@Yamazakiplays Channel Audit: 4,810 Subs, 609 CODM Uploads Analyzed

The math on this channel tells a story before you even press play. 771,937 lifetime channel views spread across 609 uploads works out to roughly 1,267 views per video over the channel's entire run. For a CODM creator in the 1K–10K sub tier, that's not catastrophic — it's actually middle-of-the-pack. But the upload-to-sub ratio is what stands out: 609 videos converting 4,810 subscribers means each upload has earned about 7.9 new subs on average. That's the kind of number you see from someone who's been showing up consistently but hasn't quite cracked which format hooks the YouTube algorithm yet.

Six hundred and nine videos is a serious body of work. If this creator uploaded daily, that's nearly two full years of effort. Three times a week, closer to four. The volume itself signals something most channels don't have — actual stamina. The flip side is harder to ignore: 609 swings and the channel still hasn't broken past the 5K range. From outside data I can't see CTR or average view duration, so I'm guessing here — but a volume-to-result gap this wide usually points to either thumbnail-title packaging that isn't earning clicks from the homepage feed, or retention dropping in the first 30 seconds. Both are fixable, but only if you know which one it is.

The recent upload pattern is where things get a bit puzzling. The live scrape pulled nine long-form uploads in the most recent window, but none of them returned visible view counts or titles at the time of capture. Honestly, that could be a freshness issue on the API side — YouTube can take 12+ hours to populate metadata across third-party scrapers for newly published videos. Or it could mean the most recent batch hasn't pulled any impressions at all. Either reading is worth the creator checking inside Studio. Fresh uploads sitting at near-zero views past a full day is almost always a packaging signal the algorithm didn't pick up.

Here's a small disconnect worth pointing out. The channel description advertises "Daily Shorts & Gameplay Highlights" right alongside the long-form promise. But the recent 9 uploads are all long-form. Zero Shorts in the visible window. For a CODM channel in 2026, that's a real strategic gap. Shorts in the mobile gaming category — clutch moments, kill compilations, fast meta updates — are one of the few formats still reliably breaking creators out of the sub-5K tier this year because they get pushed into hyper-specific audience pockets that long-form rarely reaches. If the description promises Shorts but the upload pattern doesn't deliver them, the subscribers who came in expecting that don't have a reason to come back.

What's actually working in the data: the niche focus is unusually tight. "100% Call of Duty: Mobile Content | No Mix, Only CODM!" reads almost defensively in the description, but YouTube's recommendation system in 2026 is heavily clustering-based and rewards channels that don't drift across topics. A channel that's 600+ videos of pure CODM is a clean signal — the algorithm knows exactly who to recommend it to. The growth ceiling here isn't being capped by topic confusion. It's almost certainly being capped by something narrower: packaging, production, or competitive positioning against the bigger CODM India channels.

A tactical thought worth checking. India is the addressable market for CODM, and that audience is enormous — but it's also dominated by a handful of mega-channels in the 1M+ range. The middle tier is brutal there. The realistic path forward isn't trying to out-produce the giants; it's finding a sub-niche within CODM that's underserved. Specific weapon meta breakdowns, regional ranked grind logs, controller vs. claw layouts, sub-2-minute "what changed this season" updates after every patch. These angles don't require bigger budgets and still earn searchable views. From outside I can't tell if those angles are already being tried within the 609 uploads, but if not, that's where I'd test first.

One last thing. The Discord link in the description is the kind of community asset that channels in the 4K–5K range often underuse. If even 10% of subscribers are actually in there, that's roughly 481 engaged fans — enough to consistently push the first 100 views and comments on every upload, which is the early-engagement signal the algorithm watches inside the first hour. Worth checking whether that flywheel is actually spinning, because at this channel size, manufactured early momentum is one of the few levers that compounds.