Which niches are open?
A viral video ≠ room to enter. Breakouts vs how crowded each niche is. Early signal — strengthens nightly as the corpus grows.
| niche | outliers | median× | top× | channels | signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| history-documentary | 74 | 6.6× | 32.1× | 13 | ● crowded |
| coding-tutorials | 55 | 5.9× | 910.3× | 5 | ● developing |
| science-explainer | 53 | 4.1× | 20.7× | 9 | ● crowded |
| ai-news | 21 | 4.1× | 23.7× | 4 | ● open |
| lofi-beats | 15 | 12.4× | 137.1× | 2 | ● open |
| psychology-facts | 10 | 5.8× | 41.9× | 1 | ● open |
| amazing-facts | 10 | 5.3× | 11.4× | 4 | ● open |
| top-10-lists | 8 | 4.8× | 5.9× | 3 | ● open |
| space | 8 | 4.6× | 11.9× | 2 | ● open |
| tech-history | 6 | 10.8× | 19.6× | 2 | ● open |
| motivation-speeches | 5 | 4.1× | 6.3× | 3 | ● open |
| manifestation-law-of-attraction | 4 | 3.4× | 3.5× | 1 | ● open |
| engineering-how-it-works | 4 | 6.3× | 13.5× | 1 | ● open |
| motivation | 4 | 11.6× | 104.3× | 2 | ● open |
| gaming-lore | 3 | 3.7× | 4.5× | 1 | ● open |
| economics-explainer | 2 | 8.9× | 13.4× | 1 | ● developing |
| philosophy-explainer | 2 | 7.6× | 11.0× | 3 | ● developing |
| tech-news | 1 | 4.3× | 4.3× | 1 | ● developing |