JesusGreen
Posting Mad!
So this is an extension of the post I made yesterday about my rather unique situation. Basically, long story short, I have just over 8000 subscribers, but the majority of them found my channel from one particular video.
My channel was intended to be a self-improvement/self-development channel covering a wide range of subjects, but, like 75% of my views are all on a video teaching people how to lucid dream. As a result, 75%+ of my subscribers are only interested in lucid dreaming videos.
I've heard from channels like Roberto Blake that the current YouTube algorithm takes notice of how many of your subscribers watch a video in the initial days of its release. So for example, if you want your video to be promoted, you need around 5% of your subscribers to watch the video within the first 2 days, and around 50% of them within the first month.
This is simply impossible for me now because only like 200-300 of my 8000 subscribers watch my non-lucid dreaming videos. I'd need 400+ to watch them in the first two days, and 4000+ in the first month, which simply isn't happening since they aren't interested. Whereas if I only had say 200 subscribers, I would only need 10 views in the first two days, and 100 in the first month, for my videos to be promoted/rank well.
As a result, since I have 8000+, most of whom aren't interested in anything other than lucid dreaming, I'm finding it hard to rank my videos in search when they aren't lucid dreaming related.
If what these people have said is true about needing a certain % of your subscribers to watch a video within a certain time period for it to rank easily - then having so many subscribers that don't watch these videos is actually worse than if I didn't have these subscribers at all.
So what I've been considering is splitting my channel. Turning my current 8000 subscriber channel into a PURELY lucid dreaming channel. Once a week or so I'll make a lucid dreaming video, and keep my current subscriber base engaged.
Then I'll make a new channel, which is regular self-development and doesn't feature lucid dreaming or anything of the sort. I'll link my current subscribers to the new channel, tell them what it's about - and the ones who are interested can subscribe over there. I may also make a third channel, since recently I started creating and posting guided hypnosis tracks, and I feel like that's a whole sub-genre of it's own. So basically I'd have three channels: A self-improvement channel, a lucid dreaming channel, and a hypnosis/guided meditation channel. Each would get about 1 video a week.
Even if only 100-200 subscribe to the new channel, at least a good percentage of them will be active, and let's just say 100 of them subscribe to the new channel. Well that means in order to get my videos promoted I'd only need 5 views in the first 2 days, or 50 in the first month, which is easily doable.
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Am I thinking along the right lines here? Does anyone with experience with this algorithm agree that this is a good idea? I'm fairly certain it's the right move but want to be sure
I also think this would make my lucid dreaming subscribers happy, since it's already gotten to the point where on the non-lucid dreaming videos I post, people are asking me when I'm going to post more lucid dreaming videos.
(PS I don't mind starting the new channel afresh - even if zero of my subscribers migrate to the new channel I'm fine with that. When I first started YouTube, getting subscribers was difficult because I had no clue what I was doing. Now I have a good enough understanding of how to rank my videos in search that I don't think it would take very long to grow the new channel.)
My channel was intended to be a self-improvement/self-development channel covering a wide range of subjects, but, like 75% of my views are all on a video teaching people how to lucid dream. As a result, 75%+ of my subscribers are only interested in lucid dreaming videos.
I've heard from channels like Roberto Blake that the current YouTube algorithm takes notice of how many of your subscribers watch a video in the initial days of its release. So for example, if you want your video to be promoted, you need around 5% of your subscribers to watch the video within the first 2 days, and around 50% of them within the first month.
This is simply impossible for me now because only like 200-300 of my 8000 subscribers watch my non-lucid dreaming videos. I'd need 400+ to watch them in the first two days, and 4000+ in the first month, which simply isn't happening since they aren't interested. Whereas if I only had say 200 subscribers, I would only need 10 views in the first two days, and 100 in the first month, for my videos to be promoted/rank well.
As a result, since I have 8000+, most of whom aren't interested in anything other than lucid dreaming, I'm finding it hard to rank my videos in search when they aren't lucid dreaming related.
If what these people have said is true about needing a certain % of your subscribers to watch a video within a certain time period for it to rank easily - then having so many subscribers that don't watch these videos is actually worse than if I didn't have these subscribers at all.
So what I've been considering is splitting my channel. Turning my current 8000 subscriber channel into a PURELY lucid dreaming channel. Once a week or so I'll make a lucid dreaming video, and keep my current subscriber base engaged.
Then I'll make a new channel, which is regular self-development and doesn't feature lucid dreaming or anything of the sort. I'll link my current subscribers to the new channel, tell them what it's about - and the ones who are interested can subscribe over there. I may also make a third channel, since recently I started creating and posting guided hypnosis tracks, and I feel like that's a whole sub-genre of it's own. So basically I'd have three channels: A self-improvement channel, a lucid dreaming channel, and a hypnosis/guided meditation channel. Each would get about 1 video a week.
Even if only 100-200 subscribe to the new channel, at least a good percentage of them will be active, and let's just say 100 of them subscribe to the new channel. Well that means in order to get my videos promoted I'd only need 5 views in the first 2 days, or 50 in the first month, which is easily doable.
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Am I thinking along the right lines here? Does anyone with experience with this algorithm agree that this is a good idea? I'm fairly certain it's the right move but want to be sure
I also think this would make my lucid dreaming subscribers happy, since it's already gotten to the point where on the non-lucid dreaming videos I post, people are asking me when I'm going to post more lucid dreaming videos.
(PS I don't mind starting the new channel afresh - even if zero of my subscribers migrate to the new channel I'm fine with that. When I first started YouTube, getting subscribers was difficult because I had no clue what I was doing. Now I have a good enough understanding of how to rank my videos in search that I don't think it would take very long to grow the new channel.)
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