Channel page: https://www.youtube.com/acerthorn
I remember a few weeks ago when a youtube employee over at the "Creator insider" channel said that "youtube nirvana" (aka snowball effect, getting thousands of views a week) was "high CTR and high view duration." See
In that case, how come my channel isn't blowing up? Because according to those two metrics, my channel is indeed performing!
In the last 90 days, I've gotten a 3.5% CTR (which is well within youtube's recommended range of 2-10%) and an average view duration of 7:52 - https://i.postimg.cc/c4h9vtVn/Last-90-Days.png
In the last 28 days, I've gotten a 4.0% CTR and a 8:07 average view duration - https://i.postimg.cc/DynpfPYh/Last-28-Days.png
So not only is my channel performing within youtube's specified parameters, but my performance is steadily increasing!
But, because I only got 122.5K impressions in the past 90 days, that means I only got 4.3K views over the past three months. If these two parameters really are what's needed to unlock "youtube nirvana," then shouldn't I have gotten at least a couple million impressions?
But ok, maybe when youtube says "high CTR," they mean a CTR that's even better than the recommended 2-10% range. In that case, shouldn't my Skyrim Retrospective video (found here:
) at the very least be blowing up? As you can see from this screenshot ... https://i.postimg.cc/WssxsTQZ/Skyrim-Retrospective-WTF.png ... that video has more than 10% CTR and an average view duration of more than 20 minutes!
My Skyrim Retrospective is already heavily optimized for search, as you can see from this screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/kg8yxVHs/Skyrim-Retrospective-Tags.png
That's a lot of green numbers, right there! Clearly, lack of SEO isn't the problem here!
So why have I only gotten 5.2K impressions for that video over its entire lifetime? Shouldn't I have gotten at least a hundred thousand impressions for that video over the past month, not just over the video's lifetime?
So my lack of growth isn't because of my thumbnails or titles, since my CTR is already good. It's not because my content isn't engaging, because if it weren't, my average view duration would be way smaller than it is, and it isn't because I'm not using SEO properly, because I'm at the top of a large number of high-volume searches!
What the hell am I missing, here? My channel is performing, god damn it! Why isn't it growing?!
I remember a few weeks ago when a youtube employee over at the "Creator insider" channel said that "youtube nirvana" (aka snowball effect, getting thousands of views a week) was "high CTR and high view duration." See
In that case, how come my channel isn't blowing up? Because according to those two metrics, my channel is indeed performing!
In the last 90 days, I've gotten a 3.5% CTR (which is well within youtube's recommended range of 2-10%) and an average view duration of 7:52 - https://i.postimg.cc/c4h9vtVn/Last-90-Days.png
In the last 28 days, I've gotten a 4.0% CTR and a 8:07 average view duration - https://i.postimg.cc/DynpfPYh/Last-28-Days.png
So not only is my channel performing within youtube's specified parameters, but my performance is steadily increasing!
But, because I only got 122.5K impressions in the past 90 days, that means I only got 4.3K views over the past three months. If these two parameters really are what's needed to unlock "youtube nirvana," then shouldn't I have gotten at least a couple million impressions?
But ok, maybe when youtube says "high CTR," they mean a CTR that's even better than the recommended 2-10% range. In that case, shouldn't my Skyrim Retrospective video (found here:
My Skyrim Retrospective is already heavily optimized for search, as you can see from this screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/kg8yxVHs/Skyrim-Retrospective-Tags.png
That's a lot of green numbers, right there! Clearly, lack of SEO isn't the problem here!
So why have I only gotten 5.2K impressions for that video over its entire lifetime? Shouldn't I have gotten at least a hundred thousand impressions for that video over the past month, not just over the video's lifetime?
So my lack of growth isn't because of my thumbnails or titles, since my CTR is already good. It's not because my content isn't engaging, because if it weren't, my average view duration would be way smaller than it is, and it isn't because I'm not using SEO properly, because I'm at the top of a large number of high-volume searches!
What the hell am I missing, here? My channel is performing, god damn it! Why isn't it growing?!
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