TinHatRanch
Posting Mad!
I see a lot of posts on how to get more views, subscribers, make a better channel, but for as much time that I have been putting into my channel I've spent quite a bit of it looking at the numbers. I ran across a "phenomenon" the other day that was quite interesting.
Until this point I can account for virtually every view I have had on my channel. I don't mean I know every person but I can track it back to something I did to generate views. The remainder of the views are generally from people who search for the specific subjects that my videos cover. That was until last Monday.
Last Monday subscribers started coming in like mad (for me). In my case I get a new subscriber every 40-100 views. At the rate they were coming in I knew something was up but I couldn't figure out what. It turns out that the views were coming from something YouTube did. They had featured my latest video somewhere (still don't know where).
After everything had settled down and the smoke had cleared I began to look at the numbers like I always do to figure out how to re-create the phenomenon. I came up with a theory. In this particular video I was able to generate 2000+ views within 24 hours. I figure there must be a break point somewhere that YouTube decides, "hey, this video is going places, we better give it more exposure" and they feature it in some fashion. I ended up with 20,000 views on that video in 24 hours.
Here is my question to all of you- Have you ever seen someone with much more experience than I do a write-up of how YouTube algorithms work and what are the prerequisites to get to this elevated status?
Until this point I can account for virtually every view I have had on my channel. I don't mean I know every person but I can track it back to something I did to generate views. The remainder of the views are generally from people who search for the specific subjects that my videos cover. That was until last Monday.
Last Monday subscribers started coming in like mad (for me). In my case I get a new subscriber every 40-100 views. At the rate they were coming in I knew something was up but I couldn't figure out what. It turns out that the views were coming from something YouTube did. They had featured my latest video somewhere (still don't know where).
After everything had settled down and the smoke had cleared I began to look at the numbers like I always do to figure out how to re-create the phenomenon. I came up with a theory. In this particular video I was able to generate 2000+ views within 24 hours. I figure there must be a break point somewhere that YouTube decides, "hey, this video is going places, we better give it more exposure" and they feature it in some fashion. I ended up with 20,000 views on that video in 24 hours.
Here is my question to all of you- Have you ever seen someone with much more experience than I do a write-up of how YouTube algorithms work and what are the prerequisites to get to this elevated status?
As far as search algorithms, I'm not exactly sure of which algorithms are used, but from what I heard is that it always changes, so what once worked years ago, probably doesn't work in the future..