Category: Teardowns
Real accounts and real campaigns, examined post by post, including the ones that did not work.
A teardown without numbers is just an opinion. Every piece here works from a defined window, a stated method and the actual figures, with screenshots so you can check the reading for yourself. Small accounts get the same attention as large ones, and failures get the same care as wins, because the account that stalled usually teaches more than the one that did not.
Brands are named. Nothing is anonymised into a company we know, and no account appears here because of who it pays. Where something worked for reasons you cannot copy, that gets said out loud.
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Four brand Shorts programmes and how they stopped
Two of twelve brand channels published nothing in the window, so I pulled their complete Shorts histories: 276…
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Ryanair’s 87 Shorts: the narrowest spread on the shelf
The airline that beat Red Bull per subscriber, examined post by post: 87 Shorts in 90 days, a…
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Twelve brand channels, 550 Shorts, side by side
Every Short twelve named brand channels published in 90 days, pulled per video: 550 of them. Ryanair out-reaches…
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Ninety days of Duolingo’s YouTube Shorts, measured from public data
Every Short Duolingo published in a 90-day window, collected on one date with per-video public counts: the spread,…