it's a little hard to explain, but from what I understand, they're basically short videos (a series, if you would) that are pretty engaging and generate a lot of traffic into your channel. It's up to you to figure out how to make these kinda videos though.
There's a downside to this that I don't think you've realized - it's great to gain a lot of views and to have your subscriber count grow, but what matters most, at the end of the day, is audience retention. You want to have as many of your subscribers actually watch your videos, comment, and engage, and not just be subscribed to you because you sent them a DM to, or offered a sub4sub (not saying you did that, but for people who do). There are YouTubers out there who have 5000 subscribers, but they get maybe 100 views, and then 2 comments. You want to maximize your audience retention, keep them coming back, and have them actually participate with you in these videos as people - not as a number.
You have a good point there, My audience retention is low about 15% i know it is bad, even if it's low/bad.
It's good you recognize and are checking your audience retention, Billy! Engaging with your subscribers is definitely a lot of fun, so keep it upYou have a good point there, My audience retention is low about 15% i know it is bad, even if it's low/bad.
But I still have lots of subscribers watching my videos and coming back watching my future videos and some of them leave comments on my videos so i am getting likes and comments on my videos and it is great because i love interacting with my subscriberd/viewers.
And some of my videos have over 200 views and my other videos have over 100/150 views.
Now i have nearly 300 subscribers(i have 292 subscribers now) on Youtube now.
All so i never ever do sub4sub, i got some people on Twitter saying to can we do sub4sub and i keep rejecting them.
You should really try this yourself if it works for you or not!
As you long you have good enough (great)video content then it will work but if you have bad quality videos then it wont work.
I used to think the same way. I thought that any way to put my videos out there is worth it. I also had a "greeting" DM set up on my Twitter for some time. I completely stopped using it right after I received a couple of messages that it annoys the s**t out of people. It's no different to "check out my channel" really. And why it's possible to gain some views or even subs through this, it's really not worth it in the long run. It will bring angry people, sometimes even haters, but most of all it will hurt Your audience retention. People just don't like pushing stuff right under their nose, especially if they don't know You.To be honest I disagree with you because since i set up couple auto DM's on Twitter everytime time i get a new follower they get a Auto DM message saying '' Hey thanks for the follow!
And After over 2 weeks of doing this so far i have gained over about 11/15 subscribers i use to have 27/29 subscribers and now i have over 40 subscribers and getting a lot more views on my videos and on my Youtube channel then ever before! and before that for a very long time i was only getting 1/2 subs per month and not getting a lot of views on my videos compared to now...
