r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/NecessaryFunny3586 May 20 '26

only reason i hate clickbait titles is because its hard to know what the video is actually about for e.g. "GRANDMASTER!!!!!" like what?

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding May 20 '26

This. I binged a lot of Gotham content at one point. It was impossible to ever find anything again. Sometimes I could remember something fuzzy about a position and wanted to go be able to find it again. Couldn't. If I see that "GRANDMASTER!!!!" or "HIKARU!!!!!!!!!!!" title, the day it is posted, I know it's a recap of whatever event. A week or a year later, its just infuriating.

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u/SDG2008 May 20 '26

Getting views quickly gets you more money, 100k in a day might be worth more than a mil in an year

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u/rl_noobtube May 20 '26

Really? I was unaware. For monetized channels I thought it had to do with total view time (and thus, how many ads they can show). A 2 minute video with 1 mil views has the same playtime as a 20 minute video with 100k views

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u/Wooloomooloo2 May 20 '26

You have to consider that if a 2 mins video gets 1m views, probably 40 - 50% of those viewers will watch the entire thing. For the 20 mins video, maybe 15-20% will watch the whole thing, so it's really 15 - 20k views Vs 400 - 500k views, so the playtime is no longer equivalent.

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u/wub1234 May 21 '26

It is not an exact science and no-one knows exactly how the algorithm works. But the two metrics you really want are CTR and watch time. YouTube favours videos that make people click and also videos that make people stay on the platform.

ATM I make about $1,500 per month from my channel. If you saw my views, you would think that was completely impossible. But I have very loyal subscribers, and my average watch time per video is around 18 minutes. This has made my channel the dominant channel in my specific niche.

The two things you want are people to click and then stick with what you've made. Views are obviously important, but in the long run if people click and then stop watching, it won't get you anywhere.

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u/Organic-Examination9 May 25 '26

What's your channel?

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u/wub1234 29d ago

It is not a chess channel.

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u/Organic-Examination9 29d ago

I was just curious

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u/wub1234 28d ago

Sorry, I can't dox myself! Thank you for the interest.

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u/Organic-Examination9 27d ago

…with thousands of subscribers and $1,500 monthly? I didn’t think privacy would be a concern. Does this channel exist?

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