I think I figured out YouTube's secret

[ChargunHD]

I would agree 100% with you on this one and feel as though the "click to rate" system is being used by YouTube but not telling us.

All of that business was a fancy way of telling us "Make your s**t look attractive as f**k and people will click, if you get loads of clicks we'll put you in the suggested box"

 

[babyteeth4]

By the way ive noticed a lot of cheaters yesterday. People who completely steal videos from other top youtubers. Even going as far as stealing their name and profile pic for the new channel. If you search for "giant gummy bottle" and then sort by "upload date" theres so many stolen videos uploaded. I dont know how theyre even able to monetize.

Yes, it's a constant battle to keep re-uploaders away, we spend a good deal of time going after re-uploaders, and we try to keep an eye out for other channels but sadly the thieves outnumber us, and they never sleep.

 

[chottom]

I agree with you.
Also as you are targeting small kids you should not overuse text but concentrate to bright saturated colors in the thumbnails (and the video) and you should standardize your thumbnails - now they are a mixture of different styles .
Also keep in mind the short attention spend of small kids - if for more than 2-3 seconds nothing interesting/new happens they may click away. Change the perspective/zoom of filming more often - avoid long almost static moments.

Good luck with your channel!

 

[FamilyToyReview]

I agree with you.
Also as you are targeting small kids you should not overuse text but concentrate to bright saturated colors in the thumbnails (and the video) and you should standardize your thumbnails - now they are a mixture of different styles .
Also keep in mind the short attention spend of small kids - if for more than 2-3 seconds nothing interesting/new happens they may click away. Change the perspective/zoom of filming more often - avoid long almost static moments.

Good luck with your channel!

Thanks! Yup i agree with all your points. Lots of thumbnails to fix. And ive noticed simply changing the zoom a few times helps make long scenes a little less boring. As a parent, it seems most scenes of your kids are golden moments. But you cant use them all. i end up heavily cutting out most nonessential scenes. So many clips of dimpled smiles falling to the wayside. Editing with cold steel scissors is heartless work.

 

[Jawad Soomro]

I am not sure how the YOUTUBE algorithm works, as far as I know, YouTube will display those videos on the suggested video that have higher retention rate and it may bring more traffic towards YouTube.

 

[chottom]

As a parent, it seems most scenes of your kids are golden moments. But you cant use them all. i end up heavily cutting out most nonessential scenes. So many clips of dimpled smiles falling to the wayside. Editing with cold steel scissors is heartless work.

Keep in mind that your target audiance is not parents but small kids/almost toddlers. If you want to use your kid to angage them you must make him smile/laugh or show some clear emotion. I guess it is needless to say that if you want to go this way everything must be done in absolutely natural way for him and abolutely no excessive pushing (I saw quite bad cases of child abuse on some YT channels especially Japanese but not only).

 

[FamilyToyReview]

Keep in mind that your target audiance is not parents but small kids/almost toddlers. If you want to use your kid to angage them you must make him smile/laugh or show some clear emotion. I guess it is needless to say that if you want to go this way everything must be done in absolutely natural way for him and abolutely no excessive pushing (I saw quite bad cases of child abuse on some YT channels especially Japanese but not only).

We like to keep it as natural as we can since hes just a baby. We would hate to get too close to that grey area of what is right or wrong. And it wouldnt be fun anymore if we got too pushy. We just like to record ourselves having fun unboxing. If we're lucky we catch all the great moments of him being excited. We try to focus on the toys more and not only do videos starring him. We can always do the evanstube style stuff later on when hes old enough if thats what he wants. Im ok if he just wants to be our hand model or not contribute.

We started off sharing home videos. And then we created content that he enjoyed watching and making that no one else really watched. And now its evolving into commercially driven content with hopefully a growing audience. It sucks if there are abusive parents exploiting their kids on some channels. That is the last thing we want to do. I hope i never come across those videos.

 

[Razvion]

It feels as what you said in your first post, my most viewed video is a video that is laggy ( I didnt notice it was laggy untill it uploaded on youtube) so the qualitty there is very very poor, yet it got the most views, thats strange as qualitty didnt matter.

 

[JackJack]

It feels as what you said in your first post, my most viewed video is a video that is laggy ( I didnt notice it was laggy untill it uploaded on youtube) so the quality there is very very poor, yet it got the most views, thats strange as qualitty didnt matter.

Quality means far more than video quality. Likely your most viewed video has some combination of subject matter, engaging presentation, and attractive thumbnail that brings the views. Our most popular video is not particularly good at all, and starts out really boring, but I think it has a really good thumbnail, the subject matter is at the intersection of two different, but popular keyword phrases, and is well lit.

 

[Razvion]

Quality means far more than video quality. Likely your most viewed video has some combination of subject matter, engaging presentation, and attractive thumbnail that brings the views. Our most popular video is not particularly good at all, and starts out really boring, but I think it has a really good thumbnail, the subject matter is at the intersection of two different, but popular keyword phrases, and is well lit.

Well the thumbnal is nothing special, the title is same as what I put for my vids, except changed the name of champion I used.