Over 90% of YouTubers Answer This Question WRONG.
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2023
- I asked a very simple question and over 90% of RUclipsrs who responded gave me the wrong answer. What do you think?
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off topic from this video, do you make music? and if so where can i find it?
I'm one of those people who hadn't heard of you prior to the Filmora debacle. I'm a tiny (microscopic) content creator trying to find ways to make my videos get "out there" more, and it's a struggle, but I've borrowed some of your suggestions and they've definitely helped. I'm not a full-time creator so I don't post as often as others and don't have the time to study the metrics in the same detail, but I appreciate the help I can leverage. Thanks for your content.
My pleasure. I hope videos like this give Creators a better perspective when it comes to RUclips. It sure can feel overwhelming sometimes.
To go with that last part: Analytics are tools, not rewards or measures of self-worth. You can end up hurting yourself misusing a hammer just as easily as you can use it to properly hammer a nail.
Amen. And metrics are interactive. Something creators often overlook
Hey Daniel, thank you for breaking this down. I’ve never heard anyone explain RUclips analytics this way. I had a recent video with a similar graph and was struggling to understand what I was doing wrong even though it was one of my better performing videos. Now I know how to better interpret the data. Thank you so much 🙌🏾
Glad it was helpful. I try to remember that I can always do better but that not everything I create is going to have the same reach
@@Daniel_Batal Well said. I’ll remember that
How does your channel not have more viewers? Such fantastic advice.
As I was explaining in this video, not all conversations will have the same reach.
I started following you and subbed because of that question on Twitter, and like 95% of everyone, I dove right into conventional thinking. Thanks for the challenge and the fresh perspective!
Thanks for that. I'm hoping that challenging some of the conceptions that people have about RUclips can break some of the glass ceilings people are wrestling with.
I am one of those who did not know who you were and got caught up in the conversation of that filmora video. Love the way you explained things here.
That was quite the ordeal, for sure
I’ve had a couple of videos go to “scale” (but a smaller scale) and CTR and watch time do fade with a wider net.
Making my videos best for my core audience helps prove the video as worthy of a bigger audience. So it’s hard when those metrics look good but the “browse” numbers flatline.
I have plenty of videos with “great” metrics that flatline out at 25,000 views or so.
Those videos just don’t have the potential reach based on the topic that some of my others do.
We all seem to get a little better at understanding which topics might connect better once we’ve made hundreds of videos.
Oh hi! I'm one of those people that was surprised when YT started serving me your content. But your personality, content, and the Filmora story got me hooked and now I really enjoy learning how to improve my channel with your ideas.
Awesome. Love hearing that and I'm glad to have you here!
It was fun participating in this! I've been cautious about trying to hack the retention graph for the sake of doing it based on the advice because I've noticed that, at scale, the higher performing videos on my channel have graphs that look a little more like your original picture (with humps in the middle since they're search based tutorials). At my age, I'm not a huge fan of the "boom.boom.boom" retention-optimized videos for a long period. I think there are plenty of people like me who are the same, and I'm building my community there with my long form vids.
Thanks for posting the original exercise to twitter and breaking this down further here, Daniel!
Right on, Jerry. Thanks for helping out!
One thing we tend to see is that with more traffic, those humps often tend to flatten out a bit. But, I definitely pay attention to them whenever I see them.
Knowing how viewers in your niche tend to watch content is a huge advantage.
6:10 "my video about filmora cancelling lifetime memberships reached people who didn't even know who I was."
I'm one of them. Had no idea who you or filmora were but I like your content a lot especially your discussion on brief homelessness.
Awesome. I appreciate that ☮️
My .02¢:
Even if 100% of people in your niche are fully into your video, once it gets out in front of a more general audience than before, your stats will go down.
For example, I make videos rebuilding 90's cars with retro video game sound effects and a dash of Satan. If my videos get out in front of regular viewers outside of my very specific niche, those stats are SUPPOSED to be lower. That's how I know I'm making content that is actually unique. I'm not trying to appeal to everybody. I'm just trying to make something for my people.
Very true. You can have great metrics but Impressions drop off after your content reaches the core target audience
This was a cool experiment, thanks for talking about it. From now on I'll begin my answers with "Well, it depends.." instead of presuming it was a problem needing to be addressed.
Even when looking at my own data, I always ask questions before deciding what to do next. That's the only way I'll ever know if something actually needs to be done in the first place.
Metrics out of context can be incredibly deceiving.
@@Daniel_Batal I have absolutely no doubt. As a former affiliate support person from ye olden days, it was always extraordinarily tough to convince people to remain calm.
I've only put out a couple of model train videos on YT so far, but it is still fun to see the new listing vigor. Reminds me of when I used to refresh stats for a living!
I really need to hear this. I am reaching my 1 year mark and I must admit, I began feeling a little blah about my growth and I just needed to hear some reassurance.
Stay on it.
This might be helpful. One of my private coaching group members is in a similar niche as you are and is crushing it: www.youtube.com/@HookedbyRobin
@@Daniel_Batal Yep I "know" them. They started when I did. I suffered an attack by a spammer and lost my channel last March, everything was deleted, but I had allowed it to grow stale and to be honest there was not consistent uploads. It was a push I needed to really work on this do over.
I love your analysis and deep dive on this Daniel. Thank you for talking about this and spelling it out for all of us.
My pleasure!
Number 1 thing to remember is RUclips tries to find the perfect video for the viewer, not the perfect viewer for your video. The algorithm serves the viewer, not the creator.
Well said.
The other thing to remember is that RUclips knows how ALL videos perform at scale. We don't.
I figure that I just haven't reached my target audience yet.
I do plan to make my videos shorter by breaking them into separate episodes at the "step" stage. I figure maybe an artistic painting video gets too long when posted in one shot (episode). Maybe breaking the video at each step, (background, foreground, details etc.) will not only give me more individual content and help the overall retention. This may help reach that target audience. At which point I can easily transition back to single episode shots if my audience asks for that format.
Wow, such a deep analysis of RUclips algo. Daniel I would love to connect with you to discuss a project.
Thank you for another piece of valuable information! It's all about perspective for sure on videos and understanding how to read those metrics, which BTW can get addictive! 😁
Ugh… SOOO addictive Eszter!
Yaaaaaaaaaasss! I totally got invested in your channel after the Filmora drama for exactly the reason you gave here. I haven't delved into the metrics as much as Mark does. My role is to produce. I let him study the analytics. I tend to worry more about CTR, # of views, and where the video actually sits in our current top 10 list. Changing a title or a thumbnail of a video that underperformed really has yet to make any difference. I'm ok with that. We just keep on swimming and creating. Some of our older videos get little bumps when a newer video is performing well. This topic, like so many that you have put out, is spot on. Your thought process makes logical sense. Some of the things we have done since we started tuning is 1) cut our intro down to 10 seconds. It was hard to let it go completely! LOL It really was too long. Baby steps. The smaller intro has been an improvement. 2) Stop being askholes! LMAO! So blunt, but so real! The logic that if someone likes you enough, they will subscribe anyway, so why ask hit the nail on the head! Honestly, I tend to skip over that stuff when I watch another creator, so why were we doing it too? I'm writing too much here - but you get the point. Thank you for creating honest and helpful content to help us little guys out here!! 🥰 ~Gina
Well said!
Just want to say thanks for the videos re:Filmora (very entertaining to me) and explaining RUclips metrics (very helpful to me.) Thanks again ❤
Happy to help!
Thanks Daniel for the live stream and this video as my mindset was right in parts but now I have a much more solid understanding.
It's definitely something I think Creators need some different perspectives on ❤️
Hi Daniel. Suggestion for another video- I've only just got into the analytics of RUclips and trying to understand them with help like yours. But the other day I accidentally discovered I had unanswered comments from 3 years ago. I HAVE replied to comments the instant I get a notification, but I found quite a few had somehow slipped through the net. Is there any chance of a video explaining how comments should be properly managed so audience interaction is maximised and no gets accidentally missed and feels ignored?
Good suggestion
@@Daniel_Batal I'll stay tuned then!
THANK YOU for this!! I actually felt kinda down after seeing the comments then commenting on your last post as I was more looking at the big picture/long term analytics but the other comments were very different from how I was feeling/seeing things. I feel so much more validated and better about where I’m at now (not this channel I’m commenting from lol) so thank you so much.
Glad this was helpful 😁
That Filmora video you mentioned was what introduced me to your channel too. I do know Filmora, which is why I decided to watch. It was one of the first video editors I ended up purchasing when I was trying to decide which one I would prefer for editing my RUclips videos. I ended up settling on Movavi. I just clicked with it better than Filmora. But the subject matter of your video was definitely an interest for me because of my familiarity with the product. And now I just like to check out whatever you've got for us, even if it's not something that might not interest me - haha
Well I appreciate you sticking around!
Fair dues lol, I do gaming content and you have yet to dip into that particular pool... my last vid was the money shot series that the algorithm usually recommends, and being a gaming vid the analytics are bit different from the rest, but my 24 minute gaming video had 43% retention two minutes in, and was still pulling 25% retention twenty minutes later when it ended and credits rolled. You know there's two different worlds in youtube, the irl content dudes and us gaming content dudes, it would be SO nice to see you exploring that side of content creation and maybe how to improve it. 👍
I hear you.
I started to mention the 7 factors I think decide the fate of any video (regardless of niche). I'll try to get to that ASAP.
Daniel I love how you explained this. I think analytics is the hardest thing about RUclips. You put it into common word. Am sure I will be rewatching this to get digest all the information. Looking forward to your next video. Am one of the new subscriber due the video you reference. I got a little chuckle out of this video.
Hey thanks! I appreciate that.
I'll definitely be talking about some of these aspects of RUclips soon. I think some of the information people are getting out of context is confusing creators more.
Perspective is so important.
I always appreciate how you put things into perspective. Great breakdown and easy to follow. Thank you!
My pleasure!
I believe the video you highlight is the one that introduced me to your channel.
You have no idea how helpful this video has been for me.
All my top videos have the “drop” - which I used to think of as the “drop of death” - now, it will be the “drop of distribution”. It just means it’s being served more - and that’s a good thing.
As long as that drop doesn't happen right when Impressions are low, I worry much less about that video.
Now, if I see a drop like that and my video only has a handful of Impressions and views (from what SHOULD be the people who really enjoy my content), then I know I missed the mark with my core audience.
That's when I look at everything and see where I could have done better. Typically, I start with Topic, Title, & Thumbnail and work my into structure and execution
Good info! This makes a ton of sense
Hey Daniel, well I was one of the 95% ers at first then stopped and had a look at my own stats before watching the rest of the video. That changed my mind. My stats for a small (but growing) channel revealed how much my channel is evolving. I used to tinker with every video title and thumbnail almost as soon as it was released. But now I rarely do unless I see an obvious mistake. Your video illustrates exactly the same changes my own videos have undergone over time. Its clear that RUclips experiments with who see's your videos and that impacts the impressions, CTR, & AVD. IMO making changes just upsets the algo and I think may do more harm than good in the long run. My best performing video in the last 90 days are nearly all over 6 months old. Some have taken over a year to break out. My tutorials are evergreen long form in the main but a few shorts help add a little spice to the viewership. Great video as always. Thank you for sharing your insights and keeping us ontrack. ☮😎😎
Right on. When we are smaller, it takes RUclips longer to gather enough traffic data to push our videos out a little harder.
I’ve been through that same thing.
Stay on it!
incredibe information i've never heard before and makes so much sence. Thanks Daniel, i'll definitely keep an eye on the impression now
👊😎☮️
Again the analytics stuff is a bit confusing for me on occasion as there's so much to understand and learn with regards to RUclips it can be a bit overwhelming and mind boggling, as for video performance shorts use to perform the best for me but lately not anymore which is a bit of a discouraging head scratcher, some videos flat line then days later start to spike in views YT unpredictable hence I'm not one to immediately start changing the video when it's performing poorly I prefer to wait a bit and see, in case it's a temporary slump if not I might play around to see if I can revive the video but this isn't something I do often I typically upload and move on, if a video performs completely awful I might private the video etc, thanks for tips and encouragement ❤
If you learn what a good performing video looks like on your own channel, it’s easier to spot one that’s performing poorly.
I always compare me to me
I think you touched on this question in another video but, a little more detail (if I'm correct) would be helpful.
I'm actually looking at and experiencing this situation right now.
What should you do to "recover" from an unexpected break? I recently had a tough situation, some production we'll say difficulties and a few personal struggles which led to temporarily losing the desire, ability and time to produce content. As a small, still developing channel this may not be as big of a deal as say you for example but any advice would be appreciated.
Make your next video.
It's that simple.
I’ve observed these very same things and wasn’t sure what to think, great vid, thanks for the insights.
As long as you've observed those very same metrics in very high performing videos, you're doing great. It's when you start seeing low metrics right when you publish and the Impressions are very low, that's when it time to dig a little deeper because there is a chance you missed the mark with your most engaged viewership
@@Daniel_Batal Thats the distinction I learned from your video thats helped me understand the analytics better. Really getting a lot out of your channel
So happy you put this out. I understood the metrics will go down when RUclips pushes your videos. However, I thought the CTR would be higher. Now, I understand why the CTR might seem low, but actually might be really good depending on impressions. Thank you sir! 😊
My pleasure!
Superb stuff! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
@@Daniel_Batal enjoying and sharing a lot of your content. The Resolve for Noobs shorts are great btw. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for the explanation. I didn't know that information.
0:42 I would conclude that the video has a pretty good retention rate for a long 18 minutes, though maybe the video intro could be worked on. Or, I would consider changing the title and thumbnail to better reflect the content. The 59% is typical viewer stats to those viewers figured the video was not relevant for them.
Edit: I was right! ...close actually.
Thank you again Daniel for your constructive advice.
In short, your advice on the different metrics align very well with my experience with a small RUclips channel.
Ha! You were half right! The intro definitely didn't need to be worked on and the title/thumbnail definitely should NOT have been changed. I think that's the most important part to learn here, how to read analytics in context.
@@Daniel_Batal Agreed. In fact, I don't think I have ever changed a thumbnail or even the title in my years. It is funny though because the Filmora video was the first I viewed before coming here, and I thought it a very well-done video.
So did 1,400,000 million other people... apparently! So, no changes needed ❤️
That's right ! Thank you Daniel 🫡
Great vid Daniel, thank you for sharing!
Glad you liked it!
@@Daniel_Batal 👍👍
This was super helpful!! When I looked at the data I started thinking the same thing.. thumbnail, title and the intro… I then thought why is he pointing at the AVD? I need more info… but then doubted that and picked the intro.. lol.
When you showed more data it made more sense. I always understood the more people the video is shown to the number will naturally go down, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing..
I hope more people watch this.. it’s really helpful!! 👍
Right on, brother! There is a metric that I pay attention to that doesn't exist in our analytics and that's "Velocity".
I'm always paying attention to how well my content and channel are gaining traction and that takes looking at many different metrics with a whole lot of perspective
Great video, precise and on point. Not even creating videos, but interesting to understand the algorithm as a user nonetheless.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's one of those things I personally find fascinating. How RUclips actually works.
I honestly probably need to look at my data more. 😅 I worry so much tuning up my quality (tech-wise and editing-wise), my data analyzing often gets put on the back burner of "maybe I'll look at it sometime later". I need to start honing in on the business/marketing/data side of YouTubing, just have to get out of that mindset that it's "something extra" to do.
You don’t need fancy metrics to tell you when your videos are doing well. ❤️
Great advice and great video
Really needed to hear this. Thanks so much Daniel :)
Glad it was helpful!
I really wish analytic expectations were explained by the size of the yt channel. From micro, med, large channels
It's impossible to explain completely. That would involve divulging every bit of the algorithmc processes from every system on RUclips running under the AI. (RUclips will never give away all of their secrets).
And the truth is, those change constantly based upon viewer behavior, niche, topic, etc....
Nobody needs deep analytics to tell them when their video is taking off.
Just focus on trying to make content that puts the interests & needs of the target audience you're trying to reach at the forefront.
What would you say for similar graphs on a small channel (
I’d say the same. Your metrics should be higher when reaching a smaller audience. If they aren’t, think about what really interests them, what their pain points are, what they struggle with or what they’re thinking.
As a new creator of course I got this wrong. The most important questions I have for you Daniel: 1) what motorcycle do you ride and 2) Favorite guitar?
I have several motorcycles but the one I ride the most is a 2021 Harley Davidson Road King.
I don’t really have a favorite guitar…? Depends on the tone I’m going for. But mostly Telecasters, Strats & Les Pauls.
@@Daniel_Batal 😻
@@Daniel_Batal I don't ride harley's but if I did, road king, Ultra or road glide my favs. I've always loved the strat sound.
Thanks for the reply for my non related questions!
Of course! 🤦🏼♀️ Dee and Nick explained this CTR/Impressions ratio to me three and a half years ago and it went right over. 🤷♀️🤪 Thanks so much, Daniel!!🥰
I am certainly not the first to talk about this. I just think that sometimes creators (me included) need to hear things from different voices or perspectives before that lightbulb goes off in our head and suddenly we learn something that can actually help us in our journey.
@@Daniel_Batal Absolutely! I was just beginning then so didn’t understand at all.
Yep. Took me a while to figure this out. Metrics on most of my evergreen content looks like that. Flatline doesn't alway mean dead. In fact, often the opposite.
Love the vid man. Thanks for all the helpful information. Can't wait to see your next music video from you😂😂👍
Ha! It's funny that this channel started with the story of making a music video and came full circle so many years later.
Just started my channel recently! Your videos have been so helpful and informative!
Awesome. Love hearing that ☮️
Helpful advice hopefully, I see such a graph often. I discovered your channel through one of the filmora license videos and followed the complete story, so ou are completely right about this. 🤩
Glad you did!
I think a lot of the answers here on RUclips are simpler than we think. You watched some of my other content. That helped you end up on this video. Now here we are talking in the comments section. That's all 'Viewer Behavior' and this thing we're doing right now? This will impact what RUclips does with my other content.
You'll probably see more of it pop up along the way because RUclips sees that you've engaged with them.
(Thank you for that, by the way ❤️)
Hey Daniel, what would you think of these stats on a niche genre video. In 37 hours, it got 26 impressions and an impression click-thru of 11.5%?
26 Impressions....? Did you mean 2,600 or 26,000?
@@Daniel_Batal nope just 26! No zeros after the 6 🤣
Don't even look at your data at that point. You don't have nearly enough to form any useful conclusions.
Work on building content that might have a greater connection for the target audience you're trying to reach ❤️
@@Daniel_Batal thanks Daniel, your story has really inspired me, I was also homeless for a short period also, now I have a loving wife and two kids, after an accident at work, that has sort of ended my career, I decided to start making some gaming videos for fun. Thank you for being an inspiration and also sharing your story with the world. 👍👍👍
What I would do next: Panic - probably think about is my discussion off topic, is there a glitch I didn’t see until now, then maybe consider doing a reshoot but probably move on.
Thanks for pausing to comment! Let me know if you still feel that way after watching the rest of the video
Outstanding video. As a fairly new creator, I'm still learning the ropes, and videos like this one are incredibly helpful for me. Thank you.
One thing that I harp on time and again is that context isn't key, it's critical. Metrics without context are effectively meaningless. It's interesting to see this is true with streaming platforms as it is in the cybersecurity realm
Amen to that.
Yep, this thinking sometimes make creators to make videos over-edit.
Creators try to make intro fast as possible, resulting faster than audience mind
Very true.
I think there is no 'One-size-fits-all' for pacing. I'm constantly adjusting mine to see how the greater target audience reacts. For some things, faster was better but overall, it seems a more of a mid tempo pace seems to work best. Which is a little slower than my normal cadence.
I'm from New England.
I get excited and start talking too fast.
And wave my hands around a lot.
And suddenly my accent comes out.
(Really annoying)
very well said Daniel. Thanks for the video. I am planning to make my own channel soon watching you helps a lot.
Best of luck!
Keep going is what I do
I now use a pull plan for gearing up a mission in Arma3
I get ideas from watching other creative RUclips channels, incuclud a world now of what's happening or look at the past. There are a ton of ideas to pull from, and I'm not a pro.
I just like what I do it takes my mind off things like work, especially if you're like me , " You can't turn off your brains.
Always forward...
Love the channel. Keep rocking it, bro...
Right on 🎸
I discovered your channel with your stand against Filmora. I am working on a animation series, that are funny and cute about a fat cat. I released a couple of videos pretty much only some of my friends watched. There was few others. I am not at PIXAR level by no means but their not bad either. Anyways I saw something about that when launching a new channel you should launch with at least five video's so that your channel has more value and keeps your audience on your channel longer. So I decided to work out more animations, possibly do a couple of tutorials of how I did some things, for those who are into animation or curious. I am not talented in speaking as you are, I am a artist, but I know my animations can do better than a hundred + views. I think one thing I did wrong is I used a old channel that was for my music and just recreated it for my animation series. Before I thought I need my friends on social media to spread my videos, but most are not that dedicated and I am not going to make them do anything they don't want to do. Plus social media frustrates me.. I have seen many animation shorts get into the millions of views. I wonder how they do it. Maybe mine is not quite at that level yet but I think they will be soon the more I work on them. I have been told by a number of people I know that they are either very cute, hilarious or very good. Only person who doesn't understand said it doesn't look like Disney. Any suggestions that can help? Thank you!
I feel that.
I don't know if this will help or not but I try to think more about the needs & interests of the viewer whenever approaching any video content.
The very first questions I tend to ask myself are, "Who are the people I'm trying to reach with this and why would they want to watch this video when it's surrounded by all sorts of other videos that are targeting their other interests?"
If I can answer those two questions... I usually have a jumping off point of where to being my creative process.
This is some great information, as a small creator it’s great to know it’s really useful to gather information like this. Thanks 👍
Glad it was helpful, JoJo.
@@Daniel_Batal
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🌹I love that you made this video. I love that we have folks to guide us. Though I think what was really weird an something you see, though I see this in most of the world. We just mimic or repeat just what we heard as what makes videos good. Timing is a good thing to take into consideration, like example if I release a video at 8am it's going to drop down way low vs if I release it noon my time. I also love that you bring up that you break down the views more and what happens if people see something but may not watch all of it or intrested. The other part you bring up that I like is that bout if everything was done pefect that you are still thrown in a barrel with others and you can't always be on top even with perfection moment.
100%.
I always try to help Creators have the most important thing I think we all need.... perspective. There are so many variables that freaking out over a single metric without context can be really dangerous.
I haven't jumped on to the RUclips space yet, as an amateur writer, that last message is all I needed to hear "Keep creating!" Appreciate everything you do Daniel. 😃
Right on 👊😎☮️
Very interesting, Thank you Daniel. :)
This was great, thank you! I often struggle after I release a video with the immediate gratification need I seem to have. My most recent video has one of the more poor CTR's I've had in a long time (just over 3%, and impressions are still fairly high for my channel) and I keep changing thumbnails, titles, etc in the first day or two. Am I jumping the gun here, and should I have waited a little longer before making any changes??
If the impressions are high and the engagement is good, let it ride. I I’ll change the title or thumbnail if I think it’s not quite hitting the mark.
I changed this title twice already and the thumbnail 3 times, just to get it more focused
First of all, I didn't even know what those acronyms were - and I'm a creator! I'm a creator in an even smaller niche of a small niche. But I'm always wanting to grow my channel. I've just started lives and my core viewership love it! I need to figure out a way to reach beyond my niche. Thank you!
I love live streaming. It's a really positive way to increase engagement with your community.
My two cents for reach is don't think about reaching beyond your niche, think about how to approach topics within your niche to have the broadest possible reach.
I personally find that channels (especially resource or utility channels) can get stuck in "Tutorial mode" where the majority of content is based on Search traffic and showing people how to do something.
Adding story to your channel can change things up a lot. Doesn't mean you can't talk about what you want to talk about or show people how to do things, it just means you can shift the viewer's perspective from being interested in the thing to being more interested in you.
@@Daniel_Batal I really want to switch from Filmora to DR but I'm concerned because I pay the monthly subscription to the Filmora library for titles, elements, music clips, etc. Does DR have a subscription like that or will I be on my own to find my own stuff. If so, what are some good sites for video elements?
What a great video man!!!! This is exactly what I'm going through right now. Been posting weekly since January. All the older videos haven't have views in weeks.
So what can I do to fix this? Do you have any tips? Thanks for taking the time to read this.
This might help: ruclips.net/video/LymvVEfmcHY/видео.html
Thanks brother!!! I really appreciate you getting back to me. It means alot!
I have been doing this but, not with the same video in all 4 spots. So I got some work to do.
Thanks again and God Bless!! Johnny Railer @@Daniel_Batal
explained very well, wow! we, normal people get so caught up exerting all efforts choosing the right thumbnail, title, edit techniques this and that and doesn't even know how the analytics well hehe.. thanks for explaining man! we figured out that my viewers likes my "resort" videos hehe.. anyhow..✌😎
Hey Daniel, yeah I needed this video for a long time. You actually critiqued my channel about a month ago and gave me some advice live on how to upgrade my homepage. Since I do roller coaster videos I always get a big drop in the beginning either because people that click on it think it's gonna be a real-life roller coaster versus what is actually a digital creation of what I make, or they find the beginning of the ride slow and fast forward to the fast parts. After watching this video I'm kind of frustrated at myself because I did edit out the beginnings of some of my popular rides to see if that would make a difference and it showed me no difference at all. So from now on I'm gonna leave all my videos alone because of this awesome video that you just presented. Thank you. -Tommy
I tend to leave videos that are performing alone, Tommy.
Those are the ones I use to model success on my channel ☮️
Thank you Daniel! You have explained my questions. My 28 day data has my views up 3200, watch time is up 120 hours, impressions are up 9%, yet my CTR has gone down, it went from 8.2 to 7.4. There is still hope for me, woo-hoo. You are the bomb!
Stay on it! That's a good sign.
The deeper conversation is 'What can I do to increase Impressions' and I believe that comes down to the 7 factors I mentioned at the end of this video.
I talk about them a lot in the members group but I'll be making another video on that ASAP
Thanks for the great video and explanations.
Glad it was helpful ☮️
I've started to not pay attention to RUclips telling me the first 30 secs is below typical.😅
As a tiny channel I know that 99.9% of people would have no reasons to watch me, so I tend to focus on the rest of the graph.
Q: How does AVD work when viewers watch at, let's say 1.5 times the speed. Many ppl watch non talking videos at higher speed.
Also does adding an extra 10 secs at the end ,for end card purpose, stuff up ur stats ? ( either ur viewers have clicked to your next vid or moved on ) creating a big drop right before ur video is technically over.
The basic math is if someone watches your entire video at 2x, you get half the AVD (average view duration) and half the watchtime. Though, you can still have 100% APV (average percentage viewed) because they've watched the entire video.
@@Daniel_Batal Thanks for the response 👍
INTERESTING!!! Excellent, man!
Glad you think so!
Just starting my youtube page within the next month. Do you have any advice for what to pay attention too? And what to just ignore in the short term? I'm learning a tiny bit about so many things to just get to the point that I can post my first couple of videos. Also expected that I make every rookie mistake along the way too! :)
Here’s a flash back from when I just started that I think still holds a lot of relevance today: ruclips.net/video/uZb98bvi4rA/видео.html
@@Daniel_Batal Watched and agreed still worth a watch. Good points to consider. Thanks Daniel!
If CTR decreases with increased impressions, what CTR % should a given video ideally be at based on a differing amount of impressions? (CTR at something like 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M impressions)
Unfortunately thats an impossible question to answer because it's predicated by so many other data points.
Niche, topic, timing, competition, relevance, trends...
What I would say is that I've learned what a good CTR is for me when I first launch a video (for me that's anything over 13.5% in the first hour of publication if it drives 10,000 -20,000 Impressions in that hour).
I would focus on learning your own internal performance metrics so that you can gauge against your own previous video performance and learn to repeat successes.
If you can establish strong velocity with your core audience, you'll have a good chance of that video being surfaced further.
okay thank you!
Sometimes the devil`s in the details, other times it's in the bigger picture. A "current/hot" topic video will spike, then trickle off, until relevant sh*t gets disturbed again and at a later date drive/spike more views. Or new video spikes as you said and then later spikes again when you release another related video and link back + invite people to watch. I find that too often people in marketing and business get hyper-focused on specific metrics while ignoring the big picture, positive side effects resulting in exposure and brand recognition etc + whatever else.
It's the classic idea of pressing your nose right up against the tree to the point where you can't see the forest anymore. ❤️
@@Daniel_Batal rofl best analogy! Thank you for the laugh!
I did mention the Shorts, but sure there is WAY more to it, depending on what kind of video we're making. Trying to keep 100% retention long term is utopia. In my case, I explain languages and RUclips recommends my videos to foreign countries so I have to always force the subtitles to remove foreign languages RUclips auto generates. That had been hurting my channel big until I figured out why very specific countries were dominating my views. Some people will say I'm wrong, but I went through that and people are curious about thumbnails in other countries, but they click, realize it's not what they want or understand and bail out.
On the flipside, my most watched video has 78.6% retention and 8.1% CTR and still people praise it in person. So much that I got a job because the hirers liked the way I explain things in it. It has 19.3K views "only", brought me 160 subscribers and 37.6% retention, in a 7 min long, one of my lowest retentions, but still my most watched video that keeps giving after three years.
Plus, I would never expect "boring grammar" to appeal to the masses, but it did help people who needed it and that's what I can control. RUclips does recommend videos in a varied way though, more or less aggressively like mentioned in the video, but also incorrectly like it did to me, based on its own incorrect auto generated captions. This part is what nobody seems to believe, but having 80% audience in Japan to realize that very particular video got an auto generated caption in Japanese while I was speaking Portuguese and English all the way through the video was the wake up call. And that also explained why I was having constant views even when it was early in the morning for me. Removing incorrect captions solved most of it.
This is normal. Changing thumbnails and titles help people understand what it means and whether it's worth watching, but people go crazy trying to "beat the algorithm". "Algorithm" is not even a God RUclips invented, it's nothing but a fancy word we use in IT and development to refer to any piece of code that does something to its completion. As simple as that. Having or not a schedule to upload is also something people may expect from us, be frustrated if we don't or not even care. There must be a personality match between creator and viewers IF there is any personality showing in the content in the first place.
When your channel is small and you're still working out how to actually increase your impressions, all of these things matter but the truth is... worrying about your CTR and retention rates is far less important than figuring out which topics your target audience connects with. Then, finding a way to approach those topics with compelling structure and packaging so you not only win the click, but your audience chooses to engage because they find your content compelling and authentic.
@@Daniel_Batal Funny how we realize that in theory, but in practice it only comes with making a lot of videos, asking questions, polling the community and keeping an eye on what creators in the same niche are both doing and not doing so that opportunities can be found. Thanks for the input, David, I mean, Daniel!
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Great Video!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks for watching!
I would go back and replay the video and see why it drops in the beginning of the video and try to remove that part or edit it.
Thanks for pausing to comment! Let me know if you still feel the same after watching the rest of this video ☮️
I have so many questions I’m not even sure where to begin. I try to look at the data as much as possible but the more I think I understand it, the worse my videos perform. I’ve been actively posting videos on my channel for two years now. I’m proud of the fact I’ve grown to over 500 subs. I feel like I’ve gotten better at title and thumb creation, but the results just aren’t there. Earlier today I posted a short and went to get ready for work. When I came back later it had zero views. Zero. I’m sure there are still plenty of things I could be doing better. But zero views on a channel with 500+ subscribers doesn’t make sense to me. I’m devastated and feel like this is the final straw for me as a creator
Don't let that break you.
At the end of this video, I started talking about the 7 factors that I think decide the fate of any video regardless of niche.
I'm going to jump on that next because I think it's one of the most important conversations that a lot of people aren't talking to creators about.
Keep Creating! ❤️
Ok, looking at that I'd be pretty happy with the results of that graph.
- It probably got new viewers who watched the first 30 seconds and decided this wasn't the personality for them or the content they wanted.
- The dedicated viewers enjoyed the video the entire way through.
- Perhaps some of the newer viewers watched it the entire way through.
- (Niche to my own content) They watched the high octane intro and decided that was enough and I'm cool with that.
So, what would I do? Make another video like that and hopefully more people were entertained and stuck to this kind of content.
'Make another video' is always great advice!
@@Daniel_Batal If you aren't making content, your viewers have nothing to watch. The motto to live by.
wow, high caliber video. Thanks, Daniel.
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I don't know what to do next. Some of my best videos have looked like that and then slowly built steam. Haha. Well. Your video looked like that for different reasons to why mine do, but at least I now don't feel stupid anymore for not knowing how to answer your question. Thanks for giving us a different perspective and more information. We need the reminder that RUclips is not that simple and there's no one answer to everything. Magic bullets aren't magic and aren't one size fits all.
Amen to that.
As a creator I've been at war with how to fix this and there has never been a clear answer. Impressions ! Thank you Daniel you might be helping me to keep up the work flow. It's complicated by marketing firms that demand how we serve up a video review. Time to go rogue on them and fix it. 😎
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Great stuff!! I went and looked at my own analytics on my more successful long form videos and you're absolutely right
After the first few days, they gained a ton of views from suggested content and a huge amount of impressions but my CTR went from 16% to 10.1% as it got pushed out more
I genuinely thought maybe something was wrong with the thumbnail and that I was missing out on views but it seems that the people it was pushed to maybe weren't interested, not that the thumbnail or title was bad
Those are your winners ❤️
Nice on buddy you just show me one thing that I have being doing wrong all along for a very long time.
Thanks for opening our eyes I am grateful.
Kind regards buddy your still the best.
No problem 👍
Your Filmora video made me subscribe to your channel and now I’m enjoying all your content. I have always had the desire to record and edit short-form videos for other platforms but never actually did it. That was until I watched your videos. I’ve now made a handful of videos and posted them online. I’ve discovered something I really enjoy thanks to you. I appreciate all you do, thank you ❤️
I LOVE hearing that!
There is a joy in creating any kind of content (illustration, videos, music, etc) that I think really allows us to tap into parts of our mind & sould that you can't in other ways.
I really do think video creation is an art form and I love seeing anyone just jumping in and giving it a try.
Keep creating!
That was a very interesting video. Thanks for creating it.
Glad you enjoyed it ☮️
This is Gold Daniel. I was constantly refreshing my feed waiting for you to upload this. Quick question. Here is an example for this question. 1 video uploaded and in the first 24 hours it gains 400 impressions. From that, here is the views break down : 15 are from subs, 5 from search, 5 from suggested. Most subs watched a little over half way of the video and some gave me likes. Search and suggested both didn't hold viewers for more than about 5 seconds. Meaning that youtube sees 25 views but none made it to the end, none of them commented, and just a few liked it. This would indicate poor packaging wouldn't it? This is an on-going trend that happens in all my long form content. Some times impressions go as high as 4k impressions but views stay around less than 30 views. How can I assist that conversation to happen a little bit more? I ask that because after the first couple thousand impressions and 25 to 30 views youtube slows down to just 1 to 5 impressions a day and moves on. Sorry for the long comment. Was just curious in your opinion and any guidance you may have. Appreciate your excellent content my friend! I'm growing every day because of your help!
That's a great question.
I started to talk about the 7 factors I think decide the fate of any video regardless of niche. I'll try go jump on that ASAP
I've watched this video six times now trying to understand better just how my channel is performing. Analysing the statistics is complicated from video to video, but all I can do is keep going and do my best. Frustrating as it is, but there again, nothing in life is easy and RUclips is certainly the hardest job I've done.
I've always said that you don't need fancy analytics to see if your channel and content are doing well. If your videos usually get a 1,000 views on the first day and you drop one that gets 2,000 views... you know you connected better with the viewers. The trick is to make sure that when you do connect, it's with content that really represents the conversations you're trying to have continually on your channel
@@Daniel_Batal Thanks Daniel
I don't look the analytics the first days. My best videos don't start well before to do very well in the long run.
That's very common. I've often had that happen as well. Sometimes it takes longer for RUclips to gather enough information on a video in order to serve it out to what it thinks is the right audience.
In fact, I got to know you thanks to that video you are talking about and thanks to it, now I am a subscriber.
I appreciate that! It sure did have a lot of reach. Unfortunately not everyone who enjoyed that series will be in love with content like this so there is an upside and a downside to having certain videos do well on a channel.
I am your case in point: I now follow because I found the Filmora video... and believe it or not, I am not a Filmora user... it was because it looked like what Avid was doing with Pro Tools... so, I proved this video here right. You're welcome! Loving the channel.
That's awesome. Glad to have you here.
5:25am CT and I ought to be asleep. But your videos are always worth watching.
Early morning club! I’ll get the coffee ☕️
Thank you. The number of channels out here trying to tell others how to succeed at RUclips can be daunting. Some employ tactics that can make one anxious about analytics. Your experience, knowledge, and approach are greatly appreciated. 🙏🏽
Happy to help.
Long videos are the kiss of death, especially over 8 minutes unless it’s a movie.
Maybe highly instructional videos would work in a long format, but people have lots of videos to watch.
That’s why YT shorts are king now - ADHD dream.
You sure about that? Let me know what you think after watching the rest of this video
@@Daniel_Batal Now you tricked me into watching the rest of the video now : O
I sure hope so 😜
Great informations, thanks
You bet ☮️
The only thing worse than no metrics are misinterpreting or bad metrics.
Amen to that. Especially if a creator is making changes to their content from those misinterpretations