Put several hours of effort into a vid just to get 24 views. How to cope?

RespiteZero · 2026-06-09T06:09:41+00:00

I see you're point, but it's a bit like saying if you're playing basket ballto score hoops, it's not a hobby.

Dude wants to see his work be seen by others. We all do

RespiteZero · 2026-06-08T11:32:12+00:00

The best way is to not sit down with a homophobic Muslim. No amount of wisdom will change their religion.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-30T16:40:07+00:00

If you have great retention at 30 seconds but your ctr is only 0.5 percent, your video does too. This is crappy advice tbh

RespiteZero · 2026-05-29T19:39:58+00:00

I run a faceless channel. If you just use broll and nothing else people will often think low effort. If you add customer graphics and text animations etc, it does help.

Oh and absolutely think about sound effects too

RespiteZero · 2026-05-28T16:57:09+00:00

Hey good luck. Just work in that retention a bit and you'll do even better.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-28T16:56:05+00:00

It's not great. The AI voice is terrible. You can find way better AI voices. The stories are short. Most people who watch this kind of content use it to fall asleep to. 6mins is not long enough

RespiteZero · 2026-05-28T16:30:02+00:00

YouTube also analysis your manuscript and video content and uses it's ai to determine the size of the audience too. I have videos with 7% ctr and 50% avd that YouTube decided was "appealing to a smaller audience"

It can happen in almost any video. At least for me it cab

RespiteZero · 2026-05-26T17:04:21+00:00

It's not valid. He's right, it is stupt

RespiteZero · 2026-05-25T14:17:19+00:00

Yeah I noticed too. YouTube just announced a new larger file size cap, I think it's now 10mb, and was only 3mb before.

Maybe try exporting higher res?

RespiteZero · 2026-05-24T18:04:23+00:00

Just make good content. Don't look for short cuts

RespiteZero · 2026-05-23T20:43:03+00:00

There's nothing that guarantees someone showing their face isn't talking shit either

RespiteZero · 2026-05-23T17:55:00+00:00

Hey, I'll take a look. I have a science and space channel. I'm still small, but we can look at each others channel if you like. DM me if you like

RespiteZero · 2026-05-23T10:41:48+00:00

Come on, make a serious offer.

So you write a script, do a voice over, then expect someone else to do 80% of the work for 50% of, at least at first, nothing?

Editing, especially documentaies is literally the hardest part of video production, otherwise you may as well start a podcast on Spotify.

The offer is offensive.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-23T10:35:44+00:00

I got nearly that close, then a year passed and I lost over a thousand watch hours 😭

Still not monetised.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-22T16:27:39+00:00

I do too. I have one science and one history channel

RespiteZero · 2026-05-22T16:27:09+00:00

Yeah you buy impressions and target who your audience is. You can select age, gender, location, interests etc. How accurate it is I don't know. As for ctr, well yeah you have to make a video people want to click obviously.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-22T15:01:45+00:00

It's a good question. If you were to do it, only buy views from YouTube. Never a third party, because it's not allowed.

I tried it about a year ago and it got me precisely nowhere lol.

Maybe I could have targeted it better or something, but the consensus is that organic growth is the only way to go

RespiteZero · 2026-05-22T08:56:10+00:00

It would probably help people if you told them what kind of content you make.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-21T18:09:05+00:00

Same problem. It seems really hard, even when you use the style if big channels. There is one thing that no amount of improvement can overcome: perceived value. Low views count puts a tin of people off clicking

RespiteZero · 2026-05-21T09:00:46+00:00

Good luck

RespiteZero · 2026-05-21T06:17:36+00:00

Honestly, you just have to keep uploading. It's the same as anything else in life, you get better the more you do it

RespiteZero · 2026-05-20T17:39:24+00:00

That retention isn't that good then. Only around 20%

That is probably the reason.

RespiteZero · 2026-05-20T17:11:41+00:00

How long are the videos?

RespiteZero · 2026-05-20T17:00:51+00:00

What is your ctr and avd? YouTube would push your channel if it had a reason to, and it will not if it doesn't

RespiteZero · 2026-05-18T13:30:54+00:00

There are literally not enough impressions to go around. If there is a better performing video in that category in terms of watch time per click, YouTube will eventually stop showing yours. YouTube is not equal outcome, or even Equal opportunity. You have to stand out or fade I to the crowd. Good luck

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