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Channel snapshot

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We don't publish anyone's private channel data — watch time and revenue are estimates from public signals and stay blurred.

Tara's Keto Kitchen channel has gotten 7,938,036 views so far

Views 7.9M
Watch time (hours) 393.7K
Subscribers 161.0K
Estimated revenue $8,096.80
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What the numbers show

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based on public channel data
  • Publishing at roughly 46.1 videos/year since joining in Jul 7, 2017
  • Averaging about 18,809 views per video against a 161,000-subscriber base — a views-to-subscriber ratio of 11.7%
  • Food & Keto is a competitive US niche — upload consistency and repurposing across platforms usually move the needle most here

Opportunity & fit

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what the recent-upload data actually shows
  • Opportunity size: 0 — uploads in roughly the last 5 years — a fully dormant channel with 161,000 subscribers still attached
  • Recent performance: The entire recent sample is ~5 years old (1,700–6,700 views when active). No activity since — this is a large, built-up audience that simply hasn't been posted to in years.
  • Market demand: Keto/low-carb recipe content has strong, evergreen demand that hasn't gone away — if anything, diet-content search volume has grown since this channel went quiet.
  • What's being missed: This is the strongest reactivation case in the batch: 161,000 subscribers, an evergreen niche, and zero recent output. The audience is sitting there waiting.

Clipping compounds reach — creators like Raj Shamani, MrBeast, and IShowSpeed run their clips across several accounts and platforms to stay familiar to a much wider audience.

How we'd approach it

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what SM Growth Agency would do
  • Content research & strategy — start with your goal, then map the niche: multiple creators across the country, thousands of comments read across their videos to see what audiences actually want (and don't), upload patterns, market patterns, which hooks are working right now, and who's the fastest-growing creator in the niche and why
  • Content repurposing — cut long-form into short-form for Shorts/Reels/TikTok
  • Content packaging — titles and thumbnails built around what this audience actually clicks
  • Distribution — push repurposed content across additional platforms beyond YouTube
  • Clippings — pull the strongest moments from long-form uploads into standalone clips

This audit is based on public channel data — we don't make our clients' sensitive data public. If this is useful or you'd like to talk, get in touch.