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Do you ever publish a video, and think to yourself "this one will be a hit"?
Obviously, sometimes we're wrong about our predictions, but other times we might be spot on. I usually base my confidence level in a video on the amount of views it gets in the first 24-48 hours. If there's a lot of views, the video usually does well in the months to come.
I remember I posted a video of me giving an expensive item (from World of Warcraft) to my brother for his birthday, and it got around 20,000 views immediately because I posted it on Reddit. It's now just under 40,000 views. I was super confident about that video, but unfortunately it never reached the amount of views that I was hoping for. 40k views is great, and so is the 20k it got shortly after I uploaded it...but I was hoping to hit 100k+ on that video.
Other times, I have been wrong because I spent a short amount of time on a video and I never would have thought it would be a success, only to see it be one of my most popular videos.
Right now I am fairly confident in my newest video. I was thinking it would reach 1,000 views in the first 24-48 hours, but I've actually just hit over 800 views in the first 2.5 hours!! I am so excited because I think I could hit 2-3k views on this video by tomorrow, but we'll see! Most of my other videos of this type (same as newest one) reach around 20k+ views, with my most popular one (for this type of video) hitting over 400k views. Fingers crossed!
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So, my predictions were pretty spot on for the latest one. I was pretty sure it would do well because of the video being pretty "feel good" in nature, and the style my subscribers enjoy. The numbers are looking good. 8 and a 1/2 hours in, and it's at 2100 views! So, I'm fairly sure this video should have no issue reaching 20-30k views this month. I'm excited, but obviously I can't forget about the numerous videos that flopped.
Obviously, sometimes we're wrong about our predictions, but other times we might be spot on. I usually base my confidence level in a video on the amount of views it gets in the first 24-48 hours. If there's a lot of views, the video usually does well in the months to come.
I remember I posted a video of me giving an expensive item (from World of Warcraft) to my brother for his birthday, and it got around 20,000 views immediately because I posted it on Reddit. It's now just under 40,000 views. I was super confident about that video, but unfortunately it never reached the amount of views that I was hoping for. 40k views is great, and so is the 20k it got shortly after I uploaded it...but I was hoping to hit 100k+ on that video.
Other times, I have been wrong because I spent a short amount of time on a video and I never would have thought it would be a success, only to see it be one of my most popular videos.
Right now I am fairly confident in my newest video. I was thinking it would reach 1,000 views in the first 24-48 hours, but I've actually just hit over 800 views in the first 2.5 hours!! I am so excited because I think I could hit 2-3k views on this video by tomorrow, but we'll see! Most of my other videos of this type (same as newest one) reach around 20k+ views, with my most popular one (for this type of video) hitting over 400k views. Fingers crossed!
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edit:
So, my predictions were pretty spot on for the latest one. I was pretty sure it would do well because of the video being pretty "feel good" in nature, and the style my subscribers enjoy. The numbers are looking good. 8 and a 1/2 hours in, and it's at 2100 views! So, I'm fairly sure this video should have no issue reaching 20-30k views this month. I'm excited, but obviously I can't forget about the numerous videos that flopped.
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