"Video Location"

UKHypnotist said:
That is not a country-targeting for ad units function, Zaffron. The purpose of that box is to show where your video was actually shot if you do live shoots; or alternately where in the world you create your videos as your studio space, if you use "canned" (stock) media.

I fear that trying to use this function in the way you propose might get you tagged for false metadata; as the country you put in, can easily be checked against your listed channel country in your Advanced Channel settings.

Btw, please show your subscriber numbers...people might think you have something to hide!
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Thank you for answering my question.

Although it is out of subject, I think showing subscriber's number depends on the strategy that each one will choose to follow and that's why YouTube has given us the choice to show or to hide.

"People might think i you have something to hide". Yes i have something to hide which is that number. I found people are interacting with that number in different ways. I am the owner of my channel and I need each one to focus on my channel content rather than focusing on subscribers numbers. Honestly speaking, i feel that this number in some famous channels is fake. I found some channels have more than 10000 sub whereas the number of views in most of its videos are less 100. what does that mean ?
so it is better to neglect that number and to focus on the content. By the way, some youtuber hided that number just to not give much details to their competitors which also makes sense.



Now back to the main topic.


you have said that the purpose of that box is to show where in the world i create my videos (my studio space). it is only Geo tagging (coordinates).

so what kind of false metadata if i change the video coordinates ?! if that is the case, then YouTube will not provide that option to us. What do you think. Thank you
 
zaffron said:
Thank you for answering my question.

Although it is out of subject, I think showing subscriber's number depends on the strategy that each one will choose to follow and that's why YouTube has given us the choice to show or to hide.

"People might think i you have something to hide". Yes i have something to hide which is that number. I found people are interacting with that number in different ways. I am the owner of my channel and I need each one to focus on my channel content rather than focusing on subscribers numbers. Honestly speaking, i feel that this number in some famous channels is fake. I found some channels have more than 10000 sub whereas the number of views in most of its videos are less 100. what does that mean ?
so it is better to neglect that number and to focus on the content. By the way, some youtuber hided that number just to not give much details to their competitors which also makes sense.



Now back to the main topic.


you have said that the purpose of that box is to show where in the world i create my videos (my studio space). it is only Geo tagging (coordinates).

so what kind of false metadata if i change the video coordinates ?! if that is the case, then YouTube will not provide that option to us. What do you think. Thank you
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I think that if you were to tag as you proposed, in order to increase your CPC, YouTube might look at the coordinates, then look at the video itself; and if you were still filming in the same location which was different from what the location data in the video's meta section now says (as stupid or smart as YouTube's algorithms are, whichever way you look at it), that algorithm might think that deliberately trying to increase your CPC was exactly what you were trying to do; and that is called gaming the system. It's against YouTube's Partner Program TOS if I make no mistake; just as buying views and subscribers are; its just a different way of fiddling the system.

Btw, how did you figure out how "people are interacting with your subscriber count"? It sounds like an interesting demographic to explore.
 
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I don't feel like I have to jump in and defend opinions people have here, but hiding your sub count doesn't hurt anything from an SEO perspective. It may hinder how quickly people subscribe to your channel, though. I always show it in order to be transparent and clear about what someone's subscribing to. People think that hiding it means viewers will be more likely to subscribe to a channel with a low sub count, but I've never seen that to actually be true. If your content is good and valuable to someone, they'll subscribe even with a low sub count. Instead, make them feel like they're the first to discover you, like someone who finds a new band that's awesome and no one else knows about yet.
 
UKHypnotist said:
I think that if you were to tag as you proposed, in order to increase your CPC, YouTube might look at the coordinates, then look at the video itself; and if you were still filming in the same location which was different from what the location data in the video's meta section now says (as stupid or smart as YouTube's algorithms are, whichever way you look at it), that algorithm might think that deliberately trying to increase your CPC was exactly what you were trying to do; and that is called gaming the system. It's against YouTube's Partner Program TOS if I make no mistake; just as buying views and subscribers are; its just a different way of fiddling the system.

Btw, how did you figure out how "people are interacting with your subscriber count"? It sounds like an interesting demographic to explore.
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i think there is a difference between being smart and practicing legally and or being smart and practicing illegally. so it is something to do with legal. For this reason i am asking, how can YouTube algorithm know my intention ?, wither i am intending to tag the video in order to increase my cpc or i tag it to specify my video location. It seems to me that YouTube, our partner, has offered us options to select. These options are legal regardless to what is our intention and i dont think someone in YouTube will blame me for selecting anyone of them. Moreover, what will be the situation for those who are frequently travelling and uploading videos from different locations around the world ? how YouTube algorithm will know their intention ? -if and only if that is the case.

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i figured out how people are interacting with subscriber count, by:

1- monitoring the increase in my subscribers number before and after i hided the number.
2- monitoring how much subscribers i ve' gained from and after uploading any specific video.
3- monitoring how much subscribers i ve' gained from the main channel page.
4- people general impression when they talk about famous channels that have high subscribers numbers.
5- monitoring how often and when i got subscribers lost.
6- monitoring the countries that i got more subscribers lost their than others.

from Analytic >"subscriber tab"> source > video
 
I will only answer the frequent traveller location question at the moment; I am about to go to bed, and I've experienced this personally. When I have rested I will look at the rest of your post.

I live in the UK. I am a US Ex-Pat. I use multiple OS's and machines. I build my own computers.

I went back home to to North America to visit family and friends. Each time I changed location while doing this, I got an emailed security warning from Google (who owns YouTube), not YouTube itself, informing me of a login from a different locale than my home as specified on my YouTube channel, and if I was on my own or a different machine (it didn't matter), of the OS used, and/or the IP address of the login; asking me if this was myself, or a person doing an unauthorized login.

If the algorithm is capable of this, what else can it do?
 
UKHypnotist said:
I live in the UK. I am a US Ex-Pat. I use multiple OS's and machines. I build my own computers.

I went back home to to North America to visit family and friends. Each time I changed location while doing this, I got an emailed security warning from Google (who owns YouTube), not YouTube itself, informing me of a login from a different locale than my home as specified on my YouTube channel, and if I was on my own or a different machine (it didn't matter), of the OS used, and/or the IP address of the login; asking me if this was myself, or a person doing an unauthorized login.

If the algorithm is capable of this, what else can it do?
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What if i capture a video on UK and then decide to upload it when i reach the US. It is clear for me, what you have mentioned is "login or upload location" which is different than "video location". Moreover, if i upload a tutorial video content, then that does not mean i captured that video from any specific location around the world. i remember that one of my videos i captured it on the airplane :D
 
zaffron said:
What if i capture a video on UK and then decide to upload it when i reach the US. It is clear for me, what you have mentioned is "login or upload location" which is different than "video location". Moreover, if i upload a tutorial video content, then that does not mean i captured that video from any specific location around the world. i remember that one of my videos i captured it on the airplane :D
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You're obviously going to do what you wish, so all I will say further is good luck.
 
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