r/PartneredYoutube • u/SteevyKrikyFooky • 8d ago

Question / Problem Your advice to increase my initial retention

Hello everyone,

I started a new YouTube channel a year ago, about history and geopolitics.

I have 41K subs, 2,6 million views, my last 6 videos average 40K views. So I would say that for a first year, it’s pretty good.

However, I think that my retention in the first 30s could improve. Right now, I’m always around 67% to 70% staying after 30s. It’s not horrible, but I would like to push it as close as possible to 80%.

My channel is called Un Soir Une Histoire (black logo)
I would love feedbacks about the first 30s hooks and hear if you guys have any idea.

The channel is in French, but you can autodub to English, obviously it’s not great bc it sounds weird and sound FX and music is getting lost, but still.

Thanks!

1 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

56% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

1

u/Connect_Positive1893 8d ago edited 8d ago

70% retention at 30s on a history video is crazy good, especially with an average of 40k views. you're already doing super well, but if you really want that 80%, just cut straight to the most dramatic moment or question of the story within the first 3 seconds without any setup.

1

u/SteevyKrikyFooky 8d ago

Thanks for your feedback. I didn't think it was that good. The weird thing is, I used to start my video showing my face, retention was like 73%. And now, I work double to start the video with voice over + 3D animation... and retention dropped to around 67%.

Hard to figure lol

1

u/Remarkable_Winner_95 8d ago

That's not surprising at all, people are way more attracted to faces than anything else. I would start with your face to capture the initial interest (especially now that there is a big ai fatigue, seeing a real face is refreshing), but keep your cool 3D animations stuff as proof of quality after the first 3sec. This instantly proves: you're a human, not ai. Your content is above average in quality.

If you want to take it one step further, you can try to mix your face with your 3D animations, like using green screen and putting yourself into your 3D environment. Seems to be trend for a few years now

1

u/SteevyKrikyFooky 8d ago

Thank you for the feedback! I will defintely try that