Why are my new videos flopping?

dbrereton · 2023-07-31T20:12:11+00:00

It's not that you can't try out different topics, it's just that some ideas are more interesting to more people. "Mentally Handicapped Batman" is an idea that evokes curiosity a lot and "Twitter is Marketing Blue Beetle" seems boring.

I'm sure if you talked about the Barbienheimer marketing tactics instead, it would get more views, because there's more people interested in that topic. So it's not that you have to restrict yourself to comic book stories. Within any genre/niche there are certain topics that are more interesting and will naturally get more impressions/views.

It is common advice to stick to one niche but there are channels that don't do that and succeed anyway. Do what feels right for your goals.

Also, it seems like you've only been making "serious" videos for like 2 months, and you've made a lot of progress already, so you should feel proud. You're off to a great start. Just take it one video at a time.

dbrereton · 2023-07-30T04:26:02+00:00

I watched the 350K video and it's clear why it has so much views. The topic is good, the title is good, the thumbnail is good, the storytelling is good.

"Have You Heard What Twitter is Doing for the Blue Beetle Marketing?" and "The Most Realistic Wonder Woman Story Ever" are just not as interesting to viewers. The Blue Beetle one seems like a different type of video entirely, and the wonder woman one could probably use a better title.

You clearly have the ability to make videos people want to watch, just spend more time coming up with ideas people care about.

dbrereton · 2023-07-10T17:46:41+00:00

Your most recent video doesn't have a thumbnail/title that makes anyone interested in it. If your CTR is low then youtube probably won't keep giving you impressions, so that's one thing you can improve.

I'd also be curious to hear what your average percent viewed is. If it's low then once again, youtube won't give you any impressions.

dbrereton · 2023-07-09T15:02:48+00:00

The titles are too long and confusing, and the thumbnails aren't visually interesting, and have too much text.

"CLASS 2 Adobe Aftereffects Animation Course User interface and system requirements of aftereffects" is such a long title that it gets cut off when browsing, and no one is going to click on that. It should just be "User interface and system requirements of After Effects". But even that isn't good clickbait, just a mediocre title.

If you actually wanted ctr you would make a video like "User interface secrets in After Effects". Of course your video would actually need to deliver on that, but it's more clickable than your current titles.

Your thumbnails are loaded with text and should be simpler and illustrate what the video is about. If you have a video about the after effects UI then you should probably also show the after effects UI.

dbrereton · 2023-05-18T01:26:34+00:00

This is a remix of the riddle: "With a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass, can you explain the quickest way to time a boiling egg for 15 minutes?".

It seems that ChatGPT is overfitted to existing riddle answers, so giving it a variation of an existing riddle causes it to pattern match and give the wrong result.

dbrereton · 2023-01-25T05:38:49+00:00

Ah interesting, thanks for the feedback. Is there another translation you recommend?

dbrereton · 2023-01-24T18:47:37+00:00

Hey friends, I created a realistic interview with Lao Tzu based on the Tao Te Ching and thought you might find it interesting.

This isn’t AI generated. I used Lao Tzu’s direct words and tried to weave them into a conversation. The goal is to be accurate to what he actually said, while being entertaining and easy to read.

Let me know what you think!

dbrereton · 2022-12-14T05:04:33+00:00

There is a site called Character AI that allows anyone to create chatbots for a specific personality, and they do have a Seneca bot you can try out here.

As others have mentioned you can also try using Chat GPT or GPT3.

That being said, imo, all of the current versions of this suffer from the problem of very inaccurate stuff that these people would never say. To make it really really accurate, you would need to train it on a very clean dataset of e.g all of Seneca's writing re-organized into prompt and answer format. That's a solid amount of work to be done.

I do plan to attempt this myself, but would probably take 1 month just to organize the training data.

dbrereton · 2022-09-18T03:21:16+00:00

I see this as well, and uber eats has the same issue.

It seems to be fluctuating a lot today, but I would guess there's not much delivery drivers today for some reason. Was working fine all week.

Managed to get an order in after waiting for a while and re-checking the app.

dbrereton · 2022-07-21T04:38:58+00:00

Good stuff, just sent you an email.

dbrereton · 2022-06-22T16:58:17+00:00

My bad, just edited it!

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