Computerphile's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
Why AI Tokens are so Expensive - Computerphile
The AI Language We Can't Read: Neuralese ft. Rob Miles - Computerphile8.2×3
How Watermarks Track AI Generated Content - Computerphile6.9×4
How Passkeys Work - Computerphile6.8×5
?PHP Problem? - Computerphile3.7×6
The Private Key Mistake! (TLS Key set to "4") - Computerphile3.0×7
What's working for Computerphile right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 76K views. “Why AI Tokens are so Expensive - Computerphile” reached 866K, roughly 11.4 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are expose/reveal (1). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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