STOP! Thumbnails & Video Quality Don’t Grow YouTube Channels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- Here's why having a high CTR and AVD isn't enough to grow your TH-cam channel
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Hey there..
Your quality of video is awesome but your thumbnail can be improved..
I'm a thumbnail edition & if you want my help please reply so we can talk on that..
How can I get more impressions on my videos?
My niche has a large supply, but there is also a large demand, and many other small channels seem to get many views.
I bet you can't explain why only one of my videos has 40k views while the rest of my videos struggle to get a few hundred views...
don't worry - I always watch your videos to the end
This blows my mind. I knew about the first core but I never realized the 2nd core audiance before the "wide reach". Thank you so much for this!
Same.
here's what you didn't account for... The higher view video had a higher view duration in its first 500 views and the CT was higher. After it was served to a broader audience, it didn't convert as well and numbers dropped.
Exactly 💯 that's what happened with my recent video, people don't know about the start stats
I’m pretty sure he did realize that and it’s implied in the video.
You say it doesn't depend on thumbnail, but then at 4:40 you say if only 2 out of 100 people click then it wont be promoted. It all goes back to thumbnail once again because thumbnail and title is what makes people click in the first place.
I don't think it's about the quality of the thumbnail, it's whether you want to click it actually.
@@Woodman3 true
I think the whole point is that content is the reason people want to click your video. Focus on CTR can lead you to pick the wrong content to focus on though.
dont expect him to reply for you because he doesn't know what his talking about.
It's about how you define quality. I think the main purpose of this video is people I think most people need to re-evaluate how the define "good" when they're evaluating their contnet
Awesome video! I just started a TH-cam page. Only 13 subscribers, but I’m going to keep pushing!
Now you have 107. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@nupromises yes, thank you!
I have 6 and I'ma keep pushing too😤😤
Jeet Kun Draw
I like when TH-camrs say it’s not about luck, but it’s about dedication in the grind and what’s funny is I do think you have to put in hard work to increase your chances of getting lucky if that makes any sense. I posted the exact same video and two different TH-cam channels and the only difference was the TH-cam channel that it was posted to the title the tags the time and the hashtags everything else was identical. One video got seven views while the other video got 2500.
Yes, title, the description, the tags it all matters, when the video is done the thumbnail must be interesting and the tags must be relevant there are alot of tools and websites to find and choose good tags for description and even the title, in the end the video's first 30 seconds matter as well, if the you tuber can keep the viewer engaged for 30 seconds then only the you tube counts the view count correctly and sends to other viewers to see, all in all even if 2 videos are giving the same Information with same value in it, the other video might out perform if the you tuber is smart, and even if it doesn't then just upload another video.
interesting, have you considered making a video about these experiments? I would be interested to watch
Luck is just odds and probability. Do some people get "lucky" and do all the right things without knowing, and blow up overnight? Sure, it happens. But you shouldn't bank on it. Just like if you were an investor in the stock market, you should manage your luck. If you work smart, consistently, and hard on the things you can control, eventually you'll get "lucky". There's a cool quote: "luck is just preperation meeting opportunity"
@marcus-jones
Love the analogy and quote! It's definitely so true, but it's always easier to say someone got lucky than the hard truth that they put in all the hard work and jumped at the opportunity when it arises. Thanks again for all the very helpful and informative videos. Has helped me a lot starting off with my channel.
Initally, I felt like a minno in a shark pond at first, now im a tadpole sprouting baby legs just hoping to make my first big leap. Thanks again and keep your analogies coming!
so you posted the same video with exact same title and everything, but one blew up and the other didnt? Whats the takeaway then here? Luck?
I have been on TH-cam for 18 years and my growth has been. Well doesn't reflect the years I have been on TH-cam lol. Your channel is the first channel I have enjoyed watching. You help describe the ins and outs of how to grow your channel. You present it in a clear concise way that doesn't talk down to your audience or is distracting. I thank you. Now I just have to find the time to grind out the data. I honestly have always been so busy with real life or just figured I could not keep up with the bigger channels that it was not a priority. I am finally starting to change that way of thinking. "Old dog new tricks" and all that. Looks like I have number crunching to do. Only have close to 3,000 videos to do it for lol.
I'm a new youtuber and I just enjoy making videos. I checked out your channel and I like what I see, pretty neat content!
18 years is a hell of a lot,
I had an old TH-cam channel that had 1.5k subs from 2009 to 2011. Then i shut it down. Now, im back at it again. This helps.
Sometimes the number of views is lower despite the high ctr, because the niche is smaller, it is a subject that is not of general interest.
That is true, TAM is something to consider. Especially with a large channel like yours. But I think for the vast majority people, their problem isn't that they've hit the ceiling of their niche. Their video just isn't good enough to be promoted to larger audiences
@@Marcus-Jones Thank you for your response, my channel is old and had its glory days, today it is more humble and I always try to learn from those who are coming up with new ideas like you.
Frankly, I’m more interested in making content I’m proud of than trying to employ social science to drive traffic
Why limit yourself? It doesn’t have to be an either/or situation? Your channel is good and would blow-up if you do this
Thanks man! That was very helpful. I'm gonna follow and tell you the results.
I keep trying to figure out what I need to do more in order to work the algos, but this really helps out. I hope that my channel can blow up one day and enjoy the music I make. Congrats on 200k Marcus!
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful
I’ve been using your tips to grow my channel and so far so good! I’ve tested multiple Thumbnails and tittles. The more you spark curiosity the better you do ❤ Good luck to everyone trying to make it on TH-cam ❤❤😊
I checked your ASMR channel and you are under rated!!! Your latest thumbnails and Tittles are interesting! Keep it up 🙏🏽
Nice channel, just subbed ❤
@@TheGiggles713check me out too while you can 😊
@@pinballjunkiescheck my stuff out too don’t subscribe though unless you actually like the content just let me know what to improve on
Wow interesting
When i was just scrolling through your homepage ,trying to find tips for my channel.I found this video and i decided that i dont care about thumbnail quality but i just watched it to see if it would help,and it actually got me more views and impressions!
Creators expend so much money on video for a few views, thats insane, my best advice if you are beginner, keep it simple.
Yeah, my most viewed video is one of my simplest, if not the simplest one. I did not even create a custom thumbnail (because I did not know back then).
@@aracnolocoThe only video on my channel that the algorithm decided to blow up is objectively the most boring shit
bro how do u have 10 mil subs u barely have any views
@@o_o9039 Did you believe in Shadowban?
Dude, here I am producing my extremely high quality first TH-cam video at a cinematography level and your video comes out and tells me quality is not necessary?!!! COME ON!!!
Your channel helped me grow so much last year I can’t wait to see what happens this year
So glad to hear that, good luck in 2024
We will all get there; let’s keep going🙏🏾☺️
Dude, I have been using your channel to grow for the past month. Hit the point where I have a subscriber a day
Nice!
That’s awesome dude, congrats. Hoping that’s me in the next few months 🔥
Nice work man, 1 sub a day is an accomplishment!
@@Marcus-Joneswoah dude you commenting is huge!
We get so much information about this stuff. It is so difficult to know what to believe. What I have found anyway, is when I post what I think would be fun to upload, it tends to get more views.
9:47 Mind blowing information and so much richer than what we get from the all fluff, “scream at you until you do the thing” gurus who never REALLY explain the jargon. Thank you for the transparency. You got my sub!
I'm NEW here but this was by far the most clearest and simplest way at describe click through rate, thank you for this! Great video!
Glad you liked it!
I appreciate channels like yours sharing this knowledge with us newbies. My brain stopped working but I'll be sure to rewatch a few times xD. But really thank you for the hard work put into this informative video :)
just starting my first TH-cam channel where I make horror game videos, I can not wait to grow my channel and improve!!!
I think video games music is copyrighted. I know a youtuber who has his own horror music playlist for tense situations and other fitting music for each section/game which he can play along while playing in the game...so not getting copyright strikes. Hope, this might help.
@@diemaerchenhexeliestvor that is very interesting what's his channel name?
love this video, really gave me a better understanding of the youtube object
alternative title after finishing the video (wouldn't get as many views though lol)
STOP! Thumbnails & Video Quality Do Grow TH-cam Channels (but in a more complex way than two stats on your analytics page describe)
Congratulations on reaching 200k! Keep up the good work. I've learned so much and I keep coming back to your channel to get more information. Awesome!
Thank you, apprecaite it
Wow, perfect timing as I’m becoming more consistent with my channel. A great explanation for things I was struggling to fully understand so thank you!
We will all get there; let’s keep going🙏🏾☺️
I appreciate how much research you do! :)
This was very helpful! Let’s all grow our channels together and just enjoy the progress. :)
I got tired on working on complicated and bunch of photos thumbnails. Now I just use a straightforward title, single photo, blend and a few words.
*Great advice, and its so true its a few things that see what makes you views and continue doing that*
I think offering a course like everyone is so touty and overdone. Seems scammy. BUT you offering CLEAR instructions and a refund is very admirable. I love that idea. Thanks for being a straightforward, normal dude who does his best to help the little guy.
Congrats on 200k🔥🔥
Thank you :)
A great video! This must be the most useful video I've wayched by now. Great job done, I'm really glad that I'm subscribed to this channel.
Some of my most popular upload have one of the worst view retention + click rate. I understood it’s because they are “getting super recommended to strangers” vs my core audience who do stay all the way. These videos still get views regardless.
So we are talking about the number of impressions vs the actual CTR Cool from this perspective!
I love when i get ads on this videos, those ads are you, in relation to these subjects lol
This is super helpful! Thanks for putting all of this information into a digestible format.
We will all get there; let’s keep going🙏🏾☺️
1:40 It’s not average view duration that matters it’s average percentage viewed…. Those can sometimes have a huge difference
TH-cam measures multiple viewer behaviours, not only 2. For example, how long they watched, how many videos they watche after your video, did they leave the platform after your video or not. If you don´t know it, the data can be confusing. The main focus is viewer satisfaction.
Your Thumbnail is a perfect example how a thumbnail should be, most TH-camrs now open their mouth in every thumbnail acting shocked 😂 it’s soo cringe
What is the white board you are using?
good job Marcus, thinking out of the box
It’s harder for a type beat channel because naturally people leave after so long and where it’s repetitive it’s very hard to find out what made them leave unlike a dynamic video where you can see the chapters and points that are not desirable. Idk how I made one of my videos do almost 500 views in 5 hrs but after that it’s been down hill again. I’m hoping and praying. My beats are just as good as some of the producers in my niche if not better. I’m almost convinced some of it’s luck because some new channels blow where others don’t and restart. Consistency is always good.
Same boat.. been uploading consistently on 2 different channels for over a year and I got the initial push every new channel gets but now I'm just uploading to get 300-400 views and then the beat stalls.. stats are pretty good but no blessing from the algorithm. Things have changed massively since 2020-2021 when it looked like stats actually mattered for YT to get impressions. Now it looks like nothing really works anymore.
Just keep at it man. We're at least getting better beat by beat.
Sorry to hear to man. Def more success if getting email list, networking, selling/promoting kits and free stuff. A lot of producers can't be successful with a type beat channel but make a living. It's possible!@@DrDeeeeep
Can't believe how engaging this was by you simply using white board 10/10 for basic but comprehensive. Maths seems to make sense too cheers
Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment. Appreciate the kind words
The thing that is so annoying is that there are ppl who search for small channels and dslike a lot of their videos wich makes the algorithm think its a bad video wich just ruins everything
@Marcus Jones does TH-cam suppress or not push videos that get flagged for a copyright strike right away? Like if I upload and content ID immediately flags my video, is the video just automatically basically dead with no views from there on because it got flagged just or unjustly? Or does stuff like this not affect the videos performance at all in terms of views and being pushed by the algorithm?
Nope, shouldn't affect performance. Unless the content gets limited in certain countries
Is there any way to "save" or reinvigorate a video that's flatlined? I upload once a month; decent titles, thumbnails, imo solid content... But last video flatlined after a week. Is there anything creators can do to breathe some life back into videos that no longer get promoted?
Good question
I didn’t do research, but I had a feeling this was happening. I’ve seen crap channels with very poor and boring videos with poor production value, get picked up. I KNOW of a person who’s channel (not videos) did well sub-wise, but he has barley any views on videos too. TH-cam doesn’t promote quality like you think they should.
Great video Marcus, I'm really struggling with titles right now just when I thought I had momentum. I've been using google docs, trends, TubeBuddy, TH-cam and I feel like I'm getting worse with my titles when I know my videos are getting a little better each time. This is crazy I feel like I would be better off with no tools like I did in the beginning and just guess for the most part and it was ok. Now I have data for retention but titles are killing me! I look at youtube data and now I'm changing titles probably too often. I HAVE NOT FOUND ONE DECENT VIDEO ON MAKING GOOD TITLES! It seems all YT Teachers say exactly the same thing to make good titles. They go through the motions, but they don't get into the details and the numbers and what they represent especially with the YT help tools apps and services. So many tools and so little advice. I enjoyed the video thanks
Love your style of teaching! Thank you.
About to monetize after two months of uploading. 😎👊
Thanks for the tips my friend.
This is good insight. I am also small content creator with mainly some faceless content, and I started posting bunch of Shorts lately. The thing that worked best for me was giving my videos a initial dose of views and likes on fame- ster -social. This caused them to spread everywhere literally, bringing more and more organic views day after day.
You don't have any video's?😂
So… you started view botting?
Nice to know but why the weird and clickbaiting title? Like the info is nice from the video but its different from the title, so idk if next time i will click bc i wont know if the video will be about whats promised.
Thumbnails = grow bc if noone click = no growing
Video Quality = the same, if you dont stay = youtube wont promote it to more = no growing
so Title is for me at least clickbait, and thats not nice
Hey Marcus, I'm watching this video and questioning where did you learn all this information about the TH-cam "test-drive". around minute 03:30 ? Where can we learn more about this? Is this information in TH-cam guidelines or something?
I wanna ask you a question, till now I opened like 7 channel first two days my videos gets like 200 to 400 views then all sudden goes to no view at all next days, after that no matter how many videos I upload they gets zero view and my channel just dies like that, does anyone know why? Becouse algorithm pushes my first uploads and then Becouse of bad rates algorithm things fuc.k this channel im gonna ignore all his new updoates? I really dont know what to do...
This is exactly what I noticed as well. It seems like YT does a same sort of "testing" phase for new channels and if you aren't scoring high enough numbers within an audience category, then YT effectively ends your channel pushing. This made me really think about making higher quality videos instead because YT was basically inflating my channel's worth during it's initial testing phase (seemed like a little over a month since the first upload I did). Or maybe I will just make a whole new channel altogether if making higher quality videos with less uploads doesn't work. Good luck!
As a TH-cam SEO expert, I have solution
Any chance you'd mind sharing your microphone settings on the mic itself as well as OBS? I use the same microphone and haven't found a great way to dial it in. Thanks! great videos!
I have the same mic and did the settings from a different creator who posted the setting on TH-cam. But I am curious as well about his since the voice is amazing 😘😍🙏🏼
I never really got into the analytics much, but I've just checked and my highest Click through rate is my last video which has a 49.6 CTR 158 views and a watch time of 1:12. I think this is my best organic performing video to date, which tells me a lot.
Thanks for this video Marcus, it's opened my eyes a little.
Edit: I've just checked it again and people click off just before it gets to the whole point of the video, which is a clip of a Rocky film skit. I feel they've missed out lol.
I knew all these things but your video helped me connect the dots, thank you 🙏
I'm learning a lot from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
We will all get there; let’s keep going🙏🏾☺️
@@rebeccasafoa yes🙌🙏
Glad to hear it
Great video, I need to do better at analysing my own videos. So focused on trying to get weekly videos that I don’t get time to analyse what I make to improve.
One thing that's worth mentioning is that impressions and clicks from search can drive CTR up, f.ex. if you have a video that dominates a small search term (i.e low search volume), but doesn't preform at all from browse. TH-cam will only show it from search, and it will get clicks from the very limited impression it gets.
That makes sense, thanks :)
Very insightful! This is gonna help so many people!
I just started my channel about relaxation. This helps. Thank you :)
Very helpful, have also tried promo beta, that has had a positive effect, this new nfo will help further, thank you :)
You can't check CTR and AVD without looking the impressions of the video. That's the key on that.
this!
Thanks for this video! We’re at 550 subs now, will try this out to see if it can help us crack 1000! New subscriber here, do keep sharing these type of videos! You def stand out from your competitors and add way better value!!
I have never had a 15% CTR even with a warm audience. My thumbnails and titles must be horrible.
2024 is definitely the year I found out, growing a channel is hard but not impossible.
This makes a lot of sense thank u
Thank you lots for all these videos! I'm trying to start on a AMV channel and I was wondering if all your videos apply to an anime channel?
I watched a TH-cam short that got 58 million views, I started a TH-cam channel and made a nearly identical short, it got 400 views.
As someone who has recently reached 1k and is currently at 3.3k subscribers, I think i know how to *really* grow on youtube
you just have to keep uploading until one of your videos strike the algorithm. for it to do that your video needs to be engaging and have a good thumbnail and all of that stuff. Don’t give up if you wanna pursue youtube. I was uploading for 5 years before i hit my target audience.
hope this helps!!!
Ive actually seen this trend in many small channels. It Takes Just 1 video that goes viral
Started 11 months ago. Got monetized in just under 10 months. Relaxing RDR2 channel. This morning, I think I’m done. The last 2 weeks have been absolutely demoralizing!! I can clearly see my videos are being suppressed. Similar content to mine is seen and watched by hundreds of thousands to millions. I struggle now to be seen with 40 views. TH-cam isn’t even given my videos a real chance. How I got monetized is beyond me. It is truly demoralizing!
Thanks for this video. However! Not sure that the partition corner protruding from your head is a good look.
I’m a simple girl. I like all your colours, pictures and graphs :D here’s hoping the knowledge gets me out of TH-cam purgatory. Is there any way at all the influence who these test audiences are? I have high engagement on my channel when people find me, but it’s tricky trying to become unhidden.
A lot of truth to this. I never really trusted the Gurus anyways. Very good information. 👍🏻
Tell us about dead channels and why to start new channel which website to use in uploading plz ? ❤
Nice video you helped me grow in the past couple of months!
I'm glad to hear that I was able to help you grow! It's always great to know that my content is making a positive impact.
this is assuming that all people are the same, and each impression and viewer is the same... when in fact what matters is having true fans (imo)
Just started TH-cam and been binging your vids for tips, thanks man
You compare two videos regarding view counts. But does time the video exists on the channel count as well. I mean my two most successful videos are 7 years old (and the oldest videos an my channel). So regarding view counts one has to keep the "age" of the compared videos in mind. Ok, if a significantly newer vid is more successful than an older one, then it gets obvious that in the newer vid there is something that made it successful. Thanks for your vid, Marcus.
Very informative! Thank you!!! This is really valuable information. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
OK, this video is great - but I already tried making more videos (as you suggest 12:18) along the same lines as a video that had good views (sculk sensor trap) and turned it into a trilogy of traps. Unfortunately the follow-up videos didn't do as well as the first, and frankly I'm losing heart with making videos. I feel like I'm stuck in limbo at the moment :(
We subbed to you!
Thanks, right back at you. @@pinballjunkies
congrats for the 200k! keep up the messy boards 👍👍
Thank you. Glad you like them haha
Very helpful video thanks ✨🔥
Very Informative and helpful Thanks!:) God Luck Everyone!
Hey mate, so I've been super inconsistent these last 3 or so years on youtube ( Gaming channel) I've recently gotten back into it and ofc my channel is dead. super dead. Do you know if this can be revived or start a new one? I've been uploading long from/ chopping it to shorts to try branch out to newer viewers but it isnt helping much. Any advice would be amazing man
Ok good! I tried creating a thumbnail…didn’t download over to my first video 😂 Great video @Marcus Jones
Great video! Very helpful! 😊 Thank you! ❤
Great video man. Very helpful and insightful.
Another great video, well explained, great detailed stats!
Thanks, glad you liked it
I noticed originally my let’s play videos and my review videos were doing poorly so I started tracking the statistics on them and I noticed my watch time views rate and retention span on a lot of my newer videos is doing 10 times better than older videos and I still can’t figure out how I’m gonna do better
In your first small channel analysis, you missed a question that should’ve been asked. If it had such a high click through rate, why was it not being pushed out.?
Marcus you are just good 👍 your videos edits are just insane 🙌 but your insights are just invaluable. Hopefully I can grow my channel with time.
Thank you, apprecaite that
Best explanation of.the TH-cam alogarithm I've seen, simple concise and logical, thanks!
this and another video I saw on vid iq helped me understand so much about when your video drops off and what that means. I’ve had a video do ok then changed the thumbnail and watch it go from the smaller group to 30% of the 100k group.
Very intriguing
67 views is not a coincident btw, if your short is locked at 57/67 after 6-8 hours you posted it, it's dead.
This was amazing, It really is the boring basic stuff that matters the most. I have noticed that videos with more "realistic" thumbnails (ones that look like they were actually taken from the video) do way better than ones that are just images superimposed together. Moving forward thats just going to have to be something that we do.
Bro you got your channel reviewed, did the rewiew benefit your channel?
@@hancraftshreem Hopnestly I appreciated the review they did however, It was more of a "Just keep doing what your doing" review so thats what im doing
Yeah, screenshot/irl thumbnails are often more beleivable to viewers
LOVE YOU VIDEOS MAN I HOPE MY CHANNEL WILL GROW UP LIKE THIS ONE DAY 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!