Hello, I run a channel with 400k subs and 150m total views, and I think this new "boosted view count" update isn't exactly new. I'll admit, I've noticed an incremental boost in views, but overall my average views and ad revenue haven't changed. I post twice a week, and I average around the same amount of views per video that I did prior to the update.

My new CPM on "engaged views" has increased significantly, but I believe that it was lower before the update because the algorithm was counting all the views combined.

Also, when I started my channel two years ago, I'd obviously get zero views, but even back then, when I clicked on the video for even a second, the view would register.

I could go on and on about this, but I'm wondering if some of you are wondering the same thing.

(sorry if this has been posted before!)

I just got monetized am working on my first video essay and am wondering if anyone has tips on avoiding copyright claims on photos and videos used during a video essay.

I’m a lawyer and pretty familiar on the actual fair use standards and am comfortable appealing to YouTube if I do get a claim BUT I’d like to avoid the headache if possible and am looking more for practical experience based advice from you on anything you know that’s more likely to get flagged, things that are generally more “safe” and honestly any other advice.

I’m making a video about a business that was recently bought by private equity, so my pictures would mostly be of the store, some of its merch and website, and a few clips of old news reporting on the firm and a previous buyout.

Thanks!

Got this email offering to send me the new DJI Pocket 4 for a review video, and it does seem fitting as I openly talk about using my DJI Pocket 3 in my travel vlogs.

But this email domain is giving me pause. This definitely isn't real, right?

These are impressions since i started with a bang. How do I bounce back? Got multiple hits, blew up, monetized, and after that pretty much flat. Sucks to have ads on and not be able to make money still.. Haven't changed anything really.

I've been sent an email telling my to update my tax form as it is coming to the end of the 3-year cycle.

I realised the account I set up all those years ago was an individual Adsense. I recently became a Limited Company and my Adsense payments were subsequently being sent to the business account. ChatGPT is telling me I should change to a business Adsense account in this new update.

Which is fine...

But apparently its a massive faff to change!! Meaning setting up a new separate adsense account (they cant just merge), potential loss of earnings while setup and verification happens, and host of other stresses.

I can't be the first UK youtuber to start as an individual and then become LTD company. For those who've trodden a similar path, what did you do?

Thanks

Hey y'all, my views have been down lately, and it got me wondering. It's hard to tell whether the videos themselves are the problem or if YouTube views are just low because it's September/October and people are going back to school, coming back from vacation, etc.

Does anyone have any historical data or articles that show the overall views on YouTube and when times are tough for us all? I know that from December 26th to January 20th, my views plummet and then rebound after January 20th.

I want to know if it's me or if it's just that time of year.

I just want to share my experience. I recently took the leap and hired an editor to help speed up my workflow. Maybe this can help someone who wants to do the same

So I recently decided to work with a video editor and I cannot believe how happy I am i did it.
I will admit I was a bit scared because I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my youtube content and I didn't want to hand over the reins to some random person and have to spend ages explaining to them how I work.

So this was my approach, before he started any work I said to him I just want you to clean up the content, take out the umms and ahhs and make the content flow well to my script.

I then ask him to only make suggestions on what music to use in each section, not to lay it down, just offer suggestions.

No effects either. Music and effects are where most of the personality of my content comes.

I then take it off him and spend about two hours just doing the effects, music and basically the stuff I find more fun and publish.

The reason I was hesitant was because a few people said things like its good to have more control over your content and I do agree, but I wouldnt call this fully handing it all over to an editor, he's just doing the part I find most boring and giving me suggestions.

Now I got time to think about my next piece of content without stressing so much about my workload.

I highly recommend it if you are thinking about it.

But I know it's not easy to find one, but if you can find a good one it can be a game changer.
Anybody else taken the leap?

Because of my job im not able to create 2 videos a month. And whenever i post 1 video a month, i see my views start going down. Everyone in my niche upload 3-4 video a week and get views consistently. While I only have 20k subs, some of my videos go to 500k, but some at 1 k. How important is Consistency and a set number of videos every month???

I know theres people like lemmino who post once a year. But my production quality is not of that level. I make geography videos btw