YouTube discovery now uses YouTube's own quality-ranked match instead of just the most recent uploads. Same daily budget, fewer near-zero-view videos in your funnel, more creators that actually match the keyword you searched. A behind-the-scenes change to how Stela searches YouTube — but you'll feel it in the quality of the results: Relevance over recency — Before, every YouTube discovery was sorted by upload date — newest first — which meant a long tail of zero-view recent uploads showed up in your funnel only to be filtered out later. Now we sort by YouTube's relevance ranking by default, so the first creators we look at are the ones YouTube's own algorithm considers the best match for your keyword. Same daily budget — This change costs nothing extra against your YouTube API quota — same 100 units per search, same daily limit. You just get higher-signal results for the same spend. Reversible in one click if you ever need it — Your support team can flip the default back to date-based ordering (or to view-count, rating, or any other YouTube-supported sort) without a deploy. The change applies to the next discovery run within about a minute.