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Find promising YouTube niches with Viddar

A month-old AI channel just crossed 200K views on a tiny subscriber base, because the algorithm is actively pushing an underserved topic. That's the earliest signal Niche Hunter is built to surface: when a small channel's average views far outpace its subscriber count, an opportunity is opening — and you can read it before the niche gets crowded.

Video · recorded live on Niche Hunter (narration in Vietnamese — every step is summarized in English below).

In this video#

• What Niche Hunter is — a radar for small channels punching far above their subs
• The 3 built-in lenses: 🔥 Trending · 💰 Profitable · 🤖 AI-Made
• Sort + search: ranking by Long views / sub and finding a specific channel
• Deep filters: recent channels, monetized only, views/sub range, excluding kids content
• Reading a channel card: the red views/sub pill, estimated revenue, RPM

What Niche Hunter is and the three lenses#

Niche Hunter is Viddar's main discovery page — a feed of channel cards updated from data Viddar crawls daily. Open it and you immediately see dozens of channels showing unusual signals: low subscriber counts, but view numbers that tell a very different story.

Three preset lenses let you filter by intent in a single click: 🔥 Trending surfaces channels the algorithm is actively pushing right now, 💰 Profitable focuses on niches with high RPM and strong estimated revenue, and 🤖 AI-Made isolates channels producing content with AI — a fast-growing segment where competition is still low. Each lens applies instantly, no manual configuration needed.

Sorting, searching, and deep filters#

To rank the feed by the most meaningful signal, choose Long views / sub — this is how Viddar measures how far a channel's average views exceed its subscriber count. The channels that rise to the top after sorting are the ones the algorithm is favoring most relative to their real audience size. If you already have a specific channel in mind, the search box lets you pull it up directly by name.

Deep filters open further angles: show only recently created channels, narrow to monetized-only, set a views/sub floor and ceiling, exclude kids content, or filter by content language. Combining a lens with one or two filters lets you zero in on exactly the niche segment you want to explore, rather than scrolling a broad feed.

Reading a channel card: which numbers matter#

Each channel card shows subscriber count, estimated revenue, RPM, channel age, video count, content language, and recent videos. The first thing to check is the red views/sub pill — it appears when a channel's average views significantly exceed its sub count. That signal doesn't mean the channel is well-known; it means the algorithm is distributing the topic far wider than the channel's existing audience, which is the clearest early sign of an underserved niche.

Estimated revenue and RPM give you a second read on viability. A niche with high views but low RPM is a very different proposition from one where both numbers run high at the same time.

What to do after watching#

Open Niche Hunter, pick the lens that fits your goal, sort by Long views / sub, and start observing. When you spot a channel with the red views/sub pill in a niche that isn't crowded yet, that's your cue to look closer. Viddar offers a free trial — enough time to run this full lap and walk away with a shortlist of niches worth building a channel around.