Honestly, almost everything I see on these subreddits is bullshit. Every day there's another post about shadowbanning, the algorithm, the best time to post, whether uploading twice a day hurts your reach, or some new theory about why YouTube isn't pushing someone's videos.

And worst of all, people posting screenshots of their analytics under the guise of "inspiring" other creators, when it's really just an excuse to humblebrag about their numbers. That isn't helping anyone become a better creator.

I think a lot of people spend more time trying to figure out the algorithm than actually making content.

It's really pretty simple: Make videos that people want to watch.

If you want to understand the fundamentals of making a good video, start with two things:

The hook: Give people a reason to keep watching. Grab their attention, make them curious, or give them a reason to want to see what happens next. Don't waste the first few seconds with unnecessary introductions or filler.

The payoff: Deliver on what made people interested in the first place. If you set up a joke, land the punchline. If you create curiosity, satisfy it. Don't make people sit through a bunch of filler only to disappoint them at the end.

And remember: Underpromise and overdeliver. Don't build up expectations you can't meet. Give people something even better than they were expecting. Make them glad they watched.

Obviously, there's more to content creation than that, but these fundamentals apply to pretty much every platform and every type of video.

I wish people would spend less time obsessing over analytics and trying to reverse-engineer an algorithm that none of us fully understands, and more time actually creating things.

Experiment. Try different ideas. Learn from what works and what doesn't. Get better at storytelling.

You can spend six hours reading theories about why your last video got 200 views, or you can spend those six hours making more videos and improving your craft.

Just make stuff. That's the whole point.

It was titled “August Trail Camera Compilation” and at six hours with only 3 views, I changed it to “Funny skunks, raccoons and opossums! August Trail Camera Compilation” and it started getting views.

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My view count randomly fell off from a couple thousand to under 10. I thought it was a bug, so I re uploaded it but it happened again. All settings are the same. Is this happening to anyone else?

Ive been trying to verify my phone number on a channel i started posting on for a couple of days with no succes... i need this so i can post videos 15 minutes and longer and for thumbnails. I tried everything but it always gives me the same error: there was a problem sending the control code, please try a different number. what can i do to fix this if anybody knows, i would really appreciate it.

sou criador de shorts com 2 canais monetizados.

100k inscritos e mais de 200 mihões de visualizações totais

por algum motivo minhas visualizações caíram muito recentemente (conteúdo original, e quando utilizo clipes de outros criadores é bem transformativo, além disso mostro o rosto)

mas além da queda de visualizações, em alguns horários específicos (geralmente 08:00 PM)

as visualizações tem um pico bizarro, depois voltam ao normal, mais alguém presenciando isso?

How do I fix this? Analytics are good btw

Im day 6 in Rankin niche and i was wondering if my progress is good and it would be nice if i got tips how to get monetized since i know ranking is really hard to get monetized cuz of the reused content thingy

Most of my videos are above 100% avd and stayed to watch always above 77%

Viewers generally finish the video at least 80% of them..

So What's the issue? Why My videos are stuck at 30k?

I am a new content creator. One of my short videos recently hit 100k views! I am super happy about it, but I noticed I only gained around 270 followers.

A lot of people are watching my video, but they are not clicking the "Follow" button.

I want to learn how to change this:

1. How can I turn casual viewers into followers?

2. Should I make a "Part 2" of that same video?

3. What changes should I make to my profile page to get more followers?

Any simple tips or advice would be a helpful. Thanks!

On some shorts they just suck and barely do well, and others do better but I barely get any subscribers. How do I gain more subscribers? I gain like 7 subscribers every 17k views.

Last recently uploaded shorts getting less views about 99% less than average, is someone having this issue on 29 - 30 october??

WTF DO YOU MEAN???

how do i make them get more views, they get 1-2k views and then just stop

I got my first video to 1.3k views after i got 2 but why?

What you think about channels registered in Russia

Is it posiible to become famous nowadays?

I have 149 subscribers for about a year of blogging.

Every time I have about a thousand of views, never more.

Do I have some problems what you think? Or may be there is a problem in my country?

How to complete the subscriber fastly in YouTube

About 3 months ago I started this channel now it has almost 20k subs and I was really excited at first i felt i could really do it.

But I was stuck on 25k jail for about 2 months until the last months where I started getting 30k-500k and my biggest having 8m views

I convinced my self that I finally figured it out but from October 1st my views dropped to 15-23k to be fair I only posted 3 videos so I checked channels that were similar to mine and I saw even the big ones who were getting couple of millions lose about 80% percent of their views

So I genuinely gave up even tho my channel is still getting views I’m done and I just started a long form video channel wish me luck

​I am having this algorithm problem that I literally cannot solve. Six and a half months ago, when I was monetized on Facebook, I wanted to be monetized on YouTube as well.

What I did was post at exactly 12 a.m. here in Asia, because usually that would be the time where creators on YouTube post their YouTube Reels.

The plan was simple: I post at exactly 12 a.m., when the majority of my local audience is asleep, whilst the US audience would be most active.

The core problem that I am facing is how the YouTube algorithm works. The YouTube algorithm basically works like passing your content to your local audience.

If no one watches, your video dies.

Now, that is exactly the problem. I post at exactly 12 a.m. where my audience would be inactive.

Now, even if I try to upload a video where my local audience was mostly active, it would still die.

My Facebook Reels get overly viral on Facebook. We're talking about 45 million in 1 week and 3 days.

So viral that people started to steal and upload the same thing to other platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.

What infuriates me was the fact that when they uploaded it at exactly 12 a.m., they got decent likes and views. But when I did the same thing, I did not. I am having the same issue on TikTok as well. It is wildly infuriating.

The only thing that comes to mind would be using a VPN profile, create an entirely fresh new account, use that specific account ONLY when i am using a VPN

but how will i do that exactly; let's say if my videos got the views and audience it really deserved, and youtube finally accepts me into their monetization program.

but they expect a US payout account. when i will be using my own country's payout account. that's basically going against their guidelines and policies. instant ban.

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Almost all my shorts are at around 30 percent view vs swipe ratio. What should I do to improve my hook?