What sucks is the algorithm game on Youtube is about speed, and consistency.
Which rewards people who can just put stuff out quickly with less focus and creativity.
As a creator I struggle to produce a video a month, but I've become better as I've gone along.
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If you want to build on youtube, my advice, which I don't listen to myself lol, is its all about audience retention today - you need to have something that someone watches through - but you also need audience interaction - so people have to link, share, etc. ,your videos - so you do like high quality videos, that are deep dives - and you do enough of them, like once a month, you probably will gain traction - like into topics related to topics - I could do this also, but honestly I can't be bothered anymore. I have not seen any channel, that did not do high quality content, put out something regularly - that is non politic related - not grow. - Hope that helps + I read your review of the backrooms and I do concur!
I'm the same exact way with advice.
I give people advice that I 100% agree with, and I believe it is the right and smart thing to do; and then I just ignore it for myself lol.
But thank you for the advice.
I think that's what I am already doing to some degree.
My videos are about technology Linux & open-source software, and I don't really go into politics. Though some people try to do that in the comments.
The video before last really got some traction, and it's at 73k views and I saw a jump in subscribers too.
The one after that I published 2 weeks ago, and it's at 10k views.
But sometimes I'll go 3 videos in a row where they struggle to reach one thousand.
I did a 2 hour deep-dive about the first Playstation that is basically the video I would want to watch. Like everything I ever wanted to know about it and more.
It got 250 views early on and I think now it's at maybe 800?
To me, it was the best work I had ever done, and there are a few people who seem to appreciate the comprehensive work/editing. But it just didn't catch the algorithm.
There are times where a video won't hit, and then it'll catch traction much later.
And thank you for reading.
I love this platform because it gives me a chance to write and expand out into things I don't do in videos.
I've always liked the work you do though.
You always touch on the really wild things, but stay grounded while doing it.
You have a very even-keel to your commentary.
well, 10k views is great, its doing much better than me. I am trying to change it up how i title and tag things, I dont think "news roundup" all the time is doing me any favors.
About your video, that happens a lot with the early content - but if you keep on going, regular, you should be able to catch the algorithm, if there i nothing political in it - once it knows you are a constant producer - that is where it starts to kick in, I've found.
Thanks for the kind words!