Paddy Galloway ✓

@PaddyG96 · Austin, TX · joined 29 Oct 2010

I grow YouTube channels. 10 billion+ views generated. 10+ years of experience. Worked w: @Jesser @MrBeast @RedBull & many more. Building a YouTube accelerator.

155 254Followers

1 950Following

9 494Posts total

1.4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views60 022this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %38.66%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	60 022	21 891	2.74×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	38.66%	6.81%	5.68×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.14%	0.68×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

769.8K23 Apr

359.6K24 Jul

49.7K25 Jul

49K27 Jul

60K26 Aug

68.3K2 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.48%23 Apr

0.36%24 Jul

0.74%25 Jul

1.05%27 Jul

2.07%26 Aug

0.77%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes42.9%6 780 in total

Reposts3.1%485 in total

Replies2.0%316 in total

Quotes0.5%85 in total

Bookmarks51.4%8 120 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Re: The new YouTube view count update. I studied the data across a dozen different channels. Seeing as high as 100% plus increases, average is lower. Here's a crazy example from a 1m+ channel. This video would have previously been measured as 986k views instead of 2.2 https: 68.3K views · 449 likes · 13 reposts · 59 replies 02 Sep 2026 How to rapidly grow a channel in the new era of YouTube (6 rules): https://t.co/2WFkpgH8YD 60K views · 1.2K likes · 51 reposts · 27 replies 26 Aug 2026 This graph is literally the most important thing to understand YouTube strategy: The algorithm is a multiplier. A 25% better idea, title, thumbnail, video can get 25x more views. Read the article for the full write up. https://t.co/xzRLTdBqI0 49K views · 468 likes · 29 reposts · 15 replies 27 Jul 2026 Someone’s going to read this article and make a 1m view video in the next 30 days. Full playbook for viral videos: 49.7K views · 337 likes · 18 reposts · 10 replies 25 Jul 2026 https://t.co/2nyIafXlxK 359.6K views · 1.1K likes · 82 reposts · 41 replies 24 Jul 2026 This YouTube video with a client got 18 million views. So f**k it… I’m gonna break down the entire strategy behind it. This will be the most useful thing you read about youtube this week: https://t.co/tJfmm4pssA 769.8K views · 3.2K likes · 292 reposts · 164 replies 23 Apr 2024