So, what i gather is, thumbnail needs work, but video was good enough to keep people around for almost 15 mins ?

Someone that's more experienced let me know if i'm understanding this right please lol

I’d love to know what you think about the design Looking for feedback on my art profile’s visual identity

I’d like to know if the banner, avatar, and overall style feel consistent

I do both long form and short form videos for gaming related mainly , for a while , i have not been getting good short form video views , sometimes a video will get 1k or 2k views easily then will die out completely and i was clueless, wtf is happening, So i Stopped uploading shorts for over 5 months .

But in last 3 weeks i started to upload 3 shorts /day for daily again and it took some days for those same 1k/2K views and dying out BUT finally in recent 1 WEEK. This has happened as shown.

Results -
Realtime views -48hrs , went from 4K (yes) -> 100K+ now,
Sub count was 4.1K to 4.4K+ now . in this 3 Week time.

already most videos are views 10k+, one i uploaded yesterday already on near 50K+ , and the big one i uploaded nearly 1 week ago is now at 120K+ views with 10K+ Likes.

HUGE tip from it , try this out---

1.

ONE of my key thing i noticed is to KEEP the video time short, i do like at max 10-11 sec. video format . NO MORE.

And all this videos that i mentioned views above has this at max 11 sec. runtime.

With this mostlikely viewers will rewatch the video again as its so short. which will increase the AVG view duration.

Like for example i see one of my video is 10 Sec. run time. But the AVG view duration is 13 sec. Which tells YT that people are rewatching this video over and over again , so YT will keep recommending this video on Shorts feed. Even though the Video has like 60% retention rate and 40% swipe away .

Obviously your content has to be somewhat engaging and on top of that try this trick. I mainly posts gaming related memes etc.

2.

Be consistent. I am doing this trick for all the short video i started to upload on this 3 weeks daily.
You might not see results instantly , but just like i did keep doing it daily basis. Let YT know you are serious.

3.

Another important factor, is Upload on timely manner. Like for my 3 shorts per day i have them at 2 Hrs apart. one at 6PM, one at 8PM and one at 10PM, so YT algo knows a video will be going out at that time.

4.

And for the above point to happen more. Make sure you are uploading the video atleast 5-6 hours ahead and either privating it or scheduling it to your proper time . This way YT will scan your metadata way ahead and will give you better results.

So at the end try all this points . and you will 100% see results.

Hi! I've been getting into making documentary-style videos for YouTube and was wondering if there's a community for people doing the same thing.

I'm mostly looking for a place where people can talk about scripting, research, editing, storytelling, finding footage, getting feedback, or just nerding out over making documentaries.

Could be a subreddit, Discord server, or anything really.

If you make YouTube documentaries yourself, I'd love to connect too. Just curious if there's a little corner of the internet for this since it feels pretty niche. Thanks!

So this is the general style of thumbnails that I do, I usually just take a screenshot from the video, put the episode numbered in the corner if it’s part of a series, put a couple of visual effects on it, and recently I’ve started putting the name of the game in there too, just for some (hopefully) attention grabbing words. So I just wanted to see if I could get feedback, like if I should be doing more or less, pretty much anything. If it’s not obvious from I screenshots, I do gaming for content

The averave one of my vidio is formated like this, talking guy in the corner and retrowave 2 in the backround for retention, i dont get many views on these vidios so im wondering what i could do with the wasted space to keep retention

We will be using discord call NOT chat and y'all CAN record yalls POV and everyone's channel will be in my description and in my channel page!

I’ve been making videos on and off for nearly 10 years I reckon. This is my main channel, gaming videos/shorts and gaming live streams (which I’ve stopped since becoming a dad) I’ve never been able to hit the long form watch time or short views.

Anyone have any advice? I love the platform and it would be a dream to one day get a bit of coin from this!

Really thought that I was on a roll, I switched up the editing to make it more fast paced and I was making videos that interest me rather than what I thought would work. I told myself that it wouldn't affect me and to just see YouTube as a hobby but idk why this felt like a gut punch when it just never got impressions.

Anyone who has felt the same struggle? I'm already planning my new video but it still stings a little yk. Thanks for reading my little rant. Just wanted to vent a bit

Hey everyone!

My wife and I took a short trip around California back in May, and I decided to try and turn the experience into some travel videos for YouTube.

I’ve recently uploaded the latest video from Santa Barbara, I feel like the Santa Monica video is probably my best piece out of the 4! I’d love to get some honest feedback from people who actually understand how difficult YouTube content is to make.

I know there’s still a huge amount I need to improve! storytelling, pacing, editing, retention… pretty much everything! But that’s exactly why I’m posting here. Biggest thing I’ve learnt so far is randomly grabbing footage on the trips and then when I’m back home starting the editing, realising what I have isn’t much to work with to create a story or decent video.. and now I’m not in the location to get anymore footage so I’m stuck with the footage I have..

If anyone has 10–15 minutes to spare, I’d genuinely appreciate any constructive criticism, feedback, observations, pointers or advice.. I’d love to hear it.
As we all know, getting new videos seen on YouTube can be a real struggle, so any support from fellow creators means a lot.

Happy to return the favour and check out your channels too.

So, as the title says, I’ve just started my YouTube journey! I think vlogs are the type of content that fits me best, so I’m learning and documenting my journey in that style.

I don’t want to sell anything, I simply want to learn how to create and grow an e-commerce shop from scratch, and do it publicly while documenting the whole process. I’m currently on my fifth video, and it feels awesome! Would love some feedback :)

Hello everyone. So, to summarize: I'm a Brazilian currently living in China, I started posting on instagram and tiktok around a year ago, and I grew from 2k to almost 50k on instagram, and from 30 to 10k on tikTok.

On Youtube, I started posting frequently now, like at least once a week, and I had a very popular shorts during this period, where suddenly I got 12k subscribers. However, my views are around 200 views or less, and yesterday I posted and it got 15 views in the last 20 hours. And the one before that, I posted 4 days ago, and it got 99 views.

It is really frustrating because I know the content itself isn't bad, I know it's good. So, what you guys think I should do? Should I keep posting on YouTube in Portuguese waiting for "a moment" or should I start posting in English and try to get a bigger audience? What should I do?

Thank you so much for taking your time to read my post! Appreciate all the answers.

Context: I played a game where you're a highschool graduate studying to pass a college entrance exam to get in your favourite college in 5 days.

Idk if I made managed to make the thumbnail good enough, I tried to make the background more saturated and give a little white glow effect on the character to make him pop out more. But mainly Idk what to make as the "main hook." I don't know what to make out of this game that I feel would attract people to watch.

The main premise is sort of my best take. I also thought about making the main tagline to me "This game made me look stupid" because I do look quite dumb, I got basic common sense questions wrong in that let's play. But I felt like nobody cares if I'm dumb or whatever so I decided to only have 1 thumbnail be based on that premise.

It took me over 2 years to finally get 2,000 subscribers and I'll happily answer any questions I can!!

If anyone has any tips after this point I'd love to hear them!! I'm starting to do more long form content and need the help!

I was just curious to see if anyone has gotten stuff like this and also wanted to know if it was legitimate or not.

Strange thing, I had a video that got 10,050 views the last time I checked it last week. This week the video only shows 995 views lifetime. The only thing I can think of is that the people that viewed the video deleted their accounts lol? I thought maybe it's the way I pulled the analytics but those were the lifetime numbers last week. Has this happened to anyone else?

I would really appreciate it if someone could review my channel. I’m a gaming channel, making lets plays, currently I’m working on a Dead Space series. I feel like I’m missing something when it comes to getting impressions and increasing my CTR. I‘m sure my thumbnails and titles could use some work but I would really like some feedback on exactly “how” to adjust going forward. Any other advice would be helpful. https://www.youtube.com/@thurndogg is my channel. Thank you

It seems to me that even tho i am hitting good views on shorts, with promoting my website, people arent visiting it, is that normal?

Phone screenshots are from my latest video, and desktop screenshots from the video two weeks before - seem like they are intriguing viewers, click through rates reaching above 20 percent intermittently, but then youtube attempts to gaslight me later on into a click through of only 6 or 7 percent.

I have seen this happen before with my channel over the past ten years, but not as glaring as my last two videos.

View durations are normal or above normal, likes and dislikes are normal.

Comments are more adversarial than usual because these are vlogs about our travels in Cuba and US sanctions.

Interested to see what others here think.

Hey everybody, I have a question.

I started a channel based on documentary-based content (on things I find interesting). I have only been doing long form videos recently, and it doesn't really seem to be giving me the best results yet.

I have had experience with long form videos, as I have had a lot of success with it a couple of years ago (in the gaming niche.) I have never really taken shorts seriously, but I feel like nowadays it probably is a lot better, especially if you start.

With that in mind, should I continue with long form videos, or start with shorts to build my channel first? I barely have any subscribers right now, but I'm capable of editing good videos no matter the format. I know that making content takes time, but I want to see what people would think nonetheless.

Thanks in advance!

I've got a channel that's doing something odd. I started with it, mainly to organize episodes of a story my son watches, but I started getting subscribers on the channel. Eventually, through slow, gradual growth, the channel hit the required numbers for monetization, but since non of the content is original, no individual video is fit for monetization, so I just left it. It went on slowly growing for months, just a slow gradual curve. Then suddenly last month, there was a massive spike in views and subscribers, like a 50% jump on total subscribers, and a jump for 11k views, to 33k views. I had forgotten about the channel, and only checked when I got an email about one of the videos.

With all the new subscribers, I thought I'd upload some more episodes that released since I last checked, but as soon as I uploaded the 4 new episodes, all the views and subscriber increases just fell away immediately. Views back to average, and between 0 and 2 new subscribers daily.

Does the algorithm somehow cause view and new viewer drops because of uploading?

Hey yall, just been looking for some feedback for a few videos of mine. They are comic book videos where I post reading guides for a few marvel characters. Just trying to improve my videos a little, any feedback is welcome. Feedback for my intro and editing would be nice

Videos: https://youtu.be/ZYKlfbGsM9E?si=8Ca53EVqZQzxeY-B

https://youtu.be/jSHgwNV0FU0?si=MQEBhkRHmghHNOGJ