"How DOES The YouTube Algorithm Work?" - Creator Myths Busted!
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Hello Insiders! Today Rene is chatting with Todd about creator myths related to the algorithm.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 "Can an off-topic viral video hurt how the algorithm sees a channel?"
1:46 "Can a bad video hurt how the algorithm sees a channel?"
2:20 "Does the algorithm push videos for some creators?"
3:48 "Does the algorithm ever give up on videos?"
5:30 "Does the algorithm 'punish' creators based on prior video performance or upload cadence?"
6:30 "If the algorithm follows the audience do creators have to as well?"
9:16 "Does the algorithm favor some creators or videos?"
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Why do good performing videos suddenly die after a few hours and never recover? If a video performs well and has all the green arrows signalling to RUclips that people have shown interest in the video, that video in question should continue to perform well, not suddenly go to 0 views and die a million deaths. The old RUclips system never had that problem, good performing videos stayed that way, but the current system just kills off good performing videos for seemingly no reason. I've had so many videos blow up and then die the same day even with good video stats.
I have the same exact question. It is driving me crazy.
I agree with this, No matter what video I do it's dead out of the water, making me loose the will to even make videos :(
It's happening with my shorts. I am new channel with 360 subs, i posted about 15 shorts. 5-6 of my shorts got 8-12k views, then suddenly stop. I have good retention for those video. But there is 2 videos who get about 50 views every hour for days...
Random seeds changing probably
I’d start by looking at the topic of the video, and the competition for that topic. Is RUclips flooded with videos on that topic, or is the topic not that sort after? The rules of supply and demand apply. That goes for TAM (Total addressable market) - how many people are interested in that topic? And how many are interested in that topic right now?
I know you read it, so here we go again:
- Thumbnail A/B testing for the masses! ✊
- Shorts thumbnail frame selection when uploading from Studio Mobile! ✊
@@juanchopestudios How does that work? I've never seen RUclips Shorts take the first frame of my video for a thumbnail?
but...I noticed that YT does not select the frame nr 1 in my shorts...i'ts a random...middle frame ::(... I tried uploading on my phone, but still did not managed yet to find how to select the frame I WANT for my short...@@juanchopestudios
I'm convinced after having viewed my own analytics for an extended period, and even conducting tests of some theories, that the primary focus of RUclips's "algorithm" is to maximize revenue for RUclips. Now, that makes complete sense. They're a publicly held company. But I think it's disingenuous to talk about "myths" and "best practices" when the ultimate determiner of a video or channel's fate is based on "how much revenue does it generate?" Those things may be important - but they are downstream from the primary driver. Revenue.
With so many users viewing at any given second, YT can monitor performance in real time, or near real time. When something trends AND it can garner higher ad revenue - then of course they're going to push it. They make more money that way. The same applies to channels or topics that historically do better. As a creator, I'm glad they share a bit with me. (I get about $65-$75 per month.) Make no mistake, it's what runs the world. Money.
Stop pretending to be these hip, altruistic guides to maximizing RUclips and admit that in the final analysis, it is RUclips who picks the winners and losers based on what will be the most profitable course of action for the corporation.
That's how it MUST work. Every other company admits it - they're in it primarily for the revenue. All else is subservient to that.
It could be said that some very large companies are willing to forego money in favor of promoting a political agenda. But that's a whole different discussion.
Regarding the last part about the sub feed, I really wish RUclips would lean into subscriber's interest level more. I have 446k subs and sometimes my video doesn't even get 100k impressions, and with less than 30% of views coming from subs, that means that not even 7% of my subscribers have even been shown the thumbnail for my video. These people subscribed for a reason, so how can Todd say that the sub feed doesn't have a recommendations algorithm if it's choosing not to put my video into subscriber's feeds? Is sub feed usage among subscribers really that low? And if so, then why won't RUclips recommend the video to subscribers more on the homepage, etc? Why doesn't subscriber = all videos from that channel being offered at least once?
In common sense world, it would equal that. But this is RUclips...
I am so sick of this that I started a new channel exclusively on a rival service. I am not even bothering to mirror it on this site. I have a subscriber who likes and comments on each and every video I put up and has for over a year. Not even HE gets all of my vids in his feed. He has to come to my page and look and see if I have posted any. That's insane. If someone subscribes to your channel they should get notified when you post something new. That's what that word means!
Very good point! All your subscribers should see it ONCE...they subscribed for a reason, you are right! No, something is very wrong with their algorithm... I'm not sure if it's AI or human touch illogical input...whatever it is, it's illogical...
I fear they are moving from a model where ads provide revenue by adding "pay us to promote your stuff" provides revenue. Those of us who won't pay (and are insulted by the very idea of it), well, not even our subscribers will know what we are doing unless they think to check an obscure tab. @@MarianaCooks2023
Well, a subscriber is not what it once was as each RUclipsr subscribes to more channels. An average RUclipsr probably has 100-2,000 subscriptions. So you might only be the top video shown for 1% of your subscribers. If your clickthrough rate and watch time are good/better than other professional creators it keeps getting shown to the other subscribers. If not it stops being shown. If your subscriber only has a few subscriptions there is a better chance it will be shown to them. This is why people turning on notifications will help. Getting email lists is another option as you are in control of sending out the notification to some extent. People searching for your content specifically is even better.
Why is it that, no matter how many times I tell RUclips to stop recommending me a video/channel, It's always back in my feed within a month.
No means no, not "wait a few weeks before returning to the same pattern of autoplaying this giant content I marked as 'thumbs down' from I creator I marked as 'don't reccommend', every other video".
Yeah, this guy's not completely on the up-and-up. One thing, is that the original number of impressions that RUclips sends out of your new video is FOR SURE based on the last video you put up. It can completely change from there based on CTR and other things, but the initial number is very predictable.
Hmmm that’s true
I have frequently wished I could block certain channels from showing up entirely. Do you know of a way to do that?
@@Retrosenescentselect "don't recommend this channel" when it pops up
I'm connected to my RUclips account, on my phone .... and RUclips recommends me my own videos. 75% of the notifications I receive, are for my videos. Something is not right.
I literally told Todd about this problem at a VidCon at least 6 years ago. I'm sorry that's still happening.
I got impression that algorithm guru thinks from some kind of tech perspective, not creator perspective. Would be nice for Rene to try his own channel. Then maybe some successful changes could be implemented
Go back to the 2010 algorithm. It does not filter out anything.
basically tiktok, instagram and youtube are converging into being pretty much the exact same platform
That is true but that was just one of the talking points, he covered other questions and answers too. Of course RUclips is going to jump on the trend because that is what the AUDIENCE wants, RUclips is a business at the end of the day and they have to adjust to the ''competitive landscape'' as he mentioned.
There are still plenty of long form videos and viewers for that type of content all over RUclips, at the end of the day the viewer still chooses what they wish to watch regardless. Also, my algorithm as a viewer on Tiktok, Instagram and RUclips shorts are worlds apart, especially for the type of content that i wish to ingest.
I prefer having the variety and choice, i don't really see any issues with it.
nah TikTok still gives you 200% extra feedback on views and followers, in a week i went up by 10 but here, still at 0 increased subs...here is 10 000vies and TikTok is nearly 1 million
@botardplayscod yo got 20!!?? Bro!!!
Seriously, even rumble gives you more views on your first video. RUclips can't do anything right anymore. @botardplayscod
I mean its easier to get views on insta or Tik Tok but it means far less. I have an Insta account with over 4k followers and around 100k total likes. Yet I think a youtube channel with over 1k total views and 100 subs would be harder to obtain.@@somethingunique9515
It's hard to be a RUclipsr nowadays. Back then, you could create a loyal audience who is intersted in your content, and actually watches the videos. Nowadays, you can get subscribers, but if RUclips isn't recommending your videos to them, they don't even have the chance to become loyal viewers. I am having over 500,000 subscribers, growing around 10k each month. But I am really struggling to get my videos out to my viewers. Made a survey in my community tab, asking my viewers directly why they aren't watching. And over 50% voted that they simply getting any of my videos recommended anymore, thinking I stopped. It's cruel.
I believe it's because subscribers are becoming less and less relevant. I think loyal customers are just those who activate the notification bell.
The algorithm nerfs your other views if a video does well to keep you within an invisible "bracket" evertime a video does well we see our other content drop exactly in line with the increas to balance total views it's super frustrating
You understand
So I think it's pretty safe to say that everything said here is the exact opposite of how the algorithm actually works.
No joking LOL
Exactly! This is nothing more than a PR video.
That's exactly right. These two dorks can't convince anyone. They're basically trying to say that blue is red and green is yellow. I'm out.
@@AgentLazarus this whole channel is misleading the creators from the beginning
Exactly!
and they both work for youtube, as I understand!?
The fact that everytime i open my YT app, almost the same videos and creators that i dont necessarily like keeps showing despite of millions of other videos out there for the same topics as theirs is saying something more than this interview.
They will never be completely honest with creators.
Maybe those other creators are putting money behind those videos which causes RUclips to push them out more.
I keep getting recommended videos that I've watched!
My take on YT Shorts: if Shorts was introduced because the audience 'wanted' it, then please stick them only inside the separate Shorts tab within the YT app instead of showing a Shorts video shelf within the Home tab every now and then. If I wanted to watch shorts, I know where to go instead of throwing random shorts at me on the home page.
3:30 There's a huge, fundamental oversight with this logic and system. Video performance lives and dies on momentum. The only way you get good views is if you get a lot of views at once to start a snowball effect that'll eventually get the algorithm to push the video out to more and more people. He says "if a video doesn't perform well in 24 hours doesn't mean its dead" and while this is technically true, 80% of the time its not. You need lots of views, fast, to get the algorithm to decide its worth recommending to people, even your own subscribers.
By making it so the recommendation algorithm only initialises when a user signs on to RUclips you're making it so it is prioritising content that is getting views or being actively uploaded in that exact moment that they're online. By doing this, the algorithm is ignoring content that was uploaded at a time the user was not signed on or active, and they're missing content they should otherwise be getting recommended.
Not all your subscribers are going to be online at the same time. For example, if your audience is almost evenly split between the west coast and the east coast, you will not be performing as well as someone whose entire viewership base lives in the same time zone. Only half your viewers will be getting the notification of your content at any one time, and that's drastically affecting performance.
Do you know what I think? I think RUclips is turning into a big production where you have to have a staff now. I think only channels that are big time with a literal team benefit. I think individual creators who work alone are pushed to the bottom now. It's like big network strategy for money. I guess nothing lasts forever.
I used to have over 100K views per video. Suddenly my subscribers told me that they don't get notifications anymore. Now I am happy when 10K people watch my videos. :(
Damn 😢
I used to get 1k+ on every video and my channel started to go up but suddenly yt stopped giving me impressions and now I am not even crossing 20 views
To me it looks like you gotta stick to the floppy disc thumbnails for the best ctr? Idk how the ctr is ofc but that seems to be the biggest change
I posted a short that had 4000 views in the first 24 hours and was going straight up, then posted a long video. As soon as I posted the long video the short flatlined! They say that the algorithm only looks at individual videos....BS!
There is a big problem with the logic in the last section of the video! If you make shorts and get a lot of subscribers, and then make a long form video, your video will under perform when shown to subscribers.
So, basically, youtube will kill a long video simply because people from shorts are not going to watch it.
RUclips kills all videos that don't instantly get loads of views so that RUclips can insert inane in-stream ads and MAKE MONEY - that's ALL RUclips cares about.
Came here to comment this exact thing
yes exactly , I noticed this with another channel of mine
So I guess the answer would be not to start making shorts right? I have not started yet.
@@ENON_MUSIC For the very, very few views my channel gets (some of my analytics don't have enough data to show a summary), my shorts outperform my longs by 100:1.
Hi Rene, I would like to hear from Todd why RUclips stops pushing videos with high views, a high click-through rate, and a high view duration.
Those are typically characteristics of a video that appeals to your regular, dedicated viewers, but doesn’t appeal to the broader mainstream audience. As videos grow, typically all those stats, go down, they don’t stay high, because the matches aren’t as good, there’s just way more of them. Basically, 2% of 1 million is way more than 20% of 1000. ruclips.net/user/shortsd2kNFME8ny8?si=MVo6X90wjeVX3PTQ
@@juanchopestudios I have experienced that too.
@@RUclipsLiaison Okay, thank you. Now I know why.
@@RUclipsLiaison they need to give us a data or lsit of viewer they send impression so that we know which people youtube send our video .list of names what are thier intrest or else they need to manully push by human not robots or algo or machine
Tried making shorts that are related to my niche like what you've always been telling me to but they all always get stuck and die out at 2k+ views no matter how well they perform in terms of retention and swipe away ratio. You seem to have placed a very heavy growth ceiling on my channel which is quite demotivating
And all Shorts you upload from your smartphone will automatically be demonetized! No matter what niche!
the same with me,stuck and die out at 2k+,but on tiktok,that very same video can easily reach 7k+ or some other videos event reach 15k+
Now if only my videos actually got shown to my 144k subscribers. 5 years ago my videos pulled an instant 5k to 10k views from subs now its 1k at the most shown in RUclipss own analytics.
I've noticed that watching views climb with big creators. They seem to climb slower
Any viewer at any time can go to their sub feed and find your videos. People subscribe at one point in time, but their interests can change at any point in time. Subscriber total is like all the money you’ve ever had in the bank - it’s a cool number, but not as important as your current balance. Which, in this case would be regular viewers. I encourage you to check out the audience, tab and analytics and see what your regular viewers are most loving on your channel, give them more of that to love, and see how they react
@@RUclipsLiaisonWow -- that's probably the first useful comment I've seen coming from a YT person. Thanks. And keep it up!
All the money I've ever had in the bank is a number that can never go down. Subscriber number can go down because people can and do unsubscribe. Sub feeds are just a less-convenient way to search. Most people don't even think about using it. I rarely do. They probably assume that when they use the primary search feature that RUclips factors in who they have subscribed to on the subject. Is that wrong?
The algos have already torpedoed "regular viewers" for me because a "anti-this guy" video went viral to his fans. That brought views but they were "hate views". Algo totally misunderstood who to send my stuff to. It got so bad that I made the vid private. The top vid on my channel by far, and I took it down because it was causing the algo to only show my stuff to the wrong people. People who would hate what I was saying. Now your algo is probably docking me for having a hated channel, when the algo itself called the channel to the attention of those who would hate it rather than those who would like it.
@@RUclipsLiaison
Basically upload more similar videos and hope one gets chosen by the algorithm is the trick. View Retention CTR don't matter at all! RUclips creating is about luck
My question, which wasn’t spoken about, is how does the algorithm determine what the video is about to decide if that new viewer might be interested.
Is it thumbnail, title, script, length of video, etc? I’m sure many things are considered but how are those combined to determine how the algorithm decides which videos match better than others?
They'd have to know how the algorithm works to answer that question. They actually don't.
But the problem with shorts content is that it pays like 1 cent for thousands of views. We spend the time and don't reap the rewards.
I had a video that went 64k+ views in a matter of days and then...crickets. I also noticed the numbers of views and subscribers in my analytics were much lower than what's on the homepage...like 150ish fewer subscribers. Random. Discouraging....kinda like the constructs of psychological punishment or negative reinforcement.
LOL
Your right its psychological warfare., keep fighting 👍👍
Hi Todd, Great video! I really want to get acces to Audio Dubbing and A/B testing to reach new audiences! Hope to get it soon! 🙏😃
Same! That would be really helpful.
Yea I want to have it too!!
Yeah. It would be awesome to replace one audio track with another. Or just upload a re-edited video to the same URL.
Funny seeing you talking about trying a different packaging for the video.
Wouldn't it be great if we had A/B testing functionality to help us with that?
One question / concern is why do videos with plain wrong information, especially with technical content, outperform those that are better, safer, more informative, correct, educational, ...?
they're better at clickbait
Because the public are sadly undereducated. I've found that my serious videos typically under-perform, unless my title is somewhat controversial. Then, I get comments from people, who clearly did not watch the videos. My best performing, and for my small channel those are not many views anyhow, are the shorts that people feel might be offensive. I get very few people watching my longer gaming videos. I don't think they are reaching the right audience. My impression is that we are smack in Ideocracy, however, when I see people voting and making hateful comments on shorts that they have not even watched.
I think YT should lock voting and commenting until the user has viewed a certain portion of the video.
RUclips needs a thumbup vote for Factual correctness, be ause currently the thumbsup is only for Entertainment value. Also, youtube needs a thumbsdown for purposeful manipulative Republican propaganda.
@@superblondeDotOrg So, we have people downvoting videos without watching them, and you want them to vote on the factual correctness of a video?? Have I understood you correctly? Because most people think that a theory is a fact, and do not understand that facts are immutable. Also, many people think that their opinion qualifies as a fact; people who thought a piece of cloth would protect them from the Corona. I think that given that the so-called "experts" in the Corona-time changed their mind multiple times regarding what kind of mask would protect people, and what the immunizations would actually accomplish, we might not want to fixate too much on this. Those were supposedly based on facts, too, but facts do not change.
This is a problem with the RUclips platform. All fault and problems lie with the content creator!
But RUclips is angel and never makes mistakes!! 😇
I tell folks all the time that RUclips can make a video go viral if they want to.
Yep! 100% correct!🤙
when they take revenue from you due to a faulty system or theft from employees revenue never gets returned
Facts.@@jhentravellife
I have an honest question from a musician/singer. It’s explained that videos are “pulled” instead of “pushed.” I feel like that would work for many verticals (someone searching for a how-to video. Or, someone searching for cross-over content from another video or platform and wants to see more from a particular creator.) If this is true 100% of the time, then new creators and artists don’t stand a chance for being discovered. For example, a new musician or band releasing an original song…no one knows to look for that song/video (thereby “pulling it”) unless the person is 1) a previous fan or 2) heard the song on a different platform (the radio) and came to search for it.
It seems like there needs to be a curator of new content. Just like a museum curator that picks what is on display for that month. A curator would help showcase those creators with really well-produced content (but no one is searching for it because they don’t know of its existence…)
Spotify has a “release radar” that seems to give musicians a fair shot in getting ears on new music. I wish RUclips had something similar…but it’s curated by a human and not AI.
I totally agree. It really seems that an audience needs to be built offline and then gradually brought over to RUclips
I saw a 'short' with a girl in a two piece bathing suit thrashing a small pool of water with a stick and it got over 60 million views. How does that happen? It seems weird.
You answered your own question - girl in bathing suit
I love these explanations however I still feel the recommendation engine is wonky. I see a lot of my videos being recommended on really weird videos, or absolutely unrelated videos, and of course it does poorly... so then it appears to be doing poorly to the algorithm. I wish I could tell the robots what kind of videos I make since titles, keywords, thumbnails and the fact that I have a skull on my bookshelf and say horror books many times per video it can't figure out my channel is about horror books. It's wacky.
Recommendations are based on what a viewer is showing interest in, not the specific videos it’s suggested on.
@@DougHewsonYT this is what I hope. Thank you for the insight and reply. I'd just think I'd see videos like mine in the list of videos suggesting my content. I guess people just watch wacky unrelated stuff :)
@@typicalbooks a tip for you (if you're not doing this already) - make sure in each video you're pointing viewers to the next video to watch (hopefully related to the topic you've just covered). Use your end screens, cards, pinned comment and your description to all point to that same video. When people start actioning that at scale, thats a strong signal to RUclips that the two videos are highly related, and they will start suggesting that same video next to in on watch pages.
If you’re talking about suggested traffic, that pertains more to the viewer than to the video. A viewer might have a lot of very different interests, with your video being one of them. So it might look unusual to the creator, but it would be part of the variety that viewer typically expect.
@@DougHewsonYT that does really fit my channel style, but yes, my own videos do come up in videos that are recommending my content.
You claim to primarily look at the video to determine whether to show a video, but this contradicts the advice that YT gives saying 'same audience same channel, different audience different channel' which suggests that channel characteristics do play a role in the recommendation engine. How do channel characteristics play a role in the recommendation engine? What properties of the channel are considered? Or is it as simple as your subscribers don't like it so we don't recommend it? If it depends on the subscriber response, how can an atypical video explode as, presumably, the subscribers didn't sign up for it and thus are more likely to ignore that atypical video?
It basically depends on your goals. Same audience, same channel as if you want to maximize growth and make it as easy as possible. Consistently producing content for the same audience just grow that audience. If you care more about art or variety, the algorithm will still look for an audience, but it may be starting from zero every time.
@@RUclipsLiaison Thanks for your reply! Doesn't this contradict the claim that every video is judged based on its own merit? As far as I can judge, and which you confirm with this answer, performance depends on video properties and channel properties. Hence my question how do channel characteristics play a role in the recommendation engine? The reverse seems a worthwhile question too, how do videos impact the relevant channel characteristics? I mean at 1:46 you start a conversation about a bad video impacting performance of future videos and it is pretty much denied, but those channel characteristics that are taken into consideration come from somewhere. I would say they come from the videos posted and audience reaction to it, at least that is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with, YT may occasionally tweak channel standing manually, I can't believe that is done routinely.
I think it might be helpful to look at channels more like shows. Brian Cranston can be in Malcolm in the middle, Godzilla, and breaking bad, but if those were all the same show, it might confuse the audience, lower views, and make growth harder, because no one would know from episode to episode, or even moment to moment what they were going to get. If you make a hockey channel, and every video is about hockey, it’s a very easy decision for a viewer to watch them. If you start alternating videos about Appalachian folk pottery, there might be some people who enjoy both, but it will also complicate the decision for people who don’t. RUclips will try to serve the right video to the right viewer at the right time, but you’re splitting focus, splitting audience, and so growth might be slower. This isn’t unique to RUclips, it’s part of every form of entertainment. If you’re interested in the fastest growth possible, it’s best to have the same content for the same audience on the same channel. But you can choose to do a variety if you want to. The decision is entirely up to you!
@@RUclipsLiaison Of course, but this doesn't explain anything. It is claimed videos are promoted based on their own merit, that implies without the context of the channel and all videos start out with a clean slate so to say. That is not the case the channel properties play a role, you also implicate this in your answers. Obviously nothing intrinsically wrong with that, in contrary, but it raises the question how the channel informs the recommendation engine. An obvious one is that if somebody watched a video of the channel before there is a better chance to be recommended another video of the channel. Another one is that the video performance with subscribers informs the recommendation engine about the 'quality' of the video. However, in this video it is suggested this is a mere correlation, not causation, I'm not sure what to think of that. I also often get the impression there is something of a generic 'channel standing' that goes into the recommendation engine, not sure how true that is though. For me it is now a guessing game, hence my question in the original post: "What properties of the channel are considered?" and more extensively in my reply: "Hence my question how do channel characteristics play a role in the recommendation engine? The reverse seems a worthwhile question too, how do videos impact the relevant channel characteristics?"
They just bull....ing everyone with nonsense videos like this one up here and call it a day.
Also its up to youtube algorithm to viral you or not. Regardless its a new or 10yrs ago video or a latest vid. Its a luck based game! Its not your fault, the algorithm just dont favour you
The idea that the algorithm looks at individual videos rather than the channel itself sounds nice in theory, but the problem is the way the individual video looks to the algorithm will be affected by your channel audience regardless. If you start making videos that your audience doesnt like, then that audience won't watch those videos when they get published, or even worse, may give thumbs down to them or unsubscribe. While the algorithm is not looking at the channel as a whole, they will see what has happened to that specific video as an indication that the video jtself is bad. Low views, dislikes, and losing subscribers will look bad from an "individual video" perspective, despite being driven by the overall channel audience in the first place. Since your subscribers are the first people to see the video in their feed, how they react to it has a dramatic impact on how the algorithm will see the video later on.
I'll have to echo what others here have stated. The 'push' element seems real when you have good performing video, the views per hour is increasing, the click-through rate is increasing...then it suddenly flatlines at the exact same moment YT stop 'pushing'/offering the video as an impression to viewers.
I've had this happen so many times on both of my channels. It won't start off good but will gain traction, then as the CTR gets higher, RUclips stops recommending it and it flatlines.
or it gets 3 views right away and then never gets recommended, but your next video performs with thousands of views. Then re-release the same video again a different day and it gets views. It is a completely broken mess.
I have a video, where most views come from RUclips search, and suggestion was in increase, so then from one moment to a other after 3 months good performance the video did get retention from 72% set back to 50%, so I cant make it to the 4000 hours so easy! RUclips is a big manipulation and to get monetized means they would have to share the income from adds with a new creator, and this must be prevented. Same with my subscribers, I guess they delete them time by time.
When manipulation is going on and you cant explain it different you see what you are worth for them. Create new videos 3 times a week, we RUclips can run our add on, and wont invite you to participate! Its a cool business model for them, with millions on the way to be monetized.
The 'recommendation engine' is really bad a making recommendations. For the past 12 - 24 months, when I open my home page; basically nothing is enticing or appealing. RUclips's ability to estimate which content a viewer will be interested in is massively over exaggerated.
I agree...my son keeps telling me how "smart" AI is these days, like guessing what we want to buy next, etc...Based on the recommendations I receive in my YT feed I say "BS"...I fear thinking soon we'll have these AI in control of everything else controling our daily life...or wars...or health diagnoses...😲
they do it on purpose 🤣
RUclips can't even figure out what language I speak... Which is a user-selectable menu option.
I don't bother with algorithms. I just create videos on what interests me. The problem is viewers are mostly just mindlessly clicking from short to short. They can't be bothered largely to watch the longer videos.
Sure, because nobody watches Lex Fridman's 4-hour long podcasts... Oh wait, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DO!
absolutely. bring back the old days.
@@ssnegcorrection - millions of bots. I never have and never will watch anything over 30 minutes.
@@britishtechguru i'm a bot then, cause if hbomberguy or solarsands or emplemon drops a 3 hour long video, you bet i'd watch it, cause i know it's gonna be good. Maybe not in one sitting, but still.
Waiting for that A/B thumbnail testing feature
same.
Agreed I feel kneecapped knowing some creators have had it for months and we are here guessing which thumbnail can perform better
@@JohnThePA Exactly this, It's very unfair.
@@JohnThePA Can someone elaborate what is this A/B thumbnail testing feature ? I know it sounds self explanatory, but i need more info :P
Same man, I feel it turns the market unfair for quite a LONG time that gives educational benefit ahead of all others for a certain peer group that is closer to YT than all others. Kinda pain in the a$$. @@JohnThePA
VERY rarely does a 9 or 10 of 10 video turn around... I can't even remember the last time it happened for my channel.
It happens a lot.
@@waza3350 Not on my channel my friend.
Without having seen any of your videos, I'd just say be humble? It's very difficult for any creator or artist to judge the worth other people will perceive in their work. Especially if people judge the worth based on a small thumbnail among many other thumbnails on their phone scree. So it might just be that and not the algorithm not putting your videos in front of potential viewers
@Herfinnur it's not a "humble" thing just a fact. Regardless of changes made to title and thumbnail if a video starts out dead it generally stays dead. Not sure how that has anything to do with "humbleness. Appreciate the comment tho. :)
@@SilverSeeker Well, There are not and there can't be many 10 out of 10 videos on RUclips and there can't be many RUclipsrs that have ever made a 10 out of 10 video, just like there aren't many 10 out of 10 movies and there aren't many 10 out of 10 works of literary fiction compared to how many books have been published in history. I mean Mr. Beast or Casey Neistat (just random examples) might have made one or two but I'm not so sure
this makes no sense to me at 0:40 you say "focus more on each individual video" and later that off topic videos dont hurt your channel
then towards the end at 9:25 you say "how did the viewers who saw impressions from the subscription feed react"
that literally acknowledges current subs interest effect video performance. if ur subs arent into "x" and you make a video about "x" that videos performance will suffer because of it correct? so then how would you focus more on each individual video and how would we create more off topic videos that dont hurt our channel. its kind of contradictory and would love an explanation especially since what is being said here vs the reason why other big youtubers are "quiting" doesnt add up. for example CaptainSparklez chooses to post on a totally different channel for other video "topics" rather than to post on his main channel. its safe to say that most of his audience from both channels are probably the same subs.
not trying to hate or be like "ahhh caught ya slipping" just would like more of an explainer because even as a small channel my experiences dont align with what is being said.
thanks Rene and Todd!
Subscribers are a vanity metric. Make good videos that people want to watch. If u have a multi topic channel you have to expect some ppl will unsub.
Each traffic source primarily affects that same traffic source. So how people react and search, affects search, and homepage affects homepage. Looking at the sub feed just gives you an idea of how regular viewers are reacting without any algorithm.
when the view counter on videos goes backwards daily...A video showing 500 on the morning then 490 at evening. Pointless checking
I noticed this too...since I'm new at all this, I thought maybe it was my imagination....
The same short video perform 10x on Tiktok and I have less followers :( I stopped to push shorts on YT
As a new creator they shoot down my best video ever, killed it, then deleted the views 3000 I had in 4 hours, and also the 100 hours I gained. Eliminated this video so for a year now it got almost no views. only 100 or so. This destroyed my motivation to create more videos. They don't really want new creators. Its a corrupt system, supporting the big channels and holding down new channels that even not monetized, so there is no pay out. This is what i believe. I could going on with other examples that did happen. Retention from 73% down straight to 50% in a single day. Before 180 views per day, no 45-50 views per day. The manipulation is so clear to see, and they do not even have a problem with it. Telling the creators how fine is all.
Three are a lot of creators with similar stories it's no coincidence!
It happened to me too. I started well, I got 25 000 views and 478 subscribers in one month. From the moment I got close to the first payment tier(500 subscribers) the algorithm stopped showing my videos, and i I was barely getting 100 views. I was posting 3-4 times per week, with this amount of work it was not worth it.
I actually see a ton of NEW creators in my niche (fishing) that get pushed that make LOUSY content, whereas I (someone who has been making videos for about 3-4 years) gets the shaft when it comes to impressions.
@TheMichiganFisherman is not always about that. I was doing pick a card readings, and I was doing them well. From a unique perspective, this brought that flow.
@@TheMichiganFisherman yeah so that's how it tends to work, you'll find a lot of meme/shitpost channels that make actual content yet their one really popular video is something that took them 5 minutes to make as a throwaway joke. YT's algorithm is just a mystery that's skewed to make a profit but ultimately still a mystery
RUclips used to be my primary platform, now it's 3rd in priority. It's a shame YT is not keeping up IMHO
My number one platform is rumble, there's no doubt that RUclips shadow bans.
Truth is, everyone is at the mercy of youtube algorithm. Keep churning out similar videos and hope one of them gets chosen by the algorithm bot! Thats how to play!
I Have a question, What about recommendation system of old videos on my channel? should i refresh the information such as titles, description tags, hash tags ?
@@stevesshowreel. Then why do I constantly get videos shown to me that I watched a year or two ago?
So why is it that when someone links one of your vids somewhere on social media and you get a few hundred views from that, for the next week or so afterwards natural views to that upload that you would normally get seem to drop off of a cliff? (Had this several times now....)
Personally I’ve seen the exact opposite. It’s important that wherever you’re posting this to is the right audience for your video.
Say your video is on gardening but you post to your Facebook and 90% of your Facebook audience doesnt like gardening, then this would hurt your video instead of help it because you’re now getting a bunch of clicks from viewers who stop watching which lowers AVD.
I am sorry to say, but it seems even RUclips staff do not really understand how the algorithm works... Period
So what criteria do I need to meet to be allowed to look at the subscriptions feed CTR on an individual video?
I can only find a way to split up the "Browse features" menu down to the subscriptions feed in the way described for the channel as a whole. That makes it a little hard to narrow down which of that data came from a video that dropped to "zero views forever" after a day and a half (like always).
Even if I could view that data, I'm not following how that is supposed to help me figure out why competing videos outperform mine 100,000:1 (nor how that addresses the constant problem of small creators having their copywritten work plagiarized by a megachannel)
Videos doing well and sudennly dying is so frustraiting!!!! I've managed to CPR one of my videos through title change. It's my nr 1 performing video atm, however I've failed to replicate the same effect on the other videos. Getting a new thumbnail seemed to help in some videos too but the change was small. Threading in the dark trying to make sense out of it all.
Your obsession with serving viewers is leading you to forget about your creators.
Give us more transparency.
Get rid of the toxic 1-10 ranking system that you just admitted doesn't even matter.
Admit that the algorithm is not always right and sometimes a great video just simply is never given a chance.
Do better RUclips, out of respect for the people that built this platform into what it is. The creators.
This ☝
noticed neither of the guys in the video replied to this comment...how sad
No idea how it works behind the scenes but I always get the feeling that y.t. wants my channel to fail. It just really really feels like that..
Ideally, they want every channel to succeed. It comes down to our ability to craft relatable videos and connect with a like-minded audience, which for most, takes time. Stay positive and keep working on your craft!
@@DougHewsonYT thank you, its frustrating cause I'm doing everything right but probably there is so much amazing competition.
I can believe this, I used to get over 25 views when ever I publish a video, but now I get zero, its like there was a switch that was turned off.
@@desimguy2022 people get bored real quick with low effort content. Doing X number of laps around circuit on Grand Turismo 7, with zero commentary, zero personal connection isn't going to do you any favors when it comes to a long term loyal audience, people willing to subscribe and come back to watch your videos. You want to succeed? Put value first, put your audience first.
@@juanchopestudios I don't understand what you're trying to say there.
Question: YT Shorts Vs Insta Reels
We have a channel in each platform.
Our every reel outperforms shorts. The audience is the audience right?
YT Shorts are not integrated well to region of the audience while insta reels are much relevant to region of the audience. Thus performs well.
How RUclips can fix?
I have a shorts question: my shorts used to get around 2.7 k views on every one i posted, then recently every one is stuck under 500 and will not exceed that number. It wasn't a lack on engagement because every short pulled in large amounts of subscribers so I'm really confused
I am confused ....
@LondonMap for over a month my daily shorts would almost all reach 2.7 k ish views in just a few hours. however as of a week ago my shorts are very lightly being pushed by the algorithm and that push stops altogether as soon as the views hit 500
@@JadonEats Why is "pushed by the algorithm "? . How is "pushed by the algorithm " ? . What will happen to my channel ?
Maybe is because of the demand? I mean, there are more and more creators making shorts, making it harder for us to be more discovered and more options for viewers, reducing the chances for clicking our videos.
strange yeah, looks like your content didn't change at all. we get random fluctuations like that too. like 3 in a row 2k+ then suddenly 10 views, 15..etc. Things don't seem to be evenly distributed, and it doesn't seem like it could be based upon how the audience liked it, because it barely even shows some videos to any audience in order to even know that.
What I want to Know is We spend our money on promotions In RUclips - Content Promotions. I got A lot of new follower over 8 weeks But Will they watch new content I drop? This is the test I'm doing and so far the new followers haven't engaged In next to most of my content. Its also interesting how we don't get paid for promotion views. Also my honest opinion is Get rid of the Bell Notification, If the viewer followers The channel they should automatically get notifications. A lot of viewers don't even know how to Hit Follow let alone Bell notifications.
The fact is, the algorithm does not work. A lot of my videos get recommended by completely unrelated content and so I get few views. Shorts are a waste of time. I will never watch one and never make one. If I wanted to go to Tik-tok, I would go there, not turn RUclips into Tik-tok.
Question...if you find that you are getting lot more views from non-subscribers than subscribers, is it a good idea to turn off the 'send notification and show in the subscriber feed' option when posting videos so it doesn's mess up the CTR and the algorithm?
Why doesn't RUclips offer more comprehensive data and tools to creators, such as A/B testing for thumbnails or detailed subscriber source analytics? It appears that they are deliberately making it difficult for us creators.
excelent....you both really addressed the BIG questions on video performance on YT. I still wonder why 5 channels doing similar topics....only 1 is getting all the views, the others might have higher production values and a better presenter but get nowhere?
The question I have asked and never gotten an answer to is: my analytics includes a list of other channels my audience watches, BUT my videos are never recommended off of videos from those channels, or even off of videos similar to those, despite being in the same niche. If you know there’s an overlap there, why is it not being exploited? Instead, my videos are recommended off a very random and poorly matched bunch of content competely outside the niche. Why does it constantly look like RUclips is trying to guess who might like the video, when there is data there to work with?
Great point!
9:15 Does the algorythm favor some creators? Yes. like when they tried to replace AVGN with Irate Gamer, failed to replace PewDiePie with Ryan and T-Series and then succeeded to do so with Mr Beast.
He did say in a way it's a small factor
The audience changes over time. What they liked in 2019 isn’t going to be what they are into encase in 2024. Trends change constantly. No one is deliberately trying to force a channel or type of content on to viewers, that’s supremely naive and could be the reason other platforms have come and gone.
@@DougHewsonYT Sure, but I think there is more going on and not just that every video is judged on it's merits. I strongly feel that there is something like a 'channel standing' that plays a role. If this is the case it is very easy to notch up or down a certain creator, either naturally through the algorithm creating a quality score for a channel or manually if somebody decides a certain creator is problematic, pushes favored views or whatever. Not to the extent some creators claim, far from it, but I would not be surprised if some channels are dialed up or down manually.
@@silentwilly2983 bigger channels = more views = more ad money = favor & promote bigger channels more and so on. now youtube algo has learned something. bigger subs = more money. so algo starts to favor those channels more and more.
@@silentwilly2983 you would need some evidence beyond correlation or anecdotal evidence. Make sure not to conflate content restricted because of the actual content measured against community guidelines or ad friendly guidelines with a reduction in reach because "someone is out to get you".
When Logan Paul was "problematic" because of dead bodies in a forest, they very clearly and publicly removed monetization for a period of time. So if you do something wrong, you generally know about it.
The only thing kind of silly about this interview is how hard RUclips always tries to act like they don't have any control over the success of your content lol
As soon as you created a system that decides what to show people, where, when, and how often, you became an influence on video performance. It's not all up to "the audience". It's up to the way you program the system to interpret and respond to signals from the audience.
That includes assumptions about what content/viewers are similar or related, which often leads to these loops of being recommended the same handful of channels repeatedly. And many big creators take advantage of that, intentionally scheduling videos around their mates to make sure they publish them all at once or back to back to keep recommendations bouncing between them. So even if you only watch one of them, you still get recommended the rest.
Popularity matters too, not just quality or relevance, because a video's performance is affected by your competition. You skirted around that a bit. Maybe your video is great and getting a ton of views. If someone else covers the same topic, your video can tank. Not because it's suddenly bad but because all of the attention is now going elsewhere. What staff won't admit is that it doesn't always go elsewhere because another person did it better. Sometimes they're just bigger than you.
It's weird how many folks I hear from who never have my videos recommended or autoplay in "up next" no matter how many they watch because RUclips keeps trying to send them to bigger channels instead. The argument is that they're similar or that people who watch me also watch them. You know who else is similar to me? Me. How about sticking to my content when someone is on my channel watching my videos? lol
And with subscriptions, RUclips took the power of the audience away. For many creators, subs don't even see when they post new content because RUclips decided to place suggestions based on behavior above what the person literally asked you to show them.
Imagine anything else working that way. You subscribe to a weekly meal service because you enjoy their food, but if you don't eat a couple of the meals you get, they stop sending you any despite still being subscribed. You made subscriptions irrelevant to anything other than gatekeeping features.
I'm not upset about any of this. It's just funny hearing staff repeat the same talking points. Your goal is for the platform to be successful by keeping people on it. So you prioritize what people come back to, even if it's the same video they've already seen 10x, instead of pushing the discovery of new things. Sometimes creators benefit from that and sometimes we don't. 🤷🏾♀
Please, can you fix the Invalid Traffic issue which always comez up if a video performs really well, totally different from what the average view count would be. External links can push a video, the average watchtime is really bad but on top of that, the channel gets hit with Invalid Traffic due to that abnormal spike! Its just weird that we are encouraged to ask viewers to share our videoz and when they do.... Invalid Traffic 🤷🏼♀️
Where do you share specifically?
@@DougHewsonYT Personally, on Instagram but viewers may share on gardening FB accounts, other orchid forums etc or their insta accounts and, I have seen WhatsApp show in my analytics as well.
Facebook
So what happens when your videos are not shown to your preferred audience even when you use the keywords in the title and description and when someone else starts using your name and wipes you out of the youtube search?
When it comes to monetisation, doesn't the team look at the channel overall? I hit the milestone about two years ago and when I applied to join the YPP, I was told they don't understand what my channel was about and there was no value-add in my content.
That really deflated me as my channel practically speaks for itself.
I got discouraged, deleted a number of videos, and lost my watch time. I'm just getting back on track now.
You should have appealed instead of deleting your videos. We make similar content and I had no issues getting monetized. And there are plenty of commentary channels on YT
I checked out your channel. Yeah maybe focus on one topic. Also put a little doom n gloom in your titles and thumbs. People have a negative bias. They'll always click something they fear over other things
Definitely important to note that the monetization team is totally separate from recommendations team.
The YPP team does look at overall video trends on channel, most watched videos, etc when determining reused content, etc.
@@naturalnaela tbh, I appealed over 3 times. Even sent them videos of my content creation process including my setup, what I use to edit my videos and everything. I still didn't get accepted into the YPP. Got rejected
@@WaywardZombie Doom and Gloom? 😅 I'm currently getting smack for putting a controversial title about Avatar The Last Airbender. 😅😅 Maybe I'll try the doom and gloom and see which one is worse. 😅
Does the total length of a video matter for whom it is recommended to or is it mainly/exclusively the topic?
They're not going to tell you.
I'm no expert but I think the way you have it is just the right amount, keep it up. From what I understand it is more about engagement, view duration/percentage viewed. My most viewed video is 6H repeating music/background video. If you keep people engaged, which you do, you provide interesting/insightful video (which you do), consistency, it won't matter much
I would guess the answer would be the total watch time helps get more recommendations. However, if the percent view is low then we do not know how that factors in. If you have a good 10-minute video everyone would like and then then 10 minutes of content only 10 percent of people would like. Do you leave it or delete it. These are the questions I wonder about. It seems mostly to be about the click-through rate of people shown the video is number 1 and then total watch time is number 2. So longer videos seem to do better in general.
It's all irrelevant.
@botardplayscod any veteran creators know they are bullsh*ting
Damned! Everytime these kind of people come out to speak, that's implying RUclips has or will adjust the algorithm. This happens many many times with Shorts and it seems they will adjust the Long format now or soon!
It does not work properly especially when searching videos, been like that for years no matter how optimized the videos are.
Thank you for this Rene and Todd, always interesting to hear from the inside!! Can you please explain to me why a video dies when it gets massive amounts of views from Google search, leading to shorter view times. Is this something you can fix, maybe remove the average view time from the equation when it comes from external sources like google search?
My understanding is that the stats of one traffic source won’t influence the other traffic sources in terms of performance.
Please return to the previous format for the Channel Copyright page. It was much more useful.
"Thank you for sharing the video. I have a few questions.
Why did one of my videos experience a sudden surge in viewership, only to drop off after a week?
Also, why is it that a well-made documentary is struggling to attract more than five viewers?
because the algorithm is busted, they won't ever admit it
It just randomly picks videos for a few hours then flatlines the algorithm is broken and thus will never be fixed to hold us creators down like the peons we are apparently
to be honest shorts are most time wasting for most people. please give option to disable shorts
3:22 as an asmrtist, this is great to hear considering most viewers prefer asmr at specific times in their day like when they sleep or study, work, etc
My question from Tod will be that how Shorts and Long form content are related? There is some audience who likes my Shorts but they are not shown my long form content in their suggestions or home feed.
Because they don’t watch long form.
In my experience in RUclips, I think it has to do with a combination of many factors:
1)what videos viewers choose to view;
2) if a viewer choose a video of your channel, it might get recommended to that viewer,
3) impression clicks rate. If that video has a really got impression click rate, that video will appear more
4) Subscriber count. If you search something on yt, the first videos are videos that has more subscribers
5) engagement. Likes, ppl subscribing to your channel on your video.
what time and what day you choose to post your video makes a difference. my best time is between 10-11am week days. Weekend are a big no go cause most people are out and about and not watching yt.
what kind of algorithm is this which limited your impression to specific number like if i get 20k impression i cant get more then this previously 2 or 3 month
I find that my videos are getting pushed to the wrong people. It starts out on a good CTR then it just drops to nothing and its dead. Other times a video starts going really great and I even get the well done note from yt. and then nothing........................its dead.
Does posting to the community tab consistently effect viewers who engage with getting recommended your videos in the future? I would imagine that it would but just wanted to know for sure and if so if you could provide additional info on it.
Even if it does, they'll claim it doesn't.
@@mattwo7 you think so? I hope not. If we can't get the real from here where can we get it from?
@@BackToTheBoomBapOther RUclipsrs who don't have shareholders to appease by making everything seem like everything is perfect and working as intended and you and the viewers are to blame for you not getting views rather than an algorithm that clearly worked better in the past but the ones trying to appease the shareholders want us to forget it did.
RUclips already violated the YPP by forcing ads on demonetized videos and putting ads on non-YPP channels below 1k sub. Piles of bulls, creators are no more needed because youtube now can rake in 100% ads revenue!
before they monetize us? ...so, is it in YT's interest to monetize us fast????
@@MarianaCooks2023 have you not noticed that?? All videos on channels under 1k sub have ads running on them! And the youtube homepage and search result page have ads running on them ! 100% profit!! Content creators are no longer needed to run ads when they can run ads independently. In fact I filmed some videos for fun for a friend, but because hes below 1k sub, I purposefully 18 restrict his channel to prevent youtube from running ads on them!
@@MarianaCooks2023 some say their certain videos were demonitized, but when checked by their friends, that particular demonitized vid had ads running! Again. ..100% profit to youtube!
@@MarianaCooks2023 youtube banned my other comments here, truth is not allowed!
Why am I not surprised???
Most of my videos are about a specific topic- Science Fiction Books- but I have made many others on other subjects, including a series of travel/culture videos about Capri, Italy- usually, videos about this subject go very well, but mine have only had a few hundred views. So is the algorithm making visibility decisions based on the overall channel subject focus, thinking 'hmm, this is a Science Fiction channel, so maybe we should under-emphasise the other material?'
suggestions based on viewer watch history? but watch history is based on what is recommended to the viewer to watch? (like homepage recommending trending content rather than subscription based content and "search" only recommending 3-4 creators and a list of "other people watched" and other off topic suggestions rather than relative results). Its frustrating to have a channel with 120000 subscribers and see only 21k "impressions" with 900 views meanwhile uploading the same, or similar video to a second smaller "test" channel with 178 subscribers gets 25k impressions and nearly the same view count. The larger channel had a better CTR and longer watch time than the smaller channel but the smaller channel still had the video recommended to more viewers. I feel like going "viral" can destroy smaller channels. After the initial influx of subscribers subsides you are stuck with an audience who will only be served one type of video regardless of what your channel library consists of and wont recommend your future videos to your subscribers unless it matches the "mystery viral content" the yt algo thinks they are willing to watch.
My channel had great views when I featured Australian built V8 cars, understandable because a large proportion of my audience is Australian males over 45. The trouble is, I make and want to continue making videos about cars from all around the world but my subs just don't click on the thumbnail, so it seems, RUclips doesn't place it on anyone else's homepage. So 18 months in, I've set up a V2 channel for the rest of the world cars I'm filming in the hope they will attract an audience with a little bit more of a wider interest than simply three box saloons with US derived powerplants under the hood. And it seems to have worked, a bit. An 18 month old video on the original channel had got 850 views. Within a few days of uploading the very same video on the new channel, it's got 11K
Now, what I'd really like to know is if uploading Euro cars from an IP address in Europe might help. Same goes with US cars using a US IP.
Videos on my channel appear with many views and other features. Even though I've set the video to private, these views still continue to appear every day? It amounts to hundreds of thousands of views of other features. This caused my video to lose recommendations and resulted in a broken channel. Please help me explain this problem? 😣
What really amazes me is when I search for a topic matter on RUclips the list of query replies is very short, then as I scroll down the suggested videos are repeated. But why in the search results are there so many videos that have ZERO to do with the query I made. To me it just feels like the system is 1, only ever going to let me see a tiny selection of the possibly result queries and 2, RUclips is far more interested on me getting distracted on clickbait rubbish content from the same circle of select producers. Honestly it's so frustrating and very disappointing on so many levels. I seem to have land on my homepage channels I do not want to watch, no matter how many times I tell the system I'm not interested, the channels is back and being suggested again, WHY?. Says to me the action buttons to react to controlling content have absolutely nil effect. Same with trying to numb Shorts in the feed, lots of viewers don't want that amazing content in their face, yet it's impossible to remove.
Great comment! I think this all the time! And say it occasionally (for fear of getting my channel punished by the RUclips controllers). The whole RUclips system is so out of whack and contrary to what people want and expect, it frustrates me so much. I have loved RUclips for so long, and just hate what they're doing to it. It's not enjoyable anymore. Many of my long time friends and supporters evidently aren't enjoying it anymore because I see less and less of them nowadays. Many have quit or moved on to Facebook, IG, and the dreaded TikTok. It seems all the other sites offer more than RUclips does in terms of ease of use and general satisfaction. It seems the only advantage RUclips has anymore is the largest built-in audience. Google dominates the whole web, basically, so it should be hard for RUclips not to be the biggest. But something they will never admit, is that with all that clout and advantage, they should be much bigger than they are.
I don't have fun on here anymore. Every time I use this site, something about it frustrates me. Or makes me ask, "Why are they doing it this way"? Or "Why can't I do this"? Or "Why don't they do this"?
I never feel that way on any other site.
My own experience: my videos are about living in the Baltics and I talk mostly about Russian speaking communities in Riga. Guess what? Because my channel is in Russian, all videos are pushed into … yes, Russia where views are not monetised due to sanctions and people are not familiar with our matters. How can I reach my community? It is the same if a creator from Dublin would reach viewers in California or Australia but not in Dublin just based on English as it is spoken there and there. I dont understand what shall I do a d what thumbnails to use. Any ideas?
stop the jewish money going towards russiaphobia
I’d like to know why RUclips regularly deletes comments. Seriously! 🤬
Because they don't want to upset snowflakes
Not only does this mathematical monstrosity called th algorithm destroy shorts, but now long form as well
I use to make comedy shorts videos but when my shorts publish. The viewer's not got notification. And somebody get notification after 2/3 days why this happens I can't understand
If Google Vision AI isn't talked about in this video, then they didn't tell the full truth.
Scanning your thumbnails and videos to understand what the video is about. Sort of to the side of what was being talked about, but that doesn’t mean you’re being misled. It was a myth busting video, not a “comprehensive breakdown on how RUclips recommendations systems work”.
@@DougHewsonYT cool. I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet. My comment, more than anything, was a cheap way to get people to check out Vision AI to see how the sausage is made hehehe.
Image scanning is just one part of it. Audio is the other half....RUclips has an amazing/fascinating "production value" guesser. Then watch time percentage and engagement factors into the equation.
Amazing platform, really!
Does RUclips sometimes disabled comments? If so, why do they do this? This happened to my best video, i have never understood why!!!
The fact is QUALITY DOES NOT matter... I make unboxing videos with high budget for props etc. But because I don't get enough exposure, my channel gets lost to low budget unboxers who only sit pretty and talk endlessly. It gets worse when I make a new account to test the algorithm, my videos do NOT get shown in search result. But a certain local unboxing RUclipsr, her videos get shown MULTIPLE TIMES. TENS of them in a single search!!!! How the F*** is that fair?!!! No wonder noone finds my videos!!!!
29.3% of my traffic is from suggested videos (it used to be 9% so that is getting better even though I haven't changed anything) but the videos they are presented on have nothing really to do with the title, thumbnail, video, or description so they get a low click through rate but the ones that get a 100 CTR have only 1 impression on the videos that are related. What can cause this?
When I upload a new video, youtube gives me a quick overview on my Dashboard like: "looking good , more of your regular viewers view this video that's why RUclips will recommend it more to other viewers" THE PROBLEM IS: I get a huge amount of subscribers from one topic ( volcanoes for example) and then I upload about another Breaking news and that video gets the message "fewer of your regular viewers are watching , so not recommended by RUclips to other people" . I feel that gets my Channel stuck with one topic as one video got me a specific audience that is only interested in that one topic. My Channel is a news channel about various topics but I feel youtube holds me stuck with one topic. How do I get out of that cycle ?
At 0:00:31 he pretty much said RUclips will sell out high profile content for reaction videos that can be made without effort lol
Like the tail chasing the dog analogy. If you publish a new video, you're going to get more recent views, i.e. an increase trend if you don't typically upload new videos, or as frequent, because a new video means trying to find an audience for a video, and if you haven't uploaded in a month, well that's 30 days you weren't uploading new videos to find new viewers, so of course your views overall are going to be down, but you're not being punished for not uploading videos. Instead, you're being rewarded for the new videos you upload, because they need to be tested against what viewers are searching for, and so it doesn't penalize you for not uploading for a month, but it's also not rewarding you for not uploading for a month, if that makes sense. Your videos stand alone in their performance. When you publish new videos, that also increases the amount of end screens that recommend other videos you previously published, which reinforces the idea that publishing new videos increase overall views, in a number of ways.
Thank you so much for this explanation!
Wait....its like you watched the video and paid attention while not projecting your own feelings.
I have had my channel for 4 months and 47 videos. Some videos I think are great get less than 1,000 impressions. How can my thumbs and titles even get a chance if it doesn’t get shown? Also my videos seem to be doing ok then hit a brick wall and never move again.
exactly my issue, but we get a bunch of RUclipsr defenders saying it's the creator's fault.
@@WrestlingFaceAnd the viewers' fault. Except in this case, what viewers?
I can help you with that. Consider, enlarging your face in your thumbnails. Split the thumbnail into 2. Half has your face and the other has the text or elements related to the video. For example your latest video can be titled - 4 Simple Habits That Will Change Your Life. The tumbnail can have '4 Habits?'. Contrast and clarity is important. Do fill out the tags as well
As far as I know when you sub through a short... you don't have a lot of notifications on automatically, and people don't know that, nor do they have time to think about it on mobile... my notifications on rate is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO low. It's like 1%... I have 260K subs but only 2.2k people have all notifs on... smh
With that said, I'm incredibly happy with how my shorts are doing overall. But my long term goal is to really connect with my community and build something truly amazing... so yeah...
Not truthful at all and can be easily proved.