ShelfScore

See where YouTube can actually place your next video, and keep the numbers YouTube deletes after 60 days.

What ShelfScore does

ShelfScore is a free Windows app for YouTube creators. It helps you pick search phrases your channel can rank for, and it saves your own YouTube Analytics reports (how often YouTube showed your videos in search, home and suggested, and which search terms brought viewers) on your computer, day by day, so you can see what is working and keep the numbers after YouTube stops showing them. Everything on this page is open to read: no account or sign-in is needed to learn about ShelfScore or to download it.

Try it free, right now: Is this phrase a door or a wall? Check one search phrase before it goes in your title. No sign-in, nothing to install.

Find a phrase you can winType what your channel makes. ShelfScore reads the live search page for each phrase and tells you which ones a channel your size can get onto, and which are walled off by big channels.
See your servings, not just viewsConnect your channel once and ShelfScore saves every report of how often YouTube showed your thumbnails (home, suggested, search), day by day, for good.
Build to what is winning nowWinPrint lists what this week's top new videos in a topic have in common: thumbnail, title, length.
Name something newGenesis checks a new channel or product name: is the .com free, is the @handle free, does it clash with a live channel.

How ShelfScore uses your Google data

ShelfScore runs on your own Windows computer. When you press Connect my channel, Google asks you to let it read two things for the channel you choose: your YouTube account details (your channel's name and your own videos' titles, so each report is labelled with the right video) and your YouTube Analytics reports (views, impressions, traffic sources and search terms, so ShelfScore can show and keep them). It can never post, edit or delete anything, and what it reads is saved only on your computer. Nothing is sent to us or shared with anyone. Full details: privacy policy.

Get ShelfScore

Download ShelfScore for Windows

Free. Version 0.15, one 36 MB folder, nothing to install.

  1. Unzip the folder anywhere (your Desktop is fine).
  2. Double-click ShelfScore.bat. Your browser opens ShelfScore.
  3. Open Stats, press Connect my channel, sign in with the Google account that owns your channel and press Allow.

While Google finishes checking ShelfScore, it may say "Google hasn't verified this app". Press Advanced, then Go to ShelfScore.