From developers who know what developer content works - and have the data to prove it.
Most agencies guess. We pair real developer instinct with a custom analytics system, so every call about what to make next is backed by both. We start with YouTube, because that's where it compounds fastest.
You're posting. You can't tell if it's working.
Most developer companies are making videos and hoping for the best. You publish, watch the view count, and have no real idea why something landed or what to make next. YouTube Studio tells you what happened. It never tells you why.
So decisions get made on gut feel and vanity metrics. Effort doesn't compound - it just disappears.
YouTube is the channel that compounds.
For developer audiences, YouTube is one of the few places where a single video keeps pulling in viewers, leads, and trust for years. Your competitors who got a few things right early are now building an audience that shows up for launches and fills their events. Every month without a system, that gap widens.
And the bar just rose. AI made generic tutorials worthless. What works now is perspective and strategy - which means getting it right matters more, not less.
Inbound from one video over time
A social post peaks in a day. A YouTube video keeps pulling in viewers, leads, and signups for years.
We make it measurable.
We don't make your videos. We figure out what developer content actually works - and build the system to keep proving it. The promise is clarity: you'll know what's landing, what isn't, and what to make next.
The hard part isn't the dashboard. It's reading it like a developer.
Agencies can make videos, but don't understand developers
Data teams can build dashboards, but can't read them through a developer lens
We're developers who went into developer marketing - so we read both the audience and the data from a developer's POV
What you actually get.
01
Developer YouTube AuditOne-time
A clear read on your channel: content patterns, themes, creators, and performance, benchmarked against competitors. You walk away with content-lane recommendations and a strategy - not just a report.
02
Ongoing Strategy + AnalyticsMonthly
Recurring performance reviews, topic recommendations, and trend monitoring - tied to your business priorities, not vanity metrics. A regular way to know what's working and decide what to make next.
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Maintained ToolingRetainer
We build and keep running the analytics dashboard and reporting your team relies on but nobody owns - pulling from the YouTube API and enriching it with creators, themes, and formats.
04
Team EnablementCoaching
We help your team get production-ready: the right gear without overspending, on-camera presence, and what separates an engaging developer video from a forgettable one. We coach the people - they make the content.
Fixed fees, billed monthly. No long contracts, no procurement. Start with the audit and scale only if it's working.
We've done this before.
AssemblyAI
0 to 150,000 subscribers
Built the channel from scratch to one of the most-followed AI developer channels, with strong brand recognition across the developer community.
We're not a YouTube agency. We're software developers who spent years inside developer marketing and DevRel teams - so we know what developers actually want to watch from the inside out. That mix of real developer instinct, content strategy, and data is rare.
Built and grew developer YouTube channels at AssemblyAI, DigitalOcean, and BetterStack. Knows what makes developer content land and what makes a channel grow.
15+ years in developer relations - Intel Mashery, Amazon, Retool, and DigitalOcean - with the technical chops to build the custom analytics and tooling that back every recommendation we make.
Who it's for
Teams investing in developer YouTube without a clear picture of what's working
Teams posting regularly but deciding on gut feel or vanity metrics
Companies with multiple creators or formats and no way to compare what drives results
Teams about to spend more on video who want to be smart before scaling up
Start with the audit.
It's scoped and low-risk: a clear, data-backed picture of where you stand and what the upside looks like, before you commit to anything bigger. If there's something here worth pursuing, you'll know.
YouTube is where we start. The same system applies to webinars, launch content, and developer education as you grow.
Questions you might have
"We're posting videos but nothing's growing - what are we doing wrong?"
Usually it's a mix: topics that don't match what your audience is searching for, inconsistent publishing, and no feedback loop to learn from what's working. That's exactly what we help untangle.
"We already have YouTube Studio - why do we need you?"
Studio tells you what happened. It doesn't tell you why, or what to do about it. We layer in competitive analysis, content pattern recognition, and custom analytics that go deeper on themes, creators, and trends over time.
"Can't we just hire a video person?"
You probably should, eventually. But a video person and a YouTube strategist are different roles. A great editor doesn't necessarily know which topics will perform or how to read algorithmic signals. We handle strategy so your video people can focus on making great content.
"How do we know which videos are actually worth the effort?"
Most teams look at view counts and stop there. We dig into retention, click-through, topic performance, and how content ties back to business goals. The answer is usually surprising - your best-performing videos aren't always the ones you'd guess.
"Our competitors seem to be growing faster - what do they know that we don't?"
Probably less than you think. They likely got a few things right early - topic selection, consistency, format - and the algorithm rewarded the momentum. We benchmark against competitors so you can see exactly what's working and where your gaps are.
"We want to invest more in video but can't justify it without data"
That's the right instinct. The audit exists for exactly this - a clear, data-backed picture of where you stand and what the upside looks like before you commit more resources.
"AI is changing everything - is YouTube even worth it?"
AI is making generic tutorials less valuable. But it's making opinionated, perspective-driven content more valuable. The bar is higher, which means strategy matters more, not less.
"What does this cost?"
The audit is a fixed, scoped fee. Ongoing work is a fixed monthly fee - no procurement process, no long contracts. We can talk specifics on a call.
"Who owns the videos, the channel, and the tooling?"
