Where do you get your views from?

[OrbitGuy]

My traffic sources for views the last 28 days:
Suggested Videos 47%
YouTube Search 29%
Browse Features 13%
External 3.7% (I get more watchtime from endcards though)

Lifetime:
Suggested Videos 38% (~596,000 views)
YouTube Search 36% (~560,000 views)
Browse Features 12% (~180,000 views)
External 7% (~110,000 views)

My top external source is Google Search with ~59,000 views. I only have 257 views from reddit ever lol. Twitter + Facebook + Reddit, is 644 views combined. Maybe I should have done more with that but I didn't need other social media to grow my channel.

As the lifetime stats show I had a lot more success with search views early on and that's how I got my channel rolling. More recently however I've been carried more by suggested videos.
I'm not surprised though, a lot of my videos suggest all my other videos so it's like a loop.

 

[RHINOCELOT]

Dam you guys are killing it haha

 

[Katt Strike]

Most my views are internal through searches but I do get a few from Facebook/Twitter.

It's important to follow the 80/20 rule on Twitter. 80% should not be about you and should be interactions and such with the other 20% being self promotion.


I wish I knew oh good sub Reddits to share content, but Reddit is a tough nut to crack haha

 

[RHINOCELOT]

Yea it sucks lol. I do gaming stuff so I am limited on where I can post

 

[phoebechitchat]

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned before. I've been able to generate significant views by creating playlists. You can search how to optimize playlist on youtube. I hope this helps.

 

[TYTD]

47% through youtube searches
13% through external sites
23% through channel pages
13% through suggested videos
and almost 4% is listed as "Unknown"

I have 2 playlists one seems to do alright (Well I say alright...15 views since I started it 7 months ago) the other does shocking (about 6 views in 6 months) so I could probably look into optimising them...I've also more recently made the concious decision to try my hand at social media (Just to try and improve my traffic scores a bit) but its really too early days to tell if that'll yield any results