A YouTube Audit That Tells You What's Broken — and What It's Worth Fixing

We take channels apart in public. Yours gets the private version. We score your titles, your watch time, your search and your funnel. Then we give you a 90 day plan that ranks fixes by return, with no lock-in.

Want the 60-second version? Try the free Channel Scorecard — instant grade, no login.

3.2MHeartfulness — a channel we've worked with
200KPot and Bloom
101KHome Banao — a channel we own
PublicWeekly teardowns you can watch first

Most channels are not failing for the reason the owner thinks

When a channel stalls, people blame the obvious thing. The algorithm. The upload schedule. The last thumbnail.

The real problem is almost always somewhere you are not looking: a positioning that confuses the audience, a title strategy that never earns the click, a retention cliff in the first 30 seconds, or a funnel that turns views into nothing because there is no clear next step. A proper YouTube channel audit exists to find the actual constraint, not the one that is easiest to see.

We take real channels apart in public, free. We show what we would change and why. That is how you judge our thinking before you spend anything. This service is the private version of that work: a complete, scored review of your own channel using data only you can grant us access to, ending in a plan you can actually act on. It is not a pep talk and it is not a checklist you could have Googled. It is a diagnosis.

We can be blunt because we do the work. We are not course sellers. We run editing, titles, comments and numbers on real channels every week, so the patterns we point to in your audit come from having lived them — and every recommendation is grounded in what your team can realistically execute against its brand standards and cadence. When something is genuinely hard to fix, we say so, and we tell you whether the effort is worth it rather than padding the report.

Six lenses on your channel

Positioning

Who is your channel for? What does it promise? Is that clear in ten seconds? A weak answer here caps everything else. So we start here.

Packaging — titles & thumbnails

If nobody clicks, nothing else matters. We test your titles and thumbnails against what your viewers actually click and hand you frameworks to make it repeatable.

Retention patterns

We read the watch-time graph for every video. Where people leave. Where they come back. What your openings are doing to both.

SEO & metadata

Titles, descriptions, tags and chapters. How easy your videos are to find in search and suggested. And the fixes that surface videos you already made.

Monetization & funnel leaks

Where views should turn into money, leads or subscribers. And where they leak away instead. We map the path from watch to action and find the steps that quietly lose people.

Competitive benchmark

How you compare to the channels winning your topic. So the plan aims at gaps you can actually take.

Three deliverables, not a slide deck of platitudes

A scored report. We score every part above. You can see at a glance where you are strong and where you are losing growth. Each score is explained in plain language — the finding, the evidence from your analytics, and what it is costing you — so nothing is a black box.

A 90-day priority plan. A list of problems is useless without an order. You get a plan that ranks fixes by payoff. So you start with the biggest change first instead of doing everything at once and learning nothing. It is specific enough to execute — not "improve your thumbnails" but what to change and why.

A 60-minute walkthrough call. We walk you and your team through it live. What we found, why, and the plan. The people doing the work hear it first hand and can ask their own questions. You leave with decisions, not a PDF you will skim once.

The whole point of this YouTube channel review is that you can act on it whether or not you ever work with us again. If you would rather talk it through than read it, book paid consulting time picks up where the audit leaves off, and our YouTube consultant sessions add ongoing advisory once the fixes are underway.

Scoped to your channel and goals

We price each check on your channel and your goals. No forced packages. No retainer. A check is a fixed job with a written report at the end.

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When an audit is the right first move

This is for a channel that does the work but gets little back. You post often and stay flat. Or you grow and cannot tell why.

It is for marketing heads who need to know one thing before they spend more. Is this a plan problem or a doing problem?

It is also for the team running the channel every day, stuck on a plateau, who want a real answer instead of another how-to video can give.

It is also the honest first step before anything bigger. It is how every job with us starts. Many companies book a check just to see how we think. Then they decide. Fix it in house, or buy more hours of help. Either way you are buying a decision, not a leap of faith.

From access to action plan

1

Watch, then book

Watch our free teardowns. See how we think. Then book the check and tell us where you are stuck.

2

Grant read-only access

Add us as a viewer in YouTube Studio. We never post or change anything — read-only analytics are all we need.

3

We audit & score

We work through all six lenses and build the scored report and 90-day priority plan from your real data.

4

Walkthrough & roadmap

We walk you through what we found, live. You leave with the plan. Run it yourself, or ask us for help.

See the audit method before you buy it

We are two partners in Bengaluru. We have worked on channels like Heartfulness and Pot and Bloom. We own and run Home Banao ourselves. But the best thing to do before you pay is watch us check a channel. That is what our free teardowns are. Real channels, in the open, before any money changes hands.

Watch the teardowns on our free teardown channel. Or ask for a short free teardown of your own. To get more from your check, read our guides on how the YouTube algorithm works and the complete guide to YouTube monetization are useful background on the retention and funnel patterns we score.

Your YouTube audit, answered

Once we have access, the report is ready in about a week. Then we book your call. We use that week properly. We read your titles, watch-time graphs, tags and numbers across all your recent videos. We do not skim a few and guess.
Read-only access to your YouTube Analytics is enough. Add us as a viewer in YouTube Studio, or send exports if you prefer. We never need your password. We never post or change anything.
Yes, we can still check it. We just look at different things. With little watch-time data, we focus on who the channel is for, your titles and thumbnails, your topics, and the early choices that compound.
The free teardown uses only what anyone can see from outside. It is useful but shallow. The paid check is private. It uses your own numbers: watch-time graphs, where views come from, and where viewers leak away. Then you get a score, a written report and a call.
Your team can run the plan. Every fix is specific and in order. If you want more help after that, you can buy hours with Nikhil. We do not run channels for clients any more.
Yes, where it matters. We flag people re-uploading your videos, fake channels using your brand, and copyright problems. If it needs specialist work, we will say so.paid consulting time; the audit surfaces it either way.

Get a YouTube audit that finds the real problem

Start with a free mini-teardown, or book the full data-driven audit — no lock-in.

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Tell us about your channel and where you are stuck. We reply in one working day. No sales deck.

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