YouTube Playbook
What is working on YouTube right now: the Top 5 templates, structures, sequences, channel strategies and title formulas for 2026-09-22 · Long-form.
vidIQ credits
45
YouTube API units
180
DataForSEO
$0.02
LLM
$0.00
Transcript coverage
6.8%
Templates Top 5
▲ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
17 / 16
Outperf.
0.70
Adoption 7d
-33%
Adoption 30d
+15%
▲ 3
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
17 / 15
Outperf.
0.56
Adoption 7d
-21%
Adoption 30d
+37%
▼ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
42 / 26
Outperf.
0.58
Adoption 7d
-26%
Adoption 30d
+84%
new
2d in top 5
Videos / channels
8 / 8
Outperf.
0.49
Adoption 7d
-36%
Adoption 30d
+16%
▼ 1
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
32 / 12
Outperf.
0.52
Adoption 7d
-60%
Adoption 30d
+36%
Structures Top 4
new
1d in top 5
Videos / channels
64 / 58
Outperf.
0.67
Adoption 7d
-74%
Adoption 30d
+85%
new
1d in top 5
Videos / channels
28 / 26
Outperf.
0.68
Adoption 7d
-56%
Adoption 30d
+46%
new
1d in top 5
Videos / channels
49 / 46
Outperf.
0.64
Adoption 7d
-76%
Adoption 30d
+67%
▼ 3
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
106 / 88
Outperf.
0.54
Adoption 7d
-39%
Adoption 30d
+197%
Sequences Top 2
steady
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
115 / 9
Outperf.
0.46
Adoption 7d
-16%
Adoption 30d
+121%
steady
low sample
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
6 / 2
Outperf.
0.52
Adoption 7d
-43%
Adoption 30d
+14%
Strategies Top 5
new
5d in top 5
Videos / channels
65 / 12
Outperf.
0.48
Adoption 7d
+4%
Adoption 30d
+175%
▼ 1
7d in top 5
Videos / channels
163 / 14
Outperf.
0.50
Adoption 7d
-30%
Adoption 30d
+302%
new
2d in top 5
Videos / channels
131 / 7
Outperf.
0.47
Adoption 7d
+18%
Adoption 30d
+114%
▼ 2
4d in top 5
Videos / channels
287 / 20
Outperf.
0.48
Adoption 7d
-58%
Adoption 30d
+289%
▼ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
450 / 23
Outperf.
0.46
Adoption 7d
-69%
Adoption 30d
+289%
Title formulas Top 5
steady
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
42 / 26
Outperf.
0.58
Adoption 7d
-26%
Adoption 30d
+84%
▲ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
17 / 15
Outperf.
0.56
Adoption 7d
-21%
Adoption 30d
+37%
new
4d in top 5
Videos / channels
8 / 8
Outperf.
0.49
Adoption 7d
-36%
Adoption 30d
+16%
▼ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
103 / 45
Outperf.
0.45
Adoption 7d
-32%
Adoption 30d
+128%
▼ 2
9d in top 5
Videos / channels
32 / 12
Outperf.
0.52
Adoption 7d
-60%
Adoption 30d
+36%