools convince you by having high volume. They index everything, score it once, and hand you a wall of noise. You spend the morning scrolling past clickbait, low-quality videos, spam channels, and irrelevant topics all to reach the one thing in your niche - which is the exact opposite of growing quickly.

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Boutique, not bulk. Hundreds of thousands of videos (and more added every day) assessed. Only what survives Metarch's proprietary ZYRA outlier score, and the 11 Gates of Admission that verify a video is an outlier, will reveal themselves in the Outlier Vault. But, you can add ANY video and channel to your personal Discovery and create your OWN mini Outlier Vault just for your channel and niche.

02

In all cases organized by niche, release dates, views, and more. Add any video to your Channel Discovery, Individual Ideas, or Watchlists.

03

Low friction and easy to use: one click to get anywhere and everywhere.

Track your competitors, see the strongest keywords, and ideate with all the data you'll ever need. All without leaving Metarch.

You do not grow faster by having 346 tabs and manually checking recent uploads, trending formats, and what's performing. You grow faster by opening a tool and having relevant information presented directly.

Outlier Vault
Organized by niche
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Niche shelves, one click to Discovery
ZYRA Score and the 11 Gates of Admission

A lot of views does not mean it's an outlier.

It's also more than subscriber score or an average score. For Metarch, it is summarized in this relationship with three questions:

raw = MM Coefficient rare here + max(0, α ln v/k) big in the world + max(0, β ln v/s) reach per subscriber
raw = 2.15 + max(0, 0.6099 ln 872953/25000) + max(0, 2.0480 ln 872953/47703) Yes, this is the formula.
Question 01

Is the video rare for your channel?

Did it surpass your performance by a great amount based upon how frequently you upload?

Question 02

Is it remarkable on YouTube?

Did it gain views that spread far across the platform into many different audiences?

Question 03

Was it big for your audience?

Subscribers aren't your audience. Your view floor and returning audience based on typical performance... are.

Outliers also should be compared to the performance around them and before them. Not an average taken including extreme outliers that mislead you on the true health of a channel, or including videos released afterwards. (Yes, other tools do exactly this.)

ZYRA scores three ways, each against the channel as it was on the day the video published, on a baseline that moves with how often that channel uploads. Long form, Shorts, and Streams never mix data either. But the score isn't enough... it is then compared to its AVERAGE outlier score (correctly measured) and its subscriber score (estimated as accurately as possible with YouTube's limited data). All this combined into an 11 rule Gate to keep the Outlier Vault free from noise and slop.

Ultimately, you do not grow faster by chasing numbers that were never true, and that mislead you on what your competitors are doing.

Better ideas

How To Get Better Ideas

An outlier is not the idea, it's the clue.

Ideation
Clue to plan
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Keywords · Nichefinder · Ideation

Finding the video that worked is the easy half. The hard half is working out why it worked and what part of it can be used to satisfy your audience.

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Keywords. The title words actually carrying outliers across your own niche, or across every outlier in Metarch.

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Nichefinder. Use the same data and formats from outliers to find a new gap for a new channel. Add to your portfolio before someone else takes the opportunity.

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Ideation. From title to thumbnail, organize your thoughts perfectly, and push a banger into production.

Better ideas to grow faster, because you'll never miss out on data again.

Evidence

Every rule and process in Metarch came from real channels growing faster than they did before.

115M+Views generated
450K+Subscribers grown
$1.1M+Revenue from YouTube
11Channels built
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Gravipull
Gravipull 37 of 38 85K subs · 15M views · videos over 100K

A 2.1 million outlier on a new channel with ×348 its subscriber count. All by tracking a competitor channel, and outcompeting it with superior ideation. Using Metarch's principles grew a highly stable audience in a competitive market.

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Out of Bounds
Out of Bounds 106K subs 41M views · RPM recovery

An increase in RPM is not just based on better scriptwriting and storytelling, it's making sure the idea and packaging fit perfectly with them. When you do that and you get more views from better strategy? Your YouTube channel becomes a proper business.

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808 Snake and American Bear
808 Snake and American Bear 200K & 98K Different niches · new formats

A brand-new channel in a completely new niche, doing 200× its audience on its first release. Why? Understanding the Rap Niche perfectly through rigorous competitor research and understanding of KEYWORDS. All accessible via your Channel Discovery. This is achievable for any niche.

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Freeze Frame
Consulting client Their first $1,000 video Freeze Frame · 1.8K subs

Basically we ideated this for him based upon deep niche research and using virality outside of YouTube to merge with trending thumbnail formats.

THIS
GUY?
Film, TV, & Visual Arts 23:58
How a YouTuber with "ZERO" Budget Humiliated Hollywood
98.5 ZYRA 10.3X VS AVG
Freeze Frame · 1.8K subs 239.9X
422.2K views   med 474   avg 41.1K2026-06-17
After the upload

Most tools don't actually care about your videos after you release. We do.

Production is tracked, so you do not forget. The Idea Release Board stores the video from idea to live to repackaging, your team can see it, and it tracks views AND engaged views so you can make informed decisions.

A channel grows faster when you have all the information in real time, and can trust it.

Idea Release Board
Idea to live to repackaging
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Idea Release Board

How Metarch can INSTANTLY help you grow faster:

You run one channel.

You need to know what videos to make next, how to track your immediate competitors, and plan your long-term strategy. Your audience evolves over time, so you should as well. You can only do that by monitoring recent releases and outliers and staying on top of the niche/market. Start free or upgrade to use the Outlier Vault.

You run several channels: Faceless, a portfolio, or agency.

The ONLY place where every channel is scored the same way, so you can see which one is actually growing. Keep all competitors specific to each channel and be updated daily about recent releases, your upcoming schedule, and give your team access to track production and strategy.

You're a serial Builder, Strategist, Creative Director, or an investor.

Research, ideation, P&L, splits for partners, and deliverables per client. Plus a free invite for up to 5 clients (with the ability to add more). Strategist Command lets you get an accurate assessment for your finances and YouTube performance.

Three ways to grow your views and revenue faster:

Start free, try it out, and upgrade the moment you want to seriously grow all of your channels. Of course, cancel anytime.

Free
Beginner
Start here.
€0
no card required
Start Free
  • 1 channel, with everything on it
  • 3 standalone ideas, and unlimited ideas inside your channel
  • Channel Discovery: 10 tracked channels, 10 outliers you collect yourself
  • Thumbnail Visualizer, free for everyone
  • Keyword Helper across your own outliers
  • Ideation, Idea Board and Success Library
  • No Outlier Vault
  • No Channel Watchlists
  • No Master Keywords, Nichefinder or Channel Analytics
Most popular
Pro
Professional
Every tool available.
€50/ mo
billed monthly
Grow Faster
  • Everything in Beginner, with no limits: unlimited channels, ideas, tracked channels and collected outliers
  • The Outlier Vault, the whole index, searchable and filterable
  • Channel Watchlists
  • Master Keywords across every outlier in Metarch, not just your own
  • Nichefinder
  • Advanced Channel Analytics, your own numbers beside the research
Agency
Strategist
Keep your business in one place.
€150/ mo
billed monthly
Take Over YouTube
  • Everything in Professional
  • Strategist Command: per-client channel P&L, stakeholders, splits, deliverables, monthly income and views
  • Invite your clients, up to 5 included. They get access to some Pro features for free (such as the Nichefinder worksheet and Master Keywords), so you can work on their channel together in the same place
  • Extra seats: +5 for €50/mo, +10 for €80/mo
  • When an engagement ends they keep their account, their channel and all their data, and carry 20% off their first two months of Pro
For strategists

€150 a month is less than one hour of your rate.

If you run other people's channels, this is not a research subscription. It is the place the business lives: every client channel, every deliverable, every split and every dollar, besides the results that justify your retainer.

Your strategy business grows as fast as the channels you grow for other people.

Strategist Command
Every client in one portfolio
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Strategist Command
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One portfolio. Client and personal channels together, month over month and year over year, with finances tracked in the same view.

02

Clients come in free. Invite each one into their own account so they see the research on their own channel. They get Pro features you would otherwise have to share with them in screenshots and messy docs.

It is a tool, not a promise.

Metarch does not upload for you. What it does is put meaningful data in front of you and take 55%+ of the work out of getting it there. Better decisions, made faster, are the only thing that has ever grown a YouTube channel. That has worked for ten years across our own channels, and for every client we have strategized for.

Free is a real plan.One full channel with everything on it. No card needed.
Connecting YouTube is optional and read-only.Metarch cannot post, edit, delete or schedule anything, because we never ask for the permission that would let us. But connecting gives you access no other tool gives so you can make proper decisions for your channels.
One more thing

Views are lying to you too.

Engaged views changed what a view even means, and every dashboard you own now reports a different number for the same video. If you cannot see what is truly working on your own channel, you cannot decide what to make next. Which is what Metarch is for.

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Your videos are tracked over time, not frozen at one snapshot, so you see the shape of a release instead of a single day's screenshot.

02

Real RPM, beside real retention, so the revenue lines up with the video that actually earned it.

03

Your whole channel's health, month over month, in the same place as the research that fuels it.

Meaningful data, one place, better decisions. That is the entire product, and it is why channels on Metarch are primed to grow faster than anywhere else.

Channel Analytics
Real RPM
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Views, engaged views, RPM, retention
Questions

The things people actually ask.

If your question is not here, mail creative@frame117.com and we'll get back to you.

How is this different from the other YouTube tools?
Most of them score a video against a snapshot of the channel as it is today. That is wrong the moment a channel grows, because a video from two years ago is being compared to an audience that did not exist yet. Our scores adapt to when the video was published. Yes, we have moving baselines for EACH channel that adapt to how often it uploads and how videos perform over time (evergreen). However, this is only for channels added today where no outliers were tracked before. This enables you to see how a video has been performing over the past year or more and thus not missing out on high quality research. Any video released NOW that becomes an outlier? Always an outlier with its data frozen…. with one exception: we update the views automatically every few days! This gives a real sense of how well the outlier performed relative to when it was released. We also show you the Top 10 from every channel you track rather than only the ones that crossed a threshold, so you see the full shape of a channel instead of its highlight reel. Oh, right: Yes, this is for long form and shorts. All rules apply to both and the data does not mix.
I already use another outlier tool. Why would I switch?
Because other tools give you one thing or the other, and they're always competing. They serve a purpose, but Metarch is where you do everything at a higher level. What outlier competing tools don't do is help you track production and actually ideate. And production tools don't give you outliers and a method to actually grow on YouTube. Metarch achieves all of this.
What is an outlier, and why does the score matter?
An outlier is a video that beats its own channel's performance. This can be by such a wide margin that it starts a new niche, or a strong outperformer in an established niche. Think of a niche as simply the type of content it is, and who watches it. The outlier score is a mathematical representation of the Outlier. A 12x symbol means the video pulled twelve times the channel's usual numbers, which tells you the idea did the work, not the existing subscriber count. A 2M-view video on a channel that averages 3M is just a normal day. A 200K-view video on a channel that averages 8K is a VERY good day for the channel owner. However, not every niche can achieve 1 million plus, or even 500k plus, views. There are just smaller audiences for certain channels. That means on a very specific channel, 100k views could be a massive outlier. This is why on Metarch, we have three scores so you can make the best judgement! A proprietary score that removes the effects of outliers on a channel and better assesses the overall performance of the niche, an average view outlier, and of course, a subscriber based outlier. A new channel with only a few thousand subs regularly pulling massive views? Now that's a breakthrough channel!
Why three scores instead of one?
So, assuming you read the above answer and want to learn more: because one number lies and many competitors not only use only one number, they do not properly consider the general health of the channel. Average is dragged around by a single viral video but still gives you indicators. A channel with one 5M video looks impossible to beat when the rest of its catalogue sits at 40K. Our Metarch Score ignores that and shows the honest performance along with the average. The subscriber score catches the third case: a video doing numbers far beyond the channel's audience size, which is almost always the idea of an outlier. New channels, banger vids, banger views. Metarch shows you all three and lets you filter on whichever one matters for what you're doing. Because each niche is different, and sometimes you want leads for your business and not vanity views…. But we all still love vanity views, don't we?
Does Metarch work in my niche?
Yes. We gather data by hand across niches rather than being tuned to one which allows useless noise to distract you from the point of outliers: data relevant to YOUR channels. Remember our outlier scores do not care whether your niche does 20K averages or 20M. If a niche is thin in the vault you can add channels to it yourself through your own Channel Discovery and Metarch will gather and score them. A high quality, cultivated outlier vault you can actually use.
Do I have to connect to my YouTube channel?
No. You can research, build watchlists, and plan ideas without connecting anything. Connecting your channel adds your own analytics next to the research, which is the point of growing your channel, but it is entirely optional and you can disconnect at any time. Nobody else on Metarch can see it, we never sell it or train anything on it, and you can revoke access whenever you want - for your eyes only, and straight from YouTube.
What can Metarch actually see on my channel?
Read-only access, and only two things with YOUR permission first: your channel and video list with their public statistics visible to everyone and published by Google, and your own aggregate analytics like views and watch time which you have to give specific permission for. It shows on your profile in advanced analytics and gives you a full look at your channel health over time and where to focus your next steps! Again, nobody else sees it. Only you. Metarch cannot post, edit, delete or schedule anything, because we never ask for the permission that would allow it. You can revoke access from your Google account at any time and we delete the cached data within 30 days so you're always safe.
How does this help me track competitors?
Simply put: any channels you put into your Channel Discovery are now a part of your notification system, which you can fully customize. Not only can you see the best performing keywords for titles based on all the Outlier Metrics, but you will also be notified whenever a new upload becomes an outlier or an existing video gains momentum. It's important to track both! Now you don't have to open 23 tabs of all the videos you track to see whether an outlier has shown up or not. This is my favourite feature. Morning coffee, rain, some absolute blasting death metal, and scouting through Metarch's competitor notifications while seeing my own analytics. One place for happiness.
Is the free plan a real plan or a trial?
A real plan. Not a trial and not a fake free plan that really doesn't allow you to do anything. Metarch's free plan literally lets you use it on your primary channel. If this changes in the future (it probably won't but just in case), you will maintain free access for at least 12 months after the fact with zero change to your access. You get access to unlimited ideas for one channel's production workflow, 3 isolated ideas outside of the channel for different channel work, the ability to track competitors fully and be notified of their views, as well as the Thumbnail Visualizer to see how your thumbnails look before upload, along with everything else listed above on this webpage. It is enough to run a channel properly, but obviously full access to the Outlier Vault and other features requires the Professional Subscription.
What happens when I hit a limit on the free plan?
Well, it means you're probably doing a great job on YouTube, well done! The particular feature or limitation you've reached will be blocked with a note about which limit you hit. Everything you already made stays exactly where it is, and it is all there waiting if you upgrade later.
Can I cancel, and do I get my money back?
Cancel any time from your account, in two clicks, with no email required - direct from your user profile dropdown on the top right of the website. You keep full access until the end of the period you paid for. If you convert to a higher tier, we'll subtract for the time you've already paid so you don't lose any money. However, we cannot offer refunds due to 1) the fees we pay on each membership cannot be gained back and 2) the information on the website and the benefits will have been consumed on day 1, and they cannot be unconsumed. That would be neat, but personally I feel we're not quite close enough to that level of brain surgery that anyone should do it.
What is the Strategist tier for?
Simply put: Either a creator/channel owner with many channels (or one channel like the old days) who wants to track their full financials and all sources of income, track their views over the months and years, while also getting advanced breakdowns over which streams of income or niches are doing the most work in their portfolio. However, the real power of the Strategist Command is the ability for ACTUAL strategists to manage other people's channels. It adds finance and portfolio tracking across every client channel, allows you to add agencies for which you work or consult, AND lets you invite clients into their own account for free so they can see the research and ideation of their channels for a strong partnership. They also get extra features that would otherwise not be available on a free plan! Amazing.
Will this give me more views and revenue?
Yes, it should. We can't guarantee that for legal reasons, obviously, but if you use the website to its FULLEST, Metarch believes in being the only website you need to access other than YouTube in order to deliver supreme content to your audience and manage your portfolio in a way that saves you time, reduces stress, and gives you an unfair advantage in ideation, research, competitor analysis, and tracking your portfolio.

The only tool you need to grow your views and revenue faster.

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