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The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

2.3M views

More views than 86% of the library · #82 of 598

Runtime
1:31
Posted
Aug 27, 2026
Pace
160 wpm
Cartesia on X

Sonic-3.6 is now generally available. In January we made a bet: stop tuning the existing…

1:31 · Aug 27, 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 CartesiaRuntime 1:31. First five seconds: Question. 0–5s hook · Question0:000:230:461:081:31
  • First five secondsQuestion

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

Narration pace

160 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 160 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). 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

  • 1.9× the median benchmark or stat launch (1.2M, n=31)
  • 3.2× the median AI model launch (729k, n=48)
  • 5.7× 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. Benchmark or statn=31 · median 1.2M
  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
Benchmark or stat311,233,026128,8492,273,08811,035,212
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