How to get more watch time on youtbe? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2019, 10:27:53 pm
content: this is how much my channel has got so far this yearWatch time (hours)738Views35,491You­Tube Premi­um watch time (hours)13You­Tube Premi­um views608any ideas how to reach 4000hours also any good way of getting more subs im almost at 1k

author: ledtester
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2019, 10:31:40 pm
content: What's the link to your channel???

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2019, 10:36:12 pm
content: Quote from: ledtester on August 28, 2019, 10:31:40 pmits crappyhttps://www.youtube.com/user/MrJ0mmy/

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 01:29:53 am
content: It sounds like you're asking how to get people to watch content you think is 'crappy'.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 01:35:02 am
content: The biggest question is, why do you care? If you make interesting and useful content, people will naturally watch it. Are you trying to compete with someone?(I thought this thread would be about the equally-puzzling question of how to spend more timewatchingYouTube, notbeing watched.)

author: ledtester
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 01:52:06 am
content: Well, if you had more content about electronics I might subscribe.And then there is always this way to YouTube success:https://youtu.be/yfyMRSmb4SY

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 04:00:10 am
content: Quote from: nvidia on August 28, 2019, 10:36:12 pmIf you think it's crappy then maybe others won't want to watch it?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 04:02:07 am
content: You have no chance unless you post more frequently for starters

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 29, 2019, 04:03:30 am
content: Quote from: ledtester on August 29, 2019, 01:52:06 amQuoteRubbish!Successful YouTubers don't need to buy subs, they get it all through organic growth, only loser corporate account do it.And he's killing it, LOL:

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 02:56:46 am
content: There goes your recipe. A set of red arrows, circles/boxes, open mouths, stupid face expressions, fonts piling on each other. The more silly you make your thumbnails look the more successful you will be.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 04:52:19 am
content: Case of ElectroBOOM channel - Electronics with a Bang, 2.7M subscribers...Dave you should try too, easy success, with your Aussie accent it will be wonderful.Joking of course, I prefer a professional delivered knowledge that one for the views.Plus It doesn't suit the seriousness of what a mistake while playing with electronics could cause. If there is something I have a lot of respect with is electricity and specially how to measure it or work around with with the biggest safety possible.

author: taydin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 07:04:51 am
content: Quote from: Bud on August 30, 2019, 02:56:46 amOr if you are a lady with fantastic looks, dressed provocatively, you will have tens of thousands of subscribers in no time, even if your channel is about dung management in a cattle farm.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 09:29:32 am
content: Try watching this video. Which I just found. See if it helps to be young, blonde and attractive.Sadly I'm none of those.But that isn't what I found interesting. At 3:00min she shows the CPM metric for various countries. It caught my eye that Australia had a higher CPM than the USA. Because she is American I expected it to be higher for the USA. I expected Australia to be close, but less.This brings me to say I don't think Youtube is a good way to get a living from, anymore, as the competition is immense. I think you should make videos as well as you can on a narrow range of subjects and be regular, prolific and consistent. Two channels I watch that fit this bill are Voltlog and Big Clive. Make it look like you value your audiences attention as much as they value their time.Then wait for organic growth and word of mouth.

author: ledtester
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 10:38:52 am
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on August 30, 2019, 04:52:19 amYes - blow up some caps, trip some breakers, burn up some resistors. I'm sure you'll see a bump in subscribers!

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 11:14:54 am
content: Quote from: ledtester on August 30, 2019, 10:38:52 amI said that as a joke, of course everything he does is calculated and we totally know the results of the "accidents" he create, but it's entertaining and seeing his subs, a lot find it entertaining.Same as Linus Tech Tips, some videos arebut they are entertaining and that is shown in his subscription, compared with Level1 Techs that it's a lot more technical and only have 254K.I hope I'm wrong, but living from Youtube is something that will end in a somewhat future. Who started in the beginning and got a great amount of subscribers and can consistently and continuously pump out quality (or entertaining) videos (Linus Tech Tips, MKBHD, Unbox Therapy, etc) will keep growing.Who's starting now, or they have a great quality, or one of the videos turn viral, or they explore an subject that is not well covered, or simply is one more in the sea of "Me Too".

author: SteveyG
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 11:26:17 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 30, 2019, 09:29:32 amThat prompted me to take a look, on my statistics the US has the highest CPM, but it's also multiple times higher than the video you linked. UK, Canada and Australia are about the same, but again a lot higher than the linked video.It'd be interesting to know quite how the figures are arrived at.

author: SteveyG
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 11:27:22 am
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on August 30, 2019, 11:14:54 amActually his near death experience with the microwave oven transformer was plain stupid. That bit was not calculated at all.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 12:24:26 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on August 30, 2019, 02:56:46 amI activelyavoidsuch videos "clickbait", so that strategy doesn't attract everyone.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 12:57:03 pm
content: Quote from: SteveyG on August 30, 2019, 11:27:22 amI can't believe he actually showed that publicly.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 01:44:40 pm
content: Quote from: SteveyG on August 30, 2019, 11:26:17 amFrom what little IthinkI know ads are an auction that happens in milliseconds. Whoever bids highest gets that slot to show their ad. So I suppose like most auctions the revenue will be governed by how valuable the advertiser thinks your audience is. Google tells the bidders about the audience based on all the data they have managed to gather about them. From that the advertisers decide how much to pay.What makes an audience valuable?Income?Proximity to advertisers offering?Gender?Age?Time of day?Whether they are at home when viewing the ad? (I'm thinking food delivery at mealtime.)Purchase history?Which is why every skerrick of data is valuable.Hence Google is no more a search engine than McDonalds is a burger chain. Google provide search (for free) to enable data collection for ad sales. McDonalds is a real estate company which provides burgers to franchisees so they can pay the rent on the prime realestate locations.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 01:58:07 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on August 30, 2019, 02:56:46 amBe sure to suggest drama in your thumbnail which isn’t actually in the video, like something catching fire.

author: KL27x
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 08:18:02 pm
content: QuoteWas that the jacob's ladder vid? I can't believe he used both hands to catch either electrode. I would have got my karate kid wax on started while jumping out of that chair like a cat.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 31, 2019, 12:56:47 am
content: It's not easy, you just have to keep making videos and hope one goes viral, then another and so on and you will get subs. My channel is super small too, I was at around 70ish subs and I made a video tour of my server room and it just blew up (at least by my own standards compared to my other videos) and I gained over 100 subs from just that one video. At this point I'm at over 200 now. Sometimes a video will just rank well in searches and you'll get lucky. If you put "home server room tour" in Google or Youtube search it's going to be the first, or one of the first. (probably varies). If you put "server room tour" it shows up too. (3rd right now) I also shared it on Reddit and a couple other places and that helped too. Be careful with Reddit though, self promotion is usually frowned upon there, so only post stuff if you really think it will be interesting and stick to niche subs that the video relates to and not the main ones.At this point my channel does not really have a set topic, been vlogging projects around the house and posting it or making other misc videos, still new at this myself. Those don't really get all that much interest, but I just try to post at a half decent pace to at least have some new videos often enough and take it from there. I do it mostly for fun and it also motivates me to actually work on stuff as it gives me stuff to make videos about. I'm doing it more for that than anything really.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 01, 2019, 03:59:08 pm
content: How to get more watch time? Make videos in a specific category. Being all over the place means it's harder to get viewers to return. You don't have to really limit yourself but people should be able to understand what you're going for. Work on the quality of your videos and post them regularly. Having a regular schedule both gets you more experience which should lead to better videos and it also gets people coming back. Most professional Youtubers seem to feel a regular schedule is key.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 01, 2019, 05:47:12 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 30, 2019, 01:44:40 pmI have worked in a related industry so I have some insight into how this typically works. An advertiser will set up ads with various forms of targeting such as age, gender, location, search keywords, etc each of which will be assigned a maximum bid. The process is then heavily automated, with each ad slot going to the highest bidder for the best match of characteristics. The exact details of the algorithms that do this are of course closely guarded.I'm quite skeptical of the efficacy of online advertising as a whole, but then I also recognize that I am a rather atypical consumer. I rarely buy anything new and what I do buy I carefully research. I go out of my way to avoid ads and find that my tolerance has gotten so low that the internet is unusable without an ad blocker.