Launch Videos

Today we're announcing Base Labs, a dedicated research organization focused on advancing…

No clear spoken opening: the video opens on music, text or visuals. Shown instead: the start of the post text.

243k views

Fewer views than 61% of the library · #368 of 598

Runtime
1:05
Posted
Sep 3, 2026
Pace
117 wpm
Base Labs on X

Today we're announcing Base Labs, a dedicated research organization focused on advancing…

1:05 · Sep 3, 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 Base LabsRuntime 1:05. First five seconds: Other spoken line. 0–5s hook · Other spoken line0:000:160:320:491:05
  • First five secondsOther spoken line

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

Narration pace

117 words a minute · conversational

Narration pace: 117 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 346k views (n=185). 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

  • 0.4× the median teaser launch (540k, n=28)
  • 0.3× the median AI model launch (729k, n=48)
  • 0.6× 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. Teasern=28 · median 540k
  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
Teaser28540,344148,4161,440,4624,955,634
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