YouTube Algorithm Answers: Upload Frequency, Demonetization, Keywords, Channel Breaks, and MORE!
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Hello Insiders! Today we're answering your questions about search and discovery on UA-cam.
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0:00 Intro
0:09 Question: "Is it better to spread out videos evenly over time or is all the same for the system, if some are every other day, and some have 1-3 weeks in between when made public?" @DAILYFUNTV1
1:14 Question: "My channel is monetised however I don't turn on monetisation for every other video of mine. Is it true that monetised videos have more likelihood of being recommended than non-monetised videos?" @TheRoamingJhola
2:52 Question: "It seems when I post a video about a certain keyword, it will do great. On the other hand, if I target a new keyword, the video's performance is mediocre at best. So the question is when researching which keywords to use in our next video, what is a good way to gauge the likelihood it might work out? It seems like the algorithm only likes it when I post videos about certain phrases and if I branch away from that it's almost guaranteed to be a dud." @MichaelBordenaro
4:58 Question: Can I take a break?
6:23 Comment: "MY VIDEOS ONLY GET RECCOMENDED if i upload more videos my older videos get recomend when someone watch my newest video" @soayan-notalentyoutuberph
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1. Is it true that shorts videos get more impression then conventional videos?
2. Why i lost subscriber from shorts video? is it considered as a spam subsciber because the video that is watched in short duration ?
I didn't understand why my Good video not get recommended. 100% time my lazy video get more views. The video I spent 3 days gets sooooo less view 😓😓 I want my informative video should get recommended
If i upload a video, is it available to my country only or recommend to the all over the countries?
I am teaching Biology in much simpler form as compared to classroom teachings. But still I am not able to get enough views even after uploading more than 100 lectures.
Please do guide me with your valuable suggestions.
Thank You
*Suggestion for an analytics feature:*
Indication of when the `like' or `subscribe' button was pressed during a video. This way we can see how effective a call to action is and adjust accordingly.
Thanks
Ami.
Brilliant idea. Also I would love to have a ranking of videos by subscribers gained in the last x days
That'd be amazing!
This is such a good idea
I always hit the like button at the beginning of the video (before I forget) just because I know the level of effort and time put into most videos, even when I disagree slightly with what the video is saying. I only revoke the like (unlike) if something unnecessarily mean/discriminative was said. But that's just me as someone who knows the amount of trouble people go through to create. I will never understand people who hit the thumbs down button for something like a well-meaning tutorial. But that's just me. 💜💜
@@marilouburnel Go to your UA-cam studio, click "Video", change the filter to "Subscribers by video", change the date search to last 7 days, and you're good to go.
Wow awesome!! Thank you Rachel and Creator Insider for taking the time to answer my question. I will have to stop and think about the answer for a while to figure out if my future uploads will be successful👌
I have 194K subscribers on UA-cam, it's been hard for 5 years a long hard time consuming project. Now its my full time job. I think being seen and getting views very much depends on how much your willing to put into it. My 1 and only tip... a good uncluttered thumbnail picture most folks don't even read the title..
wow! I have 12,000 subscribers.... growing more every day!
@Sailing Avocet Good luck ♥️
Congratulations. Love your hard work.
@@PPCFindingStudio thank you!
@@sailingavocet Congrats! Wished I was at your spot :P Just started uploading 3 months ago, only at 123 subs right now; slow grind but seeing steady progress is very motivating!
Rachel is really good at these videos. More Rachel please.
I love this host. You answered the questions honestly, genuinely, and dove deep into each question providing detailed answer with case scenarios as examples. I still disagree with your answer on taking a break because every person who studies UA-cam knows the algorithm will stop recommending a Channel if a person doesn’t watch them for a time or if the algorithm thinks they are no longer interested in that topic. For example; if I stop watching MKBHD for a couple of weeks, I never get his videos recommended to me anymore until I watch one video again, and then I get his videos recommended again. Another example; I used to watch every upload of Magic of Rahat, he took a long break. When he came back, his video was never recommended to me. Only reason I found out he was back back was because of Keemstar. I can go on and on with examples. the algorithm tries to predict what you will watch based on your recent watch history and other factors so if someone hasn’t seen your content in weeks or months or years, the algorithm is going to consider them an inactive subscribe :(
But anyways I loved everything else about the video and loved the host’s answers. Nothing felt scripted, the host did excellent job connecting with audience and delivering her message. Great job!
I agree. Racheal is a clever cookie and pretty too. It must be scripted but I did not see her read from a teleprompter. A good production but ain't Xmas decorations supposed to be taken down on the 6th of January. Yesterday, my friend came round and requested a few songs. I did not like them but was immediately suggested stuff from the same bands. 🐨
I don't thinks it's coded to consider them an inactive subscriber, but it happens as a side effect. Like you said, the recommendations are always based on your recent watch history, so if you don't watch a certain channel for some period of time it falls out of the "sphere" that the algorithm uses to recommend videos.
My workaround for that problem was to make my shortcut go to /feed/subscriptions instead of the youtube's homepage so I only see videos from channels that I'm subscribed to and then I go later to the homepage to watch something new and different.
@@brunosurkov Interesting. Which shortcut? How's it done?
Totally agree, I reckon the data they collect to back up their claim is from the top creators. For everyone else (i.e. us) the algorithm feels it punishes us for anything like taking a break or god forbid experimental content. Having over 100 signals to identify if a video is good or not doesn’t feel right. The fact that we have to spend this time to study like getting a law degree to figure out how we can please this algorithm rather than creating amazing content is telling enough.
@@ALLSTARSPACE We didn't restrict the data we looked at from top creators. We looked at channels of all sizes and upload frequencies, and sliced the results by channel size to see if the effects varied, and they did not.
As for the 100 signals, I wouldn't recommend on focusing on decoding those and "pleasing the algorithm". Our systems look at many signals because doing so means we can deliver recommended videos that the audience finds more satisfying than if we only looked at a few indicators. Rather than study the algorithm, we recommend understanding what content satisfies the audience. The algorithms follow the audience, so focus on creating amazing content for them.
This was so helpful! Really love the team @CreatorInsider
Took a 9 month break last year, didn't see a viewership drop at all when I came back.
Take breaks people!
Also - Rachel, this video was put together really well, great work.
Thanks for the update again! Two things I’d like to see, are about UA-cam stories. I’d like to have the option to schedule stories and reply to comments on stories (instead of only having the option to make another story about a comment).
This might be the best video about UA-cam algorithm ever. Thank you.
Thank you!!
I really appreciate this video. I actually just found out about this page via Reddit (glad I did). The host was very clear and broke things down. I started my UA-cam channel roughly about a year ago and I love what I do. These videos will continue to help guide me on my journey! Thank you!
Glad this was helpful! Feel free to drop questions in the comments of our videos and we'll try to cover them in a future video!
@@creatorinsider I most certainly will! Thank you so much again!
we need more stream features like raids,hosts,gifting Joins
Starting a UA-cam channel was the best decision I made in 2020. If you haven’t started yet, 2021 is your year to take action. 🔥
*RE other videos your audience watched is not enough eligible data, need a larger channel to get some of the features you offer? *
Excited for this one! My channel just got monitised! Happy olley! Let’s go 😃😃😅
The questions are very helpful. Thanks to all who sent in such thoughtful questions. And thanks Rachel
I’ve had a long break of six months, in the new year. I was burnt out. I have returned and my channel bounced back, and in fact a video, from a year ago, went viral. So yes, all of this is true. Take a break if you need it, also some of my thumbnails are definitely more attractive to viewers (even if I don’t like them… they really work better for me) thanks for this Rachel. 🌷🏆
This was by far the best answers I’ve ever seen on any channel. Thank you so much
that's really nice to hear the taking a break won't hinder views! taking a break is incredibly important
I really appreciate these detailed algorithm videos, Rachel! Thank you so much! 😊🙏
I vote for Rachel as the main host. She gave extremely good answers. And she is much more approachable than the young man who thinks he is the best.
Thank you for the awesome info! Always appreciate it!
This was very beneficial - thank you! As a small channel working on finding a direction for the year I love the idea of thinking in terms of who the viewer profile is and how I can better serve that person vs. creating around a specific keyword.
It really is key! People first, algorithms second!
These videos are so beyond helpful for smaller creators 😊Please keep doing them
Thank you! Glad to know they're helpful.
Thank you so much! Especially for the 'taking a break' part. I was worried when I couldn't upload a video on my weekly schedule because of the tough projects phase that I was experiencing - but then I saw that my videos were in fact met even better - that's true. Thanks again.
The average views per viewer metrics is very confusing to me.
For example, I have just set up a graph with videos published in the last 90 days and added Average views per viewer
as a column.
The TOTAL states 1.8, yet each individual video shows 1.1, 1.2 etc. None of the get close to 1.8.
I assume individual videos are showing how often the same person watches the same video more than once (which will obviously be low), while the total shows how many videos from all the videos in the column are watched by the same person, which is, in effect, different metrics.
I'm hoping that your new 'loyalty and new viewers' metric will help clarify this a bit more.
I agree. I came to the same conclusion about the metric. Avg. views per viewer on on my usual videos is like 1.4 and sometimes 1.5. But Avg views per viewer is like 4 when I upload 1 video in that month.
I also think that there should be a new metric like "avg watchtime per unique view on a video" cause I think that's more accurate than just looking at avg watchtime of a video. I analyzed that few of my vids with high watchtime got less views than few other vids with slight avg less watchtime. Like "Video A" with 4:02 avg watchtime performed better than "Video B" with 4:30 avg watchtime. Topics were same and videos length were almost same (Around 9 mins). But "Video A" had 1.5 views per unique viewer making it 6:03 avg watchtime per unique viewer and "Video B" had 1.25 avg views per unique viewer, making it 5:37 avg watchtime per unique viewer. So in real it was indeed the video with better effective avg watchtime, that performed better. This also explains why music video being short in length still gets billions of views. Because even though their watchtime is less, their avg watchtime per unique viewer is way more.
Exactly what I was thinking too
Yeah
Awesome points VidIQ! I have your service and enjoy your content too. You're funny and insightful! lol... Sign me up for at least 2 videos watched on average when I watch your channel. Usually 1-2x per week. Keep crushing it!
I suscrbied to this channel following your recommendation. My average rate is about 2.1 but in some periods I have more than 7 average viewers per video.
This is an excellent video, Rachel. Thank you. Very helpful and reassuring.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
Just wanted to say that I saw you took my advice with the lav mic, and the audio is much, much better. Cheers!
Excellent, thank you so much for covering taking a break!!! Because I simply can not be on a regular upload schedule due to...real life and work :-)
Clear and interesting as usual Rachel, thank you!
Why does my channel say “not enough data” in the section where you see what else your viewers are watching? I have tried with all available time periods...
It will show up when you have more traffic on your channel
@@NollywoodChannelTv that's not very helpful...I can read thanks. I have like 250k views on my channel. How am I going to grow beyond that if I can't see the analytics?
@@StasiaReviewsStuff Total channel view doesn't have impact on that, your channel needs to average 10-15k views daily before it will show up.
@@StasiaReviewsStuff for the mean time I think you should look at your channels TOP UA-cam SEARCH TERMS
@@NollywoodChannelTv thank you
Love the twist on these answers.
Never really looked at that metric, will try to have a look it it.
Thank you!
Thanks for answering the last question with *taking breaks between videos*. Life is already hard and many of us have other responsibilities, like work, study, family etc. Besides that time is needed for good quality and creative content. I personally prefer quality over quantity. Thank you so much and i wish everyone a good healthy start in 2021 :)))
Thank you so much Rachel 😊
Good afternoon fellow creators let's learn something new today ❤
The audience interest card has never been available or shown on my UA-cam studio even when I check analytics on videos that have blown up. So the question is, is this available to everyone?
Great video! She did such a great job explaining everything. Thank you!
Wow! This was really, and I mean REALLY informative. Please continue this in depth look at helpful metrics in Analytics for specific challenges - oh and I also loved your examples!
Hi Racheal, thanks for the info. Regarding discovery, we run multiple channels, same videos just translated, but some of our channels just don't appear to be recommended despite +5min watch times and 7% click rates. While the same video in another language is recommended. What can we do to increase this on the neglected channel?
This was actually super helpful, thank you!
Excited to see what's in this video!
That’s cool to know that you can do well with more spaced out uploads. I don’t think I can compete with the fast paced constant upload schedule many do - at least not without a team helping somehow.
Thank you for the information. I just took a two week break. 👍👍Actually had more comments from new viewers
I started uploading everyday in January and my small channel is just .... blowing up so fast now! I can't believe it! I am not sure how long I can sustain this pace but for now, every video get my daily views up so I keep going. And my audience loves it. Thank you so much for this video - Aloha, Voytek
When are Shorts going to be officially released in other countries?
So how its possible to get the same amount of views with 100,000 subscribers 1 video a day and then 1 year later with much better content , with 2 videos a day and with 200,000 subscribers ?
This is the best Creator Insider video for such a long time - really super helpful. So many relevant questions answered directly and succinctly. Thank you.
The question about taking a break was very nice to have included. I took about 2 weeks off of just filming at the end or December and my channel did just fine compared to usual. Don't let yourself get stressed out ON your break worrying about any negative impact your break is having
Good Video!! Trying to grow my UA-cam 🙏🏿
That is a great background! You clearly missed your true calling as a BookTuber :)
I have 32 thousand followers on Instagram but only 600 hundred subscribers on UA-cam. I started creating content for UA-cam around 4 months ago and cannot believe how amazing this platform is. Unlike Instagram, UA-cam actually supports its content creators and encourages them.
Dear Rachel, Your careful explanations and examples are well easy to understand. Wish you'd present more on Insider.
Feature Suggestion:
For suggesting videos in similar themes, the suggestion algorithm should strengthen the weight of originality and video-shooting quality, rather than the weight of user response. Otherwise, big channels will get bigger and bigger, and start-up channels will have no chance to compete.
At least for my type of content, this has been the most helpful video in this channel so far. Thank you guys!
Thank you for the helpful answers! More of these please.
Thank you so much !! I have learned so Much through the Creator Insider and My Channel is growing too !
Thank you!! This was extremely helpful
hello po I'm from the Philippines watching to get idea in order to improve of my channel
You're a better presenter than some; hope you get more opportunities.
This is the best video from Creator Insiders in ages! Rachel you're a great teacher and presenter. I learned so much. Especially about taking breaks. Currently on a little break myself to recharge my creative batteries. Please make more videos for us.
You are a fantastic host and explain everything in an easy to understand way, thank you!
Gday that was fantastic, gets me thinking about things I hadn’t considered.I make adventure ride films over winter and gold prospecting films over summer .it’s funny how the season changes the subs come and go .each vid takes 2weeks to plan film edit and upload and it’s brilliant fun .so glad I found this channel I’m Subbed.cheers
So glad this was helpful!!
Regarding analytics and subscribers -- my channel is growing, both in subscribers and views, but the majority of my views come from non-subscribers. And I get it -- I watch far more channels than I am subscribed to. But, does a high ratio of non-subscriber views have any negative impact on UA-cam search and suggestion efforts in the algorithm?
Oh, I forget to add, I love this presenter so clear and to the point. Please keep showing up on the screen :) Aloha, Voytek
So much great info. Thank you so much for sharing
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Answered so many questions!
I'm like hooked to your channel, lmao, it's amazing!
OMG, thank you for addressing the "taking a break" subject 🙏 especially now with the lockdown (hello from Germany!) and my kids staying home I feel I might need one and I was affraid it might ruin my channel
How "Reach" Algorithm judge what content show on browse feature.
I tried by myself when I copy other channel thumbnails its very much reach, Why!? I don't understand it.
I have a question. Though I know it was partially answered in the video.
How do you get more videos suggested? I make R&B and HiHop content and one of my videos was suggested on almost 6 other channels content. Then my next video (though it performed well) did not get suggested at all. Is it a roll of the dice or should I re-change my title to grab the audience attention
Every video I upload gets 3.000-5.000 views. A couple of them gets recommended by UA-cam 6-8 months later I've posted and they reached over the 30.000-100.000 mark, but those viewers are not subscribing to my channel.
I don't think I have 188.000 subscribers, probably 20.000 or less.
That's the feeling I got every time I upload a video. I see some weird basketball channels with 1000 comments in one hour after some dude upload a video, and the video has no context, no story at all, super bad editing, super bad thumbnail from google images... it's really making me go crazy. I'd not care about this stuff if my videos would be recommended.
UA-cam is not recommending my videos and I see what's recommending for the Basketball category which is cringeworthy.
I'm not sure about continuing because of the effort I put in and how the platform reacts... it's so frustrating.
That's an excellent point! Educational videos - that actually help someone do seem to be pushed down in favor of "entertainment" or trending topics.
@@AndrewFinney such is our current culture. Most ppl want entertainment not learning. lol
Feature Suggestion:
add visible tags to channels with MCN or from UA-cam employee's family.
I uploaded video on my private schedule. when I made it uploaded public the video plays fine from my channel. But recently it is my some videos are unavailable for some others viewer or users. Give message “ Video unavailable. This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions.” I don’t know why this is so because I didn’t violate copyrights. I make my video private for now so that I could rectify this issue pls help me dear.
Great video, thanks so much!
Awesome, thanks!
I have various clips for which the number of impressions may vary by as much as a factor of four although the clickthrough rate and view duration basically remain the same, in other words the clip is as much enjoyed as it was before. Why does this happen?
I am really glad to see that Shorts Vertical videos less than 60 seconds are not being compared to edited longer form video content on the dash board. I hope the Algorithm is operating in the same way, otherwise there's no incentive to make them.
Thanks for these videos. They are very informative!
another question:
I noticed some my videos were performing very well, and the algorithm is suggesting them to viewers and viewers engagement is the same, then suddenly the views dropped like down to 10 to 40 views in hour.
meaning that a video is getting 300 to 400 views per hour then suddenly in the next hour its dropped down to 20 , 30 views per hour.
what causes this? what makes the algorithm to suddenly stop suggesting the video even though the viewers are engaging the video.
mine did the same around the time the worldwide UA-cam crash happened a few weeks ago around the 14th dec. mine has gone from 22,000 odd views a day to less than 500
Also one good thing to note to all creators on UA-cam is notifications WILL NOT go out if you upload 3 times within a 24 hour period. Livestreams count as uploads! If you're a daily streamer like me it's great to take the night off if you're going to upload a video! I've also noticed posting on your Community Tab section doesn't affect the 3x upload notifications!
thank you ...it's really help answer my many questions : I love you please upload more clip like this
This is very useful information.
I've been seeing what seems like a meme lately with viewers posting on videos "Commenting for the algorithm". How important are comments for an algorithmic push? Do the length or quality of the comments determine how much traction a video gets?
Course subscriber burnout affects everyone. Even PewDiePie. That was a pretty broad lie tbh.
Comments are not a primary signal.
@@todd-youtube Yea you're definitely _NOT_ a trustworthy source. I've _already_ debunked multiple lies from you. I have a whole playlist of lies from this channel and I'm planning to upload one based on this very video.
@@mattwo7 I just watched some of your videos. You jump to a lot of conclusions from very limited information. You also have very few subscribers on your channel despite uploading hundreds of videos for 10 years. And you think you understand the algorithm better than the people on this channel who work on it? Ok...
@@audreybillings3339 Sorry, can't hear you over all that baa-ing. Or maybe you're one of the budget actors paid to run this channel? If you want to debunk my videos with actual evidence be my guest. Otherwise you don't actually have a point to make here and are just falling into some form of an ad hominem fallacy.
I wish I watched this 5 days ago before my Adsense got disabled yesterday. You were speaking right to me in this video. I played Roblox and Recently started played Grand Theft Auto, but my recent Grand theft Auto video is viral now over 100k since January 1 and still growing strong 😢
For a very small youtuber like me, this one is really a MAJOR..especially like I was watching few vlogs saying that we should upload atleast 3 times a week.. and it was like what? how?? Thank you so much for this :)
Rachel, I always feel that I am the person that you are talking about, xD
Why is there no translation of the video into Arabic?
Thank you for sharing!Hope everybody here becomes successful on UA-cam 😊🥰
Glad I'm watching this! I'm a small ASMR channel, I've been creating for almost 10 years; I've taken long breaks and my viewership used to be so much better. it has gone down and down and down, I'm getting 100 views on my best videos now a days. and I know my videos are only seen by a small fraction of my subscribers...I just can't seem to find a groove. I've tried a lot over the last year but there were a few tips in here that I hadn't thought of. thanks :D
The problem with a break is your ad revenue tumbles downward greatly, at least this is what I have found. Happy New Year Everyone!
I also show this 🤦♀️
That's a great point! I noticed that as well.
Ma'am I'm musician and my videos not run . Because music topics are not searchable and people only watching when it comes on home screen or recommend
Please share tips to run music videos 🙏
I saw some of videos on youtube that has higher CTR and youtube search result without putting any keywords at tag section
should I stop using keyword also?
No question, but just honestly wanna express my gratitude for the great content you put out for us creators. Thank you.
Creator Insider's milkshake brings all the checkmark verified channels to the yard
when UA-cam went down worldwide ever since then my channel has been non existent dropping from 23,000 views a day to less than 200 none of my videos have been showing up in recommended where the day before the crash i was being seen all over UA-cam. It has only been from today I began to see a slight rise in views. Has anyone else experienced this. the only thing that happened around that exact time was the crash. It seems not just mine was affected but many others looks like we were wiped off the face of UA-cam analytics and have to rebuild by doing manual searches for my videos and channel. Do you have any input of this crash?????
I am experiencing this issue too! One of my top videos unnaturally and suddenly dropped 90% due to weren't being suggested anymore, it has been around 11 months that it usually has 4k views a day, but now, it only has around 200-300 views due to not being suggested anymore!! I am really frustrated about this
I can completely relate to you. Before when I posted a sewing tutorial I will get thousand of views in a matter of days now I get lucky if I get 500 in a month. Makes matter worst I used to get 2k+ subs per month and now it only shows 2-5 sub in a month.
if i could only get any of my video to 2k. it will be my happies day. non of my vidoes has gotten 1k. i think my video is not being reccomended which is sad.
@@Goldenpassiontv I know it's so sad.
Thank you so much! I have been wondering about all these questions!
I am always interested in analytics. Some good and interesting questions answered which are relevant for me. I'll still leaning in my UA-cam journey. I have uploaded more than 400 videos and of late I am uploading videos daily. My Channel is not a niche one but I post videos on wide ranging subjects. I am just keeping it real. Good luck to all creators who share good content. Wishing all a great year ahead.
This video was fantastic, THANK YOU!! I have a quick question regarding the algorithm, do videos only go "viral" or get recommended in large doses when they are freshly uploaded? Or can an older video unexpectedly take off? I always get discouraged when I upload something new and it doesn't get picked up at all within the first 48 hours. And I'm curious if that means my video is doomed unless another video pushes viewers towards it.
MOST of my videos getting traction only do so after they've been up for 2+ months...some of them were up over a year before taking off! Keep creating good content for the right people and YT will catch on!
@@TaraWagner thank you 🥰 that gives me hope!!
Questions: Hello, I started last year on YT, and I am wondering if there is a way to tell if I am on some kind of blacklist for YT. I remember seeing my latest video having 6 views and 4 of the views I knew people actually watched the whole video, but the watch time average was showing 0 to 10 seconds of average watch time. After 2 days, the average started adjusting. Also, I chose the channel name "Compunction" because it sounded unique with a deep meaning, is there a chance my channel has been listed as a religious channel because of the name, and are religious channels usually hidden? I changed my channel name a few days ago to something a bit different to try to break free of this just in case. I enjoy creating these original videos and becoming better at filmmaking, but seeing 11 views from 31 posted videos in 2 days is leaving me with a blank. Thanks for creating your content.
Excellent points and sometimes I feel the same way too. Quick heads up... It took me 1 year of consistent uploads averaging about 2x per week to reach my first 100 subscribers. Doing well on UA-cam is definitely a marathon and not a sprint - at least from my experience. Creators that tend to have what appears as "overnight success" are usually on their 5th+ channel overall from what I've learned. Stick to and follow your passion. Wishing you much success!
3:20 It's great to hear Rachel say that the algorithm is more focused on the audience than it is on keywords for search and discovery because literally ALL of the channels that claim they are going to help you grow your channel and increase your viewership just go on and on about "keyword this" and "upload defaults that." Not a single one of them will ever put an emphasis in their videos on the fact that the quality of your content is the single biggest factor by a mile, in determining the video's performance. The reason they won't tell you that is not because they don't know that, it's because admitting that would be admitting that their entire channels entered around the topi of 'growing on youtube' are largely irrelevant. Its sort of sad to see people on channels like that having any success by misleading other hardworking video creators and in some cases making a living from it....
Okay, on a more positive note (and I'm sorry for ranting, I just want to help people) I really enjoy being able to hear all these great questions and have them answered by a professional!
Thank you so much for this video. You answered a lot of questions that I feel no one really answers. I definitely have been contemplating taking a small break but have been afraid of losing this flow I have going on right now. I'm so close to 1000 and have been pushing really hard lately to get there but I needed this validation to step back and take a break without feeling guilty of not uploading. Also I've been trying new videos lately and am going to try some of those keyword, title, and thumbnail techniques.