I'm so sick of putting time and energy into shorts on YouTube, TikTok, reels on Instagram, and uploading the same video to Facebook reels and Twitter only to see I basically wasted my time. On average, view times are only a few seconds and rarely is a lasting connection made. These short videos are great for platforms to make money on ad revenue while cutting out the creator almost completely (except on YouTube's new partner terms) while the vast majority of creators get almost nothing in return except useless followers that have to be reached through the algorithm again and fade away nearly instantly in most cases.
The same creative energy would yield a much higher return on long format videos on my YouTube channels at https://www.youtube.com/jerrybanfield and in my free online courses at https://www.jerrybanfield.com/ where viewers tend to come back repeatedly and stick with me for a long time. While certainly short videos are a huge opportunity for a few creators, the key is to know thyself. I hate the short videos and it is time to stop trying.
What's annoying is that I'm sure at some point I will get the idea that I should try again. This is probably the fifth time I have "quit" with the short videos. Maybe it is like drinking where if I try to quit enough times, I eventually actually do it. I am sober more than eight years now and it took going to Alcoholics Anonymous to finally get sobriety to stick. I'm hoping this post about quitting shorts helps me be accountable to you to finally cross it off of "what could I do today" as a possibility and just stick to the formats that I already know work best for me: 10 to 20 minute YouTube videos and 5 to 10 minute lectures in online courses.
In the space I'm making from quitting these videos, I am trying a bit of blogging again given I want to send an email each day; I might as well publish the same post on a blog. If you want some more of these, I trust you will let me know and I will see you again.
Love,
Jerry Banfield
Welcome back! 3speak has a short video system, I haven't looked at it much myself but you could look at that.
@brianoflondon thanks a lot for your support! I just added you to my auotovoter!
Good choice. I've permanently quit Twitter. I'm down to YouTube and Hive now.
I only create on Hive, YT and TikTok is for watching videos. Web 3 is the way
I feel you, lots of time for barely any revenues. I do not know if ths can help, but for me, even if I do not get any revenu with my posts, I still get to learn stuff (like drawing and making better content). Ok, the content is not really seen by anyone but bots, but I still get more experienc and that is worth something (maybe not financially, but who knows maybe one day). I am happy that you will post more on HIVE, but I have to say that I am one of those who listened to your videos till the end, and they statted to be a routine to watch before going to bed (which coins should I get next (as I have to chosse, 50$ a day is too much, and the amount that I put gets eaten by gas, so "concentrate on 1 coin at the time, combining a fews days together). I haven't start looking at your courses (thanks you for making them free), but they are on my to do list. Let's continu this till the end!
Thanks for letting me know what you have done with what I create I will keep this in mind for new videos!
Yeah, I find that short-minded people go for short-form content. Just my opinion on the subject, lol. I like teaching people, and you just can't get enough out of short content like that.
I took hive seriously because of you but you left hive; help!!