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SCP Explained - Story & Animation - what's actually working, and what isn't

Beauty · 119-min uploads · 2.5M subscribers · started 2020 · ~4.2/week
Est. ad revenue$709–$3K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 182 most recent of 2K long-form uploads. One of the beauty YouTube channels we track. Visit SCP Explained - Story & Animation on YouTube →

In SCP Explained - Story & Animation's own words
SCP Explained - Story & Animation is bringing you animated stories and tales about the SCP Foundation and beyond. Brought to you by a few fans of SCP that also work on The Infographics Show.Based in US

How many views does SCP Explained - Story & Animation actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 36% of all views and its biggest is 15.1× the median, so the median upload (26K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

26K
median views
15.1×
top vs median
18%
hit rate (2×+)
36%
views from top 10%

What is SCP Explained - Story & Animation's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Explaining Every SCP (PART 1)" at 392K views - 15.1× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Explaining Every SCP (PART 1)392K
We Heard 67 KID is the REAL SCP-067?...(WATCH UNTIL THE END!)260K
Archaic SCPs That Should Have NEVER BEEN DISCOVERED197K

Which titles work best for SCP Explained - Story & Animation - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
Explaining Every SCP (PART 1)392K
We Heard 67 KID is the REAL SCP-067?...(WATCH UNTIL THE END!)260K
Archaic SCPs That Should Have NEVER BEEN DISCOVERED197K
The Origins of SCP Foundation Explained in 20 Minutes161K
Unmasking the O5 Council160K
SCPs That Broke Containment in the WORST WAYS129K
Ancient SCP Entities (Older Than Civilization Itself)125K
2 hours of SCPs That Make You Question Everything124K
Confidential SCP Files (You Wish You Knew About Sooner)114K
THESE Frightening SCP Files are the SCARIEST EVER FOUND113K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
9 Fatal SCP Diseases & Infections18K
The Clockwork Nightmare You Can't Escape18K
SCP-4505 Anomalous Artwork in the Renaissance18K
SCP-527 - Mr. Fish18K
Where Did the Most Famous SCP Images Actually Come From?17K
10 Terrifying and Theatrical SCPs17K
Are We Cool Yet? (SCP Groups of Interest)17K
The Group of Interest That Doesn't Exist | Oneiroi Collective17K
The SCP Foundation FAILED To Contain The REAL SCP-89717K
Sonic The Hedgehog vs SCP-343 GOD17K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 182 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - SCP Explained - Story & Animation
Uses (brackets)18% of videos
+20%
Has a number55% of videos
-17%
Speaks to "you"15% of videos
-15%
The title formula for SCP Explained - Story & Animation

Lean on uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on has a number.

What keywords does SCP Explained - Story & Animation rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: scp files, scp foundation, explaining every, every scp, files are, ever found, scps are, were never. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does SCP Explained - Story & Animation post, and when?

SCP Explained - Story & Animation publishes about 4.2 videos a week, most often on Thu.

Views by day of week
Sun
26
Mon
18
Tue
36
Wed
17
Thu
38
Fri
18
Sat
29

How long are SCP Explained - Story & Animation's videos?

Typical uploads run about 119 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (29K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
29K
10-20 min
25K

How does SCP Explained - Story & Animation compare to other beauty channels?

At 26K median views, SCP Explained - Story & Animation runs above the typical beauty channel we track (18K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does SCP Explained - Story & Animation make? (estimated)

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, SCP Explained - Story & Animation pulls roughly 470K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $470-$1,878 a month in ad revenue (about $5,635-$22,539 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like SCP Explained - Story & Animation make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Thu. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 26K views.

SCP Explained - Story & Animation stats at a glance

Subscribers2.5M
Total views964M
Videos published2K
Avg views (of 182 analyzed)40K
Engagement rate13.4%
Uploads per week4.2
Typical length119 min
On YouTube since2020 (6 yrs)

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