# YouTube monitoring: new videos and comparable observations

Use the explicit publication window; exclude Shorts and old videos. Deduplicate by video id. Separate publication and observation times. A visible title is not a read transcript; an unreviewed thumbnail cannot support visual judgments. The baseline is not age matched: describe ratios, not causes or proven hits.

Videos, views and baseline are synthetic. No real channel, transcript, thumbnail or Notion record was read or written.