Massive drop in views on kid channels

HurryUp said:
I wrote a tweet to teamyoutube, I ask you all to comment on it to show how many we are and we want a response, if you don't want to give up, comment immediately:
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I had a quick look at your channel and put myself in Youtube's position as if I was doing a manual review. Within less than a minute, I looked at the titles of your last 24 videos (over a 1 month period) They all all had keyword stuffing of duplicate metadata with titles that made little sense at all in English. But they all had a variation of "Learning colors disney cars 3" in them. That metadata is very spammy and would be classed as duplicate. I mean how many videos related to learning colors do you think your channel needs? Do you think 22 out of 24 videos titled some variation of "learn colors disney cars 3" from only a one month period is excessive? How do you think the algorithm would judge it? How do you think a human being from Youtube doing a manual review would judge it?

I then clicked on 2 of your videos at random. I looked at the description. They all contained keyword stuffing and lists of keywords separated by commas. That's spam and is specifically against youTube's TOS. Have you read them?
 
So what if you make educational content for kids and lots of color videos. How do you tag them then?
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Crown said:
I had a quick look at your channel and put myself in Youtube's position as if I was doing a manual review. Within less than a minute, I looked at the titles of your last 24 videos (over a 1 month period) They all all had keyword stuffing of duplicate metadata with titles that made little sense at all in English. But they all had a variation of "Learning colors disney cars 3" in them. That metadata is very spammy and would be classed as duplicate. I mean how many videos related to learning colors do you think your channel needs? Do you think 22 out of 24 videos titled some variation of "learn colors disney cars 3" from only a one month period is excessive? How do you think the algorithm would judge it? How do you think a human being from Youtube doing a manual review would judge it?

I then clicked on 2 of your videos at random. I looked at the description. They all contained keyword stuffing and lists of keywords separated by commas. That's spam and is specifically against youTube's TOS. Have you read them?
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First of all thank you for your analysis, I always gladly accept opinions and advice.
Honestly, you may be right, but this is quite common in kids's video channels ... if the videos focus on "learn colors" with the name of toys (mostly Disney Cars) the titles obviously always look alike: )
I will try however to improve the titles and matatag in this aspect, thanks.

Having said that, even if absolutely right, I think that little is done with the question of the decrease in views, many channels that they know with the same drop do not have this "feature"
 
it seems that nothing is changing. Their stupid algorithm recommends stuff from years ago but newest one dropped out from suggested. it's doing everything opposite.
 
While I agree with Crown's point about HurryUp's channel and spamming tags in the description, that is very likely NOT what is going on here, or at least is only a part of it. As evidence, take Vlad and Nikita... a mega-channel that has been hit - one of the highest volume channels on Youtube. You would be hard pressed to claim that their meta-data is spammy or against TOC. One could claim that they are just caught up in broader action against other channels, but that doesn't explain why other kids channels are blowing up.

Although I don't have an immediate example, I would speculate that there are spammy channels that are doing ok.

I'm actually surprised we are not seeing more news about this. If this hit a different large vertical, I can imagine that there would be more coverage. Imagine if Pewdiepie lost 2/3 of his traffic overnight...
 
JackJack said:
Although I don't have an immediate example, I would speculate that there are spammy channels that are doing ok.
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this for example this channel uses titles similar to mine, it has gone from about 40'000 views to 300'000 views in this period.

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I also ask you for advice, since "Learn Colors" and "Disney Cars 3" almost always appear in my titles (also because they are always present in my videos), to be less "spam" do you say you use only 1 at a time and only rarely in pairs?
I accept advice, I never considered myself in the spam category, but since you tell me, you mean something I have to correct.
 
HurryUp said:
I also ask you for advice, since "Learn Colors" and "Disney Cars 3" almost always appear in my titles (also because they are always present in my videos), to be less "spam" do you say you use only 1 at a time and only rarely in pairs?
I accept advice, I never considered myself in the spam category, but since you tell me, you mean something I have to correct.
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Well, you should just accurately title your videos - if all your videos are about learning colors and Disney Cars 3, then so be it, although a little bit of programming diversity probably wouldn't hurt. It's a catch22 though as if you've built an audience that wants that one thing, you could alienate them by adding variety. I do some work for another channel that is in a similar sub-niche to you and I'm always surprised by how hard it is to straddle this line.

My agreement with Crown is about stuffing keywords in your description- that's a big no-no. Also, trying to fit a ton of keyword phrases into a title probably isn't a useful strategy anymore, anyway -whether its against TOC or not. I would focus on just 1 or 2. Your content is categorized more by viewer behavior than meta-data. If "Learn colors" and "Disney Cars 3" aren't the main draw to your video then you could probably just leave those things off. Or, if you basically do tons of videos that are exactly about those two things, you could try numbering them... ep.1, etc. I don't have any evidence that this is helpful, but it can make your titles seem less repetitive if you are concerned about that. I was given the advice by my YT rep that putting your channel name or some part of it in the title may be helpful for surfacing on the Kids app. Not sure whether I believe this, but you can see this trend in many large kids channels over the last year.

If you want to talk more about this we should start a new thread or you can PM me.
 
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