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Anon3x156
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So I started a YouTube channel recently.
My channel is in the entertainment category. I might reveal the niche in the future if the channel gets bigger.
But I didn't start this thread to talk about my channel nor my niche.
I just want to give some advice, share my experiences and destroy some bs you were told, like: "ReTenTiOn aNd cTr iS KiNg"
When I uploaded this video, I had 40 subscribers.
This proves that you don't need even need to have an audience to get a video suggested by YouTube's algorithm.
I don't have any other channel, and nobody (including me) has promoted this video on any other social media platfrom.
Views are %100 organic and %100 from YouTube.
What made YouTube promote this video?
Trend-jacking:
The video is about ChatGPT, in this video, I'm making an exciting & interesting thing using ChatGPT.
I uploaded the video right when ChatGPT just came out.
Stealing viewers:
This is the other part of Trend-jacking. Sometimes, the topic of your video being hot is not enough to get views.
YouTube has a video recommendation system. It looks at people's watch history and recommends videos based on that.
There needs to be other similar videos, so YouTube can recommend your video to those people.
Remember, you don't have any subscribers, the only thing YouTube can do at that point is to look at the meta-data of your video and try to recommend your video based on that.
TL;DR: Find hot video(s) in your niche, and make similar videos with similar meta-data (idea, title and desc.) to get your video suggested right next to them. I'm not telling you to go out and copy other people's videos or ideas, just make similar videos with your own style.
CTR and Retention:
You don't need to have 15% retention and 85% CTR to get your video suggested.
And no, the video doesn't have to be at least 10 minute long.
This video is 4:47.
CTR decreases as you get more impressions. CTR data is so blurry and YouTube doesn't provide us enough context so we can understand it.
YouTube will show your video to a lot of people, and not everyone has to be interested in your video. People have different interests and tastes.
The number 1 metric to look at is VIEWS.
Would you rather have a video with 100K views that has 3% CTR and %50 Retention or a video with 254 views that has 15% CTR and 84% Retention?
And I think the best way to see if people liked your video or not, is to look at your viewer to subscriber conversion rate, look at your likes and look at comments. Retention should come last.
The video got 150+ comments just like these.
WHAT GETS VIEWS IS NOT CTR / RETENTION NOR A WELL DESIGNED THUMBNAIL
A well designed bag of poo is still a bag of poo.
What you need to have is not a high paced editing with cuts every 1.245645 seconds, nor a thumbnail which you spent 999 hours designing.
What you need to have is REMARKABLE IDEAS. INTERESTING IDEAS. EXCITING IDEAS.
After having a great idea, then you can start worrying about these things.
The reason that your videos doesn't get views is not because you didn't have enough contrast in your thumbnail or your color palette selection was wrong.
It's because your idea was boring and people didn't want to watch it.
DON'T CHASE VIRALITY, CHASE AUDIENCE BUILDING, COLLECT PEOPLE THAT F*CK WITH YOU AND YOUR SH1T
P.S: This was my first video for this channel, I could actually make this video 5 times better, and I could make it longer and It would probably get more views that way.
Lesson to be learned: Don't get lazy with your first video because you don't think it's even going to get any views.
My channel is in the entertainment category. I might reveal the niche in the future if the channel gets bigger.
But I didn't start this thread to talk about my channel nor my niche.
I just want to give some advice, share my experiences and destroy some bs you were told, like: "ReTenTiOn aNd cTr iS KiNg"
When I uploaded this video, I had 40 subscribers.
This proves that you don't need even need to have an audience to get a video suggested by YouTube's algorithm.
I don't have any other channel, and nobody (including me) has promoted this video on any other social media platfrom.
Views are %100 organic and %100 from YouTube.
What made YouTube promote this video?
Trend-jacking:
The video is about ChatGPT, in this video, I'm making an exciting & interesting thing using ChatGPT.
I uploaded the video right when ChatGPT just came out.
Stealing viewers:
This is the other part of Trend-jacking. Sometimes, the topic of your video being hot is not enough to get views.
YouTube has a video recommendation system. It looks at people's watch history and recommends videos based on that.
There needs to be other similar videos, so YouTube can recommend your video to those people.
Remember, you don't have any subscribers, the only thing YouTube can do at that point is to look at the meta-data of your video and try to recommend your video based on that.
TL;DR: Find hot video(s) in your niche, and make similar videos with similar meta-data (idea, title and desc.) to get your video suggested right next to them. I'm not telling you to go out and copy other people's videos or ideas, just make similar videos with your own style.
CTR and Retention:
You don't need to have 15% retention and 85% CTR to get your video suggested.
And no, the video doesn't have to be at least 10 minute long.
This video is 4:47.
CTR decreases as you get more impressions. CTR data is so blurry and YouTube doesn't provide us enough context so we can understand it.
YouTube will show your video to a lot of people, and not everyone has to be interested in your video. People have different interests and tastes.
The number 1 metric to look at is VIEWS.
Would you rather have a video with 100K views that has 3% CTR and %50 Retention or a video with 254 views that has 15% CTR and 84% Retention?
And I think the best way to see if people liked your video or not, is to look at your viewer to subscriber conversion rate, look at your likes and look at comments. Retention should come last.
The video got 150+ comments just like these.
WHAT GETS VIEWS IS NOT CTR / RETENTION NOR A WELL DESIGNED THUMBNAIL
A well designed bag of poo is still a bag of poo.
What you need to have is not a high paced editing with cuts every 1.245645 seconds, nor a thumbnail which you spent 999 hours designing.
What you need to have is REMARKABLE IDEAS. INTERESTING IDEAS. EXCITING IDEAS.
After having a great idea, then you can start worrying about these things.
The reason that your videos doesn't get views is not because you didn't have enough contrast in your thumbnail or your color palette selection was wrong.
It's because your idea was boring and people didn't want to watch it.
DON'T CHASE VIRALITY, CHASE AUDIENCE BUILDING, COLLECT PEOPLE THAT F*CK WITH YOU AND YOUR SH1T
P.S: This was my first video for this channel, I could actually make this video 5 times better, and I could make it longer and It would probably get more views that way.
Lesson to be learned: Don't get lazy with your first video because you don't think it's even going to get any views.
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