Changelog

October 9, 2026

Free YouTube Lead Magnet Grader

A new free tool grades how well a channel turns viewers into email subscribers. Paste in a YouTube channel link and get a report, with no sign-in needed.

Checks your opt-in page and the videos that link to it
Spots videos that point to a different lead magnet, and lets you grade those too
Checks whether your pinned comments mention your lead magnet
Estimates how many email subscribers you could be missing each month and year, and which fixes would help most
Accepts your @handle or any common channel link, including older short links like youtube.com/yourname

October 3-8, 2026

Lead Magnet Images on Your Opt-in Pages

Show visitors what they'll get. Opt-in pages can now display an image of your guide, and pages created with the AI workflow get a professional cover made for them automatically.

Upload your own image of your lead magnet in the opt-in page editor
New AI-created opt-in pages get a cover in your brand colour, with a short title written from your video and an illustration that matches the topic (video, fitness, relationships or money)
Use Generate Cover Image on any existing page, and edit the cover's title, subtitle and illustration first
An image you upload is never replaced automatically
New Image beside form layout puts your headline and form next to the image for a shorter, more polished page, with name and email side by side. On phones it stacks neatly

New Metric: Leads per 1,000 Views

See how good each video is at turning viewers into email subscribers, whatever its size. Leads per 1,000 views lets you compare a small video with a big one fairly.

Shown on the Top Videos page and in the Top Converting Videos table
Available to your connected AI assistant, so you can ask which videos convert best

Sales Card: Revenue or Number of Sales

The Sales card on your dashboard can now show either revenue or the number of sales, using a switch right under the card.

The Leads/Sales toggle on conversion tables now shows the columns for the metric you pick

More Accurate YouTube Numbers

The channel views chart now uses YouTube's own per-day figures, so you'll no longer see days of zero views followed by a sudden spike
New uploads are checked again shortly after publishing, so Shorts are labelled correctly
Fixed the View Stats button missing on Top Performing Links for links that carry tracking parameters
AI trend reports now compare whole days. This fixes a case where a 7-day comparison could overstate a drop

Faster Video Performance Page

The Video Performance page loads much faster, especially for larger channels.

Connect More AI Assistants

You can now connect Grok, as well as Cursor's cloud and mobile agents, to your YouTube analytics.

Free YouTube UTM Link Builder

A new free tool builds tracked links for your video descriptions right in your browser, so you can see which videos send you traffic.

New Guides

Our blog is now Guides, and you can filter it by topic (MCP, Claude, ChatGPT and Leads).

How to track which YouTube videos bring in email subscribers
How to create a lead magnet for your YouTube viewers
How to use QR codes in your videos
How to connect Claude to your YouTube analytics
How to use your YouTube analytics in Claude Code and Cursor
30 ChatGPT and Claude prompts for YouTube analytics
How to get a weekly YouTube report from AI, sent automatically
How to connect Grok to your YouTube analytics

Small Improvements

Footer links wrap properly on phones
Guide thumbnails are no longer cropped on mobile
Slightly more room for content next to the dashboard sidebar

October 1-3, 2026

Your AI Assistant Can Now See Your Thumbnails

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your thumbnails and it can now look at the actual images, not just links to them, so its advice is based on what your viewers really see.

Ask to see your best and worst thumbnails and they appear side by side right in the chat, each with its impression click-through rate, link click rate and views
Click any thumbnail on the board to open the video on YouTube
Your assistant can examine up to 10 thumbnails at once when comparing what your winners have in common
Works for private videos too

Clearer Thumbnail and Click Metrics

Two different "click-through rates" were easy to confuse. Your AI assistant now keeps them separate and uses each one where it belongs.

Impression CTR: how often people who saw your thumbnail clicked to watch (the same figure as YouTube Studio). Thumbnail rankings now use this by default
Link click rate: how often viewers clicked a link in your video description
Fixed an issue where a minimum view count could still let in videos with very few views in the period you asked about

One Link to Connect Claude and ChatGPT

Connecting your AI assistant is simpler: everyone uses the same connector link, and you choose which channel to connect when you approve the connection.

Choose the workspace on the approval screen if you manage more than one channel
New Connected apps list in Settings → MCP shows which AI apps are connected, with a one-click Revoke
Connect Claude Code without a token, using a single command you can copy from Settings → MCP
Setup steps are now split into Claude & ChatGPT and Claude Code tabs
MCP tokens are tucked under an advanced section, since most people no longer need them
Existing connections keep working
Our privacy policy now explains exactly what a connected AI assistant can see and change, and how to revoke access

September 28-30, 2026

Free Engaged Views Report

A new free tool lets any YouTube creator see how much of their view count comes from YouTube's new public view definition. Sign in with Google (read-only access), get a report comparing public and engaged views, and email yourself the link.

New and Updated Guides

New guide: How to connect ChatGPT to your YouTube analytics
The AI assistant setup guide now covers the single connector link, choosing your workspace, and connecting Claude Code
More AI tools are listed as compatible, including Gemini, Gemini CLI, LibreChat and Cherry Studio
Fixed help articles showing their title twice

September 27, 2026

Accurate View Counts on Video Performance

Newly published videos were showing 0 views on the Video Performance page even when they had real clicks and leads. That's fixed, and the page now uses your chosen way of counting views so its numbers match the rest of your dashboard.

New videos now show the views they gained in your selected date range
The Views column follows your View Counting setting and says which kind of view it shows
Week-over-week view and like changes on your Favorites are more reliable

More Accurate Numbers for Your AI Assistant

When you ask Claude, ChatGPT or another connected assistant about a recently published video, its public view count now includes the views from launch day. Comparisons between public and engaged views for new videos are now accurate.

New Help Article: Engaged Views vs Public Views

A new guide explains YouTube's view counting change, where to choose your headline number, how to read the views chart, and how engaged views are calculated.

September 14-15, 2026

Engaged Views Support

On August 24, 2026, YouTube changed its public view counter to count every play from the first frame, including autoplay. The old definition is now called an "engaged view." Video Stats now tracks both, so your conversion rates stay comparable with your history instead of suddenly looking worse.

See engaged views and public views side by side, for every video
Choose which one is your headline number in Settings → View Counting (engaged views recommended)
Switch any video's charts between engaged and public views with the Views basis option
The views chart shows both at once, so you can see the gap for yourself
Your AI assistant receives both numbers, labelled with which kind of view each answer uses
Lifetime totals that can't be complete (such as older Shorts) are held back rather than shown misleadingly
Several accuracy improvements so engaged totals are correct and continuous across the change

August 11-19, 2026

Opt-in Reliability

Opt-ins now work correctly on subdomain pages and with Kajabi, and the link in verification emails is easier to see.

Fixed opt-ins on pages served from a subdomain
Fixed opt-ins delivered to Kajabi
Verification email links now stand out clearly

Clearer Upload Limits

Banner, QR code logo, resources and subscriber content uploads now have clear file size limits, so you know what will work before you upload.

Changelog Improvements

This changelog page now shows dates more clearly and covers the last 100 days.

August 11, 2026

Easier Access to Your Change History

Every bulk description update is recorded in Change History, where you can review exactly what changed and undo it if you need to. The confirmation message now takes you straight there, and the history filters have been fixed so you can narrow the list down to the kind of change you're looking for.

Jump straight to Change History from the update confirmation
Filter your history by the type of update that made each change
Clearer wording about where your changes are recorded

Clearer Navigation

Resources and links are now grouped under a single "Resources and Links" heading in the menu, making them easier to find.

August 5-10, 2026

Turn Your Videos Into Blog Posts

You can now generate a written blog post from your video content, giving your videos a second life as searchable written content without starting from a blank page.

AI-generated blog post summaries drawn from your videos
Connect your WordPress site and publish generated posts straight to it

Opt-in Page Improvements

Opt-in pages got a substantial round of polish, giving you more control over how they look and sound while making them clearer for your visitors.

Upload your own banner image, or explicitly choose to use your YouTube channel banner
Set a writing voice so AI-generated copy sounds like you — and it now genuinely follows it
Stronger calls to action, plus a clear explanation of the video embedded on the page
"Watch This Next" thumbnails now display in proper widescreen proportions
Visitors are told up front that their opt-in link expires
Double opt-in emails now arrive under your name rather than ours
Uploaded files show their real filename instead of a random string
AI-generated content now arrives as formatted content the editor can work with directly
Fixed a save button that wasn't responding

July 22-30, 2026

Simpler Find and Replace in Descriptions

Removing text from your video descriptions no longer needs a workaround — leave the replacement field blank and the text is simply deleted.

Link and Domain Reliability

A round of fixes to keep your links and custom domains behaving predictably.

Link counts stay accurate after reversing a set of links
Resolved a custom subdomain setup issue involving DNS verification records
Fixed custom domain handling when a marketing subdomain is already in use

New Help Articles

Added guides covering how to update a destination link, how the newer tracking links work, and the store sales pixel.

July 5-13, 2026

Sort Your Dashboard by What Matters

You can now sort your dashboard by sales or leads to see which videos are actually driving results.

Sort videos by sales or by leads
Corrected the sales figures behind the dashboard table
Resolved an issue connecting to the AI provider