Good to see you back dude. Hope you are well. Thanks for the review 👍 Have you considered collecting and reviewing creepy decepticons from the bay verse?
😁So as promised I did some testing, first I just searched for GI Joe Classified hisstank (that's the sugested spelling by YT) and like I suspected there are tons of videos for it, most of them also around 2-3k views, then tried GI Joe Classified H.I.S.S. tank, the videos where maybe in a slightly different order but ofc google really doesn't care about spelling. I couldn't find your review amongst them, but there are also just so many, also many thumbnails similar to yours, the tank in front a red background or in front the box, or the boxart. So yeah pretty hard for a video to stand out just bc the sheer amount of reviews for the H.I.S.S tank. So next I searched 'Hasbro Pulse H.I.S.S Fire Team' and didn't took me long to find your review, so I guess the 'Hasbro Pulse' made a difference, and I tried 'G.I. Joe classified 788 fire team' next and I didn't found your video in like 2 mins of scrolling, and yes many other reviews just don't use the full name of the set or bother to name the company. So lazyness gets rewarded, I mean Hasbro Pulse exclusive G.I. Joe Classified 788th H.I.S.S. Fire Team is quite a mouthful, and nobody searching for it will type in the full name in the search bar, but review videos should have to full name and company in the title imo. After that I searched for 'Hot Toys Alita' and after scrolling like 4 -5 sites down, I found your Alita video, so lets say 5 pages down, with 4 thumbnails per page, your review is in the top 20😁 'Harley Quinn figure' was my next search but ofc such a search will just show mostly Margot Robbie Harley figures, then I tried 'TAS Harley Quinn' figure and ofc that'll lead mostly to Hot Toys and Mondo figure reviews, and few of the Sidewhow Harley, but couldn't spot yours - I found a Diamond Select Harley Quinn review I need to check out lol, I like Diamond Select statues - but back to the task at hand for now, my last search was 'Sideshow Harley Quinn" and yippie your video pops up right below the YT shorts, bc it is new I assume. So yes YT suggests your videos, and it really depends on the kind of collectibles reviewed, ofc are there far less unboxing videos for more expensive items like Hot Toys or Sideshow, compared to 'mass produced' figures like Hasbro
RUclips did suggest this video at the home screen. I like the figure but I agree with you about the unhooded head. BTAS is on of my all time favorite shows. Paul Dini and Bruce Timm did a wonderful job with this universe. Did you watch the Batman and Harley animated movie from a couple of years ago? It's great and to a more adult oriented audience. Perfect for all of us who watched the original tv show and are now middle age dudes lol.
Now I had to check out your very first video, great first feature film😁 And really the only vid I didn't saw yet, I watched the eaglemoss ST XL collection one, and ofc Alien Man and so on 😄 Also wanted to check what vids have many views, still the most the NECA Chucky with 20k views, which is impressive. But yeah the NECA Bride of Chucky is also very poular, compared to a lot of more niche collectibles by less well known companies you made reviews of. But exactly that you review cool not that popular Items I never heard of before is what I like about your channel. Your H.I.S.S. tank review has decent views with 2,2k tho
Yeah I realized your videos have less views and likes, pretty sad. I have no idea how to influence the YT algorithm's, I'll check tomorrow or so if YT will recommend me reviews of the figures you reviewed more recently if I'm not logged in and all internet cache and so on wiped. I think there a quite a lot GI Joe classified reviews out there by maybe larger channels.
First off, thank you so much for doing all of that legwork, it does mean a lot. One thing I have to caution about though, is that RUclips tailors their search results directly to the subscriber. I have tried this across several accounts and found that I get different search results each time. Meaning someone who hasn't viewed my video might have it suggested more towards the top, and someone who has might have other videos placed before it. This is one of the big problems with the way the RUclips algorithm works, from the outside it looks arbitrary. And because they will not disclose the exact methodology of search and display, creators are left to guess at what will work and what won't. This inconsistency is widely why you find so many search terms in the title of videos, creators will be punished for more than three hashtags, and they don't even want you using anything other than misspellings for their keyword section. So, what the algorithm ends up pulling from is your title, description, and the video itself (as the algorithm pulls keywords from the actual audio). Ranking in search is great to be sure, but where growth really starts to happen is when the algorithm starts suggesting your content to a wider audience (i.e. when you start seeing new creators sorted in during your scrolling). This has been the toughest nut to crack for many creators, as there's no clear way of telling how many people you are being suggested to, and of course, how many people are rejecting your content based on something you can easily change. What I noticed was that when I stop making as many videos I started to get some comments about subscribers not seeing new uploads right away. My biggest issue has been that I am attempting to gain a large audience based on quality over quantity, many of the videos take between 20 and 40 hours to produce, which is not a sustainable model without growth. Part of it is being an extremely small fish in a very overstocked pond, but since my retention is fairly high another issue is simply that people aren't finding my content. Everything is just guessing unfortunately, but I have heard that when you're over 100 uploads the algorithm has more of a solid grasp on who you are and what audiences to suggest you to. So with that milestone quickly coming up we will see.
Good to see you back dude.
Hope you are well.
Thanks for the review 👍 Have you considered collecting and reviewing creepy decepticons from the bay verse?
😁So as promised I did some testing, first I just searched for GI Joe Classified hisstank (that's the sugested spelling by YT) and like I suspected there are tons of videos for it, most of them also around 2-3k views, then tried GI Joe Classified H.I.S.S. tank, the videos where maybe in a slightly different order but ofc google really doesn't care about spelling. I couldn't find your review amongst them, but there are also just so many, also many thumbnails similar to yours, the tank in front a red background or in front the box, or the boxart. So yeah pretty hard for a video to stand out just bc the sheer amount of reviews for the H.I.S.S tank.
So next I searched 'Hasbro Pulse H.I.S.S Fire Team' and didn't took me long to find your review, so I guess the 'Hasbro Pulse' made a difference, and I tried 'G.I. Joe classified 788 fire team' next and I didn't found your video in like 2 mins of scrolling, and yes many other reviews just don't use the full name of the set or bother to name the company. So lazyness gets rewarded, I mean Hasbro Pulse exclusive G.I. Joe Classified 788th H.I.S.S. Fire Team is quite a mouthful, and nobody searching for it will type in the full name in the search bar, but review videos should have to full name and company in the title imo.
After that I searched for 'Hot Toys Alita' and after scrolling like 4 -5 sites down, I found your Alita video, so lets say 5 pages down, with 4 thumbnails per page, your review is in the top 20😁
'Harley Quinn figure' was my next search but ofc such a search will just show mostly Margot Robbie Harley figures, then I tried 'TAS Harley Quinn' figure and ofc that'll lead mostly to Hot Toys and Mondo figure reviews, and few of the Sidewhow Harley, but couldn't spot yours - I found a Diamond Select Harley Quinn review I need to check out lol, I like Diamond Select statues - but back to the task at hand for now, my last search was 'Sideshow Harley Quinn" and yippie your video pops up right below the YT shorts, bc it is new I assume.
So yes YT suggests your videos, and it really depends on the kind of collectibles reviewed, ofc are there far less unboxing videos for more expensive items like Hot Toys or Sideshow, compared to 'mass produced' figures like Hasbro
Great video and im very much looking forward to the mondo review
RUclips did suggest this video at the home screen.
I like the figure but I agree with you about the unhooded head.
BTAS is on of my all time favorite shows.
Paul Dini and Bruce Timm did a wonderful job with this universe. Did you watch the Batman and Harley animated movie from a couple of years ago? It's great and to a more adult oriented audience. Perfect for all of us who watched the original tv show and are now middle age dudes lol.
Now I had to check out your very first video, great first feature film😁 And really the only vid I didn't saw yet, I watched the eaglemoss ST XL collection one, and ofc Alien Man and so on 😄
Also wanted to check what vids have many views, still the most the NECA Chucky with 20k views, which is impressive. But yeah the NECA Bride of Chucky is also very poular, compared to a lot of more niche collectibles by less well known companies you made reviews of. But exactly that you review cool not that popular Items I never heard of before is what I like about your channel.
Your H.I.S.S. tank review has decent views with 2,2k tho
Yeah I realized your videos have less views and likes, pretty sad. I have no idea how to influence the YT algorithm's, I'll check tomorrow or so if YT will recommend me reviews of the figures you reviewed more recently if I'm not logged in and all internet cache and so on wiped. I think there a quite a lot GI Joe classified reviews out there by maybe larger channels.
First off, thank you so much for doing all of that legwork, it does mean a lot. One thing I have to caution about though, is that RUclips tailors their search results directly to the subscriber. I have tried this across several accounts and found that I get different search results each time. Meaning someone who hasn't viewed my video might have it suggested more towards the top, and someone who has might have other videos placed before it. This is one of the big problems with the way the RUclips algorithm works, from the outside it looks arbitrary. And because they will not disclose the exact methodology of search and display, creators are left to guess at what will work and what won't.
This inconsistency is widely why you find so many search terms in the title of videos, creators will be punished for more than three hashtags, and they don't even want you using anything other than misspellings for their keyword section. So, what the algorithm ends up pulling from is your title, description, and the video itself (as the algorithm pulls keywords from the actual audio).
Ranking in search is great to be sure, but where growth really starts to happen is when the algorithm starts suggesting your content to a wider audience (i.e. when you start seeing new creators sorted in during your scrolling). This has been the toughest nut to crack for many creators, as there's no clear way of telling how many people you are being suggested to, and of course, how many people are rejecting your content based on something you can easily change.
What I noticed was that when I stop making as many videos I started to get some comments about subscribers not seeing new uploads right away. My biggest issue has been that I am attempting to gain a large audience based on quality over quantity, many of the videos take between 20 and 40 hours to produce, which is not a sustainable model without growth.
Part of it is being an extremely small fish in a very overstocked pond, but since my retention is fairly high another issue is simply that people aren't finding my content. Everything is just guessing unfortunately, but I have heard that when you're over 100 uploads the algorithm has more of a solid grasp on who you are and what audiences to suggest you to. So with that milestone quickly coming up we will see.