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Yard Secrets

@sparkswhitaker5965

Language: EnglishCountry: United States6 years old

  • Persona: Travis · Other persona · Middle-aged
  • Sells · $15 ebook
  • Lawn care
  • Fertilizer
  • Weed control
  • Crabgrass
  • DIY lawn
  • Golf course lawn tips
  • Budget yard care
  • Fall lawn care
Subscribers
7.75K
Total views
622K
Videos
21

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

Dotted: 1 day without a fresh subscriber total stored in this range. Left out, not filled in.

Show the numbers
Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 20267,750
Oct 13, 20267,710
Oct 12, 20267,660
Oct 11, 20267,600
Oct 10, 20267,560
Oct 9, 20267,500
Oct 8, 20267,420
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 20267,320
Oct 5, 20267,230
Oct 4, 20267,130
Oct 3, 20266,970
Oct 2, 20266,860
Oct 1, 20266,850
Sep 30, 20266,800
Sep 29, 20266,800
Sep 28, 20266,760
Sep 27, 20266,740
Sep 26, 20266,720
Sep 25, 20266,700
Sep 24, 20266,690
Sep 23, 20266,680
Sep 22, 20266,670
Sep 21, 20266,660
Sep 20, 20266,600
Sep 19, 20266,630
Sep 18, 20266,590
Sep 17, 20266,580
Sep 16, 20266,550
Sep 15, 20266,540
Sep 14, 20266,520

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 13, 2026.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionAfter the summary: "The guide (Lawn Care Lies)" or a Products Mentioned list with the guide first, then Amazon affiliate links
  3. 3Landing pageGumroad · Gumroad product page: 30-day plan, 25 chapters, instant PDF, $15 · graysthetics.gumroad.com
  4. 4CheckoutGumroad
  • Store link in 35% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since May 23, 2026
  • Entry points: the description body

Recent descriptions list a guide, Lawn Care Lies, below the video summary, either as "The guide" or at the top of a Products Mentioned list followed by Amazon affiliate links to the tools and lawn products named in the video. The link goes to a Gumroad product page selling the guide as an instant PDF for $15: a 30-day plan in 25 chapters with five reference appendices. The page shows no guarantee, no email sign-up and no membership. Older descriptions from May and June mostly carry no store link.

Analysis

Our own reading of the channel’s public titles, descriptions and thumbnails, not data from YouTube.

Persona

Travis

Other persona · Middle-aged · Male · Suburban front lawn and yard

Niche

Cheap alternatives to big-brand lawn care products

Audience

US homeowners who look after their own lawn and feel overcharged by big-brand fertilizers, weed killers and lawn services (inferred from titles, descriptions and the about text).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic weathered man with a grey-brown beard, a worn trucker cap and a dirt-stained T-shirt, shown on a suburban lawn holding a product, kneeling in the grass or pointing. The about text presents him as a 52-year-old homeowner; the May to June thumbnails show only product scenes without him.
Format

About 14 minutes with chapters: a store-bought lawn product that fails, how the brand keeps you buying, then a cheap pro or golf-course alternative with where to buy it, how to apply it and when.

Content pillars
  • Cheap swaps for big-brand fertilizer
  • Weed and crabgrass control
  • Golf-course lawn methods
  • Seasonal lawn jobs (fall feeding, leaves, snow mold)
  • Watering and mowing habits
  • DIY lawn tools
Title patterns
  • Golf Courses Have Used This $[N] [Product] For [N] Years
  • Forget [Brand]. This $[N] [X] Kills [Weed] in [N] Days.
  • The Secret [X] KILLER Lawn Companies Hope You'll Never Find
  • This $[N] [X] in October Replaces Every Lawn Product You'll Buy Next Spring
  • Do This Before Winter or [X] Will DESTROY Your Lawn by Spring
Thumbnails

Since Sep 23: the persona on a green lawn holding or pointing at a product, a short bold white/yellow caption, price tags or red arrows. May to June: product hero shot, a big 'FORGET [X]' headline, a red X over the brand product and a red bottom banner.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • One breakout: 340,411 of 502,251 total views (about 68%) come from a single golf-course-vs-Scotts price video
  • Price-contrast titles: 9 of 17 name a dollar price, including 4 of the 6 most viewed videos
  • Golf-course framing: 4 titles cite golf courses, among them the 2 most viewed (340,411 and 51,541 views)
  • A named brand or store to beat in 6 of 17 titles (Scotts, Weed B Gon, Home Depot, Amazon), plus an 'industry hid this' angle in titles and thumbnails
  • After uploads resumed on Sep 23 with the persona in thumbnails, 2 of 6 new videos passed 26,000 views; 87,342 views in the last 29 days

Where the channel points

Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.

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