instagamrr
Active Member
This should be an inspirational post to inspire you to create the best content you can because even if it doesn't take off right away, it may take off eventually!
Here's my story (images at the bottom).
Earlier this year in January I produced what I thought was an awesome video. I captured every easter egg that showed up in the game The Walking Dead: 400 Days. It was a labor of love - getting all the footage and the editing took ages - 10 hours on editing alone (and I mean hardcore, no eating or sleeping and hardly stopping to breathe working at 110% editing haha) and that's not including all the hours spent playing the game to get the footage and time spent researching it. But I loved the game, the video didn't exist so I wanted to make it.
That video never even broke 1000 views on my channel (it didn't perform any better than my regular videos did at the time) which broke my heart a little but I was still happy I made it. Then suddenly last week there was a spike in views. I sorted my videos on my channel by most popular and I was shocked to see that video, which had lain dormant for so long, was now sitting over 12,000 views.
It always had high retention - over 70% for a 7 minute video. It looks like after it finally accumulated enough views as they trickled in over the months (100 here, 100 there) from search, youtube finally started promoting it as a suggested video and in browse features. 46% of the traffic is coming from search, and that traffic eventually led to the video being promoted in suggested videos at 40% and change.
I've never had youtube pick up one of my videos in its browse algorithm to this extent, nevermind 10 months later. I've always wondered how to crack it. It looks like one way to do it is if you have high enough retention that you can rank in search, and search gives you enough high retention views, youtube can start promoting your video in its browse features (suggested videos etc).
This is proof that if you create good content, even if it doesn't take off originally it may take off in the future if you're able to keep your metrics up! I suspect the video will continue to climb since it's just started to be promoted, so all in all, even though I've gotten 12K views for videos that were a lot less work haha it feels pretty good months later when the sting of the hard work is forgotten and youtube starts doing the work for you
Lifetime views - there's the spike on the 17th (and my original views from my subscribers back when I first released the video):
And where the traffic is coming from:
Here's my story (images at the bottom).
Earlier this year in January I produced what I thought was an awesome video. I captured every easter egg that showed up in the game The Walking Dead: 400 Days. It was a labor of love - getting all the footage and the editing took ages - 10 hours on editing alone (and I mean hardcore, no eating or sleeping and hardly stopping to breathe working at 110% editing haha) and that's not including all the hours spent playing the game to get the footage and time spent researching it. But I loved the game, the video didn't exist so I wanted to make it.
That video never even broke 1000 views on my channel (it didn't perform any better than my regular videos did at the time) which broke my heart a little but I was still happy I made it. Then suddenly last week there was a spike in views. I sorted my videos on my channel by most popular and I was shocked to see that video, which had lain dormant for so long, was now sitting over 12,000 views.
It always had high retention - over 70% for a 7 minute video. It looks like after it finally accumulated enough views as they trickled in over the months (100 here, 100 there) from search, youtube finally started promoting it as a suggested video and in browse features. 46% of the traffic is coming from search, and that traffic eventually led to the video being promoted in suggested videos at 40% and change.
I've never had youtube pick up one of my videos in its browse algorithm to this extent, nevermind 10 months later. I've always wondered how to crack it. It looks like one way to do it is if you have high enough retention that you can rank in search, and search gives you enough high retention views, youtube can start promoting your video in its browse features (suggested videos etc).
This is proof that if you create good content, even if it doesn't take off originally it may take off in the future if you're able to keep your metrics up! I suspect the video will continue to climb since it's just started to be promoted, so all in all, even though I've gotten 12K views for videos that were a lot less work haha it feels pretty good months later when the sting of the hard work is forgotten and youtube starts doing the work for you
Lifetime views - there's the spike on the 17th (and my original views from my subscribers back when I first released the video):
And where the traffic is coming from:
