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That is absolutely fascinating. The algorithm is beyond messed up. We need Google to move the engineers in charge of the Sensorvault to the Youtube algorithm department.
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That is absolutely fascinating. The algorithm is beyond messed up. We need Google to move the engineers in charge of the Sensorvault to the Youtube algorithm department.
The only thing I can confirm if your video is not in yt kids app it won’t be suggestedYoutube is owned by a US corporation and thus US law controls. Other countries are irrelevant and the majority of advertising money is designed for the US particularly with toys. Nothing will backfire because the problem is already here. Youtube has killed off the under 13 geared channels. No one is getting good views on new videos. Those old video views will eventually die off and all of the channels will be dead. Youtube is telling a massive lie to kid creators as there is some type of filter that is artificially decreasing impression click thru rate and thus resulting in fewer impressions for new videos. This can be proven by purchasing a display ad through google. You can pay to have your video thumbnail shown next to an older popular kid video still getting views. It says ad but to kids they can't really tell the difference and you see what kind of click rate you get. That same thumbnail that Youtube claims was clicked 10% of the time under organic is now up to 30-40% click rate. This is obvious proof that Youtube has an artificial impression filter designed to hurt new kid videos from being successful on the platform. Now this is something they can 100% legally do, but they need to be honest about it. If your channel relies on suggested video and home screen impression suggestion, your channel will be dead very soon. High quality nursery rhyme channels and name brand channels like PBS Kids and Disney will survive because parents manually search for those videos and then hand the device to their kids. Channels that make content geared for 8 and above might survive because those kids can manually search for your channel. If you make content for the 3-7 age range, you are absolute toast.
Too short. So overall watch time it accumulates is too lowI have a 13 day old video with excellent analytics (for me anyway). 98% retention rate and 2 minutes (out of 2:02) average watch time. 25% click through rate.
It has received 30k views, most from an end screen of another video, and less than 5% from suggested. My most successful videos all have the vast majority of their views from suggested.
I can't understand why it hasn't been more successful. It has better key analytics than literally any other video of mine, tens of which have over a million views.
I thought it was a sure thing when I uploaded it but it's not to be. By the way, each individual video is a big deal to me as I only release less than one a month on average (stop motion is time consuming).
I'm just baffled as to why it isn't getting 'in the algorithm'. I've just changed the title - maybe that will help.
It’s either they manually decide if it needs traffic or not and your video was queued, their algorithm takes its sweet time to process each video targeted at kids or video needs to be added to yt kids appLol yeah, that would have to be an improvement.
But would you believe it, my video finally got into the algorithm last night! I waited 24 hours to be sure, but it seems pretty set now. 65% of views from suggested in the last hour (and similar for the last day). Thank goodness. But hard to believe it took a fortnight when the analytics were great from the beginning. The algorithm has certainly changed recently.
Cheers for your replies and interest though.
Too short. So overall watch time it accumulates is too low
Stop motion with toys? mate i respect your craft alot, but i think youtube doesn't give a f**k about the effort it takes to create animated content. I also make animated content, but in 3d, i know how much effort stop motion takes, making it myself in 3d. If they hit my channel im going to be so f*****g depressed, i even thought about ending it all at first, for now im just coping. So many years of work into the channel. So far the channel seems to be performing more or less than usual but im scared that it will get flagged as children targeted as well. I dont want to end up killing myself or something. Those guys are insane doing this to us. I hope I can survive this nonsense. I dont want to work into a s****y job I hate for the rest of my life. Finally I was doing something positive and I feel like its about to end at any minute.
Even if the algorithm by 2020 still leaves you on the safe territory, since my content is watched by plenty of kids, i will never sleep again because you have the FTC looking to ruin your life by suing creators individually.
This will make a shortage of content for kids because no one will risk producing it. This is crazy