The Verge'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.
iPhone Duo review (emotional)
iPhone Duo Event in 24 minutes11.3×3
iPhone 18 Pro review: it's all about the manual controls6.8×4
AGI is whatever you want it to be | The Vergecast2.3×5
We unfolded the iPhone Duo | The Vergecast2.3×6
iPhone Duo challenges microdramas2.2×7
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The channel's typical long-form video gets about 42K views. “iPhone Duo review (emotional)” reached 541K, roughly 13.0 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are personal story (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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