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Honestly you need your video to be getting thousands of views a day to try and gain traction off it. A few hundred a day isn't really enough to cut it. Lower numbers don't really give you (good) flow-through. You also need that momentum to last at least several days, because of this next point:
A featured playlist actually works for high-ranking videos. If you have a featured playlist and your videos are actually "popular," the up next video in the suggested tab WILL be your featured playlist, sometimes with even your playlist itself appearing below that.
But, a new video typically tends to take 2-3 days to become the "next up" video in a featured playlist, even on huge channels with tons of traffic, hence your original gateway video needs to keep its momentum (in other words, traffic), until your new video can get latched onto it as the "up next" video. Of course it also really helps when your new video is also pretty popular and doing well. But if you have a video getting thousands of views and your new video gets featured next to that video, it will get traffic to flood to that video (guaranteed, I've seen this happen many times already).
So if you can keep capitalizing off of this and keeping the suggested views flowing, you can literally create a stepping-stone pattern with each new video you release. And since these videos are getting a lot of views because traffic from your own videos is driving traffic to your other videos, YT's own promotion will kick in and your videos will end up on the homepage as well (at least for a while). But what's important is you basically have to make the video coming after the popular one something a viewer would see in the sidebar and click while/after watching the popular video. So in that sense if you're in it just for the $, that's when you start trying to make something that will cause a chain of clickthroughs, rather than simply making whatever you feel like making.
It's important your vids are actually getting decent watchtime or clickthrough or whatever stats YT uses though, because if YT does start to promote your stuff and it underperforms, get ready for those vids to be dropped like hot potatoes, and the chances for them being promoted again at some later point become pretty bleak.
A featured playlist actually works for high-ranking videos. If you have a featured playlist and your videos are actually "popular," the up next video in the suggested tab WILL be your featured playlist, sometimes with even your playlist itself appearing below that.
But, a new video typically tends to take 2-3 days to become the "next up" video in a featured playlist, even on huge channels with tons of traffic, hence your original gateway video needs to keep its momentum (in other words, traffic), until your new video can get latched onto it as the "up next" video. Of course it also really helps when your new video is also pretty popular and doing well. But if you have a video getting thousands of views and your new video gets featured next to that video, it will get traffic to flood to that video (guaranteed, I've seen this happen many times already).
So if you can keep capitalizing off of this and keeping the suggested views flowing, you can literally create a stepping-stone pattern with each new video you release. And since these videos are getting a lot of views because traffic from your own videos is driving traffic to your other videos, YT's own promotion will kick in and your videos will end up on the homepage as well (at least for a while). But what's important is you basically have to make the video coming after the popular one something a viewer would see in the sidebar and click while/after watching the popular video. So in that sense if you're in it just for the $, that's when you start trying to make something that will cause a chain of clickthroughs, rather than simply making whatever you feel like making.
It's important your vids are actually getting decent watchtime or clickthrough or whatever stats YT uses though, because if YT does start to promote your stuff and it underperforms, get ready for those vids to be dropped like hot potatoes, and the chances for them being promoted again at some later point become pretty bleak.
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