Basicallly, the algorithm is changing every day, so all that "how to grow your channel" advice is total BS. Just do what you want and hope for the best
Forget the algorithim just make the best videos you can and the engagment and algorithm will work for you i like how in depth it is no more BS youtubers begging for likes make it to the top..
Pfft, even if you try making the best content you could possibly think of they wouldn't even rank on search pages. YT nowadays is mainly about luck. Hard work doesn't seem to pay off anymore unless you're doing some shady work.
How about you guys just FINALLY fix notifications so that all of our subscribers actually get them. This has been an issue for YEARS (EVEN WITH THE BELL ON) and no one seems to care. If you do, how about you send me an email and we can dig into this issue together.
It's not an issue. They've purposely made a small amount of your subs view your vids to see what traction it gets. If your subs are engaging with your content, YT feeds the video to more subs and the processes begins again. Just because somebody sub's to your channel, doesn't mean they will enjoy every single piece of content you produce, thus why the above process has been implemented.
It's now impossible to grow a channel with the continuous AL changes. Yet the Trending Page is littered with brand names and Disney trailers. It's not the UA-cam I remember when I started 10 years ago where an everyday person could become famous overnight. I'm tired of the continue funneling of what's obvious paid placement in suggested video lists. I never see stuff from the core HARD WORKING community anymore. Shame on you..Shame.
That is a great point. Being new now with the ridiculous minimums that were taken away from me, it seems near impossible to achieve. Especially with subs.
the algorithm changes every single day so it's impossible to stay up to date. Just concentrate on the content and share with you love and care about. Share your PASSION
Actually, it's not staff picks as you call it. This means that you don't even know in what world we live in and what people want to see. All people are like robots waiting for stimulation which is most of the time CRAP VIDEOS. Analyze people around you, TV, go on streets and see that everyone is bored of life because they create their dream world and believe they deserve it by doing nothing.
The algorithm works quarterly. From the side of the author I can safely say that the service has become much worse. Not only did you do automatic moderation, which works incorrectly. There is no way to challenge the robot's decisions. I have been waiting for 3 months for a response from a living person. Algorithms had to be tuned to emulation, you do not respect the work of the authors.
I have two channels. One which is suffering from the algorithm and one which is benefiting from it. I guess since there are so many variables and so many changes happening so frequently, we UA-camrs can only create our content to the best of our abilities and hope for the best. From a Creator's standpoint though, it makes UA-cam a platform that is rather volatile and a career choice we don't feel confident we have much control over.
I have one channel with over 80 videos. Some videos get 1000's of views and some videos get next to no views. All of my videos are good it is just up to the algorithm.
i have been trying to make my videos reach people one of these days i think i will take off but honestly ive been a youtuber for over a year and havent gotten far lol
@@MalluStyleMultiMedia omg after four years. The future does not bode well for me. I think the only reason I made it was far as I have so far is because I put my all into UA-cam and like nothing else
Dear UA-cam, Please employ Todd as the face of UA-cam creator help going forward. No BS and extremely thorough explanation from a legitimate SME. THIS is the type of honest video from a very genuine and knowledgeable speaker that we need in order to produce content that aligns with OUR websites goals for mutual benefit to yourself, us (as creators) and the viewers who pay all of our bills.
@@creatorinsider Hi there, i have two questions that i will be appreciated if you answered. Are you a youtube employee? Could it be possible that you have the access to the CEO or manager of UA-cam? I just have some questions about the ads on UA-cam that i would like to mail them and ask! Could you help to provide with their info ,please? Thanks a million
You offer the opportunity to translate the title and description of the videos. But if we do a search with the terms translated we do not find the videos. Videos are referenced only for the first language. Not for other languages. It's a shame because all of these efforts to translate the videos are ultimately useless.
Indeed: my channel is multi-lingual. depending on the content or the language spoken, the "video language" can be either German, English, French or Spanish. I therefore take the trouble of offering title, description, subtitles in several languages, sometimes even more the then 4 I just mentioned. And then, when I view the analytics, I note that that effort is often of no avail.. Therefore: I agree, there should be better connection between youtube search and and the content/description of a video
I could listen to Todd talk about this for hours. I'm so glad a part 2 is on the way. You touched on 'hit rate' and how important it is. I'd love to hear more about this. How can creators can measure themselves on this? How can creators learn how to improve on this?
What about the value in recommending content people don't know they like/want to watch, like when a consumer finds a product they had no idea they needed? Should you also not recommend videos with content type/format they may not have watched before? Would that not increase UA-cam activity and engagement as per UA-cam's overall goal?
I have just ONE question for UA-cam, and it has always been the same through the years: we all know you need at least 100.000 subscribers to get that verification checkmark, however how come A LOT of channels do have it even though their number of subscribers is way less than that? Even this channel is verified, but it is just at 12K. Yes, I know a lot of channels were able to get that in the past just by asking their networks, however, how come so many channels with the verification mark have just recently been opened? Like in 2016. At first, I thought they were like "official channels", recognized by UA-cam. And so you, Creator Insider. But then I look at the description, and you say: "Please note this is not an official UA-cam channel and is an experiment". Ok, so.. How did you get that verification checkmark with less than 100K? I'm asking to everybody, since I see some in the comments as well. One guy is just at 4K subscribers and has a verification mark. What's going on here?
I'm glad to hear that you cannot "buy" your video to appear higher. This is probably the most important factor for the broad success of UA-cam. That creators get rewarded for their creativity rather than anything else. Thanks!
I'm completely sad with this new algorithm. I had multiple videos go viral literally gaining 6-7k views per hour then suddenly in a single hour have them drop to 500-600 views per hour. It happens so frequently that it almost feels like it's on purpose. Like how exactly is a video supposed to fluctuate that much in such a short period of time? I had 4 videos do the same thing in the same day almost at the same time. I truly question the honesty regarding this algorithm because it saddens me to see that small channels, have less chances of growing on UA-cam now unless they are literally uploading content related to other big UA-camrs or music from popular artists like Reaction videos.
Do not say that in Russia the third largest flow in the world, as your employee said at one of the events. But in Russia there is no technical support for authors as such.
Please do not promote clickbait culture by only focusing on titles and thumbnails, please also focus on creative contents, original videos and relevant description, tags. This will help the original content creators like us! 👍😊
Hi We a re a big channel in Brazil and we started to record our videos in 4K quality. We have noticed that it didnt grow our recomendations to new users, we didnt expected that, we expected that our videos should be more watched because it has 4k quality!
Please make something about age restricting videos that respect everything about Community Guidelines. I have videos that were age restricted which have absolutely nothing offensive in them and when i do an appeal i get no explanation just the same copy pasted message : it may not be appropriate for a general audience. Does someone actualy verify these appeals?
Das Video startet und die Erwartung ist hoch... genau so hoch, wie die Vermutung, dass es eine Enttäuschung wird. Schade, dass es keine deutsche Tonspur hat.
2 min in..."less watch time and more of did they like it or not"... YES! Hit the nail dead on because I am a Creator, YPP member AND a UA-cam watcher, and I couldnt agree more. Reason why being that I love a great deal of content that I cannot always finish watching, at least not at the moment being a busy mother of 3 lol. I still thumbs up or save for later to support great creators and great content. PLEASE do indeed pay more attention to that note and not just watch time 😊👍
Speaking as a consumer of youtube, not a content creator, the "not interested" option becomes like a game of whack-a-mole; I'll continuously say I'm not interested, but it just keeps popping up over and over. They keep pushing things that might be passive/veg out entertainment, but not a lot of new discoveries of stuff that I would like or get hooked into. Like, the same clickbait infotainment stuff will pop up, and I feel like youtube is giving me a homework assignment or something. But then I'll watch stuff that I do watch but isn't optimized the best by the creators (like, say, old Sesame Street videos, or well-done essays) and I'll always have to search for the content instead of it popping up organically. I think it's frustrating and leads to a disappointing experience.
I basically just learned that my programming doesn't match the UA-cam algorithm because it's long-form, and viewers who seek out such content are a minority. Huzzah. Long-live the majority.
I've been on UA-cam for 10 years now, creating content. Whilst my videos over the years have never "blown up", they've never struggled to get out there. Now with the Algorithm nowadays, content creators especially the small ones are experiencing growth stunts. I believe the Algorithm and the Sub boxes have some problems with them. PewDiePie has over 57 Million subscribers, he is currently the largest channel on UA-cam, but when you look at his view ratio compared to his subscriber ratio, that's very minuscule to say the least. Another example is I have 575 subscribers, which is no small sum by any means, but when you look at how many views I get 10/575 views per video, isn't fantastic, hell sometimes my videos struggle to reach 10 views. The sub box most definitely isn't working. I tested this by subscribing to myself for 1 month and every time I uploaded, it would take 2-3 DAYS to reach sub boxes, bare in mind, my alt account was only subscribed to the Destron channel. I myself have also been told that my videos do not reach sub boxes or get recommended. A suggestion on how I feel like UA-cam can help out channels: a discover tab. Instead of giving more publicity to the big boys that aren't struggling in the slightest to get views / likes by putting them on the Trending tab, make a discover tab; this tab can filter for what people are looking for. An example: I want a new gaming channel to watch, that's under 1,000 subscribers, enter those details and the algorithm searches the database to match those queries. I get that big channels make UA-cam more money than a 500 subs channel would, but think about this, grow some big channels, then more people will see more ads and then we all win.
Well said. I have more than 5000 subscribers, but getting 100 views on new video is a task for several months. Also my channel is getting thousands of views every month, but only about 150-200 views come from subscribers. I don't get it :D
14:10 this is very important...it's called "view velocity" and what this means is that bigger UA-camrs will almost always win this metric at first. HOWEVER, it does die out over time so older videos will start to lose over newer content.
you have people who are over-advertising on my channel. The problem is the people advertising their product or video dont set an impression amount so my channel is flooded with the same " wix build your own website" over and over, my viewers complain about this all the time, can you please look into setting a FORCED Impression amount per viewer so my viewers arent so upset with the massive ads?
i don't mean to be rude but it sounds like youtube is become a mall, you have to walk past all the shops you don't want in order to reach your destination and by the time you get their you forgot what you came in for.
Well I for one feel like UA-cam has been very kind to me. My first got video got thousands of views (but now it isn't being suggested anymore). I have another video that's doing even better. (I only have 4 videos.) So I guess you just have to hit the right metrics and please the algorithm.
I agree with you . thats all bs. I want to start a free something like this but with freedome and backing up the usa constitution. . anyone ready tk help me i got 10k Lt start
Ok, I have a query about your “iPhone metadata” example. So a video that uses ‘iPhone’ in all it’s titles/tags/etc won’t necessarily rank in search because you don’t just look at metadata but also at how viewers respond to the video. I understand the importance of using both sets of data but surely if video doesn’t show up for it’s intended keyword in search then no-one will be able to see that video to have a positive reaction for it. You could have the greatest video about iPhones the world has ever seen but it’s stuck at the bottom of the search results and since very few people will dig down far enough to find it it'll probably stay there. Seems like you’ve built yourselves a bit of a Catch-22.
That's my thinking as well. It's a shame. When I type a keyword or keywords, I want the most relevant video regardless of anything else. On the other side of the table as a creator, my videos now get 1/2 the views they used to, since this algorithm overhaul. It's sad because I've worked hard to improve and make my content unique and now it's getting shuffled to the bottom.
What is happening to kids content!!!? My channel and the channels of all my peers dropped 65-85% in views and revenue starting on July 10th. While corporate kids content views jumped 100% or more overnight!!! This is our livelihood! We are no longer able to support ourselves or our editors. What is happening!?
Hey Tom and Todd! Thanks for the insight on how things work "inside" YT. There's one question I struggle to find an answer to and it didn't really come up in those three ones of this mini series: If a channel is "old" and hasn't been used for many years and then the creator decides to upload more frequently (really start the channel) - does "the algorithm" judge the channel by it's average performance over all those years or does the over all performance of a channel not influence how the algorithm treats the later uploads. (If You need an example You could look at my channel since I was on YT almost "from the beginning" but only really started grinding a year ago.) Keep rocking!
I spend just as much time watching suggested videos on my Home Page as I do with my subscriptions. The more I watch on the Home page, the better the suggested videos get. And I get to experience something slightly different and a lot of my new subscriptions come from that page. It has gotten to the point where I almost feel we are on the same page to my interests. I think that is pretty neat. Though a suggested video on Laziness popped up last week on my page and I took offence. Like UA-cam was talking to me. Ha Ha!
All of this detailed analysis into what youtube promotes is wonderful. The only problem is that this is the sole way a video is promoted. There used to be a "share" feature. When I liked a video, all of my subscribers could see and were notified in the all activity tab resulting in that video getting thousands of views. If users liked a video, naturally it got lots of views. Now this algorithm plays dictator, telling us "We try to give you what you like!" instead of just letting us have what we like, naturally. The old youtube was much more of a democracy.
how come when you search for "yoga" 90% of the search results is just one huge channel, no wonder it's growing at this speed. how can smaller creator even be seen?
I've been really enjoying seeing the deep dive into all these different categories. Thanks for all your time. This process overview has been very technical as well as informative:
UA-cam never listens. UA-cam changes these algorithms to suit themselves. I have been on UA-cam for almost 11 years and since the introduction of the algorithms, my views, revenue and ability to get my videos to my subscribers have been affected. UA-cam is now only interested in the 18 to 24 market whilst pandering to the big corporations. I was even advised by a UA-cam employee (Partner Manager) last year to rename all my videos...this year UA-cam approached me again and told me I should not have done that. Algorithms can be altered to favour certain demographics, which goes for publishers as well as general users. Now the ad revenue is dwindling, so the money pot is not so big. The algorithms ensure that those at the top of the 'chain' get to keep their snouts firmly in the trough. The recent heavy handed censorship on this site is merely another nail in the coffin of the original UA-cam concept. Broadcast yourself my arse!
ive noticed that my videos aren't getting pushed out because if people search the big channels only show up and im way down at the bottom, im fairly new 1.5 years in and hoping that soon my videos get pushed more. last few videos terrible views...not sure why all of a sudden.
Regarding suggested videos, if they're tailored to "what i like to watch" or "what my subscribers watch", then why is it that i can watch a single video form a single UA-cam content creator, and then their videos will litter my recommended for the next few weeks? I love to watch (and frequently watch) creative videos, DIYs, videos where i get to see the UA-camr's personality rather than a popular video produced to gain views and all, but they're never recommended to me - only very mainstream videos that I really dislike. Over the past few months the recommended page has been useless and quite a pain as it is no longer effective for myself personally, leading me to wonder if this whole "data collection" "super duper effective" recommendation thing really works, or if its just pushing certain types of content or certain people? Linking to this, some very creative videos from very creative, original non-mainstream UA-camrs have been demonetised, pushed down in rankings and are never suggested. Their channels are crashing down because of this. Also, you talked about these surveys. My friends and myself haven't seen any? I'd like to ask what demographic they're sent out to etc because maybe this is why so many people are having issues with recommended/suggested videos.
I think the Algorithm doesn't imply to your channel because the first thing that I notice is that you have Verified Tick sign in front of your channel name and you only 12K subscribers.
I have a UA-cam channel about two years and had a daily audience of 120,000 hits. more than a few times before that same audience fell to 10,000 visits a day. what may have happened to my channel, I do not know why grateful!
So according to 4:42, new algorithm now looks not only for watch time. It also looks for Likes, Dislikes and Comments to suggest video or rate it upper on the search. Is this correct? Because for long time UA-cam experts like Derral Eves telling us that, likes, dislikes and comments mean nothing for the robot. They are only tool for viewers to communicate and engage with the channel. Thanks for your answer.
How did he come up with "72 days worth of content per day" from "over 400 hours per minute"... There are 1,440 minutes in a day and with 400 hours per minute that equates to 24,000 days... Have I misunderstood something?
Why am i only getting my views from 4.3% of my subscribers? I have at the time of writing 113K subs, just think how many views I'm missing. What can be done to encourage more subs to watch?
Loving the new analytics in Beta! Trying to figure out how these algorithms really work, starting to see but wow its mind boggling! For a while I was getting a very high number of suggested videos, now for a few weeks its switched to browse. I'm pretty sure thats a good thing since my actual numbers are gaining momentum! Never had a "trending" video, one day.. one day.. Crystals are trending, its only a matter of time I hope! Doing UA-cam is seriously fun, its like playing a game but its real life, life changing!
I know this may fall on the wrong ears but I figured i'd ask. Has there been a shift in the new Machine learning for demonetization? Seems myself and others have been hit with another wave recently and with no obvious cues as to why things have been demonetized I'm thinking it may be something new picked up by googles advanced machine learning that's misfiring.
They have recently rolled out an appeal process for "soft demonetization" (the yellow $) and the way they train the algorithm is to make it strict at first, then have it learn from appeals. So there is definitely a wave happening right now.
I have and sadly (and understandably) it was far too vague to be helpful with the machine learning being too "dark" on details. Right now false positives are just too rampant.
The answer is no, the only thing that was changed is that they are being more transparent and revealing to creators which videos have limited or no ads based on certain kinds of content that may not be suitable for all kinds of advertisers. 2 days ago I had 91 videos get the circular yellow dollar symbol... did the algorithm suddenly misfire on me and thousands of other channels at the same time? ...No, as I read the article and understood that this was likely already in place behind the scenes at least from when the "adpocalypse" occurred and what simply occurred based on creator feedback was that it was "revealed" to thousands of channels at once whether certain videos were in a limited category or not as far as AdWords goes... as it has been rolling out for about a week or two since the article came out. This means that we now get to appeal them and use the human response they get to teach the AI over time and therefore prevent mistaken demonetizations in the future. Ironically what revealing this information and giving us an avenue for appealing did was cause utter paranoia and misunderstanding from people who simply didn't read the article who believed that UA-cam was deliberately targeting groups of people and demonetizing their videos all at once... I hope that doesn't change their mind about giving creators more information and control in the future.
Keep it real. The same commercial "channels" (actually corporations) trending 24/7 I can even take my time and list some for you... and no matter when you will see this comment and go on trending tab that is "not payed" you will see one or multiple of things that I just listed. Vevo, Late Night Shows (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, LastWeekTonight etc.....different names, same corporate company - HBO) , BBC for Kids aka Brave Wilderness, BuzzFeed, CBS News, The View, Vox When you will go on a trending tab and not see them, then yt trending is not payed.... rn it was so inappropriate for Todd to deny this fact. Trending tab is not because something is about to trend.... but because someone need that to trend. Is it possible to make a restriction for the same channels not to trend more than at least one month? Or it should be renamed UA-camTV so ppl will not confuse that with real independent content creators.
It doesn't surprise me that some commercial channels would be in trending based on the criteria he mentions about having a broad audience and being talked about on the web. I am not sure what country you're in, but in the US, I see a lot of non-corporate channels in the trending list right now: First We Feast, Collin Abroadcast, ThreadBanger, AsapSCIENCE, Jaclyn Hill, Matt Stonie, Shay Mitchell, ExplosmEntertainment, Abroad in Japan, Desi Perkins, boogie2988, Channel Awesome, Shane, The School of Life, Carli Bybel, Tiffany Willis, PewDiePie, watch life 3, Wong Fu Productions, Matthew Roberts, CupcakeJemma, doddleodle, Numberphile, Jeremy Gabrysch, Grace Helbig,... That's half the list right there, and I haven't even heard of half of these channels before.
That's the problem that I am trying to address! Big corporations like this just "promote" (subboting) their stuff on different social medias and constantly get on trending, in order to eliminate that there needs to be rule to not trend the same sources more than once a month! btw idk why I am not getting notifications that someone replied to me.... another issues with yt but that is a different topic.
Yup I am in US.... and I see the same "Tranding" as you are.... let's open it on Saturday what we see? imgur.com/bbKS3hl imgur.com/sIzLhwY Commercial on top of commercial with corporations dominating this tab.... it's just unfair to call it this way if the majority of the content is not even coming from youtubers that put their time and soul in order to engage with new audience .
I wish you truly understood what you just said.... the name of this website btw UA-cam..... not TVtube... and no I know in fact I am not the only one who is only watching independent content creators because everyone is tired of scripted opinions that are shoved in your face..... UA-cam became what it is now - "giant company", because of independent creators. Not because it was streaming TV shows! If you want to watch TV shows buy cable network or use UA-camRed.... but don't bs ppl that trending is not rigged when other "giant companies" just abusing current system and Google don't do anything cuz most likely they are in the share anyways.
The trending section is not about YOU. It's about the watercooler content. Seems like a lot of people on UA-cam enjoy watching mainstream content. It is no surprise to me that trending includes a good bit of that given how popular it is (but as I listed, it also includes dozens of results which aren't from corporate channels). It seems like you want a different feature that highlights only independent channels and filters out popular mainstream content. In the meantime, you'll probably be less angry if you just ignore the trending section like most others do and focus on the subscriptions and homepage sections which are personalized to YOU.
There's no depth to the suggestions on the Home page and nowhere else you can get broad results on a vague topic, say for example my category of woodworking. It makes sense that if you just search for woodworking you are going to get results from the most appealing channels that the audience respond to. So you can't really search for it, but that makes it very difficult to discover new content. The home page always suggests to me the same videos from the same channels that I am already subscribed to that I already decided not to watch and old videos from the same few channels that I am already subscribed to. There's tons of content on youtube that I would give a chance but there's no way to actually find it even when you are actively looking for it. There really needs to be a space somewhere dedicated to discovering new channels. I've had people tell me on Instagram that they are subscribed to hundreds of channels like mine but only found me on Instagram, even though I've been around for years and had videos perform well for my category.
I can't remember which video it was, but in one of those posted by this channel it assures us that frequency of posting does not affect the algorithm or how many viewers will be offered our videos. It said taking a break would not affect anything and not to worry about maintaining if we need a break. Today, I got a tip from the Analytics page that the recent drop in viewership is "probably due to fewer videos being uploaded recently". So it DOES matter. I'm getting half the average views I was when I posted more regularly. I mean, the factors aren't just kept from us, we're actively mislead.
Thank you so much for this update. It actually answered alot of questions. I gave up trying to figure out the algoritim when i hit 40k subs...whatever im doing seems to be working, however i was surprised to know how often you have to change it. Makes sense though...this is an ever changing market. I do have some quaetions in relation to viewer retention. I was wondering how the retention and view length work in relation to recommendations.
This is great. I'm so happy someone else recommended the series to me. I'm reading the comments and I can't believe a lot of people have such huge egos to believe that they have the best content in the world and UA-cam are playing a harakiri on them not to get big. It takes years of work and perseverance to get your momentum guys! We've got to be humble and accept criticism and advice, focus on creating better content rather than just wanting a magic button that will make your channel the biggest one.
Pela primeira vez nestas mudanças no UA-cam, alguém disse algo tão correto, eu concordo com você, devemos nos esforçar para fazer o melhor, mas nem sempre nosso melhor irá agradar a todos. Seria bom se isso fosse verdade, todos nós tínhamos os melhores vídeos que todos gostamos, mas sabemos que nem tudo funciona para todos.
Great information, thank you. I would love to see a change in the algorithm, however, that helps to drive original content rather than the thousands of variations on a trending topic. Would be great to not have to make several variations of fidget spinner, 1,000 degree knife, 100 layer, etc. videos in an effort to get UA-cam to push your channel out. Trends can definitely be nice but I'd rather see creators rewarded for the effort they put into their own original content.
Basicallly, the algorithm is changing every day, so all that "how to grow your channel" advice is total BS. Just do what you want and hope for the best
Alex Meyers well atleast you get more chances of being "lucky" hahah!
Alex Meyers haha I thought the same thing 😂 I'm sick of watching videos on how to grow your channel it never works 😂😂😂
Make regular content that stands out. Nuff said.
Forget the algorithim just make the best videos you can and the engagment and algorithm will work for you i like how in depth it is no more BS youtubers begging for likes make it to the top..
Pfft, even if you try making the best content you could possibly think of they wouldn't even rank on search pages. YT nowadays is mainly about luck. Hard work doesn't seem to pay off anymore unless you're doing some shady work.
How about you guys just FINALLY fix notifications so that all of our subscribers actually get them. This has been an issue for YEARS (EVEN WITH THE BELL ON) and no one seems to care. If you do, how about you send me an email and we can dig into this issue together.
Agreed!
I've been having the same exact issue. It has become worse since November 2016 to where it's had a huge negative impact on my channel
It's not an issue. They've purposely made a small amount of your subs view your vids to see what traction it gets. If your subs are engaging with your content, YT feeds the video to more subs and the processes begins again.
Just because somebody sub's to your channel, doesn't mean they will enjoy every single piece of content you produce, thus why the above process has been implemented.
100% agreed.
@the-lowdown.com Honestly, thank you. That's the most logical explanation I've ever seen.
It's now impossible to grow a channel with the continuous AL changes. Yet the Trending Page is littered with brand names and Disney trailers. It's not the UA-cam I remember when I started 10 years ago where an everyday person could become famous overnight. I'm tired of the continue funneling of what's obvious paid placement in suggested video lists. I never see stuff from the core HARD WORKING community anymore. Shame on you..Shame.
I agree 100%! I would very much like to see new creators suggested to me rather than Kimmel and Corden!
Exactly, especially of you put time into your vids, like animation. Independent Animation channels have been killed. . .
agree!
It'd sure be nice, even if you still didn't get big, at least know doing something wrong not just being smothered.
That is a great point. Being new now with the ridiculous minimums that were taken away from me, it seems near impossible to achieve. Especially with subs.
the algorithm changes every single day so it's impossible to stay up to date. Just concentrate on the content and share with you love and care about. Share your PASSION
"Trending" should be renamed to "Staff Picks". It would at least be much more honest than what it currently is.
yep, you're 100% right. more and more hollywood and fake pieces of shits. same with youtube rewind.
That's for sure!!
Holy hell biscuits. This.
Actually, it's not staff picks as you call it. This means that you don't even know in what world we live in and what people want to see. All people are like robots waiting for stimulation which is most of the time CRAP VIDEOS. Analyze people around you, TV, go on streets and see that everyone is bored of life because they create their dream world and believe they deserve it by doing nothing.
What's with the biscuits anyway!?! :D
The algorithm works quarterly. From the side of the author I can safely say that the service has become much worse. Not only did you do automatic moderation, which works incorrectly. There is no way to challenge the robot's decisions. I have been waiting for 3 months for a response from a living person. Algorithms had to be tuned to emulation, you do not respect the work of the authors.
I have two channels. One which is suffering from the algorithm and one which is benefiting from it. I guess since there are so many variables and so many changes happening so frequently, we UA-camrs can only create our content to the best of our abilities and hope for the best. From a Creator's standpoint though, it makes UA-cam a platform that is rather volatile and a career choice we don't feel confident we have much control over.
I have one channel with over 80 videos. Some videos get 1000's of views and some videos get next to no views. All of my videos are good it is just up to the algorithm.
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i have been trying to make my videos reach people one of these days i think i will take off but honestly ive been a youtuber for over a year and havent gotten far lol
@@kagedragon I just met my 1K subscribers criteria after 4+ years...so you're in a better shape than me..lol
Now I need the 4K watch time hours
@@MalluStyleMultiMedia omg after four years. The future does not bode well for me. I think the only reason I made it was far as I have so far is because I put my all into UA-cam and like nothing else
Dear UA-cam, Please employ Todd as the face of UA-cam creator help going forward. No BS and extremely thorough explanation from a legitimate SME. THIS is the type of honest video from a very genuine and knowledgeable speaker that we need in order to produce content that aligns with OUR websites goals for mutual benefit to yourself, us (as creators) and the viewers who pay all of our bills.
+AdjrianNickelodeon thx for the feedback. Todd is great not just on this channel but at work too.
Thanks for the hot tip
@@creatorinsider Hi there, i have two questions that i will be appreciated if you answered. Are you a youtube employee? Could it be possible that you have the access to the CEO or manager of UA-cam? I just have some questions about the ads on UA-cam that i would like to mail them and ask!
Could you help to provide with their info ,please? Thanks a million
it should not be called trending. that is misleading. if u wonder why people are confused by trending, this is why, it is very misleading
trending is a myth :|
You offer the opportunity to translate the title and description of the videos.
But if we do a search with the terms translated we do not find the videos.
Videos are referenced only for the first language. Not for other languages.
It's a shame because all of these efforts to translate the videos are ultimately useless.
You're right, I agree
should we be adding translations into our descriptions? or hashtags?
Indeed: my channel is multi-lingual. depending on the content or the language spoken, the "video language" can be either German, English, French or Spanish. I therefore take the trouble of offering title, description, subtitles in several languages, sometimes even more the then 4 I just mentioned. And then, when I view the analytics, I note that that effort is often of no avail.. Therefore: I agree, there should be better connection between youtube search and and the content/description of a video
I could listen to Todd talk about this for hours. I'm so glad a part 2 is on the way.
You touched on 'hit rate' and how important it is. I'd love to hear more about this. How can creators can measure themselves on this? How can creators learn how to improve on this?
What about the value in recommending content people don't know they like/want to watch, like when a consumer finds a product they had no idea they needed? Should you also not recommend videos with content type/format they may not have watched before? Would that not increase UA-cam activity and engagement as per UA-cam's overall goal?
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I have just ONE question for UA-cam, and it has always been the same through the years: we all know you need at least 100.000 subscribers to get that verification checkmark, however how come A LOT of channels do have it even though their number of subscribers is way less than that? Even this channel is verified, but it is just at 12K. Yes, I know a lot of channels were able to get that in the past just by asking their networks, however, how come so many channels with the verification mark have just recently been opened? Like in 2016. At first, I thought they were like "official channels", recognized by UA-cam. And so you, Creator Insider. But then I look at the description, and you say: "Please note this is not an official UA-cam channel and is an experiment". Ok, so.. How did you get that verification checkmark with less than 100K? I'm asking to everybody, since I see some in the comments as well. One guy is just at 4K subscribers and has a verification mark. What's going on here?
my current problem is having a few different types of content on my channel, should i make separate channels or continue trying to grow just one?
I would say separate
Yeeey Tibees!
The feedback loop that they talk about seems to mean that you need viewers, to ensure that you get viewers.
As a Tamil Music label Channel, this content really helps shape our plans for the upcoming time. Thank you guys!!
Who else saw this in Creator Studio?
yeah me 😁
Me too
Same here. Must be an experiment, it worked on me. Glad they shared what is going on in this department.
I did too.
Yep! The title "Decoding the Algorithm" Really got my Attention.👍
I believe that trending is not pay for play because due to FCC rules you have to disclose advertising placement.
I'm glad to hear that you cannot "buy" your video to appear higher. This is probably the most important factor for the broad success of UA-cam. That creators get rewarded for their creativity rather than anything else. Thanks!
I am SO SO SO thankful that you have an 18 minute video on this, and this is just part 1!
I'm completely sad with this new algorithm. I had multiple videos go viral literally gaining 6-7k views per hour then suddenly in a single hour have them drop to 500-600 views per hour. It happens so frequently that it almost feels like it's on purpose. Like how exactly is a video supposed to fluctuate that much in such a short period of time? I had 4 videos do the same thing in the same day almost at the same time. I truly question the honesty regarding this algorithm because it saddens me to see that small channels, have less chances of growing on UA-cam now unless they are literally uploading content related to other big UA-camrs or music from popular artists like Reaction videos.
We are facing same issue... some of our performing videos those have done well for many months,
suddenly drop from 5k to 500 per hour…
i get 30 views
(per year)
Do not say that in Russia the third largest flow in the world, as your employee said at one of the events. But in Russia there is no technical support for authors as such.
I love how you’ve got a real guy from UA-cam. It’s so nice to know the real truth. Thank you. New subscriber
how to rank video title and tag ??
Please do not promote clickbait culture by only focusing on titles and thumbnails, please also focus on creative contents, original videos and relevant description, tags. This will help the original content creators like us! 👍😊
Hi We a re a big channel in Brazil and we started to record our videos in 4K quality. We have noticed that it didnt grow our recomendations to new users, we didnt expected that, we expected that our videos should be more watched because it has 4k quality!
Please make something about age restricting videos that respect everything about Community Guidelines. I have videos that were age restricted which have absolutely nothing offensive in them and when i do an appeal i get no explanation just the same copy pasted message : it may not be appropriate for a general audience. Does someone actualy verify these appeals?
Do you answer audience comments, can you give your own assessment?
Das Video startet und die Erwartung ist hoch... genau so hoch, wie die Vermutung, dass es eine Enttäuschung wird. Schade, dass es keine deutsche Tonspur hat.
2 min in..."less watch time and more of did they like it or not"... YES! Hit the nail dead on because I am a Creator, YPP member AND a UA-cam watcher, and I couldnt agree more. Reason why being that I love a great deal of content that I cannot always finish watching, at least not at the moment being a busy mother of 3 lol. I still thumbs up or save for later to support great creators and great content. PLEASE do indeed pay more attention to that note and not just watch time 😊👍
Speaking as a consumer of youtube, not a content creator, the "not interested" option becomes like a game of whack-a-mole; I'll continuously say I'm not interested, but it just keeps popping up over and over. They keep pushing things that might be passive/veg out entertainment, but not a lot of new discoveries of stuff that I would like or get hooked into. Like, the same clickbait infotainment stuff will pop up, and I feel like youtube is giving me a homework assignment or something.
But then I'll watch stuff that I do watch but isn't optimized the best by the creators (like, say, old Sesame Street videos, or well-done essays) and I'll always have to search for the content instead of it popping up organically.
I think it's frustrating and leads to a disappointing experience.
I basically just learned that my programming doesn't match the UA-cam algorithm because it's long-form, and viewers who seek out such content are a minority. Huzzah. Long-live the majority.
It's hard to get new viewers these days :/
It is good to see people who work for UA-cam that are older than 18 years. I love stats and math...this was interesting to watch.
Another question I have is when you guys say "what they tend to watch" in the search results, does it do it by watch time, views, or both?
Anyway, just please stop demonetizing videos automatically before they are even uploaded!!
I've got 4k amazing and dedicated subscribers just by making videos I would personally like to watch
This video explains how their experiment messes with our channels
I've been on UA-cam for 10 years now, creating content. Whilst my videos over the years have never "blown up", they've never struggled to get out there. Now with the Algorithm nowadays, content creators especially the small ones are experiencing growth stunts. I believe the Algorithm and the Sub boxes have some problems with them.
PewDiePie has over 57 Million subscribers, he is currently the largest channel on UA-cam, but when you look at his view ratio compared to his subscriber ratio, that's very minuscule to say the least.
Another example is I have 575 subscribers, which is no small sum by any means, but when you look at how many views I get 10/575 views per video, isn't fantastic, hell sometimes my videos struggle to reach 10 views. The sub box most definitely isn't working. I tested this by subscribing to myself for 1 month and every time I uploaded, it would take 2-3 DAYS to reach sub boxes, bare in mind, my alt account was only subscribed to the Destron channel. I myself have also been told that my videos do not reach sub boxes or get recommended.
A suggestion on how I feel like UA-cam can help out channels: a discover tab. Instead of giving more publicity to the big boys that aren't struggling in the slightest to get views / likes by putting them on the Trending tab, make a discover tab; this tab can filter for what people are looking for. An example: I want a new gaming channel to watch, that's under 1,000 subscribers, enter those details and the algorithm searches the database to match those queries.
I get that big channels make UA-cam more money than a 500 subs channel would, but think about this, grow some big channels, then more people will see more ads and then we all win.
Well said. I have more than 5000 subscribers, but getting 100 views on new video is a task for several months. Also my channel is getting thousands of views every month, but only about 150-200 views come from subscribers. I don't get it :D
watch time is more important then views
14:10 this is very important...it's called "view velocity" and what this means is that bigger UA-camrs will almost always win this metric at first. HOWEVER, it does die out over time so older videos will start to lose over newer content.
Very good :)
"Since people have subscribed to those channels, why don't we just give them what they subscribed to?"
YOU DON'T SAY!?!??!?!?!?!!?
you have people who are over-advertising on my channel. The problem is the people advertising their product or video dont set an impression amount so my channel is flooded with the same " wix build your own website" over and over, my viewers complain about this all the time, can you please look into setting a FORCED Impression amount per viewer so my viewers arent so upset with the massive ads?
Thank you for Your Tips and Once again thanks to youtube and google
i don't mean to be rude but it sounds like youtube is become a mall, you have to walk past all the shops you don't want in order to reach your destination and by the time you get their you forgot what you came in for.
Well I for one feel like UA-cam has been very kind to me. My first got video got thousands of views (but now it isn't being suggested anymore). I have another video that's doing even better. (I only have 4 videos.) So I guess you just have to hit the right metrics and please the algorithm.
This algorithm changes like the humor of my wife :)
I agree with you . thats all bs. I want to start a free something like this but with freedome and backing up the usa constitution. . anyone ready tk help me i got 10k Lt start
😊😊😊Nice one
Good info thanks
I would really like that when I amplaying my subscriptions on the subscription tab, that it just went from one to the next.. of the subscriptions.
+Fiberific! Thanks will pass this feedback along
Do I understand correctly that now it's not the time of viewing but the speed of the set of views?
Ok, I have a query about your “iPhone metadata” example. So a video that uses ‘iPhone’ in all it’s titles/tags/etc won’t necessarily rank in search because you don’t just look at metadata but also at how viewers respond to the video. I understand the importance of using both sets of data but surely if video doesn’t show up for it’s intended keyword in search then no-one will be able to see that video to have a positive reaction for it. You could have the greatest video about iPhones the world has ever seen but it’s stuck at the bottom of the search results and since very few people will dig down far enough to find it it'll probably stay there.
Seems like you’ve built yourselves a bit of a Catch-22.
That's my thinking as well. It's a shame. When I type a keyword or keywords, I want the most relevant video regardless of anything else. On the other side of the table as a creator, my videos now get 1/2 the views they used to, since this algorithm overhaul. It's sad because I've worked hard to improve and make my content unique and now it's getting shuffled to the bottom.
What is happening to kids content!!!? My channel and the channels of all my peers dropped 65-85% in views and revenue starting on July 10th. While corporate kids content views jumped 100% or more overnight!!! This is our livelihood! We are no longer able to support ourselves or our editors. What is happening!?
Hey Tom and Todd! Thanks for the insight on how things work "inside" YT. There's one question I struggle to find an answer to and it didn't really come up in those three ones of this mini series:
If a channel is "old" and hasn't been used for many years and then the creator decides to upload more frequently (really start the channel) - does "the algorithm" judge the channel by it's average performance over all those years or does the over all performance of a channel not influence how the algorithm treats the later uploads.
(If You need an example You could look at my channel since I was on YT almost "from the beginning" but only really started grinding a year ago.)
Keep rocking!
DID YOU GOT THE ANSWER?
Why if i unsubscribe from a channel and request to not get this suggestion again, i still repeatedly get the suggestion, especially for "top UA-camrs"
I spend just as much time watching suggested videos on my Home Page as I do with my subscriptions. The more I watch on the Home page, the better the suggested videos get. And I get to experience something slightly different and a lot of my new subscriptions come from that page. It has gotten to the point where I almost feel we are on the same page to my interests. I think that is pretty neat. Though a suggested video on Laziness popped up last week on my page and I took offence. Like UA-cam was talking to me. Ha Ha!
All of this detailed analysis into what youtube promotes is wonderful. The only problem is that this is the sole way a video is promoted. There used to be a "share" feature. When I liked a video, all of my subscribers could see and were notified in the all activity tab resulting in that video getting thousands of views. If users liked a video, naturally it got lots of views. Now this algorithm plays dictator, telling us "We try to give you what you like!" instead of just letting us have what we like, naturally. The old youtube was much more of a democracy.
Very interesting stuff! Good to remember that "the algorithm" isn't one big monolithic thing that only does one thing in one way.
I love how this video has a tubebuddy SEO score of 40/100.
The right content, Paul Logan??? And people talking about Science and Literature going down the hill...
No way, José!
how come when you search for "yoga" 90% of the search results is just one huge channel, no wonder it's growing at this speed. how can smaller creator even be seen?
Thanks, Tom. This is exactly the type of insider content that myself (and I'm sure many others) would like to see!
High
UA-cam Algorithm: UA-cam employees answer your questions (part 1). Thank you, very interesting content on the algorithm of You Tube!
I've been really enjoying seeing the deep dive into all these different categories. Thanks for all your time.
This process overview has been very technical as well as informative:
UA-cam never listens. UA-cam changes these algorithms to suit themselves. I have been on UA-cam for almost 11 years and since the introduction of the algorithms, my views, revenue and ability to get my videos to my subscribers have been affected. UA-cam is now only interested in the 18 to 24 market whilst pandering to the big corporations. I was even advised by a UA-cam employee (Partner Manager) last year to rename all my videos...this year UA-cam approached me again and told me I should not have done that. Algorithms can be altered to favour certain demographics, which goes for publishers as well as general users. Now the ad revenue is dwindling, so the money pot is not so big. The algorithms ensure that those at the top of the 'chain' get to keep their snouts firmly in the trough. The recent heavy handed censorship on this site is merely another nail in the coffin of the original UA-cam concept. Broadcast yourself my arse!
ive noticed that my videos aren't getting pushed out because if people search the big channels only show up and im way down at the bottom, im fairly new 1.5 years in and hoping that soon my videos get pushed more. last few videos terrible views...not sure why all of a sudden.
*Please, do option block channel, becouse my daughter always see channel wit not good words!! And I want to block for hes eyes ans I cant!!!!*
Just enable age restriction in settings😊
Regarding suggested videos, if they're tailored to "what i like to watch" or "what my subscribers watch", then why is it that i can watch a single video form a single UA-cam content creator, and then their videos will litter my recommended for the next few weeks? I love to watch (and frequently watch) creative videos, DIYs, videos where i get to see the UA-camr's personality rather than a popular video produced to gain views and all, but they're never recommended to me - only very mainstream videos that I really dislike.
Over the past few months the recommended page has been useless and quite a pain as it is no longer effective for myself personally, leading me to wonder if this whole "data collection" "super duper effective" recommendation thing really works, or if its just pushing certain types of content or certain people?
Linking to this, some very creative videos from very creative, original non-mainstream UA-camrs have been demonetised, pushed down in rankings and are never suggested. Their channels are crashing down because of this.
Also, you talked about these surveys. My friends and myself haven't seen any? I'd like to ask what demographic they're sent out to etc because maybe this is why so many people are having issues with recommended/suggested videos.
This was very informative, thanks for doing the interview.
Tons of channels in my area use my channel name in there meta tags but you suggest them and not me..
Thank you for this video! It was really helpful, cant wait for part 2 :) have a great day
I think the Algorithm doesn't imply to your channel because the first thing that I notice is that you have Verified Tick sign in front of your channel name and you only 12K subscribers.
Thanks for the interview :)
Texas Gal Treasures
I have a UA-cam channel about two years and had a daily audience of 120,000 hits. more than a few times before that same audience fell to 10,000 visits a day. what may have happened to my channel, I do not know why grateful!
So according to 4:42, new algorithm now looks not only for watch time. It also looks for Likes, Dislikes and Comments to suggest video or rate it upper on the search. Is this correct? Because for long time UA-cam experts like Derral Eves telling us that, likes, dislikes and comments mean nothing for the robot. They are only tool for viewers to communicate and engage with the channel. Thanks for your answer.
the most important thing of ALL is INTERACTION.. period :)
How did he come up with "72 days worth of content per day" from "over 400 hours per minute"... There are 1,440 minutes in a day and with 400 hours per minute that equates to 24,000 days... Have I misunderstood something?
you dispelled so many myths with this video. Thanks!
Wait... What?
Why am i only getting my views from 4.3% of my subscribers? I have at the time of writing 113K subs, just think how many views I'm missing. What can be done to encourage more subs to watch?
FANTASTIC INFORMATION!!!! thanks for the shower of gold nuggets!
Loving the new analytics in Beta! Trying to figure out how these algorithms really work, starting to see but wow its mind boggling! For a while I was getting a very high number of suggested videos, now for a few weeks its switched to browse. I'm pretty sure thats a good thing since my actual numbers are gaining momentum! Never had a "trending" video, one day.. one day.. Crystals are trending, its only a matter of time I hope! Doing UA-cam is seriously fun, its like playing a game but its real life, life changing!
Waiting for part 2
Was very interesting to get a comprehensive breakdown of how everything works and their reasoning for doing so!
Thank so much for this explanation. I've been desperate to hear about this so called algorithm that controls everything
Very interesting video, thank you guys for taking the time to explain us how UA-cam works. It was very pedagogic !!! Thank's again
Great video as always. Lots of interesting take aways.
hey dear kati
UA-cam's "change speed" option is the best thing ever.
Great video with great info. Nothing wrong with learning some behind-the-scenes!
I know this may fall on the wrong ears but I figured i'd ask. Has there been a shift in the new Machine learning for demonetization? Seems myself and others have been hit with another wave recently and with no obvious cues as to why things have been demonetized I'm thinking it may be something new picked up by googles advanced machine learning that's misfiring.
They have recently rolled out an appeal process for "soft demonetization" (the yellow $) and the way they train the algorithm is to make it strict at first, then have it learn from appeals. So there is definitely a wave happening right now.
+Anthony Smith yes I did a video last week on the enhanced meaning for the yellow icon and appeals it allows. Check it out :-)
I have and sadly (and understandably) it was far too vague to be helpful with the machine learning being too "dark" on details. Right now false positives are just too rampant.
The answer is no, the only thing that was changed is that they are being more transparent and revealing to creators which videos have limited or no ads based on certain kinds of content that may not be suitable for all kinds of advertisers.
2 days ago I had 91 videos get the circular yellow dollar symbol... did the algorithm suddenly misfire on me and thousands of other channels at the same time? ...No, as I read the article and understood that this was likely already in place behind the scenes at least from when the "adpocalypse" occurred and what simply occurred based on creator feedback was that it was "revealed" to thousands of channels at once whether certain videos were in a limited category or not as far as AdWords goes... as it has been rolling out for about a week or two since the article came out. This means that we now get to appeal them and use the human response they get to teach the AI over time and therefore prevent mistaken demonetizations in the future.
Ironically what revealing this information and giving us an avenue for appealing did was cause utter paranoia and misunderstanding from people who simply didn't read the article who believed that UA-cam was deliberately targeting groups of people and demonetizing their videos all at once... I hope that doesn't change their mind about giving creators more information and control in the future.
They're probably only even doing anything because of the ZombieGoBoom lawsuit...
72 hours of videos every hour, my g*d it's normal that "small creators" such as me struggle with the exponential development !
Great discussion.
2 of my videos just got hit with limited ads, could you do a manual review please?
Keep it real. The same commercial "channels" (actually corporations) trending 24/7 I can even take my time and list some for you... and no matter when you will see this comment and go on trending tab that is "not payed" you will see one or multiple of things that I just listed.
Vevo, Late Night Shows (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, LastWeekTonight etc.....different names, same corporate company - HBO) , BBC for Kids aka Brave Wilderness, BuzzFeed, CBS News, The View, Vox
When you will go on a trending tab and not see them, then yt trending is not payed.... rn it was so inappropriate for Todd to deny this fact. Trending tab is not because something is about to trend.... but because someone need that to trend.
Is it possible to make a restriction for the same channels not to trend more than at least one month? Or it should be renamed UA-camTV so ppl will not confuse that with real independent content creators.
It doesn't surprise me that some commercial channels would be in trending based on the criteria he mentions about having a broad audience and being talked about on the web.
I am not sure what country you're in, but in the US, I see a lot of non-corporate channels in the trending list right now: First We Feast, Collin Abroadcast, ThreadBanger, AsapSCIENCE, Jaclyn Hill, Matt Stonie, Shay Mitchell, ExplosmEntertainment, Abroad in Japan, Desi Perkins, boogie2988, Channel Awesome, Shane, The School of Life, Carli Bybel, Tiffany Willis, PewDiePie, watch life 3, Wong Fu Productions, Matthew Roberts, CupcakeJemma, doddleodle, Numberphile, Jeremy Gabrysch, Grace Helbig,... That's half the list right there, and I haven't even heard of half of these channels before.
That's the problem that I am trying to address! Big corporations like this just "promote" (subboting) their stuff on different social medias and constantly get on trending, in order to eliminate that there needs to be rule to not trend the same sources more than once a month!
btw idk why I am not getting notifications that someone replied to me.... another issues with yt but that is a different topic.
Yup I am in US.... and I see the same "Tranding" as you are.... let's open it on Saturday what we see?
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Commercial on top of commercial with corporations dominating this tab.... it's just unfair to call it this way if the majority of the content is not even coming from youtubers that put their time and soul in order to engage with new audience .
I wish you truly understood what you just said.... the name of this website btw UA-cam..... not TVtube... and no I know in fact I am not the only one who is only watching independent content creators because everyone is tired of scripted opinions that are shoved in your face.....
UA-cam became what it is now - "giant company", because of independent creators. Not because it was streaming TV shows! If you want to watch TV shows buy cable network or use UA-camRed.... but don't bs ppl that trending is not rigged when other "giant companies" just abusing current system and Google don't do anything cuz most likely they are in the share anyways.
The trending section is not about YOU. It's about the watercooler content. Seems like a lot of people on UA-cam enjoy watching mainstream content. It is no surprise to me that trending includes a good bit of that given how popular it is (but as I listed, it also includes dozens of results which aren't from corporate channels). It seems like you want a different feature that highlights only independent channels and filters out popular mainstream content. In the meantime, you'll probably be less angry if you just ignore the trending section like most others do and focus on the subscriptions and homepage sections which are personalized to YOU.
There's no depth to the suggestions on the Home page and nowhere else you can get broad results on a vague topic, say for example my category of woodworking. It makes sense that if you just search for woodworking you are going to get results from the most appealing channels that the audience respond to. So you can't really search for it, but that makes it very difficult to discover new content. The home page always suggests to me the same videos from the same channels that I am already subscribed to that I already decided not to watch and old videos from the same few channels that I am already subscribed to. There's tons of content on youtube that I would give a chance but there's no way to actually find it even when you are actively looking for it. There really needs to be a space somewhere dedicated to discovering new channels. I've had people tell me on Instagram that they are subscribed to hundreds of channels like mine but only found me on Instagram, even though I've been around for years and had videos perform well for my category.
Great info here guys! Very helpful. Thanks so much.
Thank you....
Very interesting content here. This helps a lot to explain how and why things happen the way they do.
yea it makes a lot of sense, youtube will pick up what you should watch not what you want to watch. It makes sense
I can't remember which video it was, but in one of those posted by this channel it assures us that frequency of posting does not affect the algorithm or how many viewers will be offered our videos. It said taking a break would not affect anything and not to worry about maintaining if we need a break. Today, I got a tip from the Analytics page that the recent drop in viewership is "probably due to fewer videos being uploaded recently". So it DOES matter. I'm getting half the average views I was when I posted more regularly. I mean, the factors aren't just kept from us, we're actively mislead.
Thank you so much for this update. It actually answered alot of questions. I gave up trying to figure out the algoritim when i hit 40k subs...whatever im doing seems to be working, however i was surprised to know how often you have to change it. Makes sense though...this is an ever changing market. I do have some quaetions in relation to viewer retention. I was wondering how the retention and view length work in relation to recommendations.
The content under the "Trending" tab is not what I want to watch... and it lasts for several days if not weeks.
Very informative. I love that this channel exist! I gain a lot from this!
13:20 "In general, we're gonna find videos that match that query, either in the title or descriptions..."
This is great. I'm so happy someone else recommended the series to me. I'm reading the comments and I can't believe a lot of people have such huge egos to believe that they have the best content in the world and UA-cam are playing a harakiri on them not to get big. It takes years of work and perseverance to get your momentum guys! We've got to be humble and accept criticism and advice, focus on creating better content rather than just wanting a magic button that will make your channel the biggest one.
+Beto's Vegan Kitchen thanks for the encouragement and so glad you discovered our channel! Welcome!
Beto's Vegan Kitchen Probably the best, most honest commentary on this video.
Pela primeira vez nestas mudanças no UA-cam, alguém disse algo tão correto, eu concordo com você, devemos nos esforçar para fazer o melhor, mas nem sempre nosso melhor irá agradar a todos. Seria bom se isso fosse verdade, todos nós tínhamos os melhores vídeos que todos gostamos, mas sabemos que nem tudo funciona para todos.
Great information, thank you.
I would love to see a change in the algorithm, however, that helps to drive original content rather than the thousands of variations on a trending topic. Would be great to not have to make several variations of fidget spinner, 1,000 degree knife, 100 layer, etc. videos in an effort to get UA-cam to push your channel out. Trends can definitely be nice but I'd rather see creators rewarded for the effort they put into their own original content.