Filters in ChannelCrawler

What it means: The country where the YouTube channel is based. Often a large part of the audience will also be from this country, but not always.

How to use it: Useful if you want to work with creators from a specific location (e.g. US-based influencers for local campaigns).

What it means: The main language used on the channel, determined by the text in video titles and descriptions. Some creators may upload in one language but write titles in another.

How to use it: Helps ensure content aligns with your audience’s language preferences.

What it means: The number of people who have subscribed to the channel — essentially the audience size.

How to use it: Filter by scale, from smaller micro-influencers to large creators with broad reach.

What it means: The total number of views across the channel’s entire history, including both short-form and long-form videos.

How to use it: Shows overall reach and whether a channel has built lasting traction.

What it means: The total number of videos the channel has published across its history.

How to use it: A good indicator of how consistent and experienced the creator is.

What it means: How long ago the channel was created, displayed in days (e.g. 365 days = 1 year).

How to use it: Spot new creators or focus on established channels depending on your strategy.

What it means: Whether the channel has enabled YouTube’s membership feature (where fans can pay a subscription for perks).

How to use it: Signals a channel with deeper community engagement if its successful. Shows the creators intent to monetise the audience.

What it means: Whether the channel has an attached YouTube shop section.

How to use it: Indicates creators already monetising their content through product sales.

What it means: Whether the channel is marked as “Made for Kids” by the creator.

How to use it: Essential if you want to include or exclude child focused content.

The closer the score is to 1, the higher the confidence that the channel belongs in that category.

Scores further from 1 suggest the channel might overlap with other categories or have a looser connection to the category.

What it means: Searches for the keyword across all available fields (name, tags, bio, titles, descriptions, etc.).

How to use it: A broad option when you want to capture every possible channel mentioning a keyword.

What it means: Searches only within the channel’s name.

How to use it: A strong signal of focus. If a keyword appears in the channel name, the topic is likely core to their content.

What it means: Tags chosen by the creator to describe their channel.

How to use it: Helpful when you want to target how creators position themselves. Keep in mind creators sometimes “over-tag,” so not every tag reflects the true content focus.

What it means: The description written by the creator about their channel.

How to use it: Good for spotting channels where creators explicitly state their interests or niche.

What it means: Keywords found in the titles of the channel’s videos.

How to use it: Titles are strong indicators of video topics. Useful for finding channels that regularly cover a subject, though some titles may include trending or clickbait terms.

What it means: Keywords appearing in the descriptions written under each video.

How to use it: Can reveal extra context about what a video covers. Helpful but sometimes less precise since descriptions may include generic or promotional text.

What it means: Tags added by the creator to describe each video.

How to use it: Useful for finding related topics, though not always reliable since tags aren’t visible to viewers and may be applied inconsistently.

What it means: The combined percentage of likes and comments compared to total views.

How to use it: A quick way to see overall viewer interaction. Higher engagement rates suggest a more loyal, active audience.

What it means: The percentage of viewers who comment on a video.

How to use it: Useful for spotting communities with active discussion. High ratios often mean the creator sparks conversation.

What it means: The percentage of viewers who “like” a video.

How to use it: Indicates how much viewers are enjoying the content. A strong ratio suggests consistent quality or audience satisfaction.

What it means: Compares average views per video with the channel’s subscriber count.

How to use it: Helps identify whether subscribers are actually engaging.

Depth: Are they in-depth and thoughtful, or just one-word replies?

Sentiment: Are they mostly positive, negative, or mixed?

What it means: The average number of views the channel receives per month, calculated over the past 3 months.

How to use it:

What it means: The median number of views a channel’s videos receive. This means half of the videos get more views than this number, and half get fewer.

How to use it: A good way to understand what a “typical” video on the channel achieves, without being skewed by outliers like a single viral hit.

What it means: The mean number of views across all videos, the standard way most people think of an average.

How to use it: Useful for quick comparisons across channels, but it can be inflated by a small number of very popular videos.

Median gives you the middle point and is more stable. It avoids being distorted by a few unusually high or low videos.

Mean (average) can be skewed by spikes. One or two viral hits may make a channel look stronger than it really is.

Looking at both together gives you the clearest picture of a channel’s typical performance.

What it means: The number of new subscribers gained during the selected period.

How to use it: Good for setting hard thresholds (for example, at least 5,000 new subscribers in the last 30 days). Larger channels will naturally post higher absolute gains, so pair this with percentage growth to compare fairly across channel sizes.

What it means: The percentage change in subscribers compared with the previous equal time window (for example, last 30 days versus the 30 days before).

How to use it: Normalises for channel size so big and small channels can be compared on momentum. Useful for spotting acceleration or slowdown in audience growth.

What it means: The percentage change in total views compared with the previous equal time window.

How to use it: Highlights whether viewership is trending up or down. This avoids penalising channels with very high total views, since the comparison is against their own recent baseline, not their lifetime totals.

Use percentage growth to compare channels of different sizes without bias.

Use absolute subscriber growth when you care about the real number of people added.

For stability choose 30 or 90 days. For freshness choose 7 or 14 days.

Comparing to the previous period helps you see true momentum, rather than rewarding or penalising channels just because they already have a big audience or lots of lifetime views.

What it means: ChannelCrawler already has a usable email for this channel in the app.

How to use it:

What it means: The channel has an email published on YouTube, typically in the channel bio or About section.

How to use it:

First, filter Email available on ChannelCrawler: Yes and export those contacts.

Next, filter Email available on ChannelCrawler: No plus Email available on YouTube: Yes to produce a second list you can quickly validate and collect from YouTube.

This two-step approach avoids duplicate effort and ensures you do not miss publicly listed emails.

What it means: The channel lists additional social profiles in its YouTube bio or About section.

How to use it:

What it means: The number of days since the channel last uploaded a video.

How to use it: Set a threshold to ensure recent activity. For example, use ≤ 60 days to find channels that have uploaded within the last two months.

What it means: A quick toggle that filters to channels with a recent upload.

How to use it: Turn this on to automatically apply a 60-day activity window, which is a sensible default for most campaigns.

What it means: The average number of videos a creator publishes each month. This includes both long form and Shorts.

How to use it: Use minimums to ensure consistent posting. For instance, set ≥ 4 to find channels that post at least weekly on average.

What it means: The average duration of a channel’s videos in minutes.

How to use it: Set a minimum length if you prefer longer content. For example, ≥ 5 minutes to avoid mainly short-form channels, or ≥ 20 minutes to focus on predominantly long-form creators.

What it means: The number of days since the channel last uploaded a video.

How to use it: Set a threshold to ensure recent activity. For example, use ≤ 60 days to find channels that have uploaded within the last two months.

What it means: A quick toggle that filters to channels with a recent upload.

How to use it: Turn this on to automatically apply a 60-day activity window, which is a sensible default for most campaigns.

What it means: The average number of videos a creator publishes each month. This includes both long form and Shorts.

How to use it: Use minimums to ensure consistent posting. For instance, set a minimum of 4 to find channels that post at least weekly on average.

What it means: The average duration of a channel’s videos in minutes.

How to use it: Set a minimum length if you prefer longer content. For example, ≥ 5 minutes to avoid mainly short-form channels, or ≥ 20 minutes to focus on predominantly long-form creators.

Export: a list of channels you downloaded from ChannelCrawler.

Import: a list of channels you uploaded to ChannelCrawler.
You can view these lists in the Imports or Exports areas of the app. In the search filters, you use these options to exclude them from results.

What it means: Hides any channel that appears in your past exports.

How to use it: Use when building a fresh outreach list so you do not include creators you have already downloaded or contacted.

What it means: Hides any channel that appears in your uploaded lists.

How to use it: Useful for removing channels you have already researched, vetted, or targeted via imported data.

First run and save or export a list.

On your next search, tick both exclude options to focus on channels you have not worked with before.