YouTube strategist · “YouTube Scientist”, Trakyo Pod

Jake
Trinder.
Building businesses through YouTube.

I’m Jake, founder of Views To Clients. I help businesses turn YouTube attention into customers, and share the research, psychology and practical tools behind the work.

  • FounderViews To Clients
  • 100+channels run
  • $670Ka month across agency and education, Jake’s figure, Oct 2026
Jake and the V2C team have worked with
Gary Vee.Ali Abdaal.Instantly.Glencoco.Clay.ManyChat.9x.Sam Piliero.

V2C client case study · Glencoco

$1M+from 12 videos

Collected from YouTube in the first six months, starting from zero. Company-reported, as published by Views To Clients. See all client results.

Separately: Jake and the V2C team run well over a hundred channels (Jake, Trakyo Pod, October 2026).

What clients say

Customers’ own words from Trustpilot, each rated five stars, as read on 24 October 2026. Read them in full →

  • “They are the best Youtube team I’ve ever worked with.”

    Eric Nowoslawski US · Oct 2026
  • “They’re extremely responsive, move FAST, and know YouTube inside and out.”

    Canon Roeder US · Oct 2026
  • “I just turn up and record. It’s freed up tens of hours a week and become our single biggest lead source.”

    Sam Crawford GB · Sep 2026
  • “Working with Jake and his team has been amazing so far.”

    Kevin Lang US · Jul 2026
  • “Jake and his team delivered actual results. They don’t just claim to be different. They are different.”

    David Hernandez US · Jul 2026
  • “I’ve worked with TONS of Youtube Content Agencies over the year’s and Jake’s team at VTC is the best - hands down.”

    Connor Minogue US · Apr 2026
  • “Working with Jake and his Team has been truly one of the best decisions ive ever made!”

    NM GB · Jan 2026
  • “Jake and the whole Views To Clients team really know their stuff.”

    Jan Meinecke IE · Sep 2025
  • “Excellent team, kind, smart, sharp, and actually caring.”

    Sam Piliero US · Sep 2025
  • “I continue to and will continue to work with and recommend Views to Clients to any business that’s looking to get clients from YouTube.”

    Austin Schneider US · Apr 2025
  • “Bottom line if you want to use Youtube to generate clients these are your guys.”

    Padraig Jordan GB · Apr 2025
  • “Highly recommend Jake and his team.”

    Michael IT · Sep 2024
Jake Trinder sitting on a hillside at golden hour, gesturing as he talks

Why trust Jake?

The person behind Views To Clients.

Jake Trinder is a YouTube strategist and the founder of Views To Clients (V2C), working at the intersection of YouTube strategy and business growth. Through his videos, teaching and conversations, he shares the decisions behind the work: understanding customers, building brands, developing strategists and growing a company.

  1. Age 10Starts a YouTube channel in his bedroom, wanting one like the Sidemen.
  2. Age 17Rejected by every university he applied to, bar the one he didn’t want, despite 3 x A* A-Levels and being School Head Boy. Takes a gap year instead.
  3. Sept 2022Starts Views To Clients from a bedroom in Newcastle, one client at a time.
  4. Oct 2026Well over 100 channels run, and $670K a month across the agency and education business. Jake’s own figures, Trakyo Pod, October 2026.

Looking for a YouTube consultant? See how Jake advises businesses on YouTube strategy, or hire the YouTube agency he founded.

Founder, Views To ClientsA YouTube growth company that builds and runs business channels. You record, the team does everything else.
Organic onlyEvery result V2C publishes came from published videos, not paid ads.
Team of 50+Powering the business, plus freelance editors, working from Newcastle.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UKWhere the company is built and most of the videos are filmed.

What does he understand differently?

The maths, the science, the psychology and the data of YouTube. One method.

A* grades in mathematics, further mathematics and computer science, applied to the one platform that rewards getting all four right. Every claim, in Jake’s own words, with timestamps →

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The maths

A channel is an equation. Every stage multiplies the one before it, so one weak stage caps everything after it.

The Views To Clients equation →
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The science

Research runs on an algorithm, not on taste, and a video only counts as a winner when it beats its channel’s normal by a statistically significant margin.

The same rules, built into software →
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The psychology

The numbers say what worked. The psychology says why: the promise a title makes, the doubt the opening removes, the reason a viewer acts.

The Psychology of the Click →
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The intelligencePattern databases

From more than 100 channels, V2C sees what gets clicked, what gets watched, what creates leads and what becomes revenue. A research team and in-house AI tools turn that into databases of outliers, niches and formats. A person checks every pattern.

What it produced for clients →

Rolled into one

“You can actually engineer it… do your research, because if you know who you’re speaking to, you know exactly what you have to say.”Jake, Trakyo Pod. A peer software company billed him “YouTube Scientist”.
Trakyo Pod's thumbnail for its interview with Jake: his face in front of app logos and client channels, with the words YouTube Scientist
Trakyo Pod’s own thumbnail for the interview, October 2026. Image belongs to Trakyo Pod; shown with a link to the video.

Can you show me? Jake’s own outlier, measured

The example: his channel-launch talk did 112× the channel’s norm.

“The Most Valuable YouTube Training You’ll Ever Watch”, 8 September 2026. Past 920,000 views. The decision, step by step, on the Psychology page →

A recorded talk on strategy, research, packaging and the decisions behind a video. Free on YouTube. It was the launch video for Jake’s own brand on his channel, after years spent on clients’ channels, so it is an exception, not an everyday upload.

These are real comments from viewers of this video.

112× The channel’s norm Views in the first seven days against the median of the channel’s ten nearest long-form uploads.
920K+ Views and climbing

Measured with VideoCore Lens on 15 September 2026 and YouTube’s public count on 21 October 2026, against uploads on Jake’s own channel. How it was measured, and the decision behind it →

What Jake did

Gave one viewer one clear promise in the title, then structured the talk so it kept delivering: “I intentionally deployed a lot of aha moments, which I really carefully structured.” Jake, Trakyo Pod

What happened

330,000 views in the first seven days, 112× the channel’s norm, #1 of 20 on the channel at the 15 September read, and past 920,000 views by 21 October.

Can I use this myself?

Use the same tools.

The research behind the method is built into software. Lens and the VideoCore tools are free to try; Trinder.AI is invite only. All the tools, and how the scoring works →

Trinder.AI

A live AI version of Jake plus his private tools. 100 private keys drop on Thursday 29 October 2026, 5pm UK. Free to register.

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VideoCore Lens

A free Chrome extension. Open any YouTube video or channel and see how it did against its own channel’s normal, counted from public numbers. No account.

Add Lens to Chrome →

VideoCore free tools

Why No Views, Outlier Finder, Title Scorer and Niche Finder. Free and instant, on public YouTube numbers.

See the free tools →

Where can I go deeper? The Psychology of the Click

Why the right people click, what makes them stay, and what turns that attention into customers.

Every title and thumbnail makes a promise to one specific viewer. The click is that viewer deciding, in under a second, whether the promise is worth the risk of their time.

The one-sentence thesis

Jake’s signature research, connecting the click to the customer: a keynote, a workshop and a series of papers in development. Read the thesis and the worked example →

Five things push the click up. One pulls it down.

  • Relevance“This is about me.”
  • Curiosity“Something is missing and I want it.”
  • Value“I get something concrete.”
  • Trust“This person can deliver.”
  • Emotion“I feel the stakes.”
  • Friction“This will cost me time, or it is a lie.”

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The psychology

Once you learn psychology, YouTube becomes simple

The four decisions a viewer makes, from “do I care?” to “what do I do next?”, and where a channel loses them. The video behind the Psychology of the Click.

Watch on YouTube →

Behind the business

Inside the build

Jake’s own story: a bedroom channel at ten, a gap-year bet with his parents, one pitch video, and the company that came out of it.

Watch on YouTube →

Conversations

A conversation with Sam Crawford

A founder on what changed in his business when the channel started working, and the strategy behind it, in his own words.

Watch on YouTube →

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    Speaking & conversations

    Practical ideas. Shared in person.

    The Psychology of the Click as a keynote, the Views To Clients equation as a workshop, and the lessons from building V2C for podcasts and panels.

    Ready to put Jake on your stage? Tell us about the event: a person replies within two working days, including a straight answer on whether it’s a fit.

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    Jake Trinder.

    YouTube strategist and consultant. Founder of Views To Clients.

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