Play 1
Watch the five channels that actually move your niche
Paste the UC ids you already steal from. Same threshold on each so the feed is a fair scoreboard.
3,000 views in 1 hour on every rival shorts channel.
Competitor monitoring
Know the hour a rival video takes off.
Authors who keep a list of competitors add those channels once. Spike watches new uploads. The moment one crosses your view line, we POST your webhook.
The cost of missing it
Waiting until it is already everywhere is how you lose the hour.
You already know who to watch. The problem is timing. By the time a rival short is on your For You page, the topic is cold and the rewrite is late.
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A breakout on a watched channel is a format that already works — if you see it in the first hour.
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Manual checking misses the upload that hits while you are editing something else.
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A daily recap tells you what won yesterday. A threshold ping tells you what is winning now.
Practical plays
Three ways to turn a spike into work.
Each play starts with channels you already know, then a threshold, then a hit in the dashboard — webhook if you want one.
Play 2
Treat a hit as a brief, not a trophy
Open the video, note the hook and packaging, and start the rewrite while the algorithm is still testing the topic.
Webhook → Discord → desk starts a cut the same morning.
Play 3
Keep the list boring and complete
You do not need every channel on YouTube. You need the ones that repeatedly print views in your niche.
A project per niche. Ten watches. One webhook.
On autopilot
Add the channels. Get the spike.
Add the rivals. Set one view line. We ping you when they clear it.
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Add the channels.
Paste a URL, @handle, or UC id. No YouTube API key. You pick the list — we do not search the whole site.
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Set the view line.
Example: 3,000 views in the first hour. One condition per watch. That is what “a spike” means here.
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We watch new uploads.
The tracker polls those channels. Several people watching the same UC id share the YouTube request.
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You get a signed POST.
HMAC, retries, delivery log. Point it at Discord, n8n, or your own bot.
Questions about competitor monitoring.
Yes — for channels you already chose. Spike does not search the whole site. It watches the uploads on the channels you add, then fires when a new video hits your view threshold.
You can set a different view line per watch. For a clean comparison, most desks use the same threshold on every rival in a project.
No. The tracker already runs. You store a channel, a threshold, and a webhook.
More use cases
Same product. Different desk.
Desks
Copy the idea while it’s still in the first hour.
A threshold hit is a topic that already proved demand. Intercept it before the niche is flooded.
FacelessGet pinged when a format in your niche starts printing.
Compilation, narration, stock — the channels on your list are the research. A spike is the format to clone this week.
NewsReact before the topic is everywhere.
Commentary and news desks need the same-day take. A threshold hit on a source channel is your cue to film “on that.”
Start watching
Watch the rivals. Get the hour they break out.
Watch a YouTube channel and set a view threshold. 3 channels for 7 days. No credit card.