Subscriber Numbers Are Meaningless!!!
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2023
- Let's tale a look at the current data and see what the action on my channel is really like from the inside. Enjoy!
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Well, do you want smoke-blown-up-your-@@@? I've been a subscriber for 7-8 years. Your content is getting bad. Like you, I'm a tech, I can fix just about anything, computer or electronic related. So i seek out other techies like you for interesting RUclips content. The Gorden Lightfoot video was terrible. Not sure why you even posted it. You posted it what like 5 days after everyone knew he had died, including your subscribers. And 3 minutes of the video was credits. And you wonder why no one under 50 is watching your videos? EEVBlog, BigClive, i regularly watch, but Jan Beta and Adrains Digital Basement i don't really watch anymore either, only so many times you can watch the same thing. And i own a whole bunch of vintage computers. I would love to see some new, thought provoking content from F.L., but i'm usually disappointed by your videos. Sorry to be so blunt Fran.
We rely on those that love us to tell it to us straight sometimes. And Fran pinned this likely because it reads like a deeply sincere attempt to provide some insight from a true place of love. I don't know what the answers are, but I love the interactions coming from everyone here, and Fran's acceptance to grow.
Dude I'm 25, I like Fran's channel and I don't think the content is bad or low in quality. I don't think this is a genuine, constructive criticism piece. If you really feel "disappointed" maybe put some ideas forward about how things could improve in your eyes and give Fran something to work with. Also as someone with autism (me), it's possible they had a lapse in social awareness. NT people do that too you know? Also not everybody is hyper knowledgeable about vintage stuff. Everyone digests information at different paces and from different sources, we're one big distributed system. Don't assume that because you're a tech, and you aren't interested in this content anymore, that means nobody's interested in it. Best case scenario that's a slippery slope fallacy, worst case you're just being a jerk.
You mentioned my channel as one you still watch, which is interesting, because I get comments all the time, even in the other comment down below here that my channel has suffered the same fate.
I'll duplicate my comment from down below:
I've done videos explaining this. I grew my channel based on literally TWO DOZEN different types of content. And everyone subscribed for a different reason. I can't possibly make all that different type of content consistently to keep every viewer happy. You might think my channel was built on *insert thing you like here*, but it wasn't, and I have the data to prove it.
That will always be a problem for a channel like mine and Fran's that has been built on eclectic content. As opposed to say Big Clive and Great Scott that have built their channels on pretty much a single type and style of content.
What should be my next video? A mailbag?, debunking?, rant?, beginner tutorial?, advanced tutorial?, teardown?, repair?, design?, interview?, dumpster?, high end review? cheap crap review?, shootout? vintage? PCB design?, site visit?, solar?, life and career advice?
@@EEVblog The short of it is, RUclips is dying as a platform. In a very real way, RUclips itself is mimicking the same problem that both you and @FranLab are suffering. It's not really the content that's the problem. It's RUclips failing to promote channels that need to be promoted. Without promotion, ad revenue suffers and creators leave. RUclips has now fallen into the trap of promoting only the biggest channels (which don't need it) and not promoting the small channels (the channels that absolutely need it).
RUclips needs to figure this out quick or perish as a viable platform. Fran suggests the possibility of leaving RUclips in 2 years. RUclips as a platform might not even survive that long on its current trajectory.
I didn't know Gordon Lightfoot died till I read your comment. Didn't watch that video because I don't really care for Gordon Lightfoot. That's the beauty of it, I don't have to like or watch all of Fran's videos. Some videos are for other people. Other people exist, and they like different things than you or I. So I can say I love Fran's Lab videos without whining about certain videos I didn't care for. Also, blunt is not the word for what your comment was.
Enable closed-captions, as that will make your videos text-searchable and thus indexable and more likely to show up in Google results. Let the YT automated captioning do the first pass, then crowdsource corrections, so you'll only need to approve and post the final result.
I didn't notice that Fran doesn't have CC enabled. Actually work pretty well these days even with my confusing accent. So yeah, I'd recommend turning it on, might help.
Due to some weird bug which RUclips's tech support was never able to fix, my videos never have the auto-captions enabled either, even though RUclips does generate them. So every time I upload a video, I go into the captions editor, clean up the auto-generated captions to fix the obvious mistakes, and then publish them. And it's worth it, because I've discovered that around 20 to 25 percent of my viewers watch my videos with the captions enabled. So there's a chance that without captions, I'd lose those viewers.
I think CC would also help on the videos where the audio has to be muted when there's no dialog (due to the background music copyrights).
I tried watching the "Professional Men" video a few days ago. I understand the reason for the audio being muted when there's no narration, but it was just too distracting for me personally. If that video had closed captioning, I'd just mute the audio and get the narration from the on-screen text.
How do you crowdsource caption corrections?
I have five subscribers and zero videos. So my subscription numbers per video are infinite and undefinable. I have no idea how this happened. RUclips should pay me.
MAKE THAT SIX SUBSCRIBERS.
Ahhhh... the hamster wheel. That's what made me disengage from Facebook. If you don't post consistently, you become invisible. It's hard enough if you're a content maker, but it _really_ hits you in the feels if confirmed family members are no longer seeing your personal posts.
YT is trying to push "shorts" so hard that all long-form content creators are being disadvantaged. Shorts are a curse. :-(
Yes, Shorts are terrible. RUclips should not try to be like TikTok.
I've watched a few and they seem to have no purpose. I don't need them.
@@toonman361 That's the point. They're tailored for kids or young adults, who tend to have periods of unavoidable downtime during the day that they need to fill somehow (gaps between classes, open periods, lunch, etc.), and rather than doing something productive, they're tempted to watch something brightly colored and/or funny for 20 seconds at a time, as if they were a little kid. And it works.
A lot of people say the CCP is trying, through TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, which they require to partner with them by domestic law, to screw up the next generation of Americans by getting them hooked on mind-numbing nonsense. This idea is supported by the fact that their version of it, called Douyin, has face recognition, is time-limited for kids, and the subject matter is strictly controlled.
You have to also factor the decline in viewership for youtube itself. It probably peaked during the lockdowns (march 2020 to about july 2021) when people had way more free time than they do now.
Here's a video title for you:
"So you bought an old oscilloscope, now what?"
That would get some clicks and you could certainly produce such a video. Easily.
Certainly better than 'random bitching about the platform, again'
don’t forget the more advanced feature X-Y mode and it’s pretty pictures
@@sn1000k because the platform IS screwing it's creators, for a long time now. The only way to make a buck on youtube now is to do clickbait and "stupid sh!t" like people do on tiktok. For me, at this point there is no point of creating a channel on YT, if I wanted to do stuff like that I'd do it on my own website and put time and money into my own platform with my stuff on it. That's the only way it's y ours. Cause YT can take away everything from you in a second.
I subscribed to this channel 9 years ago.
The reason is because I enjoyed the vintage electronic teardown and repair and discussion videos.
You dont really do that anymore. That's why I dont watch a lot of your videos anymore. This channel has become "Franblog" and the lab portion is definitely taken a back seat. In fact, I'd say you're pulling it in a trailer behind you now.
I like you as a person and your life is interesting and I enjoy your commentary and thoughts on the subject of your life, but that's not why I subscribed. Titles like "What happened to Politeness" shouldn't appeal to the same subscribers techmoan or Bigclive have. And yet those ARE your subscribers. Why are you giving them this stuff?
You've never had or maintained a consistent format for this channel. You sit in a space surrounded by a vast collection of interesting objects. That giant flat speaker video you did was really cool and the reverb machine. More of that, please! I feel this is a highly underutilized asset. I'd love to see you do a video on that weird air filter thing you use when soldering. I had to search on the internet to figure out what that thing was.
Those 260k subscribers are waiting for your next Nemo tube video.
in other words "know your audience"
Same applies to Dave at EEVBlog pretty much
"Franblog" would be a great second channel
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 that's the way. Have channels for your primary colors. Easily shared between those channels, plus attracting niche audience.
@@Richardincancale I've done videos explaining this. I grew my channel based on literally TWO DOZEN different types of content. And everyone subscribed for a different reason. I can't possibly make all that different type of content consistently to keep every viewer happy. You might think my channel was built on *insert thing you like here*, but it wasn't, and I have the data to prove it.
That will always be a problem for a channel like mine and Fran's that has been built on eclectic content. As opposed to say Big Clive and Great Scott that have built their channels on pretty much a single type and style of content.
What should be my next video? A mailbag?, debunking?, rant?, beginner tutorial?, advanced tutorial?, teardown?, repair?, design?, interview?, dumpster?, high end review? cheap crap review?, shootout? vintage? PCB design?, site visit?, solar?, life and career advice?
FYI: I'm 68, White male, married with a grown kid, live in upstate NY. I watch because I generally like all the things you do. It is a downer that you have suffered the hell of moving so often but I have admired your rally and response. Since I am old, I consider being a "subscriber" as being a club member in that I follow along as best I can. I wish I could toss in the regular contributions. I don't comment unless I have something to say. My biggest slow-down to watching is amount of time. Anything over 30min gets put to one side for a while. YT is a cruel master, it seems that if you can generate the most un-controversial content possible, with no association to greater society and completely clean for 18-32 year olds, you're golden. (I say start a new channel selling skin care products and diet supplements.)
I watch because you're all over the place.
There was a time when RUclips's most popular content was educational, informative and entertaining. Now, driven largely by the algorithm, it seems to be focusing on trite, trivial and "trending" topics only. Drama channels and gaming (with derived shorts) are the only thing that seem to be gaining traction. And, like yourself, most full-time content creators are *really* feeling the pinch created by lower ad-sales/prices and adverse algorithm changes.
Adapt or die I guess. 😕
I don't see many trite, trivial and trending topics. Try upvoting the videos you really like, and downvoting the topics and youtubers you don't like. That seems to help.
Actually, a lot of gaming channels are suffering exactly the same problem. Except the big ones.
Contrary to popular opinion, RUclips does not have an obligation to promote the content of its creators who enjoy a platform that allows them to earn money by staying home and making videos while they promote other revenue streams such as Patreon, etc. from which RUclips draws no commission. Particularly for channels with un-defined content niches which are difficult to target to a particular audience. Creators have many other outlets which they can and should be using to promote their content aside from relying on the RUclips algorithm alone.
As a few people said about channels like EEVBlog or Techmoan, I think less is more. Random videos often aren't entertaining. I recently looked for a few of your videos about of something interesting you were showing and since then RUclips recommends me almost every one of your new uploads.
Maybe try to edit your videos in a different way as well. Treat your videos like an experience and choose how you want the viewer to feel while watching the video. If I go back to EEVBlog, he makes the video just quick enough so that you don't really feel the need to click away or to skip ahead. Every time I feel like "this part is getting boring" it stops. He doesn't drone about things for multiple sentences.
I'm not saying that your videos are bad or that you are boring or anything like that, I just think a different, more engaging and controlled format of the videos might help. I myself actually enjoy the daily content, although it really is, just daily content.
Interesting, thanks, I have plenty of people who complain about the opposite though!
I like Fran and what she does. I have even donated in the superchat. I think most of us came here when Fran was soldering things and opening old electronics to mess around with. Nowadays, that's gone and I don't know if this is the direction she's taken now. I think I don't remember or missed the video where she said that she will take the channel somewhere else. I would be happy if Fran gets outdoors and hit some electronic conventions, garage sales where they have old electronics to be had, etc. I also loved when Fran was putting some old documentaries. The only thing I didn't like about the old docs was when she would remove the music to avoid getting claim rights. I think there are plenty of old documentaries on youtube and they don't get strikes, they just get claimed but who cares about that. Let them claim it. What you want is to drive traffic to your channel. An old documentary will not get a channel banned but it will help with traffic. People tend to look around and may find other interesting content that earns income for the channel.
3:00 yep, same for me. The subscriber growth is pretty linear growth, but the daily views don't go up.
And the comment by Lathgar Smith pinned by Fran applies to your channel too.
@@Richardincancale I replied.
Dave EEV, I imagine you must put a lot of time into your videos, what with procuring equipment, making the content and editing. What sort of average time per video would you reckon?
So much to talk about and comment on with this video (too much to write in full but here are the broad strokes). First, thank you for being so awesome - it took me a minute to process your "Personal content" but in the end it only made me respect you even more. Secondly, having attempted social media myself - I found your analysis of your data (coming from a more successful channel than mine) both enlightening and depressing. I'm at a loss for how I feel about these social media companies and what they value... All the best Fran!
RUclips turned subscribing into a glorified bookmark.
It makes everyone go out of their way to look for your content instead of promoting it to people who have indicated they want to see it... I don't understand what the people at RUclips are thinking.
@@blueishxx Can you see which person viewed what?
If its any consolation, I don't watch every video of everyone I'm subscribed to. It isn't personal just so many people to watch and only limited time. Also, despite only having 125 subs myself, I often don't get half that many views. I think most Y'Tubers get less views than are subscribed.
What I thought about subscribing is that I would get new videos on my subscribed channels shown on my youtube starting page. I don't. Instead I only _sometimes_ get videos from my subscribed channels as suggestions, and that sometimes happens when those videos are weeks or months old.
On the other hand I constantly get suggestions for complete cr*p I'm not at all interested in, and that's annoying as f*ck.
Who makes those nonsensical algorithms anyway? They should be fired.
With magazine subscriptions you get the new issue in your mail box as soon as it's published.
Why doesn't this work here on youtube?
It's ridiculous.
I love your back catalog. I also am a musician and there's a lot of people who would love to hear more about that part of your life. You have so many stories about Les Paul, Lou Reed and so much more. I venture to say that you might be able to increase your subscriptions and views if you started doing videos about your amazing musical journey. Love ya and wish you luck with everything you do 👍🏽👍🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🍻🍻
I've found this channel about a week or two ago when looking for C64 programming info because I got an emulator for the C64 recently (sadly I do not own a physical one myself). Since the I'm stuck around here because it's a really interesting channel hosted by someone kind, passionate and knowledgeable making many videos about topics I'm interest in. Keep going and I'm glad I found this channel and can share it with my friends as well.
It would be interesting to know if the entire YT platform has seen a decline in add revenue... Are Dave Jones and Big Clive also seeing a fall off of add revenue?
I've heard the same from other channels.
Less is more.
Give one video 7 days. And put some work in to the thumbnails. ❤ Your content.
So how does someone like techmoan put out a video like once every few weeks and gets like such higher numbers?? How can other channels like that be so opposite of yours?
Or atomic shrimp, twice weekly on a myriad of subjects
Part of it would be that his channel is based on a single type and style of content. So he gets a much great subscriber-to-view ratio than Fran or my channel would. It's very easy for him to please most of his subscribers because that's the style and type of video they signed up for.
@@EEVblog ah, that makes sense
Techmoans content and production is allways top notch too
It's not just someone sitting in front of a bench
you do realize that large number of those "views" are just bots, right? This is one of the reason why the ad revenuje got so low, cause YT is aware that it was pumped up by bot views.
I always enjoy your videos! I don't think it's all just with youtube and the algorithm, us viewers have changed, we have a lot more content to watch with all the shorts. And unfortunately, the short videos are a lot more sharable and easier to watch when time is limited. I've found that I watch much less of the longer form videos until I have a few spare hours on the weekends.
As others have already said, I came here several years ago because I like to watch and to learn "Maker" stuff. I think youtube understands this. I have a really small youtube channel (only 5K subs) and i see the same issues when I post videos that are off the Maker mark for certain things. I am pretty deep into electronics and a few other things and those videos, from even 10 years ago or more are still heavy hitters! But, when I post content that is just interesting to me personally, it sits there like a lump on a log. I think youtube knows that, too. ----And so should you. When a person subscribes, says I, they generally do it because they like the TYPE of content that they JUST WATCHED. ---Just my $.02 worth.
Count me as one of the "dedicated" viewers! I watch every single one, Fran.
For my part, I really enjoy the videos you provide, and the wide variety of topics you take on. I hope you continue to produce videos as long as reasonably possible. RUclips is a dying platform. That is the problem, not anything that you are doing. Keep it up 👍
How do you conclude that youtube is a dying platform? By my own observations, it has become more popular than ever. Maybe too popular. Gazillions of hours are wasted each day by people who are glued to their screens. One more short. One more 15 minuter, etc etc. The thing is, RUclips is like the library of Alexandria with massive amounts of content on every possible subject. There’s always more videos coming down the line. It’s crazy really. The only really negative thing about youtube is their habit of censoring. And manipulating. Aside from that it’s nothing more than a giant platform for content and it’s hardly dying. There is so much amazing content on this platform. So much better than cable TV by far.
I enjoy the engineering videos and your mature, reflective takes on a range of issues. Normally I skip the film / retro stuff because I either wasn't alive at the time or was a small child - which is fine, I don't expect a channel to align with my interests on absolutely everything. But I do proactively visit your channel every so often to look for new uploads - which is more than I can say for the 200 other channels I'm subscribed to.
Fran...humility wins 🏆 hands down..keep up the awesome vids 🇬🇧
Don' let i get you down. You do a great job. Thanks for all of it.
We love you Fran. You are a hero.
Your spot on fran I have 148k on my channel but are only getting around 10/20,000 views last year I was getting 1,000+ subscribers in a 24 hour period for about 5/6 weeks that took me from 25,000 to 100,000 in about two months I have dropped to getting 1,000 in about 4/5 weeks plus I have had people commenting saying they had been unsubscribed from the channel by RUclips it’s so frustrating
seriously you believe that youtube unsubscribes people ? omg
Does adding some new comments to old yet relevant video give it a boost of traffic at all?
I subscribed just because you said 'Straya' perfectly :))
Teardown some tech stuff from your storage, that's interesting content. Not complains about politeness or old video's or complaints about YT and it's payments. Techmoan, 8 but guy, ee-blog, sir clive, Adrian Black, all making less content with more views because they stick to a strategy. You know what you gonna get on those channels.
I’ve always said that if a subscriber hasn’t visited a channel for a year or more they should be removed from the total until they return and click on a video.
You need to return to making the kits
Hey Fran! Thank you for this video explaining the background of youtube, didn´t really know that. I always enjoy your videos, you are a great host! BTW, i really like the shirt you are wearing, thats totally my style of music! I would have given two "thumbs up".
RUclips is promoting 'shorts' lately and thus taking revenue from regular content length channels to fund their new shiny thing (shorts are annoying in that viewer controls are disabled, no skip/rewatch or speed up (I 2x speed most videos). The secondary issue is somehow track the number of youtube creators over time. I saw this on Amazon Publishing, a million new titles were added every year since 2012 and thus older material gets buried rather quickly while new titles barely dangle on the shelf before they are pushed off.
You have a Parliament shirt and a Gorden Lightfoot album. That right there makes you cool
You don't really need all that science stuff. Thanks for the video. You inspire me to build stuff!
Fran, the RUclips algorithm is a moving target that nobody can figure out. I think purposely, because RUclips likes to only send viewers to channels that they know are pop-culture gold. Meaning that they can get that young audience engaged, so that they can better sell advertisement to the companies that target those age brackets. So any audience outside of that age bracket is considered a secondary audience with cheaper advertising, and therefore lower rates that the RUclipsr makes from those advertisements.
It’s no different than TV or anywhere else. The difference being that RUclips has a better grasp on the numbers, because they can easily monitor changes, and therefore change the algorithm based off of them. The best thing I can tell you is that the entire entertainment industry is based off of the exact same concept. A fireworks show. Do something immediately to hook your audience, then sent them on a roller coaster ride up and down throughout the presentation, until you unleash the grand finale. Music is the exact same way. The songs that hook you from the beginning generally keep you to the end.
In any case, I hope this gets better for you. The fact is, I think everybody on, RUclips thinks it’s a moving target. Which, in reality, it is. Based off of the metrics they receive every second of every day as to what continent is the most popular, so that they can sell more expensive advertising to the advertisers with those channels.
Sometimes didnt get RUclips notifications, unless we check your page daily.
I felt the same way. Originally I thought I'd build up a library that would be watched and gradually I'd grow. But nope. Once a new video gets viewed, that's pretty much it. I've stayed stagnant for years. And if I stop, instant death. Also, I too find it hard to stay in one niche.
Hello I'm a new subscriber. I was looking up asbestos and watched your video and it was very good and TY. That's how I found your channel. I'm also a computer tech, and a mechanic. So with that said I'm glad to see new material for my self. I do a lot of work with linux virtual machines as I'm going to school for cyber security. Anyhow as for the guy from Telluride, Brutal honesty and being rude is a fine line sometime and I just found out Gordon Lightfoot died just now. I didn't know. Pretty cool that she pinned your comment. Yall have a great day, and be safe.
Hi all, my hope is for better titles. Gordon? Who? Where? Why? I'm sure there's a moral urge to avoid the clickbait titles that YT craves but enigmatic is another thing entirely. 'RIP Gordon Lightfoot the legendary folk artist has passed.' ? Oh don't know I don't know how to do titles either but more information would be more tempting I think. Thanks for all the videos and keep up the good work!
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Your honesty and frankness are refreshing and fascinating. I watched this one twice. So educational.
Very instructive. Many thanks
I Really Dig Your Channel .Fran ,,You keep it real! lov it ! Cheers!;-)!
Instead of doing it as a job do it as a hobby and who cares about the stats, The main thing is we enjoy your videos
A hobby that costs this much would require 3 regular jobs to pay for. Hard to get the 50 hours a week for making videos in that scenario.
@@FranLab Sad to hear my friend i would still watch even if you only produced 1 video a month. Have you thought of taking on relevant sponsors eg. Pcbway, Keysight, brilliant i watch a lot of electronic creators and don't mind relevant sponsorship ads
There's so much content out there & it's hard to get to all of your videos. To me your channel is great but I can't make it to nearly every video.
I am however, grateful that you are here and doing what you do.
How is a "view" defined?
I saw a friend recently that I had not seen in 18 years. In talking only a few minutes we each blurted out that we were huge fans, trying to recommend your channel to each other. THAT'S kinda famous.
That's wild alright!
The algorithm doesn’t understand you, and it is our god.
I enjoy your content Fran !
I've had RUclips unsubscribe me from your channel. I follow several content creators and I didn't notice it for some time until I realized I wasn't seeing any of your videos. I really appreciate the people I follow and am considering going to Patreon and supporting them but I defiantly will have to reduce the number of people I follow because I have a limited amount of money.
subscribers > carrot
algorithm > stick
>> youtube is broke!
if your happiness is found being yourself and thats in what you do then...
"what the heck can go wrong"
20 years
3 channels
3500 file uploads
400 subscribers
0.0000000 dollars
100% happy
Now doubt RUclips takes more and more cuts of creator's ad revenue. Wonder if you have ever watched Sean Cannel on his "Think Media" channel? He is definitely a self-promoter but his tips on working the RUclips algorithm are very good. In one video he points out that the algorithm cuts "suggestions" when you vary content away from your "niche" topic.
Thanks!
Well it found me…. There’s hope. Good luck 🍀
thanks for being you
Love the Mother Ship tee shirt…Free your mind .
10% of my views are from my subscribers. The rest is search results. But click through rate of average 5% seems to ve for subscribers too, out of 17k subscribers, 500-1000 sees a new video within first week.
Fran, if your channel subscriber count and your video views are extremely disconnected, there's one of two things going on.
1. People just aren't watching your videos but are staying subscribed to show their support.
2. The content your viewers watch isn't being pushed by youtube and instead being looked for by subscribers. It could be a lack of tags or poorly tagged videos, or like another comment points out you don't use closed captions.
I dont subscribe, but I get suggestions so YT seems to be "working" in that regard. I wonder if a lot of high Subscription numbers are bots and trackers , this applies to a lot of channels
My channel is small in comparison - only around 33.000 subs. But I feel your pain. I'm pleased if I can break 1K views. I'm really glad that I didn't start my channel years ago as I would have gone full time and would now be incredibly stressed.
I found your channel because of the Josh Homme video. I notice that similar content creators pop up sooner on feed when they collaborate with other channels.
Yea, well that just never pans out here.
@@FranLab anyway, lI ove your channel .
I saw another channel using shorts to reactivate the back catalogue of videos, may be an idea for engaging new subs. Old subs like me have seen it all anyway.
I think they count subs from start video then if subs unsub the figures not update just rising when new sub arrive.
There are more and more content producers and Google only cares about content that can deliver ads.
That being said, the infrastructure required to put up something like RUclips, at the scale RUclips does, is colossal.
And RUclips runs the thing for their profit first.
There are alternatives, but they are like movie theaters in the desert…free and desolate. So, no viewers there either, but you have to handle and pay for the infrastructure.
It’s a problem worth solving.
I am a quite lousy subscriber for almost all channels, that I have subscribed. That are about 200 and of course, I cannot watch every released video. The homepage is pretty much my starting point and it is pretty much changing over time. Whenever I watch a video of a new topic, probably due to a temporary new interest, I am getting flooded with this kind of videos. Although most of my subscriptions are electronic and technology related, the videos proposed on the homepage represent my main interest not at all.
Thank you for putting this video out because it shows how they use and abuse us! 🤬
Consider posting on Twitter. I understand revenue sharing is much better there.
lol yeah !!!
I think you're great, keep going
Gordan lightfoot album looks awesome in the side of you Fran. What album is it and what year. I have his gord gold cd and lp. Like your shirt 👕 👍 take care.🤓📸
Hang in there! Though I have the feeling you'll last longer than RUclips will at the rate they're going.
If RUclips doesn't want to suggest videos from the back catalogue, maybe a solution could be to make a community post now and then a "throwback" - post a link to one of them, and comment about things such as what you remember about doing that particular video and such, Older viewers could remember when they saw it, and it would bring in newer viewers to your older vids, boosting their views!
I'm watching from Uruguay.
I have been a subscriber for many many years. i only watch a percentage of your content, as not all of it appeals to me. have you looked into trying to establish yourself on any of the other platforms? or have you tried to bring in an outside audience? twitter, Redit, and Facebook/Instagram seem to help find more subs. i hope the best for you.
Love that tshirt!
Totally agree, I have 6k subs and most of my videos get to 1600 views and flatten out. Some do better, but the recent pattern is 1.5 to 1.9 k and stop, so certainly my subs number is meaningless
does 'upload 'mean someone watched it or upvoted it?
Teach your fans to go to your home page and pick videos from the "videos" page.
Question. Is RUclips paying less per view to pad there bottom line?
Thank you for explaining youtube numbers
There's likely so many factors happening it's not likely easy to count:
🤔 In addition to them constantly messing with the algorithms. Ad volume & rate revenue is apparently down across seemingly most-to-all platforms (i hear a lot of ppl who are running their own sites complaining about it). There's increasingly more competition: within platforms, more platforms, unrelated platforms. The lockdowns are mostly over. The economy isn't great: & Unfortunately it's even possible that the many banks, companies reductions & shutdowns could be affecting the numbers while ppl are busy looking for work.... etc
That's crazy they come in there and subscribe and never come back..
A rough example would be subscribing to streaming services paying the monthly fees and never watching anything, but they're being charged x amount of dollars per month for services they forget about.
A way to lock in your subscribers is to find a way to allow push notifications maybe through text?
Absolutely subscribing to something what is meaningless unless we attend.
Ermmm I couldn't care less Fran.
I simply enjoy Your videos, and the fact that You're a bloody good technician.
You're not trying to make Yourself interesting, but instead You present the problem, and if there is a solution, You'll show that in detail too.
I have a LOT of respect for Your skills !
All of that said, I think You look like a woman I would like to meet, have a chat with, and maybe a beer or two. - Not that it's likely to ever happen.
Thanks for all of Your good videos Fran 🙂
Kids have been deprived of knowledge curiosity outside their very well created bubble.
That is the "new economy" SOP.
#1 Get people to create content for free.
#2 Give the content creators a good piece of revenue so their success attracts more creators.
#3 Once popular start squeezing the content creators to maximize profit.
Saw the same for all internet based companies.When Uber started the pay was great, word got around, more people piled in, then when there were enough drivers Uber kept more revenue for themselves. Same with AirBnb, Amazon warehouse workers and now drivers, etc... Even Google is now forcing employees back into the office which is not something they would have dared tried 10-15 years ago.
Once workers have succeeded in making a company successful the company then has the power over the workers. No different from the start of the industrial revolution. It's what companies do... human nature.
@10:00 you should revisit old videos that were successful or controversial in a weekly anthology. Since your videos are short, you might get extra views on old stuff for anybody intrigued with the subject discussed.
oh well...subscribers are irrelevant...since majority dont keep returnimg...except for your hardcore base,,what is important is watch time....and whats most important is whether you get satsifaction from what you are doing...the rest at then end of the day i just numbers ,statistics and ad revenue...
I enjoy viewing rather than creating so forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't it be possible to re-release/publish the previously made videos, gradually phasing out (deleting) the 'old' catalogue in the process?
talk about UAP/ UFO's and your viewing figures will soar... 🙂
I'm sure you did this already, but didn't show it, but look at who watches your videos, the subscribers, or not subscribers. That is always a fun and shocking analytic to read.
Admittedly, I probably only watch about 60% of your videos🤔😬🥰
It's not an election year so ad rates are lower. Also interest rates are up so that killed a lot of startups.
Fran, you have 269K subscribers, but how many of your subscribers are notified of new content? One of the stats on the report you showed in the video was "Subscription Status". Would that show the percentage of subscribers who want notifications? It's the little "bell" icon next to "Subscribe/Subscribed". I didn't have it set, and I wasn't getting notifications. I wonder if many others also haven't set theirs. Mr Carlson's Lab always reminds viewers to set it...
Who is actually able to be successful with this model? Just the few that make it to giant status? There's clearly a huge demand for more of "the old RUclips". But I've heard you talk about why other platforms could never compete. I guess we can only hope that youtube finds a way to offer it. As it stands, I'm super bored with most of the newer, more successful content
I can’t work RUclips out , we got phenomenal growth last year , went from 900 subs to 9000 , but this year only 200 subs
No telling how Google counts, but people behave different on the Interwebs.
Hearing people complain is pretty funny to me for some reason