Yardstick Economics
The economy, measured.
An independent YouTube channel about how economies and industries really work, told with data. Every number on screen carries its source, and every chart and map is drawn from real datasets.
Watch on YouTube: @YardstickEconHow our videos are made
Each video is researched and scripted with AI tools, fact-checked against the cited sources and approved by a human editor. The narration is a synthetic voice. Every video description lists its sources, and any corrections are published there too.
Yardstick Machine
Yardstick Machine is our private production tool. It runs on our own computer and is used only by the Yardstick Economics team. After the channel owner grants permission through Google sign-in, it uses YouTube API Services to:
- upload finished videos to the Yardstick Economics channel, first as private or unlisted;
- set each video’s title, description, thumbnail, captions and AI-disclosure label;
- read our own channel’s YouTube Analytics to plan future videos.
It is not a public service, and nobody outside our team can sign in to it. How it handles data is described in our Privacy Policy. The rules for using it are in our Terms of Service.