YouTube at the panels: the largest inventory in the index

No network offers as many lines as YouTube. Across all indexed panels there are 18,154 orderable entries in 17 service tiers from 25 catalogues, and the lion's share of them are views — the goods the panels base their prices on and where their catalogues overlap most.

The second peculiarity is the split by format. A view on a Shorts video and a view on a regular video are sold separately, often at noticeably different price levels, and the catalogues flag this in the name rather than in a field. If you order the line without the flag, you are buying the long-form version.

The third point belongs on every YouTube page: this platform scrutinises its own counters more thoroughly than most. Views are cleaned up after the fact, and what stood in the statistics yesterday may be missing tomorrow — a property of the platform that no catalogue field captures, and which we therefore cannot measure.

One figure still belongs to the picture, because it comes from the fields rather than the titles: the number of offers in this network where the panel reports a refill through its own API is 2,391. This refers to the variant that can be triggered by the panel itself; a refill window in the offer name is a promise, not a field. On a platform that cleans up its counters after the fact, this is the property to ask about before the price.

Promised refill: the windows in the inventory

What is promised is stated in the offer name: a deadline in days, an ongoing promise, an explicit no, or nothing at all. On a platform that cleans up its counters after the fact, this is the information that says the most before ordering — and it remains the seller's promise, not a measurement of what is left after a cleanup.

Across this network's inventory, the number of entries with a deadline in days is 4,646, the number of promises without an expiry date is 3,944, the number of explicit refusals is 2,176, and the number of entries that say nothing about refill is 7,390. Together the four groups cover this network's inventory completely; their sum is 18,156. The silent group belongs in every statement about the other three, because without it a catalogue that says nothing reads like one that promises little.

The number of entries promising at least 30 days is 8,539, and the number promising at least one year is 4,417. In both tiers the ongoing promises are included, because a promise without expiry outlasts any deadline — a tiering that left them out would count the strongest promises in the catalogue as smaller than they are. The tiers therefore cannot be added together: the longer one is entirely contained in the shorter one.

The median of the windows with a day count is 45 Tage. Ongoing promises are not part of this calculation, because "forever" is not a number of days and any substitute figure would be invented.

The lowest price-eligible base price in this network is 0.004 € per thousand units, and the middle of the range is 2.59 €. The lower value is currently set by CrazyPanel — a property of a single catalogue rather than a market situation, and at the next pull it may sit with a different provider. Both are wholesale purchase prices, not what a German-language sales page charges for them.

Attached to the channel are subscribers — the only figure here that stays on the profile permanently rather than on an individual video.

Attached to the video are views for the regular format, Shorts views for the short format, plus likes, comments and shares. Comments are the only goods in this network that a visitor can read rather than merely count — accordingly, they stand out when they do not fit the video.

Live viewers are the goods with a schedule. They have to be there during the broadcast; afterwards the show is over and the figure was never really there.

Which providers stand behind these lines is set out in the panel comparison.

Between two pulls the catalogue does not stand still. Since 31/10/2026, 299 entries in this scope have a different base price than before, of which 10 went up and 289 went down; 0 lines have been newly added and 0 have disappeared from the catalogues. The stated point in time is the oldest of these earlier pulls, so that the line does not claim a freshness that its slowest component does not have.

Comparison covers only the panels that have a second pull at all; their number is 25 and is not the number of indexed panels, because a newly added provider has no history yet. As long as this second pull is missing, nothing is shown here at all — a zero would mean "nothing has moved", and that is a measurement, not a gap.

Two details appear in no panel API and are therefore maintained by hand from the providers' own information: whether a provider issues a proper invoice and which payment methods it accepts. The number of providers with invoices in this scope is 2. Since 30/08/2026, none of these details here has gone unchecked — the oldest check is shown rather than the most recent, because a date based on the last check would hide the providers that nobody has looked at for longer. The number of providers with no check at all is currently 0.

Many of these lines resemble one another right down to their quantity limits, and there is a reason for that: panels buy from the same upstream suppliers. Where entries from different providers within a tier exceed our similarity threshold, we present them as a group and mark the more expensive lines with a note that they probably sell the same source — not all of them, because where the price gap could only be a counting error, the note is left off. The number of groups touching this section is 2,727, and the number of marked lines is 7,006.

"Probably" carries this sentence. No panel writes into its API who it buys from; we see two lines that match each other, which is a hint and not proof. The groups also do not divide the inventory — what is counted is whatever touches this section. The measurement is set out in detail in the panel comparison.