Stop patrolling profiles
You already know the routine: every week or so, open each competitor's profile, scroll, squint at view counts, try to remember what their normal looks like. Viral Tracker does that patrol for you. Add the creators you're up against, and when one of them posts a video that clearly beats their own usual numbers, it shows up in your workspace, ready to break down.
Track an account
- Open Viral Tracker in the sidebar and click Track an account.
- Pick the platform: Instagram or TikTok.
- Paste their profile link or type the handle.
- Click Start tracking.
The first check starts immediately and takes a minute or two: ViewRank reads the account's recent videos and works out its average. After that, every tracked account gets re-checked about every 3 days, hands off.
You can track your own account too. It takes a slot like any other, and it answers a question the platforms are weirdly bad at surfacing: which of my videos broke out?
How an outlier is spotted
The bar is the creator's own performance, not some global number:
- ViewRank samples around 50 of the account's recent videos, drops the highest 20% and lowest 20% of view counts, and averages the middle. That's the account's average. Trimming means one ancient mega-viral video can't set an impossible bar, and brand-new videos still gathering views can't drag it down.
- A new video counts as an outlier when it reaches at least 2x that average.
- Videos under 48 hours old aren't judged yet; a video needs a few days to find its audience, so ViewRank waits rather than scoring it too early.
- Pinned videos are ignored entirely, and each account's average is refreshed monthly as it grows.
Once a video qualifies as an outlier, it stays one, even if its multiple later drifts down.
When something pops
The orange badge on Viral Tracker in the sidebar counts outliers you haven't seen. On the page, outliers look like the cards on All Videos: the multiple in the corner (say, 3.4x), the views, likes and comments, and a play button that opens the post on its platform. The bar at the top of the page sorts the feed by newest or by the biggest multiple, and can narrow it to a single creator.
Each outlier card has the same buttons as your own videos: Transcribe, Visuals, Scripts, and Expand. The first time you use one, ViewRank fetches the video into your workspace automatically, which takes a few seconds, then opens straight to the tool you picked. From then on the video also lives in All Videos like any other import, so you can transcribe it and run a visual analysis while the trend behind it is still live. Fetching an outlier works like any other import and counts toward your plan's usual limits.
Quiet is normal, by the way. Most checks find everyone running at their usual numbers, and the page says so. The value is that you weren't the one checking.
Slots
Starter tracks up to 2 creators and Pro tracks up to 5. Slots aren't monthly credits: stop tracking an account and the slot frees up instantly. Stopping also removes that account's outliers from your feed.
FAQ
Why hasn't a video I know went viral shown up?
Three usual reasons: it's still inside the 48-hour waiting window, it's pinned, or it's big in absolute numbers but under 2x that creator's average. A million views from an account that averages 800k isn't a breakout, and that's the point of measuring against their own numbers.
Will I get an email when something pops?
No, notifications are in-app only right now: the sidebar badge and the outliers feed.
Can I track YouTube channels?
Not yet. Tracking works for Instagram and TikTok accounts.