Purpose
ShortsMonkey is a YouTube viral video discovery and Shorts analysis tool. Its core purpose is to find videos that have already achieved results from channels with few subscribers but high view counts, for creators to study, reference, and develop their own original topics.
Main Capabilities
- Viral Video Discovery: Find and analyze videos from channels with low subscriber counts but millions of views.
- V/S Ratio Filtering: Use the ratio of views to subscribers as the measurement metric. Official example: 48,000 views ÷ 600 subscribers = 80x. The official description also states that observed ratios do not predict the performance of your next video.
- Dual Leaderboard Mechanism: Provides two core charts, one for Shorts and one for long-form videos, to prioritize discovering breakthrough content from small channels.
- Long-Form Threshold Filtering: The long-form video leaderboard by default filters out channels with fewer than 15K subscribers and a V/S ratio higher than 10x, and categorizes them into more than 55 niche fields.
- Multi-Region Real-Time Scanning: Scans more than 150 regions in real time.
- Momentum and Originality Scoring: Each video is scored by momentum and originality to help skip the noise.
- Field Coverage: Includes more than 50 categories such as science, space, health, psychology, and more, and can be filtered by your own field.
- Reports and Examples: Open a complete analysis report and accompanying images for a single video; the official site provides Shorts, long-form video, and live stream opportunity examples from 30 real examples.
- Public Data Comparison: Compare public view counts, subscriber counts, video formats, and publish dates.
How to Use
You can browse all leaderboards and video details without logging in. After logging in, you can search, with 10 site searches per account per day. The search quota resets at 00:00 Beijing time. Any result set can be exported as CSV (including title, URL, views, subscribers, ratio, and date), and video URLs can also be copied in bulk for team use. Export requires no subscription. Official recommendation: compare relevant examples, record your reasoning process, and then create your own content.
Use Cases
- Study YouTube topic inspiration from small and medium-sized channel videos.
- Browse outlier videos by niche field and study breakthrough content that is meaningful only to your own field.
- Compare different tools and read related research.
- Creators who do only Shorts, only long-form videos, or both can filter results as needed.
- Export data to CSV or copy links,For team collaboration.
Limitations and Notes
- The official statement is that ShortsMonkey is free.
- Stored rankings and search results may reflect different observation times; the displayed counts and dates should be compared, and the latest public counts should be verified on YouTube.
- The official definition of an "outlier video": at least 10 times the channel's subscriber count in views (minimum 10,000 views). The official statement says a high view-to-subscriber ratio means a small channel has produced a breakthrough hit, which is exactly the format worth referencing.
- Unlike other tools that focus on optimizing one's own channel, ShortsMonkey is positioned to discover proven hit videos and Shorts from other small channels, ranked by view-to-subscriber ratio.
(Product names, URLs, and example data all come from official materials; features, pricing, platforms, or performance information not appearing in the materials are not provided for now.)
