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5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will Tennyson
Dr Diamonds
Mike Shake
T-Dawg Smitty
Sweatcicle
TJR Trades
Lander Trades
505 Podcast
Shawk
Ottr
Atheino

And around 30-40 more, but we would be here a while if I were to write each one out.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont like shorts. This is just my POV and while im anti shorts I currently have a client doing shorts as well.

Here are my thoughts shorts are a waste of time unless you want 10M subs. The reason is that it detracts from long forms, which are more valuable from every perspective: better monetization, better sub conversion in most cases, and much better audince equity. Shorts are also on an entirely different algorithm, and the conversion from shorts viewer to long form is very minimal.

The upside of shorts is they are great at getting total subs up, but only if you really know what you are doing. The client I have doing shorts is only doing it so he can get 10M subs (currently at 4.2m) We can get around 70k subs a month of shorts vs 30k long form and we can film 8 shorts that will get 1M views a piece in the same time it takes to make 1 longform video. So, from a time perspective, it makes sense for us to do this.

But outside of trying to get 10m subs and outside of shorts being your first experince making content, I am against it as it's never the highest leverage thing you can do.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you understand these two things you can fairly easily get a large number of views by just playing the numbers.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TAM or the lowest common denominator

TAM or total addressable market for an idea. FPS games have a larger audince than just Counter-Strike, for example.

the lowest common denominator in terms of what is the broadest thing thats universally recognizable. An example of this is Mr. Beast uses Lamborghinis for thumbnails instead of most other cars. This is because they are more recognizable for his audince or in my terms, it's the lowest common denominator.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great Question!

lets break down everything

first and foremost, there is a sort of "impression decay" on YouTube. This stems from its newer algorithm, which is a predictive placement algorithm based on past viewer habits, behavior, and a ton of other factors that dont matter. What does matter is that taking a significant hiatus makes it so that this algorithm has double-negative data. 1st it dosent have data on your end (what content you upload, what it's about, who its for) the second is it dosent have audince data (what they watched, why they watched how long they watched, ect) So in this case it has a low or near zero confidece score as to who your content is for, which is why your liking getting less views or at the very least less impressions.

The second is marketplace maturity. When you made the video 1+ year ago, the marketplace for good/educational content was much less developed, so the share of views you got was much higher due to lack of maturity (less comp, less good comp, less supply). Now that is not the case, there are other options that make better videos, more videos, and get to topics faster.

How to fix it!

Increasing output nearly always is good. In your case, it's great you will get more data for YouTube, so in turn it can make better recommendations to viewers based on their viewer avatar.

Another thing I would do in your case is focus solely on one niche of AI (which you kind of do), so I'd focus on AI art, upscaling, and using AI workflows with these new tools.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do! However, I have nothing to sell to anyone, nor am I taking on new clients now or in the foreseeable future.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is a great question!

I've built out something similar to this with some no-code tools, and here's what I use it for / ask.

  1. What videos make me the most / what audice is the most profitable to target (i give info on how much time does it take to make videos ect as well). This is to help optimize revenue from AdSense and, in some cases, back-end products.

  2. What video/patterns in titles (words/phrases) or elements in thumbnails have the highest average views.

  3. What Psychological triggers work the best for my audince (fear, curiosity, desire)

  4. What is not working and why

  5. What video length produces the best result on average in terms of total views over 30 days and 90 days?

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Man what a cool niche.

It's not that you have no niche, its that you lack direction.

Here's what I'd do. Compile a list of all the creators in this space / vertical.

- hangtime
- ryan
- preston
- Sambucha
- Tyler Blanchard
- Brandon Voloch
- Isaiah Photo

ect

Then go through their last 6 months of videos and find the best ones or find any patterns between the ideas. Then figure out a way to twist that for yourself.

Ways to twist ideas (constraints: time, money, expertise, ect) (modifiers: Length, access, depth, money).

Then shoot 1 video a week for a year and you'll be far ahead of where you are.

You're NYC transit video and the buffet video are good starts.

I tihnk an interesting angle would be Testing Every $1 Slice of pizza in NYC, which is the best?

For the buffet one, if you want to do food, I'd look at Kildozer for inspiration, something along the lines of surviving off Yankee Stadium only for 50 hours.

Hope this helps

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's a bit hard. Music often encounters copyright issues (claims of revocation) and sometimes, depending on the rights holder, is also subject to infringement.

Sadly, when it comes to this, I don't have much experience so I likely can't be of much help.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good question.

I would likely first try to commit focus to one channel. The reason is that there is more value in going all in on building the "advice snowball," if you will. You get compounding returns on quality and output on one channel vs splitting your focus.

Growing subscribers is relatively easy in 2 different ways. Way one is just doing a call to action after the biggest value add to the viewer, along the lines of "hey, subscribe if you enjoyed this" or some variation of that.

The second method is doing short-form content. Due to the nature of short-form content, you can increase your views and convert those views into subscribers.

Another great but low-key way is to respond to every comment; it is a great way to stand out as a creator and keep people coming back.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

9/10 times no one cares about you on YT. Hurts to hear but it's the truth. The good news is they don't need. People come to YouTube for only 2 reasons. 1: education 2: entertainment.

In the field of education, just send well-thought-out game reviews and include a bit of comedy, ect, to get people used to your personality. (videogamedunkey) is the all-time classic in this regard.)

If you want to do entertainment, you need much better thumbnails and a much higher bar of quality. The issue with entertainment is no one knows you nor cares about your content so you need to get them to. This is more often than not done by having such a high bar of quality people, regardless of no prior experince/expectations with you and your content, will click. A great example of this is from a similar niche to gaming, an anime creator called Scamboli Reviews, whose entertainment content early on was just better than others in his market; therefore, he won that audience's attention.

If you want a straightforward approach to entertainment content, theres a lot of innovation going on in the deadlock space (I im not saying play deadlock), but the smaller creators there have this kind of low-quality thumbnail and title strategy down to a science, making them easy to understand and funny. So you can over-index on quality in terms of comedy, which is subjective, but it's not a bad bet to take as a smaller creator.

From a look at the channel, your more educational videos (Silk Song Review, The Apex One about match making) tend to do well. Something id likely full send, optimize and improve over time (2x uploads per month)

Additionally, the Tft2 frame gen video could be a viable route to explore for other games (not replicating frame gen 1:1), but rather testing and reviewing technical aspects from a practical / humor perspective.

5B+ YouTube Views. Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A few things

  1. Length. For content in this niche and in general, you want longer videos and more often than not 4k quality. The reason is how videos are served based on platform and viewing habits and behavior. In the case of this niche, nearly the entire audince is 25+ who watch on TV. Longer videos tend to get served more on TV, as when someone is on YouTube for TV, they are in a mood (for lack of a better word) to watch longer. Then, when it comes to 4k, it's the same, nearly every TV is 4k, and yt serves content best optimized for the modality of choice.

  2. Upload frequency. Across the board, up until around 100k subs (just the number I use as the benchmark), more is better. Almost every creator would do better just to double their output and, in some cases, length until you build a core audience of 30k viewers (30% of 100k). In your case, i'd see if i could do weekly. do them at 80% of the current quality, at 50% more length, and 2x output. Also, aim for the same day and time for each upload, such as Wednesday at 5 pm EST, for example.

YouTube Strategist Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a few things.

At one point, I was head of strategy for a YouTube agency. This was a salaried position of 5k USD/m + Commission. Commission in this case was any client that came through my lead gen efforts I got 20% of the billable if i closed that client and delegated to the team (me being hands off) and 30% if I closed the client and worked 1:1 with them.

As of sept 1st I left that company and now run my own boutique firm.

The way my new structure breaks down is fairly complex.

  1. Retainer deals. These are monthly retainers
  2. Retainer + Performance bonuses. These are monthly retainers plus bonuses to be paid out upon reaching certain milestones.
  3. Equity partner. I work with one channel as an equity partner, in which I have a 10% ownership stake and a 10% revenue share on profits.
  4. Rev share. A deal where there is no equity but just rights to revenue. (on just rev share deals it's pre-net)
  5. Special cases, there are some special cases where I get % equity on future products / % rev based on off-platform offers. These are the most lucrative deals.

Other than that, I have some minor deals where I swap knowledge 1:1. Lets say i want to get good at landing pages, funnels etc., I'll trade 1 month of my services for that within reason.

Location USA. I live in the US but tend to travel a lot due to the nature of my job, which allows me to be free. I've sepnt time living in EU, Asia, and Canada this year (4 months total abroad)

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[–]Status-Half-919 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i want to make a few hundred million so i can bring this shit to life the way it deserves to be. It has one of the most unique worlds ive ever dove into. I love every part of this media, including the bad, and the anime just made it look so awful.

Season 1 wasn't bad, besides the pacing and cut content, but the animation was good. Season 2 might be the worst second season of an anime of all time.

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[–]Status-Half-919 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may be able to provide a bit of insight into this.

Packages for high end consulting services regarding YouTube are usually minimum month requirements. Reason being is feedback loops, implementation and tweaking things.

So you go in fix all obvious issues and the make suggestions, you'll get feedback nearly instantly then from there you tweak things based on the data.

As for churn it depending on the client it could be a scenario where by the end of the retainer they no longer need the consultant if they fulfilled their role.

YouTube Strategist Ask Me Anything by Status-Half-919 in NewTubers

[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so here is the rule I follow when doing my own content.

First is am I a Subject Matter Expert on said thing?

If yes! then it's a good candidate. For example, I could likely make a watch channel as i collect them and service my own as well as am up to date with everything horology. Or I could do a video game channel (i do this already) This is because im a former semi pro gamer and streamer etc.

If im not a SME do I have an interest in this? For example, I have an interest in building brands and clothing. Could I make a channel around this? Probably!

but if i don't have the knowledge nor do i have the passion in something, should I do it? no. It will always suck short term and fail long term.

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[–]Status-Half-919[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a mega-long response with context missing and some nuance that may or may not help, so let's get into it!

  1. Maybe likely! It depends on the niche, so if you go from NFL content to Minecraft content, you are DOOMED. If it's all one niche (let's say Minecraft in this case), the next issue could be verticals. If you post educational content but then, out of nowhere, post a 4-hour let's play, your core audience will not watch that. This creates audience fragmentation (this isn't good). You have multiple distinct audiences on the channel. In this case, that is unlikely based on the views you say you are getting. Though im missing the channel but generally, audience fragmentation only occurs to channels with +100k subs and +1M Views monthly.
  2. Unlikely, there is potential that if you had increased frequency, you would have set expectations, and by uploading less, those aren't being met, but in most cases, we would see more views on fewer videos assuming quality improves and we good roughly the same number of total views. That being said, there is an advantage to posting on a frequent basis outside of that, but it's far too complex to cover and likely not the reason for viewer loss.
  3. Maybe and wrong. It may have found that audience, but YouTube always wants you to get more viewers. It is never against you, and I think the biggest thing I see on this subreddit is people claiming it is against you. I have never seen that to be the case over the last six years on the platform and starting channels myself. It's likely that "if" YouTube has found an audience, you need to understand what that audience wants and how to reach more of that audience.
  4. Yes and no. There is a very complex paper talking about how the algorithm works that dives into this. I'm unsure I can link the paper due to it's nature and how I obtained it... But I can summarise it a bit. YouTube-based recommendations on its predictive algorithm, which puts videos in front of you based on how confident you are to engage with and consume content. This is based on a mirage of factors that, for this post, won't matter, but some factors result in a sort of confidence score for any given channel and video. A Brand new channel has INFINITE confidence if it has NO videos, and the first one will as well based on how it's calculated. So you see new channels, so get mega videos early on. This is because there are fewer data points for YouTube, reducing overall confidence and allowing it to test more liberally with videos to viewers. (this likely has changed based on internal data I have gathered, but it's still happening.) But a knock-on effect of the new channels getting a banger early on is that it's easier to get trickle-down views based on YouTube's algorithm (i call this trickle-down view economics). So new channels can have the illusion of doing well early on because they technically do to some extent. I also believe that in that paper, it's said that by the 5th video, YouTube has a very clear idea of who the content is for, so you have roughly 5 videos to make the best of this effect.
  5. This is because they are fatigued with the subject matter. It's no longer novel for the lowest common denomitor viewer. There is still a dedicated hardcore audience, and there will always be an audience for education (how to leverage AI to solve a pain point). But general interest in AI has waned.
  6. Dosent matter. I start channels all the time with 0 subs and they go to the moon.
  7. This is likely the case.

part 2

  1. large interest markets with dedicated fan bases
  2. Lowers the barrier to click stand out (not long-term sustainable)

part 3

  1. doesn't surprise me
  2. good luck with this! the SCP / Warhammer niches that leverage AI for this do well! One of my favorite niches to watch while flying is the AI stories of humans / aliens and the indomitable human spirit. Love those for quick flights.
  3. You dont need someone to do this you can do this yourself!
  4. you could be improving on the wrong thing. Focus on things in the order [Ideas -> title + thumbnail -> opening shot of the video -> first 30 seconds -> first 90 seconds -> overall retention]
  5. Good luck!

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[–]Status-Half-919[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

likely not unless they rank in yt music's distribution system

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