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Analyze your first video

Three ways to start: a single video by URL in about 30 seconds, a whole creator by username for ongoing tracking, or a draft you haven't posted yet.

Updated Oct 14, 2026·4 min read

Everything starts from Analyze new video at the top of the sidebar, which has three modes: Single video, Whole creator and Upload draft. A single video is the fastest taste, a creator is the path to ongoing insight.

Option 1 — A single video (by URL)

Instant and zero setup — you don't need to connect or track anything first.

  1. Click Analyze new video in the sidebar.
  2. Keep the mode on Single video and paste any public TikTok or YouTube Shorts URL.
  3. Hit Analyze video. A job starts in the background — you'll see a progress pill in the top bar.
  4. When it finishes, you'll get a toast. Open it to see the full breakdown.
You can keep working while an analysis runs — every job tracks itself in the Activity drawer (the progress pill in the top bar).

YouTube Shorts links

A Short gets the same breakdown as a TikTok and uses one analysis from your catalog, the same as a TikTok. Any of these link formats works:

  • youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
  • youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
  • youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
YouTube doesn't publish shares or saves, so a Short shows views, likes and comments but no share or save rate. The Short also has to be public — a private, age-restricted or region-locked Short can't be analyzed. More on the YouTube Shorts analysis page.

Option 2 — A whole creator (by username)

Analyze a creator's catalog at once. This is the bigger lever: a tracked creator refreshes daily and feeds breakout alerts, so you spot patterns and winners over time — not just one video.

  1. Click Analyze new video in the sidebar and switch the mode to Whole creator.
  2. Enter a public TikTok username and choose how many recent videos to pull.
  3. Start the scrape — the catalog builds in the background.

Creator mode is TikTok-only for now — to study a YouTube channel, analyze its Shorts one link at a time. Full details and what tracking unlocks are in Scrape a creator.

Option 3 — A draft you haven't posted (Upload draft)

Switch the mode to Upload draft and drop in an MP4, MOV or WebM file, up to 3 minutes and 200MB. fypnow reviews it before you post, including whether the opening would stop a scroll, so you can fix the hook while it's still a draft.

What you get back

Every analyzed video includes:

  • Hook score — how strong the opening is, 0–100.
  • Scene pacing — a proxy for retention, scene by scene.
  • Hook timeline — the first five seconds, frame by frame.
  • 3 fixes — the highest-impact changes for next time.
  • Content fingerprint — format, signal and production tags.
Scene pacing and the hook timeline for an analyzed video, with a dead frame flagged at 0:03
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