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Unlock your
next viral video

Hugo is your personal YouTube strategist trained on what actually gets views, so you stop guessing and start growing. Fast.

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Hugo

Viral Ideas

Hugo searches YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Google to find ideas your audience has to watch.

You get twelve viral ideas in minutes.

Ideation Boards

Think on a canvas. Hugo connects the dots.

Drop reference videos onto an infinite board — Hugo analyzes their concepts, title formats and thumbnail patterns, pulls in Google Trends and X signals, and wires it all into ready-to-make video ideas.

Videos
Why Open Source Is Google's Nightmare

Why Open Source Is Google's Nightmare

8.4x
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building on OpenAI

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building on OpenAI

6.1x
Why Motorola Is Secretly Huge

Why Motorola Is Secretly Huge

5.7x
Why AI Surveillance Is Already Everywhere

Why AI Surveillance Is Already Everywhere

4.9x
Concepts

Hidden history

12 videos3.2x

AI gold rush

9 videos4.1x

Trending format

Why [thing] Is [adjective]

38 matches · avg 3.4x baseline

Thumb pattern

Logo twist + bold claim

3 of 4 thumbs · avg 2.8x

Google Trend

openai agents

+1,400% searches

X Post

“agents are the new apps. calling it now”

48K likes
Idea
Video Idea

The AI Gold Rush Nobody Is Talking About

Thumbnail

Gold bars melting into GPU chips, red arrow climbing

Auto-analyze conceptsGoogle Trends + X signalsOne-click Auto-ideate

Scripts

Turn any idea into a script in your style. Hugo watches your videos, understands how you present content and writes scripts that sound like you.

But we add in advanced retention tactics.

Hugo

Hugo

Thumbs & Titles

Hugo has watched over 212 million YouTube videos, he knows how to create titles and thumbs your audience can't help but click.

Hugo launches swarms of agents that dig into social networks, news, your YouTube analytics, and our 212M+ video database to deliver data-driven content strategy for your channel

Redditr/entrepreneur

"How I grew my YouTube channel to 1M subscribers in 8 months"

2.3k
1.1k comments
Posted by u/growthguy · 3h
X
Alex Growth
@alexgrowth

"You won't believe this YouTube strategy — went from 0 to 100K in 60 days..."

2.1K
12.3K
48.2K
5.2M
BBCBreaking

YouTube becomes #1 podcast platform in the US

The streaming giant surpasses both Apple and Spotify in monthly listeners...

2 hours ago
Technology
CNNBusiness

Creator Economy now $250B and growing

Influencer marketing spend has tripled since 2021...

1 hour ago
Markets
Googlehow to grow youtube channel
About 2,620,000,000 results (0.36 seconds)
www.youtube.com › creatorsYouTube Creator Academy - Free CoursesLearn directly from YouTube experts how to grow your audience...
www.tubeai.app › strategies10 Data-Driven Growth StrategiesAI-powered video optimization tactics backed by 10M+ videos...
Apple
AAPLApple Inc.
$189.84+1.42%
OPEN$187.15
HIGH$190.20
VOL58.2M
MrBeast
MrBeast
345M subscribers
186MAvg. views
12.4%CTR
8.2Viral score
Updated 5 min ago
YouTubeAudience Retention
-18% drop0:002:348:12
AVG RETENTION62.4%
KEY DROP2:34

The databaseFREE FOREVER

Every channel. Every video. Indexed.

6MChannels indexed
212M+Videos analyzed
400K+Channels classified

Competitor Research

Find accurate competitors and related channels using our proprietary similarity engine across content, audience, and style — then organize them into folders to track, benchmark, and pull ideas from.

Source channel
Similar channels
C
ColdFusion
@coldfusion
B
BC Productions
@bcproductionvideos98%
S
Slidebean
@slidebean97%
M
Magnates Media
@magnatesmedia96%
G
Gen
@gen95%
W
Wendover
@wendoverproductions95%

Viral Vectors

The exact words that make titles click — with the pairings and synonyms that lift them further.

#WordClusterAvg outlier
1secretCuriosity1.84x
2bannedShock2.31x
3exposedShock2.05x
4mistakeFear1.47x
5hiddenMystery1.62x
6richDesire1.58x

Ranked across 150+ niches — every word scored against its channel baseline

What Works on YouTube?

Patterns extracted from millions of videos. Know exactly what drives clicks and retention in any niche.

Title Patterns
Optimal Length
58chars
~10 words
Use CAPS
+57%
46% of videos
Superlatives
+58%
best, worst, most...
Brackets [...]
+26%
13% of videos
Has Numbers
-19%
38% of videos
Power Words
+20%
19% of videos
Thumbnail Patterns
Have Faces
+140%
70% of videos
Optimal Face Count
2faces
per thumbnail
Have Text
+21%
91% of videos
Optimal Text Length
1-3words
Avg Brightness
43%
Avg Contrast
0.49

Based on 212M videos analyzed across all niches

Thumbnail Inspiration

Search by concept and find visually similar thumbnails across millions of videos.

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Dashboard

Your channel. Every angle covered.

A professional strategist audit, video-by-video retention diagnosis, content buckets and title psychology, competitor lists with benchmarks and publishing patterns, and audience psychology from comments down to countries — one command center.

Strategist audit · action plan

Your channel is one format pivot away from compounding: Market Trends & Crashes videos with open-loop titles run 4.6x your baseline while Tech & Crypto fades.

1

Double down on Market Trends & Crashes recent avg is 2.1x your channel norm and demand is still climbing

2

Adopt the "[number] Things I Wish I Knew" format proven 3.8x in your niche — you have never used it

3

Revive or retire Tech & Crypto dormant 7 months; its all-time average hides a fading era

4

Stack 3 hook beats in your first 20 seconds your best retainer opens with challenge → stakes → open loop

Findings · what works, what leaks

Open-loop titles outperform

Doing well

Titles that withhold the outcome average 4.6x your baseline across 11 uploads.

61% of viewers leave before 0:45

Opportunity

Your average hook runs one beat; the competitors beating you stack three.

Thumbnail style drifts every upload

Critical

Consistency score 3/10 — returning viewers have no visual style code to recognize.

Hooks & production · Hugo watched your last uploads

The Untold Story of the Ships Carrying Everything

Hook8/10Pacing5/10Production9/10Title↔content7/10
“Everyone thinks global trade runs on planes. The truth is a handful of ships carry everything you own…”

Hook structure · 3 beats stacked

Challenge beliefRaise stakesOpen loop

Untapped in your niche · proven, never used by you

[number] Things I Wish I Knew Before [action]

3.8x niche avg

The [superlative] [thing] Ever Made

5.2x niche avg

Viral vectors you never use

banned2.31x niche avgsecret1.84x niche avg

One click re-runs the full audit — market trends, style codes, ideal length and proof-backed ideas included

The Atlas

6 million channels. Mapped as a galaxy.

Our similarity engine embeds every YouTube channel by content, audience and style. Similar channels cluster into constellations — explore any niche like a star map.

6MChannels mapped
400KClassified core
150+Niches labeled
Drag to explore · click a star
6,014,392 stars

Pricing

Simple plans, powerful tools

Start free. Upgrade when you need more credits, longer scripts, and advanced analytics.

Free

$0/mo

  • Full Channels & Videos database (200M+ videos)
  • Outlier & similar-channel search
  • Unlimited research folders
  • Trending Formats & Viral Vectors (free preview)
  • Atlas channel map
  • My Videos dashboard (connect your channel)
  • Claude MCP access

Basic

$19.99/mo

  • 1,000 credits / month
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • All content creation tools
  • Viral Ideas — 12 concepts per run
  • Retention scripts (up to 15 min) with citations
  • Thumbnails: generation, Magic Edit & Style Match
  • Titles & Descriptions + variation tree
  • Ideation Boards with trend & X signals
  • Trending Formats & Viral Vectors
  • Folder research modes (channels & videos)
  • Credit top-ups anytime
  • Hugo chat + Telegram access

Pro

Popular
$59.99/mo

  • 3,000 credits / month
  • Everything in Basic, plus:
  • YouTube Analytics connection (official data)
  • Channel Audit — full-channel action plan
  • Scripts up to 30 min + custom lengths
  • Pro Mode thumbnails (image research + premium quality)
  • Hugo research agents (web, social, financial, YouTube, database)
  • Hugo memory, file uploads & voice notes
  • Multiple channel connections
  • Competitor momentum & performance analytics

Enterprise

$199.99/mo

  • 15,000 credits / month
  • Everything in Pro, plus:
  • Swarm Deep Research scripts
  • Workflows — multi-step & scheduled Hugo automation
  • Team collaboration with roles
  • Most advanced AI model for Hugo & ideation
  • 50,000-character Hugo input
  • Dedicated support & priority access