How to increase the amount of suggested videos?

Lupusmon said:
I posted about this not too long ago. I have a video that is getting 1500 views a day, 3/4 of which come from 'suggested video'. When I look through the analytics, all the videos that viewers are coming from are subject related videos, and the title contains similar words.

I wish I knew how to get more of my videos to be suggested, but one way to try would be to look for popular videos in your niche, and then post a video using similar keywords and title. (Tags too I guess but not sure how that works since I haven't analysed down that far yet).

Imagine you are searching for something and have just watched a popular video giving you some information.. as a creator if you want to piggy back off the suggested video of that popular video, think of a title that will get people to click on yours next, instead of the other suggested video listed on the side.
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It might be a possibility that your idea about tagging works....

Wreckless Eating said:
Videos suggested by YouTube are there because you have a certain amount of watch time (don't mistake this for audience retention). It then becomes suggested and based on those results, it either will become further promoted if it meets certain criteria or it gets discarded by the system. There's no much you can do to replicate the success other than trying to increase your watch time across the channel.
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I think this theory really comes close to the reality. The two important things are indeed audience retention and total watch time and they determine the rankings. And I think that should increase the suggested videos :). About that discarding, I like to believe that. I hope they don't do that to my videos...
 
Wreckless Eating said:
Videos suggested by YouTube are there because you have a certain amount of watch time
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While this is partly true, there is more that goes into how they decide suggested videos than that. It's much more complicated than any of us think. I have discovered recently some other interesting correlations between suggested videos and their source video. I plan on making a post about this shortly.

"Suggested videos" is the holy grail of Youtube views. People have been trying to figure it out for years, myself included. It used to be much easier and was mostly related to Title/keywords, etc but as you pointed out Youtube has shifted toward watch time and how a video contributed to overall session length. It's complicated, like I said. The reason they originally went in this direction is because of all the 'reply' girls who would 're: popular video' as their title and occupy most of the suggested video slots. They changed this in 2011-2012.

No one will have 'the answer' to OPs question since no one knows and it isn't a simple answer. Everyone's best bet is to upload quality content and rely on sharing and I believe the suggested videos will come along with that.
 
WilliamRayWalters said:
While this is partly true, there is more that goes into how they decide suggested videos than that. It's much more complicated than any of us think. I have discovered recently some other interesting correlations between suggested videos and their source video. I plan on making a post about this shortly.

"Suggested videos" is the holy grail of Youtube views. People have been trying to figure it out for years, myself included. It used to be much easier and was mostly related to Title/keywords, etc but as you pointed out Youtube has shifted toward watch time and how a video contributed to overall session length. It's complicated, like I said. The reason they originally went in this direction is because of all the 'reply' girls who would 're: popular video' as their title and occupy most of the suggested video slots. They changed this in 2011-2012.

No one will have 'the answer' to OPs question since no one knows and it isn't a simple answer. Everyone's best bet is to upload quality content and rely on sharing and I believe the suggested videos will come along with that.
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Quality content ahoy! :D
 
Didn't know about this stat so I went to my analytics and saw I have about 10% of views from Suggested videos. I was obviously really surprised because that's quite a number. Then I went to look up sources and... 99% are my own videos lol :P A bit disappointed at the end :D At least 1% was from some other YouTuber ;)
 
Wreckless Eating said:
Videos suggested by YouTube are there because you have a certain amount of watch time (don't mistake this for audience retention). It then becomes suggested and based on those results, it either will become further promoted if it meets certain criteria or it gets discarded by the system. There's no much you can do to replicate the success other than trying to increase your watch time across the channel.
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Wreckless Eating saves the day again :D
 
I keep getting crap from FineBros, REACT and semi/popular Minecraft crap when my videos have nothing to do with said subjects. It's irritating to no end and not fair.

I have a huge problem with audience retention (STILL!! :( ) and all I see is dumb crap from above. I am disappointed in some of my viewers who can't even bother to watch 5-10-15 minute Doom videos.
 
Doom Video Vault said:
I keep getting crap from FineBros, REACT and semi/popular Minecraft crap when my videos have nothing to do with said subjects. It's irritating to no end and not fair.

I have a huge problem with audience retention (STILL!! :( ) and all I see is dumb crap from above. I am disappointed in some of my viewers who can't even bother to watch 5-10-15 minute Doom videos.
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I think we all have problems with audience retention
 
MrWapk said:
Yes we do :p
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I´ve been for quite a bit on youtube and noticed a pathern for the video editing wayz, I´m not famous but I can say that I have seen my fair share of generations get big or get destroyed on youtube and I think I may found the steps to take so that the retention spam keeps up constant ... more or less and this week will I be uploading the first video that can test that
 
xandru8 said:
I´ve been for quite a bit on youtube and noticed a pathern for the video editing wayz, I´m not famous but I can say that I have seen my fair share of generations get big or get destroyed on youtube and I think I may found the steps to take so that the retention spam keeps up constant ... more or less and this week will I be uploading the first video that can test that
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Awesome! Good luck! :D I see that you haven't uploaded a video an one year.
 
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