Outros Not Intros!!!

DUCKIE

DUCKIE

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Hey guys, this is a quick tip which I have been given. OUTROS NOT INTROS. By this I mean that you shouldn't put your flashy intro at the start of your video. This is because, the first 30 seconds are all the time you have to make the viewer decide to go to your channel. If you have a 20 second intro with a flashy animation, that only leaves you with about 10 seconds to get the viewers attention. People can see flashy channel intros anywhere and they even get a bit tiresome. If you just start a video with the actual content, if it is good enough, which hopefully it is, the viewer will stay to watch the video and you have more time to impress. Having an outro on the other hand gives viewers a nice ending to a great video and also allows them an opportunity to go to your channel, subscribe and even check out more of your videos.
Trust me on this guys, look and big YouTubers like PewDiePie, who rather than having a flashy animation to kick start his videos, does or says something so hilariously absurd that you just have to stay to watch the whole thing.

Anyways, I hope that this helped you guys, BYEEEE!!!!
 
SiegeTV said:
Why the hell would you have an intro that long anyway? 3-6 second intro is fine, maybe even 11 seconds max. :D
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Oh trust me, there are a lot of small-medium scale youtubers who have a massive intro which is just really unoriginal and makes me just want to stop watching
 
This is a good refresher topic! YouTube is not like Television. As a matter of fact, a lot of TV shows even start with the action now and show the title/credits sequence after a few minutes.
 
I believe in keeping them as short as you can, I see why people choose to include them for branding purposes etc and where others dont at all for the sake of keeping people watching, I think people should just use what is appropriate and keep it short and I am sure you wont lose out.
 
In my gaming videos I like to have about 15 seconds of me playing the game then add the intro.. just something I like to do..

With college projects and short films I quite often do the same thing where you have some sort of catch at the start to make people want to watch past the intro :)
 
Sometimes I've come across videos from somebody that I couldn't even watch because the intros were long and annoying. I don't like outros either, but at least I can click away from those when the video is over. Of course one person I was subscribed to for a while had outros so annoying I had to click away from the video a few seconds early to avoid it.
 
An intro longer than about 5-6 seconds is usually the best way to make me go watch something else.

I have my network bumper (appr. 2 seconds) at the beginning of my vids, and an outro slate anywhere up to about 30 seconds at the end (I do video-in-video annotations with a preview of another video, so the length depends on which video I'm linking to)
 
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