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The channel page: health, pillars and the biggest lever

On any channel page Lens adds a bar above the tabs: the channel's health out of 100, its four pillars, typical views, the openings that win here, and the one lever to pull first.

4 steps · about 1 min · screens captured 11 Oct 2026
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Open any channel

The bar sits above the Home, Videos and Shorts tabs. Channel health 71 out of 100 here, with a letter grade.

Open any channel
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Four pillars

Consistency, engagement, momentum and reach, each scored out of 25. Beside them: typical views per video, engagement, uploads a week, Shorts share, trend, and three similar channels.

Four pillars
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Openings and earnings

Openings that win on this channel: the share of 2x videos with that opening against the share overall. Then an earnings estimate, the outlier filter, Map this niche and the free channel audit.

Openings and earnings
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The biggest lever

Below: every video's multiple, the best recent upload, and the biggest lever with its measured reason. Here it is upload consistency: publishing 0.6 a week.

The biggest lever
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Why it works this way

The health score is calculated by VideoCore from public numbers against the channel's own history, so a 2,000-subscriber channel is never graded as if it were a 2,000,000-subscriber one.

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