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Hey man! I saw your post on my thread and came over.
I just read through your entire thread. Awesome progress! I picked up and learned quite a few things as well. It's also insane how many similar insights we both came to without first reading each other's posts. For example, regarding this post on the algorithm, I also found out the difference between flatlined and breakout growth.
On top of that, you have a great attitude in recognizing areas that can be improved. You don't let your ego get in the way and are open to change:
I'll stay updated with your progress. Keep up the great work!
I just read through your entire thread. Awesome progress! I picked up and learned quite a few things as well. It's also insane how many similar insights we both came to without first reading each other's posts. For example, regarding this post on the algorithm, I also found out the difference between flatlined and breakout growth.
Is The YouTube Algorithm Screwing Us Over?UPDATE - So, I wanted to do a little bit of a test.
For most of my YouTube video content since I started, a lot of the traffic I've gotten has come from my tiktok following. I would simply just tell them to go watch my video and a bunch of people would come watch.
But recently, I noticed something. For the past 2 videos or so I did not do any promotion on tiktok, yet in my YouTube analytics I became aware of something very valuable that I think can help a lot of people with their channel.
YouTube is showing my videos to THOUSANDS of people. As a matter of fact, the 2nd most recent video I posted has gotten about 50,000 impressions and no advertising on tiktok.. It's all organic from YouTube
Yet only 3,500 of those 50,000 saw the video... HMMM..
I wanted to see if this would happen again, so I posted another video recently and even though it didn't blow up like the last one, my newest video has been shown to over 9.1 thousand people YET it only has 500 views currently..
Here's why this is so interesting and valuable:
It proves that YouTube is still a working platform that you can build a massive audience on IF you do it right..
What I mean by right is: Guess what the click through rate of the video that got 3.5k views was?
6.3% - Although that's not TERRIBLE.. It just goes to show. What if I absolutely NAILED the thumbnail and a ridiculous amount of those people clicked on the video?
Here's my guess as to how the YouTube algorithm seems to work in terms of this:
YouTube will show your video to thousands of people, but when they do this they're only TESTING your video. If you absolutely nail the video idea, title, and thumbnail, you will get a massive amount of clickers, and YouTube will WANT to promote your video..
Yes. They will WANT to promote your video and give you success on your channel because your video is keeping people on their platform.
But the title and thumbnail are HALF the battle. The other half is actually creating a video where people STAY and watch the whole thing, and like, comment and share the video.
In conclusion, the click through rate and audience retention percentages are the most important part of a YouTube video.
After seeing this in action I am officially out of excuses as to why the YouTube algorithm would ever "Work against me". Nonono, YouTube is gonna show your video to people no matter what. Even if you have the shittiest video of all time, they're going to test it.
The YouTube algorithm isn't "working against you", it's just that the audience that YouTube showed it to had 0 interest in your video, or your video just wasn't really that, good, or even your thumbnail just didn't make any sense.
BONUS Insight:
* I've noticed that YouTube never stops testing videos. Just because those 50,000 people saw my video and only 6% clicked doesn't mean my video was bad (it might), because that's just one audience. YouTube will continuously TEST the video through the years with new audiences. If it hits an audience that loves the video, the video could explode in the future when I'm least expecting it.
I hope this was valuable!
On top of that, you have a great attitude in recognizing areas that can be improved. You don't let your ego get in the way and are open to change:
At first it made me angry and I just labeled these people as haters, but no. It was true.
I'll stay updated with your progress. Keep up the great work!
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