First 24 hours of a video

gothtini

gothtini

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I imagine that the first 24 hours in a video's life on youtube is probably the most important time, its fresh on subscription lists etc and probably most likely to get the views. What I'm wondering though, in that first 24 hours, what is a good ratio to get far as views versus subscribers you currently have.

To give you an example I uploaded a video around this time last night and now, as I upload my new video I see that the last one has 31 views while I have 11 subscribers all together and a few of those accounts I know didn't view the video. So by that ratio to me it seems like its a really good thing to have that many more, though small channels do have an advantage with that ratio in a way it seems.

So what do you guys think? Do you think you should strive for say twice your subscribers count? What about more? With the changes to youtube coming up all the time its hard to tell what would be good and what would be bad. Also do you think that the first 24 hours is the most important time? Or do you give the video longer?
 
That depends very much on your content. The average subscriber view rate seems to be around 20%. Howto channels often have less because people often subscribe to a channel only for very specific problems. In contrast vloggy style videos often have a higher rate because people most often subscribe for the person and the content does not matter that much.
 
XXLRay said:
That depends very much on your content. The average subscriber view rate seems to be around 20%. Howto channels often have less because people often subscribe to a channel only for very specific problems. In contrast vloggy style videos often have a higher rate because people most often subscribe for the person and the content does not matter that much.
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Very much so everything that XXLRay says. From what I've seen it's around 10-20% of your subscibership that ends up being the average views for the videos but while you're small it's of course going to blow past that from time to time :)
 
Having in 24 hours 31 views by only 11 subs is good. I have 520 subs and in the 24 hours I usually have around 30-50 views.
For me the subscriber views are not the important ones, but the search views.
So when I get the analytic of the first few days I actually hope to see a lot of search views and not so many sub views because sub views will be very low after a view days. After that all that matters are views through search and suggested videos. So the first few days show me already pretty much whether the video will be "top or flop" on the mid term run.
But as XXLRay said, it always depends on the genre your channel is. For a vlogger all that matters are subs because his videos most probably won't be searched for.
 
From my experience, a video's life time actually doesn't matter that much. Sure, in some cases it does (you're the first to upload a boss battle from a new game).

But mostly, a YouTuber with decent following can stop at your video anytime, it happened to me. Content and promotion take the biggest priority.
 
nad said:
For me the subscriber views are not the important ones, but the search views.
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Makes sense to me, it would mean your video is getting out there more. I'll have to check out the analyctics to see who all are watching the video. How do you feel views from linking the video changes things? Is it as important as search views or less?


I never realized the average amount of views was 10-20% of subscribers, I always thought it would be more. Thank you for letting me know I'll definitely have to keep that in mind as the channel grows so I don't freak out over low views in relation to subscriber number lol.
 
While doing daily vlogs for the past few weeks, I have noticed that my views are less from subs than from searches, and I have just a plain ol' vloggy vlog of my family doing random stuff every day. I can tell which videos don't do as well because the searchable tags I guess aren't as popular. But, honestly, the first 24 hours is always pretty dismal. Usually within 48-72 hours is when I get my most views. It's so hard to figure this stuff out!
 
Everything what the people said plus the algorithm will continue to screen with low intensity your older movies with respect to your new one. If it finds a single movie or a cluster of movies over performing in relation to certain "hot" keyword/phrase it can propel them in thousands and millions of views. Never forget that YouTube is ads serving service above all and everything else second. :)
 
The first 48 hours are usually my window that get about 75% of my subscribers watching so far, I know a few of them don't check there subscriptions (such as my mum) so it really depends how active your subscriber is on YouTube also :)
 
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