A Test - Does Promoting = Less Views?...

[Paulie Popcorn]

Not mention, not all your subs get notified that you posted a video. This is something YT is working on.

 

[YouTuber1978]

It will work. Just give it time. I would just leave this video alone. If you check the analytics on it every day it will drive you crazy. Give it a few months and watch what happens

 

[just Moto]

Not mention, not all your subs get notified that you posted a video. This is something YT is working on.

Yeah it's a messy state of affairs t

It will work. Just give it time. I would just leave this video alone. If you check the analytics on it every day it will drive you crazy. Give it a few months and watch what happens

Yeah. Time to forget an start on next weeks edit before they cut me open next week and I'm stuck youtubing with one arm in a sling for a couple of months lol

 

[CharlieDaDog]

I think you did a great promotion here when you mention about it

 

[Uncivilized Elk]

I appreciate that you're doing this but unless we get a decent sample size (with all the random factors out there that sample size would have to be fairly huge) and run statistical tests on the outcome comparing just a few videos to each other won't tell us all that much...

 

[just Moto]

I appreciate that you're doing this but unless we get a decent sample size (with all the random factors out there that sample size would have to be fairly huge) and run statistical tests on the outcome comparing just a few videos to each other won't tell us all that much...

Good thing I have about 100 standard promotion uploads to compare it to then

 

[AseAndBaconGaming]

I feel like the smaller you are, the longer you have to wait, and then it gets easier. I think promoting occasionally is okay so long as you aren't just spamming on other people's videos. I mean I'm a bit more patient than some of my youtubing friends so if someone is subbed to me and at one point goes "Hey, can you give me feedback on my channel?" I don't mind going to check it out and sharing it if I enjoy. Though I do know I have some fellow youtuber friends who will ignore people who promote on their channels, which may be why sometimes more promotion = less views? Perhaps the method is what matters.

 

[WilliamRayWalters]

e want youtube to recognise our video as one that's well watched so they promote it for us... so maybe it is best just to leave it up to our loyal subscribers who WANT to watch the video that way the video is being watched to the end and getting a high retention rate.

If you promote it properly and in the right spots (relevant niche communities or FB pages (depending on subject matter), for example) and position it in such a way that the potential viewers know exactly what to expect, you should still get a very good retention rate for your videos through that promotion. The problem is that people don't do that. They'll just post 'hey, check out my video' with a link on as many random FB pages or forums as they can and then they'll be surprised when that promotion results in little subs and horrible retention. If they post something like this - "If you like 100% objective, thorough, and entertaining mobile electronics reviews, check out my new video on the Iphone 14. I'm sure you'll like it - LINK". A person won't get nearly as many overall clicks using the copy in the second example, but anyone who does click over will be pretty highly targeted, much more likely to subscribe, and much more likely to watch more of the video in question.

I honestly only think promotion is a bad idea when you're not doing it right and haven't done your homework. Just my opinion though.

 

[just Moto]

Alright, it's been a month. I held off promoting the vid using only subscribers to generate watch time and likes and the end result was it
DID NOT WORK!

Both vids were very similar content and uploaded 1 week apart. Similar tags, description etc. The first one was promoted with maybe 30 links which as you can see keeps a wave of views coming in... without the initial promotion the 2nd one just flat lined after the initial subscriber viewing.

CONCLUSION: PROMOTE YOUR VIDEOS!

 

[kami]

@just Moto Thanks so much for posting your results! Super helpful information and very interesting to see I've been playing around with this on my own channel, not in the same exact way, but I've also noticed a massive difference between promoting and not promoting. It's much more intriguing to see this done with a more popular channel though.