NEED: expert backlink analyzers to help!!!!!!!! The old way to rank that still works (YouTube)

Hello, I was hoping I could get some help from someone experienced in the field of analyzing competitors backlinks. I found someone ranking youtube videos for competitive terms, with basically just views and backlinks.

From everything that I have read about youtube seo, he shouldn't be ranking there... he only has 1 video, no likes, no comments, short description etc, no on page optimization, no social signals....

This leads me to believe all the guides that keep coming out are leading us in the wrong direction... they are great if you are going completely whitehat, but there are better methods to rank that our competition is taking advantage of. Most of this guys videos/accounts have been alive over 6 months!

I would like to do some analysis on this guys videos, I have found he has many accounts, each ranking for a competitive affiliate word... While my target is not affiliate marketing, I believe his strategies could be used in every type of marketing...

If you are good at competitive analysis, please post here, and I will send you a few of his successful campaigns, and together, we can analyze them and see if we can recreate his method.