Posts by Michael

Quote from Symph

Why would a channel not be able to just pivot to a different style of content that works? You're acting like something happened, did the algorithm get so used to 1k views that now nothing could ever change that? Why not? Doesn't it seem like all you'd have to do is find a type of content that is better liked, follow some trends, get a few videos to get some extra views and then the algorithm would pick up on it? Or does the algorithm just decide if a channel hasn't grown in years it never will? If THAT'S the case then I need to make a new channel not start uploading to my old one again.

To be honest I am really unsure if it could escape how it was performing. I was getting decent views for a long time, then I linked the channel to spotify as an artist accidentally and the views tanked from that point. They did stabilise for a while but recently when posting I was barely scraping 1k views with good content and content that would have worked in the past. I could have tried to be honest but I felt like my subscribers werent watching or clicking in and off videos. I am really unsure if I could have stimulated growth again in the channel. It is still there and I am open to trying to get it going again but I am unsure if I should just let it die off. I dont think it will punish an older channel but I am unsure. It always felt like the channel was broken but thats something I have come up with without facts.

Check this guy out, his thumbnails are great, the channel presentation is, the videos are excellent too I cannot really fault the channel or videos at all, really good storytelling and everything is so well done, I instantly want to follow his journey:

MrCoban

Doing things the sensible version of me is afraid to do. Saying yes to strangers, driving terrible cars and chasing the moments I'll be glad I didn't talk…

www.youtube.com

Really admire channels like this but the views are not what I would have expected at this level. I wonder why it hasnt gone viral. I cant see why he isnt getting a lot more views.

Does anyone know how thumbnails like Mashtags Bradys are created? I cannot tell if theyre using AI like flux or something or a combo of AI and stock images for the background. What do you reckon? For more have a look at his video listing page: https://www.youtube.com/@MashtagBrady/videos

Quote from skimmer

I can share a method which is working for me to rank videos over youtube? but their are few steps involved for that and at same time you need to use smm panels

If that's allowed in the community i can share the exact method to rank the videos and what are the algorithms which are highly preferred by youtube

I havent heard of smm panels. Is that like view botting or something? If it isnt dodgy practice then I am all for sharing it.

With me starting a new channel I am thinking of using this as part of my strategy, looking at my top 20 performing videos on the old channel and recreating them in 2026 to the best of my ability, everything would be better in terms of camera quality, colour grading, audio and SEO as back then I wasnt sure what I was doing.

Is this a good strategy as I know it has worked before for those videos and redoing them I would hope that they could perform as well as they did on my old channel or with any luck, even better.

Anyone done this before even if just redoing videos on the same channel?

Quote from Symph

Meaning you are having better results not sharing with FB?

The audience retention is a lot higher than I would expect and has been in the past. My plan is to keep it to request only via my larger channel (I have had some subscribers share it on my posts but have removed them as I wanted to keep it fully request only until 1st August) and then make a post sharing it to all after a month so it has the best initial growth possible without people subbing purely to support if that makes sense.

Quote from Queen P

Ive never done one before I see a lot of people making them like fun with Q and A parts, voting and challenges those are very fun and may be easy to keep things fresh

Ive saw people doing challenges and I dont understand a lot about TikTok lives. Theres quite a bit to learn about them as a viewer and a creator. I often felt like I was doing too much of the same things each time. People still showed up and seemed happy to watch the same stuff over and over but for me I felt like I wasnt adding any new value if that makes sense.

Last week I started my new channel. I have a channel in the same niche with about 65000 subscribers. I decided to start fresh as the channel felt like there was no way of getting over 1k views per video again, I accidentally linked it to Spotify as a music channel years ago and since that point it completely dropped in views. Was a massive mistake on my part and I couldnt undo it for years. The channel used to perform really well up to that point and I kept at it hoping that eventually it would change.

I am now wondering what I should do with the channel. I am very tempted to post less focused videos on it and just throw experiments at it to see what happens every so often and keep my new channel laser focused with good SEO and making videos I believe will perform well. I am unsure if I should just fully stop posting as I do have a sub base there and earnings too.

What are your thoughts? I feel so stuck with this and unsure what is best to do. At this point with starting again I dont mind what happens in terms of views on it any more but I dont want to delete it as I know my videos are helpful and still help people.

It seems to be working for me so far, my retention is a lot higher than was on my larger channel which I would hope for and expect with only select few knowing about it. Really excited to see its growth like this over the course of the month 6 days in and the results are promising.

How does everyone achieve audio syncing in Premiere Pro? What I tend to do is clap before recording and after and line them up in editing and zoom right in and move the audio track until the claps match. I have noticed though that often they refuse to align by a millisecond or so. How can I get them perfectly aligned or is this something I have to live with or will I end up with audio drift? I have been posting as is even if it isnt a perfect but close enough match.

This is something a lot of people have spoken about lately. Content created with AI being bad or misleading etc I think we all have our own views on its usage. For me personally I really dont mind when something is created with it unless it is misleading or not labelled as AI in a way to really dupe others into believing something happened etc

What are your thoughts on this? Is AI bad or harmful for the viewers or is it purely about how you use it as a tool. That is how I see it, if used as a tool to assist I am really not bothered by it being used. I use it to help with video ideas as I dont have anyone to brainstorm with and I have used it as part of my business to help with social posts as I am really not good with sales copy etc I havent used it to cause panic or spread misinformation which is where I see it being a MASSIVE problem.

Do you use AI in your content? I have to say I do and I love using it for adding thread tags on here as I cannot stand typing them out and will hopefully help with our SEO and people finding the forums

It is so weird, I was watching a video from a Canadian friend and he had sweat dripping down his face in it and its normally coolish where he is 😅 Yeah definitely the UK here

Quote from Symph

I'd like to record in the upstairs area of my house but there's no air conditioning up there and it would be unbareable. Limits when I can record and how alone I can be when I do it, in winter I might be able to get up there and be comfortable though. What state are you in? TN is only in the 80's today, last two days before that were in the 90's.

UK here Symph we have no air con in our homes unless we get a portable one but most people dont own them here as its only hot a few weeks per year then its cold and rainy most of the time. May make a weather thread actually. Here in mine it is 23c but 21c outside which is fairly hot for over here. Its surprisingly bleak outside, our country is so humid. I could never be upstairs recording, must be sweltering or as we say "sweating your tits off" lol 😆

How long do you spend on planning your videos and thinking about what you will do during your videos or do you just wing them? For myself its often been thinking of something a day or so before and then seeing if anyone else has done something similar, seeing if theirs has worked well too and that validates the idea for me and then I write notes and record. Often I do this on the same day but I will be honest and say I dont spend hours per video on planning. It would probably push my content to be better if I was to. What are your processes?

So far on my new channel I am sticking to very similar videos within the niche, I have been doing 2 videos per day but will be lowering the amount as of Wednesday to settle into a normal schedule. My plan is to seed the channel with similar videos that I know do well and then continue to release but at a slower rate as time goes on. Its been VERY hard doing 2 a day plus working and family stuff on top of that but I wanted to make sure the channel has a solid base to grow from. So far so good since Wednesday I am at 57 subscribers with 10 videos and total 1433 views. I have had it where people on my only channel can request the new channels link to try and lock down only those who are likely to watch come over. I had about 20 requests for the link so the rest is organic which is amazing. Off to a very good start, really cant wait to see what the next week holds and where it goes from here.

What are your thoughts on my plan feel free to critique it or offer advice/guidance as I would love to know if people think this is a good way to do things or the opposite. Any ideas I could use as part of this strategy? Thank you guys.

Quote from Symph

I've had this strange idea that I might not do thumbnails at all but just put a bar across the top of each video with color and a label to let my audience know what type of video it is, and then just picking a decent looking screen shot to be the thumbnail. My reasoning is that now that EVERYONE is doing the professional looking thumbnail with the eye catching design etc, that a low effort minimalistic approach will actually be what stands out. If nobody clicks my vids though I'll try something else lol

(My other reason is laziness, I don't like making thumbnails lol)

I think thats very common feeling with thumbnails, I only enjoy them when they were effortless to create and stand out well etc I mess up lighting sometimes and cant be bothered to retake it. So like the bar would change based on video category yeah?

Quote from Queen P

I think clean thumbnails are best where they show people fast what the video will be about I remember when I would click to a video and be upset when it wasnt the same as the thumbnail so I would leave fast

That used to be a big problem on YouTube years ago, not sure how bad it is still now but I remember there was a lot of clickbait thumbnails and the algorithm was changed so when people were mislead the video wouldnt go viral.

It depends on their purpose but I try and make mine just over the 1 minute mark if I can. For nail salon type videos I would probably aim for similar but if the content really suits shorter I would still post a shorter video. They can and do, do well!

Quote from Symph

FAP is the guy who destroyed my channel! I will NEVER FORGET IT. No I mean, I was probably going to have to make a change soon cause my health issue was making it harder and harder to maintain what I was doing, but in the midst of that FAP thought it would be a great idea to put me in the cringe section of reddit, so I went from getting 1 or 2 occassional haters here and there to having a flood of them following me on EVERY VIDEO. With my anxiety naturally going up from the gut illness and THEN having to deal with that? I just left youtube. So you can thank him for that, not sure what would have happened otherwise.

I certainly did not know that or expect to hear it. Damn so much must have went on without me knowing or I have forgotten completely.

Quote from Symph

So it's a site where you can type words and then it will turn it into an AI generated voice for you so you don't have to talk yourself? I dunno I kinda vote we kill it with fire.... 🤡

Naw I mean, I guess if someone can use it who is too nervous to talk themselves or whatever that's ok, I just personally would like to see all these things that take the human element out disappear. And I will say that I do not watch ANY videos with an AI generated voice, the moment I can tell it's AI I click off no matter what the video is.

Im like that, I feel duped and annoyed by it at times if I didnt realise when I should have. Im all for AI assisting people though too.

Quote from Queen P

I always see this on my facebook as an advertisement https://elevenlabs.io/pricing it has commercial use voice narration maybe you find it useful for doing the spotify podcast

Thats the best one I have seen myself.

Quote from Symph

It doesn't even have to be music? So Spotify's just becoming another youtube then?

Thats an interesting way to look at it and seems so really doesnt it haha you can just upload your video there directly.