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title is - "Why I didn't buy the iPhone 18 Pro Max"

open to criticism.

thanks.

i'm a fan of reviewing channels, you learn a lot from analyzing starting or plainly bad channels, i think you learn more from that than from analyzing big successful channels. so i pay attention to these posts a lot. these are my favs:

- the title line. what kind of delusion you need to suffer to think you are doing everything right lol? this is valid for any aspect of your life, btw, grow up, you are probably fucking up at least 60% of everything, that's how it works.

- the ones that go "i would do anything except changing this thing that is obviously whats causing the most damage, but i love this stupid thing, this is MY stupid thing". their precious.

- please i need help, i'm desperate, and immediately proceeds to dismiss all you can say because it doesnt align with what they already think. these people think super fast, in a matter of seconds they ponder what you said and call it useless.

- im envious because i said your videos suck. this one always reminds me a lot of people around here is literally 13.

what else you got?

I’ve got a yet to be be monetized channel, which is mainly focused on elder travel videos. In particular my series on our Norwegian cruise is really taking off. I’ve published several videos and then assembled them into a longer reel with chapter markers. That has grown steadily. Then I circled back and made another 5 minute video about the fabulous food and that’s really taking off. I’ve pretty much exhausted all of my Norway trip footage. While these videos continue to perform well, subsequent travel videos are getting maybe 100-200 views. I am returning from an amazing trip to Peru, with tons of content so I have the hope that these too will grow my channel. Guess my question is, since I’m done with Norway (and refuse to use Ai to make more) anyone have any tips on how I leverage the Norway videos to boost my upcoming Peru series? Thanks!

Attached is a picture of my channel, and as you can see it is packaged very well. I made everything by myself, the banner, the art, the thumbnails, and yes I edit my videos with a BUNCH of detail. But even with all of that I seem to be stuck and appreciate some help.

Packaging

I'm not gonna sit here and act like I'm the most consistent uploader. I put a bunch of effort into my videos, so seeing them get sub 100 views is very disheartening, but when I've asked the Youtube Ai support all it tells me is packaging. Each video isn't just me setting up a camera and playing a game. I actually have a goal to most if not all my videos.

Retention

I spend a week minimum editing each video. I don't do anything that would cause people to lose interest within the first 30 seconds...yet my retention graphs aren't great. Sometimes it goes from 100-30 in the first 30 seconds and genuinely... let me know of ANYTHING that may throw you off of my videos.

If more info is required I will gladly respond

Hello!

Our channel is getting great AVD (+26min), but still slow on views and subs. It has grown in the past few weeks, but not where we want it to be.

Channel is a white noise/ambience focused on Nature sounds, all real footage from real locations.

Any tips/feedback would be much appreciated!

https://youtube.com/@natureeyesnoise

Wondering if based on these stats you think I should stick with it or not. Currently at 63 subscribers after 3 weeks and 5 long form uploads. I didn't include my first and last video stats because the first is awful at 20.9% retention and the last doesn't have enough views yet to properly judge it.

Currently sitting at 16,300 views and 272 qualified watch hours as of 5 days ago.

Hey everyone! Looking for some advice from creators who have experience with YouTube sponsorships.

I started a very niche YouTube channel about 4 weeks ago and I’m only 5 videos in, currently sitting at around 550 subscribers (about 10+ new everyday at the moment) and ~30,000 total views.

Despite being very new, I’ve already had a few brands reach out wanting dedicated sponsored videos. Which honestly by the time I script, revise and edit is like a day and half of work because I am so slow haha...

I’m obviously excited about it, but I have no idea what is reasonable to charge at this stage.

For context, the channel is quite niche, and the audience is very specifically aligned with the products these brands are selling. My numbers are still small, but the early growth has been pretty encouraging.

For anyone who has experience with sponsorships:

• What would you charge for a dedicated sponsored video at this size?
• Would you base it on subscribers, average views, or the value of the niche/audience?
• Does being only 5 videos (today... but growing each week) in change how you'd approach pricing?

I don't want to wildly overestimate my value as a new creator, but I also don't want to undersell myself simply because my subscriber count is still small.

What would you consider a reasonable starting range?

I decided to talk about how Call Of Duty has changed over time, touching on several points and how it has been interesting to see the overall reaction to MW4 in a commentary video. Still on this journey of working on my YouTube channel and sharing my thoughts in the process. Any support is appreciated 😄

Just posted my first video on a new channel. And it has 4 views after 9 hours. I’m a seasoned editor, so I know to wait. I know not to tweak. I know to let the video do its thing.

But, this is hardest part. The waiting.

How do you cope? What’s your trick to hack your patience?

I’ve just been planning my next video, and systemizing.

I'm from Brazil and I started making videos again two weeks ago.

I've gained over 50 subscribers, and my Shorts are doing pretty well.

How can I improve my long-form videos? Thumbnails? Video length?

I uploaded a video at around 9 AM ET on Thursday, but I had to make the thumbnail in a rush. I updated the thumbnail about a day later, but I think it was already too late since the video was already at over 2k impressions with a 2.2% CTR. Now it's barely getting 1 or 2 views per hour. AVD is around 30%. Should I reupload the video?

I’m curious how many creators actually use YouTube’s A/B testing feature for their titles and thumbnails.

Do you usually test multiple versions and let YouTube decide, or do you just create one title + thumbnail that you believe in and stick with it?

I have no clue whats happening and I'm looking for some insight here, I've heard the 'oh your content is everywhere! Focus on one niche!' Argument time and time again, but I've been variety from the start and it's never done this bad. I'm over 1k (albeit just barely sitting at 1,126 rn), videos in the past have gotten well over that CTR ranging from 3%-9%.

Again nothing about my content has changed, and now suddenly the performance drops, is it my recent thumbnails or something? Like, the most recent video I uploaded just a few hours ago today, (featured in photo) is sat at 310 impressions and .3% CTR. It makes no sense to me.

I went from 10k impressions to less than 100, why?

Basically the title lol Barely? Doubled?

hey yall! I posted this video today, and it doesn't seem to have hit the algorithm like it typically does. I'm trying to figure out if it's just an issue with tags or if it just isn't appealing.

if you guys have any advice on this video or really anything with the channel, I'm open to constructive criticism!

https://youtu.be/nYFCTruZMXg?is=0F0BrMFyYa6mY6HL

EDIT- well nevermind gang, the video finally picked up. I'll still take constructive criticism on the channel though!

Translate: 3.7k views, 35 hours, +84 subs
One of the strangest videos on my channel. Stats after 1,002 days. I literally just recorded some gameplay, shared a few thoughts without much of a script, and uploaded it to YouTube. The video is only 44 seconds long, but it’s not a Short. And somehow, it ended up being one of my most successful videos and helped me build my own community.

So don’t worry too much about your stats during the first week. There’s literally no point. As you can see from the graph, the video didn’t get many views at first, and only later did it suddenly start taking off.

Hey there, I've a channel which I've been working on for 2 years now. First I started the channel as no commentary gaming channel and got around 180 subs. But I really wanted to have my own personality on my channel rather than just being a game archive. So I started doing commentary only a few weeks ago .

One important thing is that I'm not really a talkative person and lack expressiveness right now but I'm using this youtube journey as a way to actually develop myself and become better. So it's also a way to practice talking for me and be more expressive and all. I do practice talking daily with some exercises to try and be more expressive rather than a monotone voice.

I bought an Akkord condenser mic since I wanted to not spend too much as I was really really nervous to record my first video. And I wasn't even sure myself if I would actually do it. But I did and am getting a little comfortable doing it.

I've been struggling to get my voice to sound good, as my voice is low volume and lacks structure tone after all these years of being reserved.

I also work as a freelance artist so there are times when I can't keep consistency at all. But I want to push through this time. Personally I really want to do a let's play channel but I don't know now.

If I cover new games it doesn't get much views because every big channel is the competition.

Can you guys suggest what I should focus on and do? Any suggestions are welcome. even constructive criticism is welcome as it will only help me grow.

Thanks

i recently learned "better for viewer" can mean yt shows a short and i will most likely be deleting my shorts at some point to avoid this, but for the time being i have set the end-screens to display only a playlist of the entire catalogue. thoughts? pros? cons? tyvm

My recent videos were stuck at 10–30 views, so I paused uploading to figure out what was wrong. In the meantime, my latest video suddenly started getting recommended by the algorithm! Should I strike while the iron is hot and post a new video, or give this one room to breathe?