Launch Videos

I have a really good one

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

10.3M views

More views than 97% of the library · #16 of 598

Runtime
0:34
Posted
Aug 20, 2026
Pace
300 wpm
Claude on X

Claude Academy is now live. Whether you're figuring out what AI is or already using…

0:34 · Aug 20, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for ClaudeRuntime 0:34. First five seconds: Other spoken line. 0–5s hook · Other spoken line0:000:080:170:260:34
  • First five secondsOther spoken line

Not detected: company named, product named, demo starts, call to action

Narration pace

300 words a minute · dense

Narration pace: 300 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 670k views (n=71). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 19× the median humor or meme launch (536k, n=22)
  • 14× the median AI model launch (729k, n=48)
  • 25× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Humor or memen=22 · median 536k
  3. AI modeln=48 · median 729k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Humor or meme22535,534202,3211,118,00410,265,531
AI model48728,556326,7152,316,24539,909,098

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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Videos belong to the companies that posted them and play through X’s official embed, which loads only after you click. Hook labels and “why it worked” notes are AI-assisted analysis and can be wrong. Curated from public launch posts on X. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Corrections and removal