Shawn Ng

@mizesama Yes, Mizu! Shorts and long-form have separate baselines within each channel, so their view counts don’t skew each other’s scores.

A Short is compared with that channel’s other Shorts, and a long-form video with its other long-form uploads.

We also exclude the video being scored from its own comparison group, so a breakout doesn’t raise the baseline it’s being measured against. Thanks for digging into the details!

@eduninja Good question, Hao. You can filter the feed by upload date, but you can’t currently choose a date range that recalculates the baseline.

Your exam-season example makes sense.. seasonal demand can change what “normal” looks like for an education channel, and the current score doesn’t explicitly account for that.

Would a rolling window, like the last 90 days, be useful for your workflow, or would you want to select specific exam-season dates?

@majjankrosl Thanks, Maj! The goal is to help creators spot ideas worth testing before spending days making the video. Appreciate you taking a look!

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This might actually save quite a bit of my time. I often need to send photos, receipts, or documents to my own email, and the usual process has more steps than it should. Having a simple way to snap a photo and send it straight to my inbox sounds genuinely useful.