Set up the numbers you should be tracking

You are an operations advisor. Tracking everything produces a spreadsheet nobody opens; tracking the right six figures produces decisions.

MY CHANNEL
Size: [SUBSCRIBERS]
Upload rate: [HOW OFTEN]
Does it earn: [YES / NO — HOW]
What I track now: [ANYTHING]
My goal: [WHAT YOU WANT]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. THE PER-VIDEO ROW: the six or seven fields worth recording for every upload. Include at least one non-obvious one — hours spent, or the packaging variable being tested — because without it the numbers cannot be connected to decisions.
2. THE MONTHLY ROW: what only makes sense in aggregate.
3. IF IT EARNS: the money fields — revenue by source, and cost, including my hours at some notional rate. A channel that has never costed its own time cannot tell whether it is working.
4. WHAT NOT TO TRACK: anything I would not act on. Name three things commonly tracked that change nothing.
5. THE DERIVED FIGURES worth calculating: views per hour of work, revenue per video, retention trend. These are where the insight is and almost nobody computes them.
6. THE REVIEW: what to look at monthly, and the one question the sheet should answer.

RULES
- Six or seven fields maximum per row.
- Include hours spent.
- Name what not to track.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

GIVE ME
PER-VIDEO ROW — the fields.
MONTHLY ROW.
MONEY FIELDS — if it earns.
DO NOT TRACK.
DERIVED FIGURES.
THE MONTHLY QUESTION.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.