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Shorts vs. Long Form Strategy

Welcome to Nim Live, the number one place on the internet to learn about YouTube, network with other content creators, and have an awesome time doing it. My name is Nick, and today we are answering your YouTube questions. And when I say we, I mean myself and my brother from the same mother, D. How's it going? I missed everybody. It's been two weeks. Yeah, it has. It has. How was the past? Has it been two weeks or what? Or uh, yeah, it was just last week that we missed, right? But we yeah, but it's been two weeks. Oh, yeah, it has been two weeks. Yeah, you're right. Okay.

Be one of those streams. How's everybody doing? Yeah, I hope everybody's doing fantastic.

If this is your first time uh joining us, I do want to let you know that we have a form down in the description where you can put your questions. If you can get them down there now, uh we will get it answered on the stream today. Um let me check real quick. I think we don't have yeah, we have some questions in there, but not too many. So, if you have a question, go ahead and get it in there now. Um, if you are watching this on somewhere other than YouTube, you can go to nicknimon. comaskask. Um, and it will forward you directly to that same form that we are pulling the questions from here on YouTube. In addition to that, if you are watching this on the replay, I do want to let you know that we put timestamps down into the video description um, so that you can quickly jump to whatever part of the stream that you are interested in the most. Uh, what we do down there is we list out the questions that were asked during the stream. So, if there's something specific that you want to know or you just want to see, you know, the conversation that we had, you can jump down into those timestamps and find what it is that you need down there. But I recommend that you just sit back and listen because uh we talk all kinds of things about YouTube, answer all kinds of different YouTube questions, probably a lot of questions that you didn't even know that you had and uh and we have a good time. So, uh sit back and listen uh to the to the whole thing. You're going to love it.

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So Chatty Kathy, how you doing? How you doing Kathy? She says Nick says you drink too much coffee in your video. Let me say something dear. That's the whole thing. That's what I'm trying to do in that video. When I when I was a young man, when I was a kid, when you were a young when I was a young, if I if I talked any smack like that, I'd be sent out to mow the yard. And then when I was done mowing the yard, I'd have to hedge the bushes and then I'd have to clean the gutters. Yep. And then you'd have to like lay down bricks and like a brick walkway in the back. Yeah. Yeah. In the heat. Yeah. Yeah.

On the hottest day of the year. Yeah. Get that kid to work. He shouldn't be in here watching somebody drink coffee. That's what I'm trying to say. Get him out there making money or being productive.

Oh, that's great. Okay, so really quick, um, uh, before we get into the content today, because I' I've got some, you know, questions that have come in, plus there's one here about chat GPT that I would like to answer as well from Pinman Sports. But before we do that, um, I do want to let you know that there has been some YouTube news since we've been away.

So, the very first thing is that um YouTube has made some updates to YouTube search. As a part of this, the two filters that they're removing are upload date um for the last hour and sort by rating. However, you can still find the most recent search results in one of our upload date filters and explore popular, highly viewed videos using the popularity filter option as well. Um so, that's one of the things.

In addition to that, they've also made some updates to the controversial issues. um for monetization. So if you are somebody that talks about you know subjects like uh you know when people you know get killed or you know anything like that then depending on how you talk about them you might still qualify for monetization. It's so my understanding they loosened that up for almost everyone there there are a couple categories they're still like no you can't talk about that. I think a lot of it has to do with like child exploitation and that sort of thing, but they kind of like backed off of everything else, which is really interesting. Yeah, I I think it's interesting and I think it's cool. Um, as well like uh, you know, like there's the whole thing about, you know, what do advertisers want to be advertised next to? And I understand that. Um, but when it comes to, you know, things like that for people that are doing, you know, like let's say they're on true crime stories as an example, then, you know, that gives those people an opportunity to, you know, be able to to fully monetize everything it is that they're doing. Uh, which is great. The problem that I always had with that is that the news could put up their clips and they're fine. They could go live and they could talk 24 hours a day about the most horrible stuff happening all over the world and then if you made a video talking about the same thing that they went over news that's talking about talking about the news and talking about it, you can't monetize your video. So, I'm glad that somebody over there said, "You know what? We uh we got to do the right thing here. " So, good on YouTube.

Good on YouTube on that one.

And then we also have um where they have uh if you're somebody that uses the promotions feature on YouTube, which just as a quick reminder um YouTube promotions, views and subscribers do not count towards monetization. And we recommend that you only use this feature if you have something to actually sell from your videos because all this does is this allows you to advertise without having to get into the complexities of Google ads. So because of that um this is something that you want to use with caution and only if you have a real purpose to use it. But um they have added interest targeting to the promotions feature. So with this with this uh interest targeting uh one of the examples they gave is let's say that you are targeting gamers you know with your content. Then in that case you can specifically target gamers you know as one example. So it's more based on uh interests um as one of the options in there which is great.

And um and when it comes to this again, just you know, be careful. Some people are using this to, you know, try to grow their channels and things like that. Um and I just want to just put the reminder out there before you spend money on it to try to use it to grow your channel that doesn't matter how much money that you put behind ads, doesn't matter how much money that you put behind, you know, these types of promotional features. If you still haven't learned how to get people to click, how to come up with good video ideas, how to create content that keeps people watching and gets them satisfied with your content, then as soon as you turn off the ad spend, everything dries up. So, because of that, just proceed with caution when it comes to that sort of thing. But just wanted to keep you up to date on uh the availability of that.

Um, they also launched a feature called ingredients to video. So, with this one um inside YouTube shorts right now, you can make Google VO videos, VEO. And what that is is you can type in text prompts and it will, you know, give you videos out of those. You can upload photos. It'll give you videos out of those. Um, but now with this ingredients feature, they have it to where you can upload um a photo of yourself, an image. Yep. You can upload a photo of yourself. You can also upload a background and you can also upload like an object of some kind. And then it'll blend all of them together in the video instead of it just being a, you know, a one object type or one photo type of If you guys haven't seen it yet, I have a video that went viral where I uploaded myself on a basketball court with a basketball and I told it to make me a Harlem Globe Trotder. It's incredible. Should see it.

Sick shop, what's going on? Thanks for.

The 11 months of support. Appreciate that. Tan, going in the kitchen. What's going on? Hope you're doing great. SM Sky, hope that you are doing awesome. Nice to see you in here. Eric, Wait, Whiskey Study says you can't talk about Fight Club. Yep, it's kind of how it goes. Matt, Vietnam life, what's going on? Hope you are doing great. They have some other member. Yeah, I'm kind of scrolling up through them here right now. Actually, I'm just looking here. YouTube says you can talk about Fight Club now.

Oh, yeah. That's kind of they will monetize you. Fight Club says you can't talk about Fight Club, but YouTube says it's okay. Yeah, YouTube says you can. Yeah. Nick and De are the absolute best. Thank you both. Thank you for the kind words. Glad that you think so. Glad you're enjoying the content. Thanks for being around. Thanks for hanging out. It's much appreciated. And Home Rapid Repair, same to you as well. Looks like you guys are competing there.

We got 24 and 25 months. So, you know, thanks to both of you there. Can we build with Mooney? What's going on? Hope you're doing great. Can we go? Nice to see you in here. Can we walk over to the doorwork mods? Dr. V show, what's going on, man? Great. Tan, going in the kitchen. What's going on?

Eric, Wait, Whiskey Study says you can't talk about Fight Club. Yep, it's kind of how it goes. They have some other member. Yeah, I'm kind of scrolling up through them here right now. Actually, I'm just looking here. YouTube says you can talk about Fight Club now. Oh, yeah. That's kind of they will monetize you. Fight Club says you can't talk about Fight Club, but YouTube says it's okay. Yeah, YouTube says you can. Yeah.

The 11 months of support. Appreciate that. You still have home repair and create a classroom. Yep. I will get to those right here in just a sec. Okay. Right here at the very top. 24 months. It's like a toddler. Nick and De are the absolute best. Thank you both. Thank you for the kind words. Glad that you think so. Glad you're enjoying the content. Thanks for being around.

Thanks for hanging out. It's much appreciated. And Home Rapid Repair, same to you as well. Looks like you guys are competing there. We got 24 and 25 months. So, you know, thanks to both of you there. So, the very first question. Well, yep. I'm saying it now. Yep. Say it. Get it. Get it, D. Get it.

Pinman Sports says, 'Should I use ChatGPT for my YouTube channel? Any suggestions? ' So, there are ways that you can use ChatGPT for your YouTube channel, but I recommend that you don't get dependent on using ChatGPT for your YouTube channel. So, getting feedback, asking questions, trying to get better understandings of things. You know, bouncing ideas off of it, things like that can be advantageous, especially if you don't have anybody in your circle that does anything related to YouTube. It's just a bouncing board to run your ideas through. But keep in mind that because it is trained on historical information, some of the information that you'll get out of ChatGPT is just flat out wrong on 2026 YouTube. So, for example, depending on how you're looking for things and depending on how you're trying to get information out of it, sometimes it'll recommend that you spend time making sure that you get all your tags sorted in your videos. And it also will give misinformation as well. So, for example, you know, you'll see some YouTube videos where they'll say things that are just completely wrong and just misinformation where they'll say things about, hey, you know, you got to make sure if you want to get more views that you name your video file the name of your keyword you're trying to rank for, whatever your title is or whatever those things are. And when people say things like that on Reddit and whatever it's scraped from YouTube and all that stuff, then that's in its system. So because of that, it can give you advice based on those things that aren't actually true either. So because of that, any information that you do get from it, take it with a grain of salt. But with that said, it can be really powerful in terms of, you know, hey, I'm trying to come up with a value proposition for my channel. Here's what I offer.

You know, what do you recommend? Hey, here's a screenshot of my last 10 videos. You know, do you see anything here that I could be making a mistake with? Here is the hook of my video. Pick this apart for me and be brutally honest about this hook and let me know if you think that this would help people watching or ways that I might be able to improve it. And it will just give you some suggestions. But when it does that, make sure that you are thinking for yourself and being like, okay, for the people that I'm trying to reach with my content, does this really going to resonate with them or is ChatGPT kind of gassing me up? Because that's kind of what it's trained to do also in terms of making people feel good.

So, I have some advice. I have some advice and I'm going to give you advice if you're using the paid version of ChatGPT or a free version and you can also apply this to Claude or any of the others. So in ChatGPT you can make a custom GPT. Yeah. And one of the things that you can do, and ChatGPT can actually help you write this, is I recommend if you're going to use ChatGPT to help you do anything on your channel. And just to piggyback on what he said, write out exactly who you are making videos for. This is something we've been going over for the past two weeks in Tuber School really focusing the students on the avatars and really trying to dial down who they're making videos for. So if you dial that down and say okay this is a person this is their age. This is what their interests are. These are the problems that they have. This is what they're trying to figure out. Like the more you can drill down to who you're making videos for. Write that into ChatGPT or Claude or whatever and say make a prompt to where I can add it into my custom GPT and it will take that information add it as a custom GPT. So then it and then keep going back to that custom GPT to ask questions and tell it to reference your avatar. Tell it to reference your ideal viewer so that when you're asking it questions, it gives you information based on who you tell it your viewer is.

That doesn't mean it's going to be 100% correct. But at least you give it some guard rails to play with. Yes. Because if you just turn it loose, it can come back with some pretty wild stuff. And it doesn't understand the nuance of what it means to be a human consuming content. It understands data, but it doesn't understand really why someone wants to watch. And if you try to drill it down without giving it some guard rails, it can miss. So if you don't have the paid version, you can just figure out who your audience is, write that down, put it in a note file, and then every time you're getting ready to use it to ask a YouTube question. So then if it's for Gemini or for Claude or for ChatGPT, copy paste it so it understands who your audience is before you start asking it questions. If you don't do that, it just has a tendency to run off the rails.

Yeah. And really quick, Global Lynn says, 'Did you have the flu? ' So, last week I didn't have the flu, I don't think. I'm not 100% sure. Now I'm like 90 something% better. Still not 100% yet on the energy side, but I'm doing way better than I was this time last week. So, feeling much better. Not 100% sure what it was, but it wasn't wonderful in any way, shape, or form.

Hold on. Hold on. I had no idea D couldn't pronounce. Yeah, I put that one up on the screen earlier. Yeah, when you were talking. Is it Avatar or Avatar? Avatar. What did I say? You're like Avatar. Yeah, I'd have to like go back and listen to say it again. Avatar. It's fine how you say. It's perfectly fine. Hey, thanks Ron. Appreciate that.

They are taking me to task for my pronunciation of Avatar. That's right. I can't say doing correctly. Doing. Yeah, it's like doing. Doing. Yeah, doing. But I've always said doing say Avatar. I've gotten eaten up in my comments on that for like 11 years. Avatar. Say it. Avatar. Avatar. Yeah. Avatar.

Avatar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Avatar. I don't even know if Avatar is right over Avatar. I don't know. Yeah. We're have to drop into a how I pronounce that. You know, there's a whole YouTube channel that just words on how you pronounce words. Really? So, you can probably type in right now. You can probably type in how to pronounce avatar and that channel will probably pop up. Yeah. Check it out.

Hey, so really quick, I just want to mention this. So Chris Life247 says, 'I don't have enough data on my channel to tell me who my audience is. ' So I see this on like Reddit and in here, you know, in the chat from time to time. And when it comes to this sort of thing, it's important to make sure that when you're writing your titles, you know, that you are actually trying to connect with who it is that you're trying to reach through how you're presenting everything, starting with the video idea itself. And then through that process, it will help you be able to connect with those people that you're actually trying to connect with. So, you know, this is one of those things to where, you know, YouTube's going to do what YouTube does and it's going to find the audience for you. But the more clear that you make it that your content is for that audience, the higher the likelihood that they're going to click on the video, higher the likelihood they're going to enjoy the video, which then is going to send more signals to YouTube that tells their system, hey, this type of viewer, they enjoy this content. So then their system, you know, they look for other people like those people. So because of that, make sure that you're doing the work on the front end so that it makes it easier for YouTube system to do the work on their end. Well, we're going to do something here. So, while D's doing that, the very first question that we have here on our.

The list today is from Design Rescue. Can you tell me about Design Rescue? Uh, they upload when they have time. They have been on YouTube for one year or more. They do educational content. The goal of the channel is to teach others. And the question is, I've shifted away from showing my face in my thumbnails, but I'm not sure if I'm capturing the right audience to grab attention. For your type of content, I wouldn't worry about that too much. But in terms of shifting from showing your face in your thumbnails, that's perfectly fine if people are responding to it better. However, if you're not getting as good of a response, then in that case, I would put yourself back in there. But I'm just going to take a really quick look and see what it is that you're doing. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. We've had you up before.

So here, like the invisible branding system of Knottberry Farm. Yeah. Here you're focusing on the thing that you know that actually matters there. So I think you're okay with that.

But I would definitely just compare click-through rate on different traffic sources. From basically go into your YouTube analytics. Click up in the top right-hand side, click into advanced. Over on the left-hand side, you're going to see some drop-downs over in like the panel over on the far left. Um, it's going to say content when you first go in there. Click into that and choose traffic sources. And then it's going to show you how people are responding from like YouTube's homepage or from browse features. It's going to show you search, show you suggested videos. So, go in there and start comparing some of the videos with your face versus the ones without your face and just see if you notice any patterns there on which one people respond to more. Um, and in addition to that, just run A/B tests um on it as well because as your channel grows, you might be able to leverage your face for the people that know you and like your content. Um, but for right now, I think that you're actually taking a good approach here on just saying like, 'Hey, let me just focus on the thing that my audience cares about most. ' Um, I think that that's definitely, you know, the the right move to make right now.

Hey, can you tell me how to pronounce the word? Can you tell me how to pronounce the word avatar or avatar? It's pronounced as avatar with the emphasis on the first syllable. So, it's like on the first syllable. Say it again. Absolutely. I'll say it again. It's avatar with the emphasis right there on that first a.

So, really quick, Design Rescue has a follow-up question here and they say, uh, you know, thank you. I heard that the A/B thumbnail tests are broken. They're not broken. Um, so when it comes to the A/B thumbnail test right now with where your channel's at, you're not going to get you're not going to get like much information on it. So if you have a video that ends up doing like better, then in that case, you know, you will get, you know, some some real information on it. Um, but right now, like where you're at in terms of your average view counts at this moment in time, um, I don't think the A/B test is going to going to help you much. So that's why I would go historically into what you've done and do those comparisons in your traffic sources that I was talking about. But even with that, it's a little bit muddy because um you still put yourself in a situation to where you might attribute the thumbnail getting clicked on um to your face being in the thumbnail, but it could just be that that topic, you know, was was the thing that mattered. But because the numbers are kind of low right now, it makes that type of stuff really challenging. That's why I mentioned that the move that you're making right now in terms of focusing on the people that you're trying to reach, what will stand out to them, focusing on that um would be the would be the better move. And then once you start, you know, getting your average view counts higher, then that's where you'd start dropping yourself back in there again and start, you know, A/B testing and that kind of stuff.

All right, I've got one more. Hang on one second. Can you tell me how Oopsie. Hold on. Hold on. Here we got We got another question. Can you tell me how many Rs are in strawberry? Of course. In the word strawberry, there are two Rs, one in the middle and one at the end. There are two Rs in strawberry. Are you sure? That's got to be a troll from OpenAI. You're absolutely correct. Uh, that was a slip up on my part. There's actually only one R in strawberry.

Thanks for catching that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm not going to listen to how you pronounce a Avatar. That That's my point. I win. Yep. You won. Yep.

So, uh, Trainer James is the, uh, next channel here. Trainer James, they upload when they have time, been on YouTube for a year more. They have a Pokemon gaming channel. Goal of the channel is to make money. And the question is, when I upload a new video, I usually make a YouTube short that links to it. Is it better to post a short the same day as a video or wait until the views slow down and use it to boost the video again? So, you can do that sort of thing, and it's fine to do that. And you can publish the video and then publish a short or a whole group of shorts that kind of point back to that video. You can absolutely do that. Um, but one of the things that that I would just, you know, try to remember when it comes to shorts is that when you publish a video for the sake of only advertising the long form video that you published, you're trying to take people out of the experience that they have chosen, which is YouTube shorts. They've either chosen by going into the shelf on a homepage, by clicking into shorts on their, you know, phone, by clicking into shorts on a channel page, you know, any of the places, pretty much every surface that YouTube uh uh recommends shorts. um they have chosen to go in there and and hang out in the short shelf. So because of that, you can get people out of there and get them over into videos. But um uh but I wouldn't I wouldn't look at that as a I'm going to use my shorts only to advertise my long form. I would also try to make sure that you're adding value into your shorts as well so that you can also get those people to where when they see your shorts cuz here's what's going to happen.

You're in front of people that are into Pokemon. those people that are into Pokemon, once they start catching on that you're just doing ads for your long form content, when your content shows up and they recognize that it's yours, they're going to start swiping away because they're going to catch on to it. So, the long-term burn on that is not going to work out to your advantage. Um, but if you add value in the YouTube shorts, and by value, I simply mean good content that they can enjoy. And then maybe at the end of that, you mention that you have an extended, you know, version of that or something like that into um, you know, the video, then in that case, you know, you're giving them something good that they can enjoy there and then you're handing off. And you might be doing that already. If you are, then that's the better approach. But definitely don't make shorts just for the sake of saying like, hey, you know, I just published a video, you know, long form video over here, you know, go check it out. just make sure that you're giving them good, you know, quality content. And I I think that you might be doing that already. Um but yeah, so to answer your question then in terms of when to do it, um yeah, I would do it basically publish the video and then you don't have to necessarily wait for it to like slow down, but just give it time uh you know, for the for the video to to to you know, be recommended to people. Um, and then from there, you know, if you want to, you know, try to use, you know, a group of shorts or a short to promo or to not promo it, but to let people know that it's there at the end of really good content they can enjoy, um, then that would be the approach.

Hey, Jerry, what's going on, man? We were having a conversation earlier today before we came in. We were talking about how YouTube is just stuffing shorts into the homepage. You open up YouTube, it's just short, short, short, short shorts. And you are going to start making more shorts. Yeah. I'm curious. I mean, I've already I've already got them made. Like, I Yeah, I just have to I'm curious how many people in here right now are taking advantage of that. The fact that YouTube is putting so much weight on shorts. Every time you open up YouTube, doesn't matter if it's computer or your phone, it's just short shorts. If you are taking advantage of that or not.

Hey, and really quick, every day Dan uh Dana says, um, how long does it take to be recommended? So, as soon like as soon as you publish a video, YouTube is going to start recommending your content. You can see that in your uh YouTube stats. You can see that under what's called an impression. An impression is when YouTube shows your content to somebody on the platform. So, if people are going to respond to it or not, that's a totally different thing if they're going to decide to click on it or if they're going to decide to watch it, you know, if it's a short versus swiping away. But when it comes to uh YouTube recommending it, you know, once you publish it and YouTube understands, you know, the video, then YouTube's going to recommend that content. It might be to a lot of people if it's like a, you know, really wide topic in terms of something that a lot of people are interested in right now. Um, or it could be a handful of people if the thing that you're talking about is just super narrow and and you.

You know, just really granular, um, you know, a video. So, um, so you know, in order to see if YouTube is recommending your content, I have a short about this on my channel, actually, but basically, if you want to see if YouTube is recommending your content, just go into your stats for the video and then look under impressions. And if you see impressions, but you're not getting views, that means that YouTube is showing your content to people, but people aren't clicking on it. Um, so that that's what you want to look for. And then when you identify that, then you're like, okay, well, now I know that YouTube has showed my content to, you know, 10 people or 100 people or a thousand people, whatever it is. And uh you know if I'm not getting you know that many people to click on it then now let's start trying to uncover what could actually be going on there cuz YouTube's trying YouTube's showing it to people but on my end if I can't get people to respond to it why do I think that is and then you start workshopping it from there.

>> well hello Melanie long time no see >> good to see you says she is watching while putting furniture together >> nice hope you're doing well >> Monique what's going on hope you're doing great >> hey Monique and Pure is doing >> a minute Yeah, nice to see you in here. Hope that you are doing great. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. >> Doing nothing but shorts. >> Johnson, what's up? Hope you are doing awesome. >> We have a lot of people in here doing shorts. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I think I think 2026 I think it's a good move. You know, like we were talking about over coffee. >> Just where they're putting your attention.

>> YouTube if YouTube's trying to push everybody into shorts, then you probably want to be there. >> I'm not pretty simple math. >> Yeah, I'm not I'm not a fan of it, but I have no control over what YouTube is >> putting focus on. And if YouTube is putting focus on shorts and I'm going to be on their platform, right, >> it makes sense to make more shorts, right? As much as I don't want to do it, >> right? Yep. >> But yeah, >> we'll see. >> Yep.

So, uh, really quick, um, Alvin Alvin Watkins. Um, and just as a heads up, just a reminder because I've grabbed a couple of these out of the chat. I do want to let you know that if you do have a question, make sure you put it in the form that's down in the description because that's where we're really taking the questions from. But there's just a few of these that I can just answer really quickly. So here on Alvin Watkins says, "What's the best time to go live? " So if you have any data on your YouTube channel um or enough data on your YouTube channel inside of your uh YouTube analytics, your stats for your YouTube channel, YouTube under the audience tab is going to show you a graph that shows you when your viewers are online. Go live when your viewers are online. So it's going to show you that. And if you don't have that graph, then you want to think about who it is that you're trying to reach, what their day-to-day might look like in terms of is it somebody that would be watching in the morning, somebody that would be, you know, coming to hang out after work, you know, that type of thing. And then you publish uh your live streams at that time because that's who that's, you know, the people that you're trying to reach at that time in whatever starting time zone it is that you would start that uh you know, start that for the people that you're trying to reach.

Uh let's see here. So, next up we've got yeah, scheduling all that stuff out is completely fine uh when it comes to, you know, batching and and getting everything uh published.

So, let's see here. So, next up, we've got traveling uh travel, sorry, with Nicholas. Uh Travel with Nicholas. They upload one time per week or more. They've been on YouTube for less than a year. They do travel content. Goal of the channel is to quit their job and be a full-time content creator. And the question is, um, I want help getting more views on my videos, so help with packaging. So, let's take a look. Do I have a link to your channel? Yes, I do. Let's get you up here. See what you're working with. Okay. I think we've uh I think we've pulled you up before.

Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and add this uh over here. Okay. So, um, right out of the gate, uh, this is rude. I didn't realize these things were rude in the Nordics. Okay. So, you have the imagery in there letting people know that, you know, it's about those places, which is fine. Um, I thought Scandinavia is the same. I was completely wrong. Yeah, I think uh, this is fine. I'm not sure what you mean in terms of the same, right, from the packaging on the outside. Like, same is what, right? I would definitely work on clarity there. Um, I was completely wrong about Poland after living in Norway. Yeah, I think that's good.

Love how you put the as an American on here. So, just right out of the gate, right? A quick thing um is at least on these last two cuz you also have as an American here, but this one got 2. 5,000, which is still, you know, kind of okay for the channel. But, um here you have I was completely wrong about the Nordic countries as an American. You got 20,000 views on that one. Completely wrong about Poland after living in Norway as an American. Uh 7. 7,000 on that one. So, I don't know if it's, you know, the topic itself or you put together just a really good video. Um, but you know, with this working on these two, I would try to keep that theme going if you can. Like when you find things like that, and again, it could be something else that that might not be the thing. But to me, as an American, this would instantly make this more interesting to me specifically. If I was European, might not matter. Um, or if I was, you know, Asian, you know, it might not matter.

But as an American, you know, it's definitely, you know, something that would make this more interesting. But I would definitely um you know try to work those types of things into your titles just to see like okay consistently if I if I work these into the titles did the video seem to do better. And a great experiment that you could run literally right now is you could say I thought Scandinavia was the same as whatever it is you know that that that you're comparing it against and then I was completely wrong and then do like as an American, right? And just try to work that in, you know, as much as you as much as you can. Um um other Yeah. Yeah. I I would actually focus on that right now. Trying to just kind of follow themes that uh you know that that have worked and Yeah. And see if that makes a difference at all. And like right now cuz you have this underperforming video. See if that makes a difference there. And then add it to this and see if it uh if it makes a difference on this one and causes this one to get any momentum. If it does and you notice a change on both of these after you make that change, then I would kind of commit to getting the as an American into the uh into the messaging there. So, I just run that experiment first.

Let's see here. So, really quick, Joyce says, "Why did manage videos disappear from my husband's channel? He shares my account. Please help. " Um, so go into your YouTube settings inside of So, okay, so let me just kind of walk you through this. So, um, I can't show you my screen because it'll expose email addresses and stuff of people that I, you know, have given access to my channel. Um, but when it comes to, um, comes to this, all you have to do is when you log into your creator studio, down in the bottom left hand side, you're going to see a settings option. Click into that and then it's going to open up a box. And here, let me uh just put this on screen real quick. It's going to open up a box and then from there um in that box if you go one two three four the fifth option down on the left is permissions. If you click on that go into there and make sure that your husband is still added there. If not click the invite button um add his email and then and then send him an invite there and then that should reconnect everything for you. Um, I'm not sure why it's not, you know, if he had the access and he doesn't now, I'm not sure, you know, what would have caused that to disconnect, but, you know, sometimes things like that happen. So, I would just go through that process to see if, uh, if that gets it sorted for you.

Okay. Oh, yeah, and Doug also mentioned here, thanks, Doug, says, uh, you may need to switch accounts in the account switcher, too. So, in order to do that, if you uh go to YouTube under your account and then you go up to the very top right hand side and click on your profile picture, then you're going to see underneath you're going to see Google account, switch account, and sign out. If you click on switch account, then from there you should see the drop down um or he should should see the drop down uh that will give him that uh that will allow him to access that too. Thanks for that addition there, Doug. Appreciate it.

So, uh, next up on the list we have, okay, we did traveling with Nicholas already. Okay, so the next question we have is from Lisa's story corner. Um, they upload one time per week or more. They do kids educational content. The goal of the channel is to teach others. And the question is, is it generally harder to monetize kids channels? Yeah. Um, so with kids channels, you can do sponsorships. you can get lots of views, you know, on kids content and all that stuff. Um, but but in a lot of cases, you just don't have all the options that you have for um you just don't have the options for a lot of the uh you know, a lot of the options that you have um when you're not targeting kids. So, you know, for example, like you guys can't even like use your comment section and stuff like that. So, you you definitely have limitations in terms of what it is that you can do when it comes to uh when it comes to that.

So, next up on the list here, we have the Comm Center. Comm Center uploads one time per week or more. Uh, they do true crime content. The goal of the channel is to teach others. And the question is, um, are we being held back from Discovery because of the content choices or is it our delivery? So, let's see what it is that you are offering here. See what you got going on. Yeah. So, so let's see. You've got 11,000 subscribers on the channel. Um here you've got Yeah. 157 views, 394 views, 82 views. Your thumbnails look AI generated. I don't know if they are um or not, but some of them like these firemen, you know, definitely look AI generated. Here, we'll pull this up real quick.

Um yeah, there's that, too. You know, Karen Cole mentioned here um as well that there's a push to not allow kids online in the UK. Yeah. In addition to that, Australia has already put things in place where uh kids under uh 12, I think it is, can't have or 16 can't have social media accounts, that kind of stuff. And and other places around the world are starting to catch on to that, too, which is going to make it even harder, you know, for kids channels. So, yeah. So, you're you're dealing with all kinds of stuff. Uh kind of pushing the boulder uphill when it comes to kids content. But, um let's see here. So yeah, looking at your channel abduction um 911 calls, it should have saved Denise after Lee inside the system. That what does this say? Yeah, that let her down. Yeah, it's probably just the the actual packaging of this like I don't know what's happening in the video content itself. Um but yeah, the the packaging by itself. Um you know, a true crime person might find this interesting in some way, but here, you know, the 911 calls that should have saved Denise Amber Lee.

So, the qualifier for this is that you would need to, and by qualifier, I mean the thing that, you know, might cause somebody to want to, you know, check this out. Um, you you would possibly need to care about who Denise Amber Lee is, right, in order for this to qualify here. Um, and you know, if you know about her, then you know, this would be interesting to you. But if you don't, then you know, people might just skip right past this um, you know, when it comes to that. So, if you're going to do this sort of thing, maybe instead of just using the name, which creates a a barrier, um, so to speak, try to, unless this is a super famous case. If it is, then you're fine. But if it's not, then um then try to try to generalize this a little bit instead of making it about a specific person. So I would do those sorts of things. Um of course we can't watch the content here on the stream, but I would I would mess with that those types of things when it comes to uh you know how you're packaging everything up here. And then from there, even though you don't have a lot of activity now, like on this you got 394 views. So it does give you some information here. You've got a,000 views, 4,000 views. Okay. So, so we're starting to get somewhere in terms of, you know, people have responded to some of these, which is good. So, what I would definitely do is I would go in and start looking at the retention on these, the ones that have already done well on the channel, um, anything over a,000 views, and then compare those, the retention and click-through rate, um, against the ones here that are that are underperforming.

So, if you have videos on the channel that have done well like this, and then now you have videos that are not doing well, it's the decisions that you're making around the content and how people are responding to what it is that you're doing. It's not YouTube holding you back. Um it's it's around the the content that you're putting out and the decisions that you're making um around that. Like if every video that you had on the channel had like 38 views on it, then in that case you'd be like, okay, maybe you know it's just not getting in front of the right audience and maybe you need to be a little bit more strategic when it comes to how you're packaging everything up. Um but in your case, like you've got, you know, a video on there with like 60,000 views on it, others with like a,000 views, 4,000 views, stuff like that. So when you miss the mark, you know, even, you know, even big channels, right? Like um like you can see uh like on Mr. Beast's channel for example, which is like the biggest channel on YouTube. Um like when he publishes the videos that is a perfect fit for his audience, he gets, you know, tons and tons of views on them. But then when he publishes a video about, you know, like hey me from, you know, 5 years, you know, ago or whatever the thing is. Um and those videos, even though people find them interesting, they still get tons of views because they're into him. um but they just don't perform as well because they're not that, you know, perfect fit for the audience. So, uh so those types of things impact channels of every size from, you know, the creator just starting out to the the biggest channels on YouTube.

Um let's see here. So, next up we've got Okay, we did the comm center already. So, next up we've got Luke's the fox. Um they upload when they have time, been on YouTube for less than a year. They do art and gaming content. The goal of the channel is to have fun. And the question is, what editing or animation app do you suggest besides from Adobe? And I'm on mobile. D. So, editing on mobile, by the way. Um, you can use Cap Cut, you can use Premiere. I know you said not Adobe, but they have a free app. Um, a free Premiere app that you can use, but uh, yeah, Cap Cut is a normal one for people. And if >> they're looking for animation, >> well, editing or animation app. So, for an editing app, yeah, Cap Cut's a solid uh solid call, but they have, you know, some weird licensing stuff.

And then, um, Adobe, go ahead. >> Yeah, I don't know about animation, but in terms of just mobile editing, I would go I mean, Cap Cut's still great despite their um change. So, Cap Cut, you have VN. VN is solid. >> VN, I forgot about VN. >> InShot is good. Um, YouTube, and again, I don't know how advanced your editing is. YouTube has the new one, what's it called? edits. What is YouTube's new one called? I always forget the name. YouTube Create, which is pretty basic. >> So, I don't know where you're at in terms of your editing skills. >> Yeah, Instagram has one, too. >> Yeah, >> that's called edits, I think.

>> Yeah, I I got it mixed up. Edits and >> Hey, Chris, thanks for your support for 39 months. Appreciate it, man. >> So, yeah, I would go with one of those. BN Cap Cut. Yep. >> Because you don't want because Adobe Premiere. I know you said you don't want Adobe, but Adobe Premiere is great. Yeah, >> it's really good.

So, next up we've got Build and Fix with Mooney, my man. Hope you're doing great. Um, uploads one time per week or more. Been on YouTube for one year or more. Does DIY woodworking content. The goal of the channel is to teach others. The question is, after I reach 100,000 subscribers on this channel, I love how you're owning that. >> You're like, after I reach 100,000 subscribers, love it. But, I mean, you're on your way, so you know, so you should own that. But, um, says, um, I'm thinking of a new channel. The new channel will take place at our cabin in the mountains, a very wellknown four-season destination mountain resort in um Southern California. I don't want to be a travel channel, but maybe anformational channel through my stories with three to four buckets. This mountain community has everything from the lake, snowboarding, fishing tours, lots of restaurants. In my head, each day or each video has to be laid out with a purpose. I'm thinking of a channel named Life on a Hilltop or something cheesy.

Please give me some advice since you both are world travelers. So, what do you want to see Mooney do on this next channel? Yeah. So, I think um I think the channel name is is fine. Um super easy to remember, right? Just like a little short, you know, kind of sentence there, short phrase. I think that's great. Um D. Yeah, because you watch that type of content, don't you? >> What are you trying to say? >> I'm just saying you're you're you watch that type of content. So, I think you might be a more qualified to answer this question in terms of what somebody might want from that compared to me. I think you need to really drill down who you want to make videos for because there's different types of people who are interested in that sort of stuff. There are so I watch all sorts of mountain life and self, you know, people who are building these uh sustainable compounds and stuff like that. So, some people make videos targeting people who just want to watch them.

Like, I just want to watch you build your thing. >> I want to show you, you know, show me how you're putting your chicken coop together. I watch you build your solar. I'm never going to do that stuff, but I enjoy watching them do it >> step by step. >> It's entertainment. >> It's entertainment, but you're kind of living vicariously through them, right? I'm not as much as I want to move to the mountain somewhere, I'm not going to move to the mountain somewhere. So, I'm just like watching them build this entire compound. >> Brian G, I'll get >> Brian G. Johnson in the house. Brian G. Johnson's the author of Two Ritual Volume One. Helps you go from zero to 5,000 subscribers and more on your YouTube channel. Get this on Amazon. Go get it.

>> Um, >> I hope you're doing great, Brian. >> Nice to see you in here. >> I I've also seen >> Hey, Melinda. >> channels that are really interesting, but they're really good at storytelling and they're just documenting their life. >> They're just up there just documenting what they do. Are they hunting? You know, what are they doing? Are they homeschooling? Um, I think there's different ways to do it. You know, are do you want to teach people what you're.

What are you doing up there? Do you want to show others how to do it? Do you want people to live through you? Do you want people to daydream? Like, what is it you're trying to accomplish with that? I watch all of that stuff. Um, I think the coolest thing though is just given the perspective, especially now like we're just so bombarded with technology 24/7. Everything is just it's on non-stop. It's on. It's on and popping. So like yeah, I like putting on my headphones and I just like watching rural content. We're, you know, they're not all in the mountains, but I just think there's something about just kind of disconnecting and turn and it's it's got to sound good. I'll tell you that. I want to be I don't live in the city, so I don't get that vibe. I want to be able to put in my headphones and I want it to sound good.

If you're outside, I want to hear nature. So, make sure you use good microphones. That's my take. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, that's why I watch that stuff. Yeah. What's next up? A little escape. Next. Pulling the rip cord. Pull. I gotta get out of this all these screens. And well, I guess you'd still be watching. You're still watching the screen, but like it's it's almost immersive, right? Like I'll enlarge it and it's just relaxing and the the the it's very cinematic.

It sounds good. They're using good mics and it just kind of like just a little bit of an escape.

So, there was one thing that's kind of like that, but not really, that I watched uh just a handful of times, and I just thought just because it was so like weird. Uh because, you know, like a lot of content on YouTube how it's just kind of all over the place. Hey, what's going So, uh uh with this one, it was a guy, it was a van life channel and he didn't talk. He would just go and just drive into these places and he would like get all this stuff out of the van and it's like raining and he sets up like a tent. Yeah. Yeah. He sets up the tent and then he gets out of his like little cooking things and he's out there like cooking and the it's just all ASMR like all of it. Like the audio is just next level. Everything's just crisp and you can hear all the detail of everything he's doing. Unzipping his bags and you get to hear all that like everything about it. It's like you're full like full immersive like you're saying. Yeah. To where where he just kind of puts you like you're right there right there with them camping out.

Yeah. There are a couple channels like that where they just go out and get camp and they don't say a word and, you know, they'll go down by the stream and then they'll get a rock out of the stream and clean it and they'll cook on it, catch the fish and cook on the thing and yeah, you're just like watching it just sounds amazing. You hear the you hear nature.

So yeah, just you got to think about how you're going to approach it, you know, but I don't think you're going to go wrong. You're going to be in an interesting environment, so you're not going to go wrong. You just need to think about what angle you're going to take to tell whatever story it is that you're trying to tell. Yeah. Yeah. And I think with that too, I think uh one of the one of the cool things about it or the opportunities that you have in a situation like that, and I'm not saying to make, you know, voiceless content, but uh one of the one of the cool things that you have about a situation like that though is it opens you up internationally cuz you know, somebody doesn't have to be able to understand, you know, what it is.

So with that one, you just go, you translate all your titles, all that stuff into all the different languages that you want to reach and then, you know, from there, anybody in the world can come in and enjoy your content without feeling alienated in any way. Perfect example. How many people have seen those Asian guys go into the jungle and dig? Oh, yeah. Right here. Right. There's always like two little Asian dudes with like a with like a little broken hoe, little bamboo handle with like a shell on the end of it and they end up building like an underground bunker with a swimming pool. Yep. You're just like, 'What? ' And that was before the AI versions of it. Have you seen People are doing AI versions of that now, too? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, those guys are salty.

I know. They're like, 'Come on. We're out there like sweating it out. ' You mean I know, right? Timing though, right? That's one of those those scenarios where timing is the win. Yeah.

So, next up on our list here, we have Matt's Vietnam Life. Matt's Vietnam Life uploads one time per week or more. Um, the whole channel is about travel, life, and culture in Vietnam. Goal of the channel is to teach others. And the question is, do you think uploading videos in different countries impacts on reach and views? For example, travel travel vloggers move from country to country and upload as they go. Likewise, does using a VPN have an impact either positively or negative as well? started using one here in Vietnam, sometimes set in a different country location.

So, no um doesn't matter um in terms of where you're uploading your videos from. It matters the language that your videos in. Um how those videos are optimized in terms of, you know, the language they're optimized for. YouTube even has settings inside of the uh video details page where you can choose the language um that sort of thing. And you know, it doesn't matter. So, I started my channel, you know, in Asia. So, yeah. So, so yeah, no problems in terms of where you upload from.

Um when it comes to travel channels, the upload location isn't the thing that usually impacts them negatively. The thing that usually impacts travel channels negatively is that they will upload videos on like let's say Vietnam for example and they'll, you know, do a 3 to sixmonth run in Vietnam where they build up this whole audience of people that are interested in Vietnam and then they'll switch to Thailand and then now you have all these people that care about Vietnam and they're interested in seeing all this stuff about Vietnam and then they start getting presented Thailand content. So they don't care about it. So therefore, initially, you know, those videos can sometimes have, you know, a harder time getting reach. And then as you start breaking things up to where it's like, okay, I'm in Vietnam. I got a bunch of videos on that, bunch of videos on Thailand, bunch of videos on the Philippines, bunch of videos on Malaysia, a bunch of videos, and you start going through the whole thing. Um, then in that case, you you just start segmenting who's interested in what. So you can be in a fortunate position, you know, with uh your content like somebody like Patty Doyle where, you know, he can go all over the place and he'll still get views, but he has his core content that, you know, that always performs well because, you know, that's his, you know, base. So, uh, so because of that, your location can make a difference because you're talking about different things, but in terms of where you upload from, um, it doesn't make a difference.

Now, one thing that you might want to consider is depending on who it is that you're uploading to, like for example, if you're trying to reach the English speaking market, then in that case, um, you like one of the things that we do here is we'll upload, you know, usually somewhere between like 6:00 and 9:00 p. m. like midnight maybe, you know, if it's, uh, uh, you know, like a like like, okay, uh, you know, probably wasn't going to publish this, but we're going to go ahead and do it anyway. um uh so that you can just make sure that you're publishing, you know, at a time that the audience that you're trying to reach uh that they're awake so that you can get your videos in front of them first. Longterm doesn't really, you know, matter, but at the end of the day, you know, so that you can get that initial velocity on the video. Um I would definitely make sure that you are uploading in the time zone of the target audience that you're trying to reach or the the starting time zone. So, for example, you know, for me, I'd be targeting like East Coast in the in the US, right? Would be my starting time zone. now.

And KDP Ministry says it makes a difference. Um, so when it comes to where you upload from it, it doesn't. Yeah. Not on YouTube. Yeah. For other social media. Oh, yeah. It definitely does on other ones. Yeah. For Tik Tok and we've seen that on Tik Tok, especially for Instagram, it does. You can break out of those regional jails that Tik Tok and Instagram put you in, but it takes it takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah. You'll see that big time on uh Tik Tok.

traveling around. It's like, okay, we've got, you know, uh, you know, like a Thailand audience here. I know when I went to Dubai and I was uploading videos and I was like, oh my god, I'm like getting in front of Dubai here. So, I had to turn on the VPN in order to like get them. And I know you mentioned that you had that issue in Mexico. Yeah. Um, as well. So, yeah. Yeah. All right.

So, next up on our list here, we've got Imperial Remnant. Go ahead. Yeah. Literally my my audience went from 100% English speakaking to like 90% Spanish speaking in a day. That's wild. Like in a single video and then it just all went from there. It was crazy. Wild. Yeah. So, uh let's see here. So, next up we have Imperial Remnant. Hope you're doing awesome. Says uh he does daily content. Been on YouTube for a year more. It's Star Wars Lore.

Gold channels to make money.

And the question is, 'My CTR is low 2. 7%. I'm thinking it's the title and thumbnails. In the past, you gave me some principles to fix them. ' Um, and I thought I'd taken your advice, but got no improvement over the last 12 to 16.

Hope you can help me with upping my CTR. Let's take a look and see what it is that you're doing. So, Pure Remnant Podcast, the Remnant Podcast. I vaguely remember looking at this thumbnail, that channel with thumbnails. All right. So, in terms of the imagery, you're knocking it out of the park with the Star Wars imagery. So, you're doing that, right? Good. How did the 501st become Vader's fist? Yeah. So, yeah, I think, you know, these types of things are fine, in terms of how you are currently putting your thumbnails together. I would think, and you can verify this on your end, but I would think that more popular and obvious characters might stand out, you know, a little bit more. But, you know, like this one here, is not how did the Rebel Alliance, you know, get its fleet, you know, it could just be the questions that you're asking. So, here's some things that I would experiment with: here you have like how did the 501st, you know, become Vader's Fist? How did the Rebel Alliance get its fleet?

Why Umbrella feels like a Star Wars horror? So, I would experiment with questions versus statements and see if that makes a difference for you. And then also really just kind of digging into what is it that people care about Star Wars the most and trying to make sure that your videos are about those things because here you have did Skeleton Crew get better on rewatch, like here for example I don't know for this particular series but like in this case did Skeleton Crew get better on rewatch I would definitely do like mention Star Wars in here, right? Same exact thing with some of these other ones. Like this one's obvious, right? How did the 501st become Vader's fist? Get into a little bit more detail here. Why did the 501st Stormtrooper? How would you classify that? 501st Stormtrooper what? Or what are they asking? How did the 501st become Vader's fist? Vader's Fist. Yeah. So, what would it be?

501st Stormtrooper Battalion. Is that what it would be? Yeah, I guess so. But just trying to get specific. I mean, it's obviously about, you know, stormtroopers and stuff, but just being specific about those types of things. And there's two reasons for that. One is you're already nailing the imagery in my opinion, but when it comes to here, just making sure that you are, you know, mentioning that it is Star Wars here. So that one, even though it's obviously about it here, you just have those words in your titles here. So, if somebody's looking around for things about Star Wars, things like that, then, you know, it's possible that YouTube could just make all those connections and be like, "Hey, this title, which is one of the heaviest weighted things, you know, about your video, it also has Star Wars in here, so let's show it to some Star Wars people. " That kind of stuff, some Star Wars people. But yeah, like I would spend time on ideas because I think in your case, like the ideas are going to be the things that make the biggest difference. So I would really spend time on ideas. And other things too is like if you're doing things about the lore then you're throwing a wrench into it when you're talking about like Legos, right? Because you know I mean there could be crossover here. I'm not sure.

But like if you are doing just regular lore stuff and then you throw Legos into the mix, then you're putting yourself in a position to where you could be, you know, bringing in the wrong people, you know, to the channel, you know, for that to where, you know, people come in for the Lego and not necessarily the Star Wars or the combo of Lego and Star Wars. You don't have anything else to offer them, then that starts making it to where it'll be harder for those people to, you know, watch additional content. And things like going back to the Skeleton Crew. Did Skeleton Crew get better on rewatch? It to me that's just not an interesting idea. You know, what if you approached it from the angle of things that you may have missed in Skeleton Crew, right? Presenting some sort of element of curiosity. Oh, what did I miss or things you didn't understand or something to where I okay, I want to see what your take is on this versus like the rewatch. So, yeah. 501st Legion, Stormtrooper Legion. Yeah, but they said they want to improve their CTR. Yeah. Visually though I think it's fine. Yeah, I think visually fine. I think the thing that's going to help you the most is just ideas.

Ideas and kind of reframing these, making them, you know, things that people feel like they need to click on because this is definitely interesting, right? Like how did the 501st become Vader's fist? It is interesting from a topic perspective, but there's nothing really like triggering about it. This is something that somebody could put in their watch later and forget about. And what you want to think about is when it comes to, you know, your videos is you want to think about, okay, if this shows up on a homepage of a Star Wars fan, somebody that's interested in Star Wars lore, how can I from a topic standpoint, you work on this before you make the video, but how can I package this in a way or just make this about something that a somebody that's interested in Star Wars lore, if they saw this on their homepage, they'd be like, "Oh my gosh, what is this about? " Yeah, I need I want to watch this right now. Right. Right. So instead of making it something that people, you know, might be able to, you know, just kind of gloss over, trying to make it, you know, more impactful. Make me care.

Next up on the list here, next up on the list. Next up on the list. We've got, yeah, I have no idea. Just kind of came out. The Walk podcast. And you did it, too. Was great. Yeah. We both just kind of went down that little journey for a second listening podcast. The Walk podcast, we have another podcast here. Uploads one time per week or more. It's a podcast. The goal of the channel is to be a full-time creator. And the question is, should we try new thumbnails and titles? So before I look at the channel, I'm just going to mention that if what you're currently doing isn't working, then in that case, continuing to do the thing that doesn't work is, you know, going to work against you.

So, always experimenting with, you know, trying to, you know, do new stuff in order to get the thing that you're doing working better, is definitely something to consider. But let's see, see what we've got going on here. Okay. Or say, D. Oh, I was just going to say hello to Tish. Okay. So, let's see what it is that you got going on here on the Walk podcast where we stride along Christian athletes as they share the journeys of faith, perseverance, and triumph both on and off the field. And then you go into your mission stuff. Okay. So, this is Christian sports players here. So, you're already leveraging the player, which is solid. You're putting the player name, you know, in the thumbnail, which is smart. You're putting the player image in the thumbnail, which is smart. You're using the imagery for the team that they play on, which is also smart. From a thumbnail perspective, I think you're heading in the right direction.

Diego Pounds, Carolina the Old Miss, surrendering to God and college football. Okay. So, what you're doing right here is you're trying to cram a bunch of stuff into this title. So, basically, you have the guy's name, which is smart. You have Carolina to Old Miss and then surrendering to God and challenging the football playoff. A lot going on there. If you're trying to increase your click-through rate, try to take the person's name and try to work that into just one relatively short sentence that doesn't get truncated here on YouTube because you can see right here how, you know, right after football, we go into the three dots there. So, it's getting truncated. So, because of that, work on getting everything that you need into these first like 52 53ish characters so it doesn't get cut off here on YouTube. And then from that try to make it just like one nice strong statement about that player. So instead of trying to focus the conversation on like hey these are all the different things that we talked about, pick the thing that was the most interesting or the most powerful in terms of like okay yeah people interested in this player would be would really care about this. And optimize everything around that right because you're already doing the right things in terms of you're focusing on the player their names all that. So the next thing is to just add a little bit more clarity to your titles. Yes, I'd work on that as the next thing for you.

Brian G says, "Nice to be listening to these two fellas again. " Brian G. Johnson. Brian, you going to change your handle? Man, the myth. You're going to drop the TV off the off the username, Brian. Change it to AI. Brian G. Uh Johnson. Ai. Yeah. Instead of TV. Yep. So, let's see here. So, next up on our list, and by the way, if you are just joining us, we're answering YouTube questions.

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Brian GPT. There's a cat GPT on uh Tik Tok. >> Huh? >> Yeah. What's it doing? >> Yeah. Her just her name's Cat GPT instead of chat GPT. I thought that was clever. But she talks about all kinds of different AI related things, but I just thought that was clever.

So, Dr. Vibe Show is the uh next question. I love that you also put the TM in here um even when putting it into the uh to the form. So, uh they do daily content but on YouTube for a year or more. Does uh news and information for black people and those who love them. The goal of the channel is to make money. And the question is, hope that both of you are fine and safe. Yep. Doing doing way better. Feel safe. Yep. Thank you. >> Um for some of my videos that I have set to AB testing, YouTube is telling me not enough views to determine a winner. How many views does a video need to have um for YouTube to provide results for AB testing of thumbnails and titles?

I'm not sure the exact number that they give for that, but it needs to be enough that it's statistically significant um based on the amount of people that they're showing it to. So, I'm not sure what that number is in terms of it has to cross this view count. Not really sure. And I'm not sure um as a part of that if they also look at it as okay here's total views and therefore we got the information from total views or if they look at it they say okay we need x amount of views from homepages we need x amount of views from the subscription feed we need x amount or impressions we need x amount of impressions from uh suggested videos like I'm not sure how they break it down uh that way. I have no idea. It can be really frustrating to try to do a test and then you're waiting for what? 7 days or something or however long it is. >> And other times it'll say that it's going to take seven days and then they'll give you a result the next day. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Cuz you've accumulated enough information to be significant. >> I I think ideally YouTube wouldn't unlock that for a video unless it >> unless it matters. >> Unless it qualified to be able to get the test. Otherwise, you're putting in the work and you're focusing on this thing and you're spending time on this thing like ah you don't have enough views. It's inconclusive.

It's really frustrating.

Okay, so we did the walk podcast. >> Doug says, "Notice YouTube gave up calling it a test and compare. " >> Okay, it's the Walk podcast again, so we already answered that one, so we'll keep going.

Okay, Voidless Guy is the next channel. Um, they upload when they have time. They do gaming, music, animation, and art. Goal of the channel is to have fun. And the they say it's all for fun and I stand by the old YouTube idea. Mark Pyler, Jack Septicai, PewDiePie, miss old YouTube. Um, the question is, as far as I'm aware, the quality is not what matters, but rather the quantity. The algorithm prioritizes consistency over inconsistent uploads. Those might be higher quality, but they don't perform as well. Is this a fact that applies to all YouTube? This really feels unfair to the created content.

So, when it comes to YouTube, YouTube prioritizes content that people respond well to. That's what they respond to. So, there's some channels that upload one time per month and they get millions of views per upload. Um, or hundreds of thousands of views per upload. Um, other channels upload every single day and they don't get any views at all. So, it's not the quantity of the uh, you know, of the uploads that you do, it's the the experience that people have when they're interacting with that content that you're publishing. So because of that, if you're publishing, you know, videos every day and people aren't responding to them, then you can just keep on publishing videos every day and people are still not going to respond to it because you're focused on publishing and not on trying to make the experience better for viewers, right? So because of that, um it's not that uh you know quality doesn't matter, it's all quantity. That's not that's not the case at all. So when you are using YouTube shorts, publishing, you know, a lot of shorts can be helpful in some cases, but the same rule applies there. Some people hardly publish shorts and when they publish them, they do well. Um, other people publish three times a day and their shorts, you know, don't get hardly any views whatsoever. So when it comes to, you know, the quantity thing, um, that's definitely not a thing. Now, if we zoom out and we're like, okay, well, what if you have really good videos that people respond to and you're publishing a lot? Well, in that case, then you know, you're you're putting more into the system that people respond well to.

And if you continue to do that, then you start, you know, showing up in front of people a lot. They start getting used to seeing your content. They start watching and engaging with your content a lot. And as long as they continue to do that, they don't get burned out because you're uploading a lot, which, you know, they they won't. Then in that case, then you're you're like green flag to start publishing lots of quality content at high quantities, right? But first, you got to get the quality things sorted. And when it comes to quality, just, you know, to make it clear for, you know, anybody here that's new, it's not necessarily um sometimes it is, but it's not necessarily about, you know, the camera quality, you know, it's not necessarily about having, you know, like the best microphone audio or anything like that. It's about if you publish videos and viewers respond to them for whatever reason, then that shows YouTube that, hey, this is a good video, people are enjoying this, and they keep showing it to more people. If you publish something, even if you have the best cameras, all that stuff, and people just aren't responding to it, well, then YouTube's not going to show that content to people because people don't respond to it, even if you have, you know, the best stuff. So, by quality, I don't necessarily mean technical quality. Um, I mean quality in terms of the viewers that YouTube is showing your content to. They have a great experience with your content. They enjoy it. They're engaging with it. They're watching it for long periods of time.

Maybe they're exploring more. They're going to your channel page, seeing what else you have to offer. They're binge watching your content. All those things. That's what quality looks like on YouTube.

>> Yeah. I've seen so many channels over the years. >> I'll cover this for a second. I've seen so many channels over the years just brute force uploading. >> They're and a lot of them are new. They come in just guns ablazing. They have tons of energy. Brute force uploading. Just look just video after video after video after video after video after video. And like a lot of people say, "Okay, well you need to upload 50 videos. You need to upload a hundred videos. need to get a lot of content online to kind of see what works and what doesn't work. And some people will take that and think, well, I just need to upload a lot of content. The thing is, you have to make sure that the content that you're uploading is getting better. You need to make sure you're heading in the right direction.

You need to make sure that you are still choosing the right ideas. And just brute force uploading generally isn't the answer to that. And a lot of people make that mistake. Seen it happen over and over and over again. You have to be able to measure while you're uploading. You have to try to improve what you're uploading. You need to try to Okay, my thumbnails need to get better. My ideas need to get better. And Amanda said something earlier. She says, "YouTube is constantly evolving. However, the community is key. Don't chase the algorithm. Build your community. " Yeah, YouTube is always changing. Your audience is always changing.

You know, you we grow our channels by getting new viewers. But what audiences like is always changing. what they expect is always changing, trends change. >> Uh yeah, everything is always changing. >> Yes. >> But yeah, build your community.

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So, Ron Transen thinks, thanks for the, uh, super chat. >> You got it. Okay. >> Super >> says, uh, I published my first video of 2026 yesterday. One of 10. Nice work. follow for nearly 9 years and still learn new ideas and YouTube updates. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Ron. And congratulations on uh on having the the win right out of the gate on 2026. That's a great start. >> That's a good start. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Love it.

>> Good start.

All right. So, um next up on the list here, we have Lisa Dawson Music. Um Lisa uploads when she has time, been on YouTube for a year or more, does music content. Goal of the channel is connect with others who like what they like. Oh, you know what? One thing I forgot to mention >> about what? >> While we were talking about the Voidless Guy channel, um I think this is it.

Yeah, they mentioned that they do gaming, music, animation, and art content. And this is the one where they're talking about quality versus quantity. So, I know the goal of the channel is to have fun. So, what you're doing there, mixing content, is perfectly fine if the only goal is to have fun. However, if you want to get more activity on your channel, right now you are polluting your YouTube channel with different types of viewers, which is going to make it really hard for you to grow long term. So, you're mixing gaming content with music content, and there isn't a crossover there. You're mixing animation with music and animation with gaming, animation with art. Again, no crossover. So what you're doing is, for every four videos that you upload, each video is relevant to one type of person, right? So because of that, three are not. So, just keep that in mind. If you are trying to, you know, get more activity on what it is that you're doing, make sure that you are thinking about it through the lens of you're building a resource of content for a particular type of person that's interested in very specific things. But if you're just to have fun, you don't care about, you know, the results and stuff, then in that case, just, you know, you can keep doing what you're doing. So, yeah.

Okay, back on. Lisa, keep on keeping on. Yep. Keep on keeping on. So, the question is, hey, Nick. Hey. Hey. Says, just wondering if it's still as important to post on a regular schedule. I used to post every Friday morning. It was really, I was really diligent about it, but life got in the way and now I just post when I can. I'm lucky if I can manage to post once every two weeks. I would like to try and be more consistent this year, but I'm wondering, is it more important to stick to a regular schedule or try to publish as much as I can? For example, thinking of posting one full 3 to 4 minute song every week and try to fill in other days with shorts, but if I manage to get an extra-long video out between, then should I or stick to a set schedule? And any tips that you have for consistency, please. I don't work a regular 9 to 5, so I struggle with time during the week.

Wait, hold on. I don't work a 9 to 5, so I struggle with time during the week. I just grab time when I can. Thanks for all your advice. Okay, so we've got a few different things in here. So the very first is, is it important to stick to a regular schedule? Or try to post as much as I can. So if you look at your own situation when you are not sticking to a regular schedule and you're posting as much as you can, you went from posting consistently and diligently every Friday to now you're posting, you know, every couple of weeks. So by default that shows you that when you are not posting on that regular schedule how things just kind of fall out of priority.

So one of the advantages when it comes to posting on a regular schedule is one you're putting out new content on a regular basis that YouTube can test against people. So you know for every video that you publish to your YouTube channel it's another video that YouTube can show people to figure out if they like it or not. So that's one advantage. Advantage number two when you're trying to be consistent is that when you are publishing on a regular basis and you do hold yourself accountable to that and I know it's hard you know we all go through it but if you are in that phase where you're like okay I'm going to be consistent in 2026 then in that case making sure that you go through it and that you make that happen every Friday and that you prioritize it is important because you're going to force yourself to work the process of creating and publishing content into your lifestyle to a point that it'll become a habit just like it did when you were diligent about it. So, I'm also going to be doing this in 2026 as well. So, you know, I'm right there with you on this cuz I've, you know, been super casual on my channel. So, I'm also going to be dialing things in here on mine as well this year. But when it comes to that consistency, I can tell you from personal experience that I was like you in terms of no matter what, I would publish a video every Monday and every Wednesday for years. And that was my growth phase. That was when most of the growth happened on my YouTube channel. And then as soon as I broke out of that, cuz I changed my priorities during the pandemic and I started focusing more on just my day-to-day and just really just focusing on enjoying my life from the work that I put in. So, I'm still doing the thing, but like, it just wasn't the priority that it was previously. So, because of that, since it wasn't that priority and I didn't make publishing no matter what happened on Monday and Wednesday, then what started happening is like all of a sudden a week would go by and I wouldn't publish at all. And then two weeks would go by and I wouldn't publish. Three weeks would go by and didn't publish.

If you look at my channel now, my last video, not shorts, but long form videos, my last video was published about a month ago. So, when it comes to knocking that out of your lifestyle and that habit out of your lifestyle, it ends up having a long-term impact, not just on the channel, but on your habits. And then once it has that impact on the habits, you have to put in real work in order to get that routine back together and to train yourself back up on consistently doing the thing again.

So, because of that, if you are trying to do it, here's what I recommend, and this is what's worked for me in the past. Anytime I end up in a situation like this right now, if you had to, if you were having pain in your mouth, right, and you had to schedule a dentist appointment in order to have them look to see if you had a cavity or to fix whatever was happening, then in that case, you would schedule your doctor's appointment. And regardless of what was happening in your life, you would show up at that doctor's appointment. I mean, not anything that's happening, but most things that are happening, you would prioritize that doctor's appointment and you would show up there because it would be in your schedule and you would know that you would have to do it and you would make it a priority. And then you'd show up, do that same exact thing. If you want to be consistent, say, 'Okay, on Mondays, I'm going to work on this. ' It can be a part of the process. You like in your case, cuz you're writing songs and stuff, you can say like, 'Hey, I'm going to be writing and mixing some stuff or recording some stuff on like Monday and Tuesday. And then on Wednesday, maybe I'll do my mixdowns and all that and then I'll work on whatever art or whatever on Thursday and for a little bit of time and then I'll publish on Friday again. ' And then by scheduling those things in, it helps you be able to stay consistent with what it is that you're doing. So, just like anything else that's a priority, if you schedule it, then it ensures that you are going to go do it. So, that's what I recommend that you do.

All right. Next up on our list here, we have I think of consistency also as staying in front of your audience one way or another. I think keep showing up. Keep showing up. If you are not publishing long form videos, like okay, I know I've got to do these other things. Life gets in the way, which it does. Life always gets in the way. Try uploading some shorts. Schedule a bunch of community posts if you can. You can schedule community posts for every day if you want to. Just try to do something where you're showing up to some level of consistency for your audience because if you know out of sight, out of mind. If you were gone for too long, they'll forget about you. They'll move on. So just try to stay in front of them somehow as much as you can. That's how I like to look at consistency.

Hey and really quick, non my own says, 'Do you need a thumbnail designer? ' I'm okay right now. Thank you. Thanks for asking. But one thing I recommend if you are looking for work is a lot of people are making a lot of posts on X sharing their skills and all that stuff and they're using that as a way to get in front of people that might be interested in that. In addition to that, you might want to hop on to upwork. com and make some posts there about you offering your services. Hop on fiverr. com, make some posts there about offering your services. And then also hop over depending on your skill sets, depending on if you've worked with other content creators, things like that. If so, then you can also go apply over at ytjob. com because they are also a listing of people that are offering services for YouTubers. So I would check out all of those services to kind of help you get sorted there so that you don't have to hit chats up and stuff like that trying to get business. But I appreciate the hustle.

Roberto Blake in the house. Roberto Blake in the house. So, just in case you guys don't know, Roberto Blake is the author of Create Something Awesome right here, where he helps you start profiting from your passion on YouTube. Got a link to this down in the description or you can look for it on Amazon. Roberto is one of the smartest people in this whole thing. Not.

The book, but I mean in the whole like YouTube help space. So, he's an excellent person to learn from. So, uh, so make sure that you go check that out and also check out all of his other stuff at awesomecreatoracademy. com and anywhere else that you can follow Roberto Blake. Just Google him. It'll, it'll, it'll lead you to everything he does. Roberto is omnipresent. He is. He is easy to find. You can close your eyes and throw something into social media and find Roberto. And there you'll find him. He's everywhere. Yeah. He said he's currently posting shorts every day now.

Um, it's helping me get out of my rut as well for 2026. Yep. Yeah. I just, uh, yeah, I just started, uh, I, I published a short yesterday. I published one loosely like, uh, you know, the previous week, but I've got like, uh, I think somewhere around 90 shorts that are ready to go. I've already published some to the channel. Um, so yeah, so I'm, I'm going to be doing the same exact thing. Uh, Melanie: awkward comeback 2026.

So, uh, Amy Johnson says, um, and I think this is in reference to the consistency, saying it's so hard to get back into the habit. Yeah. So, um, so a friend of ours, his name is Evan Carmichael, and one of the things that he talks about is momentum. Evan's so amazing. He's amazing. But, but one of the things that Evan talks about is momentum. And the thing is, is when you, when you work the process of creating and publishing content into your schedule to where it becomes a routine, um, then what happens is it allows you to start picking up real momentum because you know with every publish you do you can learn from it.

And then when you're learning from it then you can start making changes. When you start making those changes then you can experiment faster because you're publishing more and you're staying consistent; all those things. And it's just like one thing stacks on top of the other which stacks on top of the other which stacks on top of the other. And the next thing you know, yeah, you're like, 'Wo, I'm like thriving right now. This is great. ' Yeah. So, uh, the momentum side of things, I think, is really undervalued when it comes to all of this. That works. That's how success happens and that's how failure happens.

It's, it, it's all your decisions, right? Right. Like, and you don't realize it until you're in that spot. And that spot can be either way. That spot can be, and it's all through your choices. That spot can be, 'Wow, I'm actually, I'm actually where I wanted to be,' or 'I, I'm somewhere where I never thought I would be, or how did I end up here? I'm screwed. ' Whichever way you want to go, it's all coming from the choices that you're going to make. But it, it compounds. It does in both directions. So, you, you really have to be careful with that. It works both ways. Really does. Yeah.

So, Chad on the road is our next question here. Chad uploads one time per week or more; been on YouTube for a year or more. This cat on the road only needs to upload once a week. They do travel and exploring vlog. The goal is to be a full-time creator and the question is, I'm so close to getting 1,000 subscribers, but I just can't quite get there. Hang in there. You got this, right? Like, like, like, I understand like you're like, 'Hey, I'm on the verge of getting monetized here. I'm like, you know, doing the thing. I'm getting ready to cross that huge milestone. ' Hang in there. Um, you'll get there. Like you're, you've gotten if you've gotten close, then you have proof of concept. You know that people, you know, appreciate what it is that you're doing. So, now you have to keep going, keep fine-tuning things.

But the rest of the question is, been stuck short of that goal for a while. Do you have any suggestions to help me get over that goal? Um, and is my channel banner okay or does it need more color? So, right now, if you're trying to get 1,000 subscribers, um, you can absolutely make sure that, you know, that your channel banner, you know, um, is, you know, looks good and all that stuff and that it has, you know, you know, clarity in what it is that you're offering. You can make sure all those things. But if you really want to get that, you know, 1,000 subscribers, then focus everything on the video content right now. Um, so that you can, I mean, those other things, if you have time, dial those in, too, like, you know, channel art and value proposition and understanding what you're offering and all that. But right now, um, you know, I would focus on, you know, just getting the videos out there that, that you think that people are going to enjoy and learning how to make them as good as possible.

So, I'm looking at your channel right now and here you have, you know, I went searching for a forgotten railway here. I'll pull this up. Yeah, I was going to ask you pull it up. So, you have, um, I went searching for a forgotten railway bridge. What I found, uh, what I found in the woods right here, um, on this one. This has 7,000 views on it. Everything else that you have doesn't even compare remotely. Oh, yeah. They nailed it, didn't they? Yeah. So, because of that, um, a couple things that I would do is I would just go in and dissect this video. Yeah. So, of course, I went for a forgotten railway bridge, uh, you know, what I found in the woods. All that's great, um, you know, from a packaging perspective, but people responded well to this video, which is what caused it to get 7,000 views. So, because of that, the first thing that I would do is I would go into this video because it's an outlier on your YouTube channel.

Um, I would go into this and I would say, okay, okay, it wasn't recent. Um, but I would go into that and I would say, okay, if people responded, oh, yeah, it was. Okay. So, if people responded really well to this one, then in that case, um, what did I do when this video first started? Well, like when it first started, you know, uh, was there anything that I was doing differently than what I was doing with these?

So, looking at the hover autoplay here, right out of the gate, it looks like here you're like in motion. You're talking; this is like you're walking quickly here like you know all that. Can I just say too that thumbnail: not on any map? That is way more curious to me. Like what do you mean it's not on a map versus like no traffic or bridge to nowhere? Yeah. You know what I mean? Just not on a map. You instantly have my attention. Yeah. Ooh, something's not on a map. Yep. Other things too that's important to think about is like on this one, right? I walked across in an abandoned bridge that was left behind. There's nothing interesting about that.

Right. Right. Like there's nothing really that's being offered there because you're basically just saying you walked across an abandoned bridge. So it's like what, right? Like, like why should I care about that? But if you had a, you know, you wouldn't believe what I found or you know something like that similar to what you did down here. What was under the bridge? Right. What you find on under the bridge, right? Just you know like trying to make these more interesting is definitely something to do.

Exploring an old office building. You know what I found left behind? I think that's a better approach and it's, it's gotten so far, you know, it's gotten more views, uh, than this one, but you know, you did that here. You know, what I left behind and it's a little bit better here. Indiana's lost bridge built with no road on the other side. Again, there's no real information here. It still did better than your most recent one, but it's been online for 3 weeks, so this one might get there. But, um, here, you know, uh, Indiana's Lost Bridge built with no road on the other side. There's nothing like super impactful about this.

Like in your case, man, what I would do is I would go and I would study other YouTube channels that do similar content to you. And what I would have you do is I would go and I would start looking at how they're framing everything and how they're using their titles to just create curiosity. Um, and I would start trying to replicate how they are doing their titles. And you don't have to look at the biggest channels, but look at channels that are, you know, a nice step up from what it is that you're doing. Basically, smaller channels that are getting views. Um, look at them and see how exactly they are framing their content to make it more intriguing because right now the way that you're currently doing it like I walked across in a Brandon bridge that was left behind there's nothing interesting, um, about that right this one's more interesting exploring an abandoned office building you know what I found left behind you wouldn't believe what I found left behind levels this one up a little bit right and then here Indiana's lost bridge built with no road on the other side again there's no real you know no real ump, um, attached to that one.

So yeah, I would work on those types of things right now because work on making everything more compelling, right? Not clickbaity, but more compelling to where people feel they want to, they, they like need to check it out versus like, oh, I don't care if somebody walked across an abandoned bridge, right? Don't care. Um, and then I would also analyze every bit of the beginning of this video and see what you were doing differently here than what you were doing some of these and see if, uh, you know, there's a format that you might be able to follow here. And then you want to track this against your retention as long as these views came from, uh, recommendations. If they came from search, um, and you'll see this in your traffic sources, if they came from search, then, uh, you still want to do that. But if you're trying to go after recommendations, then it's not going to be as impactful there. Um, but.

I would still do that. But if most of the views on this did come from recommendations, which they probably did, then in that case, I would really study the heck out of this video and how you started it and try to replicate how you put the video together. Any additional thoughts there, D? No, I'm on board with you.

Creator Dad just left the super chat. Thanks for the super chat. Creator Dad says, "I found that filming while driving is easier to do given my schedule and I'm more authentic while driving. Yay or nay? " So, when it comes to this, first of all, I need to say a disclaimer. As your lawyer, it's not a good idea to drive and make YouTube videos, but you're a grown adult. I just needed to put that disclaimer out there. Go ahead and answer the question. Yeah. So, a couple things to think about. The very first is that you know, you're practicing putting content out, which is good. However, when you are publishing your videos, you're going to quickly find out if people are responding to the format that you're doing. If they are, then in that case, you know, you're on the right track and you can keep going. But if they're not, and you find the car videos are just not cutting it, then in that case, you know, you might have to make a change. So, there's publishing things that are the easiest for us, and then there's publishing the things that we need to publish based on what might be effective for our audiences.

So, because of that, keep doing some car videos, see how they pan out. You might build an audience for that that enjoys those. But I'm looking here right now, and it looks like both of these at this moment in time are not, you know, neither of them are going that great yet.

So, right now, the thing that I would actually focus on is trying to, from a topic standpoint, trying to get all of that worked out and also just more clear targeting. So here you have that you are a creator dad and my mission is to teach other like-minded dads what I learned along the way. Okay. So here if you're trying to teach other like-minded dads what you learned along the way. Let me share this screen here real quick. Then in that case the secret to my first video upload as a creator dad revealed. Right? So you're trying to make this like super compelling. But if you're trying to reach dads, what was it again? Like-minded dads out there, what I learned along the way. Yeah. So, one, I would add clarity to your value proposition. Okay. An average dad trying to grow on YouTube. Okay.

So, yeah, in that case, yeah, I guess this kind of goes, but right here, the secret to my first upload is a creator dad revealed. So, the very first thing that I just want to mention here is with content like this, this is all about you. Right now, I would focus on making your videos about the viewer, right? like how to upload your first video. My process that will help you overcome camera shyness so you can upload your first video, things like that. Because right now it's just my secret to my first upload is a creator dad revealed. You know, you can see here that people don't really care about that that much. So, reframing all of this, even when you're coming up with the video ideas, reframing all of it to make it about something specific for the viewer, right? That's what you want to go after. The easiest way to master your mindset without stress. So, this is another one, right? And this is something that people don't think about a lot until it's brought to your attention. And in this case, you have said here that you're trying to reach dads that are trying to grow on YouTube. And here, nothing about this says anything about a dad or growing on YouTube, right? So, you have love the process, the easy way to master your mindset without stress.

This doesn't have anything to do with what it is that you say it is that you do on the YouTube channel. There's no clarity on who this is actually for. Like everything about this is completely open in terms of not really targeting anybody with the content. So because of that, when you are publishing your videos, make sure that you just confirm, okay, if I'm trying to help dads that are trying to figure out YouTube, then how can I make at the topic level, how can I make this video something that a dad would be interested in? For example, how to publish on YouTube consistently when you have kids, right? Like that type of thing would be more impactful for the audience that you're trying to reach than the easy way to master your mindset without stress, right? In terms of the messaging that you're sharing there in terms of who that video might be for. So, I'd work on those types of things when it comes to your channel right now.

Yeah, I'm on board with that. And co-signs it. I cosign that. I'm a bit confused by looking at that as a creator that I could be totally wrong, but just my initial gut on that is I think that's a very narrow niche to go down. Like I'm targeting dads who want to get on YouTube, right? Like is there really, can you really make that much content targeting dads? Dads specific. Targeting dads specifically? Yeah, maybe you can. I don't know. Right. Maybe you can. But like that's to me that just seems very narrow in terms of longevity. Yeah. Right.

Short term. Yeah. Okay. Longevity. Think two years, three years, four, five years down the road, are you still going to be able to make content targeting dads? Right. Right. I don't know. I might approach something differently like trying to teach dads how they can turn their hobbies into how they can make money off their hobbies or make extra money via YouTube, right? Like how to take your hobbies and turn them into things they can make money with on YouTube and like go over all the different ways that they can package things up and sell things and just from a money-making approach. Um, I don't know. Just feel like that might open you up in terms of opportunity. Yeah.

One thing that you might want to do is just sit down and say, "Okay, I'm going to spend the next few hours and just do this as a brain dump, right? Like it doesn't have to be a commitment to making the videos, but basically sitting down and saying, 'Okay, over the next 2 hours, I'm just going to sit here and brain dump every idea that I possibly can about things that dads might struggle with on YouTube. ' And I'm going to write down the problem that they might have that I might be able to help them solve. And then next to that, I'm going to write down just a super rough idea because you don't want to spend tons of time on each one because you're just brainstorming it. But I'm going to write down a title for this. And again, it's rough. Doesn't have to be perfect. It can be long if it needs to be. And then you can workshop it later. But I'm going to write down the problem that I'm going to be helping them with. And then in the second column, I'm going to be writing down how I would write a title that would make it specifically something that if a dad saw it on their homepage and they were interested in YouTube, they would know it was for them. And then I would do that and write down like 50 to 100 ideas during that time. And if you can flesh that out, then you get to a point where you might be able to tweak each one or maybe double make some videos, things like that. But I would go through that process first, just qualifying the niche and making sure that you can train yourself on being able to package things up in a way that will be recognizable to the people that you are saying that you're trying to reach with your content. Yeah.

Yeah. So, I'd focus on that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Really quick, Sick Shop, thanks for the super chat, man. Says, Got it. Yep. Got it. Says, "My views have taken a dive. Was thinking about doing shorts only or abandoning the niche, not sure what to do, suggestions. " So, when it comes to views taking a dive, I would definitely just look to see like, okay, am I still making content that is for the right people with this. So, I'm just going to take a quick look here. What Amazon Rings of Power felt like it was for. Hold on. Sick Shop hub for sci-fi and fantasy fans. Okay. So, I think you're still in alignment there. So, I think you're okay there. So a couple things.

The very first is it could just be that you got to work on the content, right? Cuz I see here like if I hover over this most recent video. So, I see it's you in your car. Let me make sure this is off. Okay. So, it's you and your car. As soon as you go into the video, you have this like weird filter on it. And here, I'll just pull it up on screen real quick. So, as soon as I click into this video, you've got this like weird like what would you call this filter? Like a cartoon type of filter. Yeah. On it. And then you're switching through like all of these types of things. It's called sketch. Sketch.

There we go. Yeah. Yeah. And then we're like 20 seconds, 20ish seconds in, 18 seconds in before you actually get to the real footage. And you're doing all of that in the most important part of the video. Yeah. So, instead of doing this type of thing, I would take a step back and instead of saying like, I should I abandon this niche, start looking at what you're doing, right? Because what.

You're talking about is popular, right? You're talking about sci-fi and fantasy, you know, movies and shows. So, that's popular. So, in terms of the market for that, it's there. Yeah. So, the next thing that you have to work on is, okay, I got to get my content to a point that it is competitive against the other people that are making similar content, trying to get the same people that I'm trying to reach, trying to get them to watch their videos instead of mine, right? Like, uh, you want to start like opening up other channels that make content like this and look, how are they presenting the content? Are they in a car um or are they in a place where, you know, where they're talking to the camera, you know, differently? Um they might be in the car. I'm not sure. But basically putting it together in a way that gives you that gives you a better chance for this. Um because right now I don't think that the problem is that you need to abandon the niche. I think the thing that you got to do right now is spend time on the actual content itself and just ask yourself when you're making the videos, okay, so when I first start this this cartoon filter that I'm putting on here, um does this even matter? Right? Like why am I putting this cartoon filter on here?

And then saying, "Okay, instead of putting this cartoon filter on here and spending the time in my edit and all that stuff like doing that, how about I spend this first 30 seconds of this video or the the first, you know, time that I'm uh the first 30 seconds the viewer is going to experience on this video. How about instead I start thinking about if somebody's going to click on a video about what Tolken's process of writing suggests about trauma and Lord of the Rings. If somebody clicked on that video, like what would they want to hear or see when that video first opens? " Probably want to hear, you know, something confirming that they clicked in the right place. Maybe some type of buildup into what it is that you're going to be sharing with them. Maybe some type of conflicting idea to where they click on it, you tell them that, uh, you know, everything that they know about that person's writing process has been wrong and you're going to tell them why. You know, those types of things. But start really digging into those types of things instead of abandoning the niche. So, when it comes to YouTube, it's important for all of us to always remember that it's a big competition. And when you are trying to compete, especially in the niche that you're in, when you're trying to compete with channels that are that are, you know, talking about that sort of thing, like you got you have to come to play. And sometimes that means that, you know, you have to go through a a longer process when you're putting the videos together because you have to be more intentional about everything that you're doing because channels that you're competing with, that's what they're doing, right? So, because of that, it's really important to make sure that you are, you know, giving yourself a chance in that regard before you before you throw in the towel um on the content. Now, with that said, if you're like, I just don't like making videos about this anymore. In that case, yeah, you know, start a new channel, you know, try something different. But, um, but if you are really into this type of content, you want to make this channel work, then you have to, you know, go through that process of getting things u, you know, more competitive than than what they are uh currently.

I watch a lot of content and I am really drawn to people in their cars. I don't know why. Uh, I I see it a lot on TikTok. People are just in their cars having a conversation. I see it in Tik Tok, but I don't get into it on like I get into it on Tik Tok, but I but I I don't get into it on YouTube right? Long form. Long form. It's like short form appropriate, but long form not as much. Right. So, I I get into this on Tik Tok. So, number one, I was going to say if you're not putting this I mean you can use Opus clips to do that, but if you're not putting this on other platforms, short form, even if it's YouTube shorts, um I would I would try I would test I would find the best parts of that. Put it on Tik Tok, put it on Instagram, put it on YouTube shorts if you're not doing so already. But one of the things that makes that sort of content really attractive to me and I and I think it it's the same for a lot of people is it feels really authentic. And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by putting filters and sketches and black and white stuff when you're in the most authentic relatable place imaginable. Right?

Somebody like saying you're in a car. Boom. Relatable. Boom. You're talking. I'm I'm listening. But as soon as you start putting those filters on top, it just starts breaking that Yeah. That vibe and it's a distraction. It's a distraction. Right. Yeah. So instead of somebody being able to just sit there and enjoy the content, they are distracted by by the the filters that you're right. And now I'm thinking about why is this looking weird? Right. Why am I Why am I looking at this?

Why is this filter? Is he going to get to the thing? What.

I would I would suggest this and know I didn't watch the video. Uh I didn't listen to the video. So you might be doing this. I was just watching what he was sharing with no audio. Um, it looked to me one, the first thing I noticed, and it could have just been the the little bits he was uh landing on, it looked like you were looking at yourself in the viewfinder. Perhaps you were recording on your phone, maybe. It looks like you were looking at the viewfinder instead of the lens. Look at the lens. Yeah. And it's okay to look away from time to time, right? Think of it like this. When you're sitting down to have a conversation with someone, you don't just sit down and lock your eyes and just assert your dominance for eight minutes straight. I mean, maybe you do, but people think you're weird if you do, right? You just sit you have a conversation, you look away. Sometimes you look back, you know, whatever.

But most of the time, you try to you try to hold some level of eye contact. So, do that and make sure you're looking at your if you're recording on the back, make sure you're looking at the lens. By the looks of that, I get the feeling you were looking at yourself on the actual viewfinder and not the little lens on the phone. So, that's something that's that's a habit you have to build up if you're recording on your phone. Number two, and again, I don't know how you came into the video, but in that sort of very relatable, authentic type of shot, come in. So, somebody hits play, just come in talking right out of the gate. Think of it as like you just called your friend on FaceTime, they picked up, and you just start talking. That sort of a vibe. That sort of thing does really well uh with with short form content. So, if you're going to use the same style for long form content, I would try that strategy just like you somebody picked up the phone and you just start talking. Man, you wouldn't believe what Tolken said and I'm just going to disagree with every or whatever. Just just come in guns of blazing just like you're having a conversation. Guns ablazing. Guns ablazing.

Salon guy, thanks for the super chat. Says, "Um, let that play here real quick. " Okay. Says, "Um, hey guys, uh, Nick, I've been going back to pure educational, old school content, and it seems my views and audience is coming back from the dead. Um, could I be on to something? " Yeah, man. Like, if you if you make a change and people start responding to it, then yeah, try try to lean into it. Um, if you know, if you're publishing and you know, and you notice, hey, when I do it this way, then I get that better response, then heck yeah, go go go uh go for it. Uh, in that case, I'm glad that you're experimenting with stuff, too, and you're like, "Hey, let me try it on, you know, this. " Yeah, I I love that. I love it. Love it.

So, next up, we've got Beanie Draws in the house. Beanie Draws uh says he'll be rebooting his dinosaur art, focusing more on shorts and maybe ASMR styled art videos. The goal of the channel is to teach others. And the question is, in Andrew K's stream yesterday, Andrew K's the man, by the way, in case you don't know who Andrew is, but he says, um, he was talking about some transcripts and how they contribute towards a video's discoverability by their spoken content being searchable SEO. Um, I know you can add transcriptions to remove profanities that never existed, but can you go one step further and if your video is purely visual with very little spoken words, modify the transcriptions to be written descriptions for what's happening visually on screen? So, if I'm drawing a dinosaur head but not speaking, having the transcript say, "I'm drawing a dinosaur head by drawing blank as I draw. " Um, would that be seen as a no no in YouTube's eyes or would that actually be a smart approach to help content be discovered more when spoken words aren't used as much? So, when you publish that video, like YouTube is going to, you know, um, have its ideas on their system is going to, you know, be trying to put it in front of the right people anyway. And just like anything else, based on who responds to it and who doesn't, it's going to inform their system on, you know, who to continue showing it to. In terms of adding the um the spoken words to transcripts just in general, I mean, it's kind of like a side effect that just happens, you know, when it comes to just saying things in your videos that those things get in there. Um, but when it comes to adding the description of what's happening on screen, since they're able to see it on screen, I I really don't know. Like, I don't think that YouTube would see that as that you were trying to game the .

It won't hurt your system in any way because you're basically just describing what happens on screen. And if you're not tag stuffing and stuff like that and trying to force a bunch of keywords in there and stuff like that, then I don't think there would be a problem. But I would definitely go to the Google help pages and try to dig in there a little bit. Maybe even reach out to team YouTube about that one just so you can get a little bit more official clarity on that one because it does feel like it might be in the gray area. Like I don't think it would be a problem, but it does feel like, okay, if you're not saying anything in there, but then you're explaining what they can already see, then it seems like that would be okay. And I think the problem that I'm having with it is because I know your intention behind it, which is that you're doing that so that you might be able to show up for keywords and stuff. In my opinion, I think that your video, like the way that you described what you'd be putting together there, I think that your videos would be just a better recommendation play anyway. And I actually wouldn't even worry about SEO too much when it comes to what it is that you're doing there. So I would actually just try to make the video something that would be interesting from a recommendation standpoint to where if it showed up on a homepage, it would be interesting to people into art versus trying to do all these things in order to try to hopefully get some search views from it.

Salon Guy says, people seem to want one thing from me, being an expert. I've been trying so hard to follow trends when people just want me and my expertise. Yeah, those types of things, just because you've been doing what you do for a long time and people find value in your expertise. So, yeah. So, I mean, that's excellent. And I'm glad that with you teaching people, like I think that also opens you up for other opportunities too, like if you're teaching people, you can put together different things for them, do like virtual training stuff to where you do like live calls if you have somebody to where you can like bring them into your salon and then you actually walk through it right there in person, things like that but you do it to teach people. Yeah, like I think those types of things are additional opportunities that you might be able to charge for because you have your free content that you put out on YouTube to show people what you can do and then for the people that are trying to learn what you do, the people that are responding to the educational content, you can create additional offerings for them based on the level that they want to learn at. So, yeah, I think that opens you up for more opportunities, but it's great to see that views are starting to come back, right? That's always a good thing.

Found Far Away is the next channel here. They do okay, so yeah, so he's already got his own hair product biz, virtual consultations, okay, so yeah, that was more in alignment of what I was saying there on the consultations but in some courses, so I'm doing that, bud, fantastic, excellent, absolutely love it. So, Found Far Away is the next channel here. They upload one time per week or more, been on YouTube for less than a year. They are a travel couple. Goal of the channel is to be a full-time creator, and the question is, would like to know if you notice any major issues with titles or thumbnails or if it's harmful to the channel to upload shorts and longs to the same channel. So the rule of thumb when it comes to uploading short form and long form to the same channel is as long as the content is for the same audience, right, the same person that you're trying to reach, then in that case it's fine to do both. So, for example, because you guys are doing the travel content, if you upload videos that are not related to any of that stuff, then it's outside of that. If you upload videos that are a little bit more casual that aren't in alignment with what you're offering in your main content, then that can also be a little bit off base. But as long as everything lines up for what you're offering from shorts and for the long form content in terms of the same viewer, you can have different offerings, but it's all targeted towards the same type of person and the things that they care about. Then in that case, it's perfectly fine to have everything on the same channel, including live streams, as well.

So, Diane says, 'Larking and listening, still waking up. ' Nice. Appreciate you too, Salon Guy. Giggy Life says, 'Oversaturated is a myth. Every creator can bring something different. ' 100%.

Okay. So, I'm looking at your channel right now, and you have Mountain Top Legend Cooked for Filipino birthday. So, yeah. So, in your case, you are definitely doing travel vlogs. But one thing that I would definitely consider when it comes to your content is like you're getting some views on some of these, right? Like 5,000 views, 7,000 views, 26,000 views. You know, Philippines and New Year's amazing. 1. 3 sleeping on the floor in the Philippines in the mountains. So these types of things are okay. In terms of like this one on sleeping on the floor in the Philippines, I love how you put the flags in and your different thumbnails and all that. I think those are cool. This is going to sound dumb, but one thing that I would do and I know that you have the octagon that you have here, but I would just do like a regular flag, right? Because you're going for clarity and easy to understand. And I would also make sure that it's always visible because here you can see that it's covered up by the time stamp.

So it'll be that way in some places. So if you are going to put that flag in there, I'd make sure that it's always over here so it doesn't get covered up by the time stamp because that is a way that people will identify it. But a few things, let's see here. So one, sleeping on the floor in the Philippines in the mountains, and you're pointing to this, I would definitely zoom in here a little bit because you can't really see there, which might be okay. Okay, that might cause some people to click to figure out where it was because they just want to see what's going on. But I would definitely try to make it a little bit more visible. Or if it's somewhere to where it's one of those places, because we live in Southeast Asia, too. So, if it's one of those places to where you're like, 'Oh my gosh, I can't believe he slept there. ' Then trying to just really emphasize that side of things would definitely be a way to do it instead of it being something that you can't really make out here in the thumbnail. So, even at a bigger size, let me kind of bring it down here. Yeah, it's really hard to even see kind of what's going on there. It looks like here. Hold on. Food. Nope.

We moved to the Philippines. Almost meant disaster. Her birthday in Manila destroyed our budget. Christmas carnival. First time experienced Christmas in Manila.

Okay. So, you see this one here with like your first time experiencing Christmas in Manila. So, this is an outlier on the channel. It looks like you had a one that's kind of close here, but this one seems like an outlier in terms of your most recent videos. So one thing that you might want to pull from here is first time experiencing fill in the blank and then just from a template standpoint and being able to have a consistent series on the channel. One thing that I would try from an experiment standpoint that I can just kind of identify at a glance here from just pulling up your channel is first time experiencing fill in the blank in fill-in area of Philippines, right? Or to say Philippines or in the Philippines. I would try to make a series out of that of you guys just experiencing first time things. You don't have to publish every video like that, but basically just doing more of those and seeing like, hey, do people respond well to these first-time experiences? Because the reason I'm saying that is because one, this is an outlier. Two, it's just interesting, right? Because you experiencing Christmas in Manila as just a normal expat is one thing, but you experiencing it for the first time suggests like, hey, we're getting like the first impressions of this person going through this. And because of that, since people did respond so well to this, I would look at how you formatted this in terms of how what do we say when we first came into the video, all of that, and I would actually try to make this one a series just as an experiment at first to see how people respond to first times, right? In the first time experiences in the Philippines, even here right even read on this one if this was your first new year in the Philippines you know it's amazing 2026 our first our first time experiencing new years in the Philippines 2026 something like that would be something I would mess with there too we move to so Philippines so with videos like this right because like some of your view counts people responding to what it is that you're doing right. So, you're definitely heading in the right path.

You got almost 80,000 views on this one. You got 39,000 views here. You got 49,000 views here, 16,000. So, people.

You guys are able to hold attention here. The next thing that I would start working on is the actual ideas of what it is that you're doing and how you're framing everything and how you're packaging it. So, here you have, 'We moved to this area in the Philippines. ' Even in a case like this, instead of just saying, 'We moved to this place in the Philippines,' try thinking about, 'Okay, is there anything that we could add to this when we're making the video or when we're packaging it up, or better yet, both, to where it would make this, instead of it just being, "We moved to the Philippines," to where there's something else, like, "We moved to this place in the Philippines, and we found this whatever," or, "We moved to whatever in the Philippines, but we never expected this," right? So, it just kind of opens it up more from a curiosity perspective because now it's not just that you moved to this place in the Philippines. It's that something happened or you experienced something or your perspective of the move or whatever it is was something that you know that you didn't expect or whatever. And in order for people to get the answer to that, they have to click on this video to figure out what it was, you know, what your opinions are on that thing versus it just being a statement that you moved to this area in the Philippines, right? So, I would work on those sorts of things.

Same thing here: 'We tried Filipino food we'd never had. ' This is another one where saying, 'Okay, we tried food that we've never had,' is interesting. But if we wanted to level it up, you know, 'These were our favorites,' right? And then by doing that, it's like, 'Okay, so they had some food they never had. I wonder which ones they liked the best,' right? And a lot of these things, you know, you might be able to repackage these depending on how you put the videos together. But these are the types of things that you also want to think about when it comes to like making the video, right? So, okay, 'Hey, we're going to go eat. We're going to go try a bunch of food. ' How are we going to package this up? So, we can do it to where we just tried a bunch of food in this area, or we can try it to where we tried this food and we're going to list out our favorites. So then we're going to package the video in that way. And then as we're going through the video, because it's a 30-minute video, we're going to start breaking down, 'Hey, here's us trying the thing. ' And then, you know, we're going to start slowly listing out, 'Okay, we had this one. On this one, we'd give this one a 10, or we'd give this one a three or whatever the thing is.

' And then you kind of move through the content that way.

So I would start working on those types of things because you're already getting a response. Now, you got to start working on like how to level up things because I think that if you take the approach that I'm recommending to you right now, I think that you'll be able to raise the average view counts that you're getting 'cause you've already got the hard part out, which is, 'Do people respond to you or not? ' You've already got that covered. So, now it comes to leveling things up, making things more intriguing, making people feel like they want to check it out versus it being something that is just interesting, right? So, I'd work on those things.

And really quick, Amanda Loves Music says, 'There's a lot of negativity towards shorts creators and viewers on other channels. However, I've turned several one-off shorts into series, which I keep adding to and they keep growing. ' Yeah. So, when it comes to shorts, I think that, you know, like YouTube is pushing shorts everywhere and when people give shorts creators a hard time, I think it's really shortsighted. No pun intended. But the reason I think that is because you know if YouTube is prioritizing shorts then it would make sense that if you are wanting to leverage what YouTube is prioritizing that you would have shorts as part of your strategy at least, right? And some people, you know, if they're not trying to monetize, you know, in the same way that maybe they monetize in long form content then in that case, you know, some people are like they love getting the creator experience out of making YouTube shorts, right? So, you know, because of that, I think that when people are dogging on YouTube shorts creators, I don't think that it's appropriate because one, you know, they might not even know what they're trying to do, but two, I think shorts is also a great and D and I have been saying this for a long time: shorts is a great barrier to entry, for or a great starting point I should say for people that have never made content before because when it comes to YouTube shorts, you know, there's just not, I mean you can put as much time into them but for a lot of people, you know, it's a great way to learn how to make content without having to do all the other stuff, right? Because you don't have to make thumbnails, you don't have to spend a long time tweaking your titles, making sure all your, I mean titles are still important but you don't have to put as much into the content as you do with the long form. So, I think it's just a great way to be like, 'Okay, I'm going to start practicing making videos, and through this process, I'm going to learn how to get my mic better or my audio better. I'm going to learn how to capture people's attention when it first starts, and I'm going to use this as like a training ground to where in the future, if I want to make long form content, then I'm going to have all these skills built up for making the short form that I can then start transferring over into the long form. And then since I already know how to make good videos for making shorts, when I transfer over to long form, then I have a lot of that covered already. I'm gonna have to tweak some things for long form. But then now I can just focus on packaging and coming up with ideas that are appropriate for long form and things like that. ' So I think shorts are a great place to jump into as a content creator.

Rene Richie in the house. What's up dude? Hope you're doing great. Says tons of viewer demand for shorts. You know what's interesting is I find myself, like late at night. So, basically our routine when we go to bed is we'll like watch Netflix for a little bit and then after that she'll usually fall asleep first and once she falls asleep I'll hop over to YouTube. Sometimes I'll watch some long form content but then after that I'll be like okay I'm starting to kind of fade here. I'm getting tired so I'm just going to shorts and just watch some brainless stuff and then I'll just see. But tell the truth. Do you go to shorts or you go to TikTok? No, I go to Shorts on YouTube 'cause it's because it's attached to my Apple TV. Oh you're TikTok isn't because you're broadcasting it. Yeah. So it's attached to my Apple TV. If it was my phone, I'd probably go to TikTok.

But since it's on my TV, then I go into shorts on the TV and then I'm sitting there and I'll go through shorts just because it's easier, you know, I don't have to pay as much attention because I'm getting tired, things like that. So I sit there and just flip through short after short after short after short. And I'm watching tons of shorts on TV, which is which is like the most unexpected thing ever for me personally, right? Watching them on TV.

And he says also that people today make short form the way that we old used to tweet. It's a video first generation. Yep. Renee, my first of all, hope you're doing well man. Yeah, man. Hope you're doing awesome. Um, the YouTube Shorts algorithm, I know you guys are just bathing in money by pushing those so hard, but from a viewers perspective is incredibly disappointing. And we were talking about this earlier. I mean, he said that the demand is high. Well, yeah. Well, I mean, you guys just sticking it in everybody's face. I mean, is the demand high or are you forcing? But I mean, people still have to go people still have to go in there and then watch short after short after short. Anyway, point being, I find myself repeatedly going to other platforms for short form content. Yeah, he said, 'Send him your feedback.

' Yeah. Uh I repeatedly go to other platforms for short form content. YouTube rules supreme for long form content, hands down. It's just that the algorithm really struggles to find things that I'm truly interested in. Like I don't care. My shorts is Theo Von. It's mindless other comedy. But I mean that's kind of the thing though. Uh Theo Von, other comedians, Peter Holmes, you know, people like that. And uh Rick and Morty clips and Family Guy clips. That's my shorts. That's what I go to before I fall asleep. Just super light-hearted stuff. Nothing serious. Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. That's what my shorts look like. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, people respond obviously. Some people are doing incredibly well. I'm saying personally, I just find myself leaving YouTube more for shorts.

Always going back for long form videos. You know what's jarring? What's that? It's like I'm sitting there, I'm getting ready to fall asleep and I'm flipping through shorts and then YouTube shows me like a clip from Nim and Extra from this live stream and it's you and it's me and I'm like what the oh okay. Yeah. Cuz I'm watching on like on my account but it pulls it from Nim and Extra and it's on the TV. Yeah. And it's up there and I'm like oh it's D. Yeah. So one of these days I'll starring hack into your TV. So you and I'll just pretend that I'll come here. You can't be able to get it off the screen, right? Okay, that ain't going to work. Quit trying to swipe away, dude. Swipe away.

You can huff and puff and blow your house down if you want. I'm not going anywhere.

Really quick, I want to say this. So Karen Cole, a UK lawyer, says, "Shorts take so much time. " Karen, if you were talking about recording shorts, if it's taking a lot of your time, rethink how you're making shorts. You're a lawyer, right? You can grab your phone, turn it on, and just give a hot take. You don't have to make some fancy edited short. A lot of people do really well with just super authentic content. They just grab a phone, hit record. Here's my hot take on something. I'm walking from point A to point B, holding my phone, just talking about the thing. Any popular cases that are going on in the world, stuff like that. Celebrity case, just a hot take. It doesn't have to be, it could be 15 seconds long. It could be 30 seconds long. Just pick it up and hit it.

Making shorts should not be incredibly time-consuming unless you're doing like high-end shorts. Yeah, unless you're doing high-end shorts, but for most people, you could probably use something like Opus Clips. Um or you can just simplify your process for actually making the short itself. It shouldn't take a long time unless you're making high-end shorts.

Okay, so next up on the list here, we got Integrated Travel Solutions. Um, they upload one time per week or more, been on YouTube for a year or more. They do cruising content. The goal of the channel is to make money. And the question is, uh, we did a paid promotion over the summer. We didn't know better. Um, what can we do to set us apart from other cruise channels. Um, offer things that other cruise channels do not. Um, be super heavy on personality. Get very clear on who it is that you are targeting with your cruise channel because there's cruise channels and then there's cruise channels that target a very specific type of person that's interested in cruises. Yeah. Um, so those are ways that you can separate yourself from other content creators.

Um, so hold on. Perfect C day on Quantum of the Seas. Um, ultimate cruise day. Luxury relaxation. Uh, let's see here. Boarding Quantum of the Seas, Embark Day Surprise. Yeah, even even playing around with like your title. So this one's about, you know, um, boarding the Quantum of the Seas. So with that one, like this is what it feels like to board a Quantum of the Seas cruise or, you know, something like that. Just even playing with, you know, how you're, you know, framing those types of things, um, is something to consider. Uh, before your cruise in San, uh, Pedro, uh, port of Los Angeles walk, green onion dinner. Yeah. Another thing, too, is like right now you're stuffing a bunch of different things into your title. Pick something like super interesting about your uh about your video. Think about, okay, what is it that we've offered in this video?

And it's even better if you can do this beforehand to where you think about, okay, what would we show in the thumbnail if we're going to if we're going to be taking people through this thing today, what would we show in the thumbnail for this? What would we write or how would we write the title for this? Um, and then you you know uh and then you make the video around that package that you're going to offer. But right now, because you're stuffing a bunch of things into your title, um, it's kind of all over the place. One thing that I would recommend that you do is is start thinking of, okay, let's make one simple, easy-to-read sentence here um for our title that is in some way compelling about something about these cruises that we're on. Um I would start with that um from a title perspective. Um and then in terms of imagery, I would definitely make sure that you get more like cruise related stuff in here. Like you have some some of the thumbnails are really messy like um here I'm just going to pull this up real quick. Like here you have like uh Ratian sloth sanctuary cruise excursion and you've got like all of these different you know things like all over this um you know instead of you know doing all of that think when you are making your thumbnails like okay we need to have like a one clear focus with this thumbnail and that focus needs to be something that people that are interested in cruises specifically the segment of cruise you know enthusiasts or or you know people that watch cruise content for entertainment or whatever it is that you're going for. Um, uh, what can we focus on that would matter to them and help them identify that this is about something that they might care about? Um, I would focus on that instead of just putting a bunch of stuff in the thumbnail for the sake of having a bunch of stuff in the, uh, in the thumbnail.

Let's see if they've had anything. Uh, okay. Five months ago. Okay. Real man culture. Greeting, Conrad. Shaman ritual. We speak English here. Okay, so this is interesting. So this is a video that it looks like doesn't from the outside it looks like it doesn't have anything to do with a cruise. I guess maybe the Kosamel maybe is the cruise ship. I don't know. But this is one of the excursions that you might take off of that. They got 122,000 views um on this one from 5 months ago. So this is, you know, fairly recent.

Here 16,000 views four months ago. Sail away on the Disney Wish. So, one thing I just want to show you here is if you look at the title here, kind of what I'm saying is you see how this one's just simple and easy to understand. Um, this one here, not as simple and easy to understand, but it's still, you know, not completely crammed with stuff, at least, you know, here at this first glance. Harmony of the Sea Cruise Highlights, must see spots and entertainment, just easy to understand. Disney wish sail away, sail away party, balcony, cabin tour. There's a lot with this one. Um, so that one kind of goes outside of that. But on these top videos though, um, they're mostly, you know, pretty easy to understand. So I would I would definitely start working on uh those things. But I think that one of the things that you guys are going to be dealing with though is, you know, like the places that you go, uh, you know, are they going to be popular, not popular, you know, like that kind of stuff. Um, I think I think that's definitely going to matter. And then you also have things and this is where nuance matters because you're talking about standing out from other content creators. So like luxury kosamel day pass, right? So this is where um getting into the nuts and bolts of who it is that you're making content for.

Um that's where this starts to take place. So here, this luxury version, this may or may not apply to the people that you're actually trying to reach with your content, right? Are you trying to go for general cruise goers or or luxury travelers? Right? That's where understanding who it is that you're trying to reach and what they want from you um you know can really come into play when it comes to making content like this. It's interesting though which is good but in terms of separating you from others. You know when it comes up here integrated travel solutions join us as we do ships tours and whatever um excursions um cruise dining with helpful tips from real sailings. Yeah. So like in this one love cruising join us as we you know ship tour. So, a different way that you could do this to, and this is just one example. I'm not saying to do this specifically. I'm just using this as an example. But here, um, love cruising, uh, you know, we, uh, you know, we share and, and again, I'm not saying that you do budget travel, but I'm just giving you this as an example. But, you know, uh, love cruising, you know, we share our experiences, uh, you know, helping, uh, you know, people know the best cruises to make on a budget, something like that. um or or you know, we give people real insights into you know, cruising on a on a budget, cruising around the world on a budget or whatever the thing is.

Just that you know, doing this on a budget type of thing, you know, helps separate you from just general cruise people. And then when it comes to the content, you can focus on those things. If it's luxury, you know, we, you know, help uh you know, we we show luxury um cruise enthusiasts, however you want to frame that, um you know, our experiences through luxury cruise travel. Um, then in that case, every video that you publish on the channel is targeting that luxury cruise crowd, right? And then you're showing them unique insights that maybe the budget travelers might watch for the sake of just seeing what would be available, but the luxury travelers are watching it for the sake of, you know, seeing all the cool stuff that they can do that the budget travelers might not be able to do, right? So, it's those types of things that create those separations um on your channel from other content creators and help you stand out.

Uh, let's see. Next up, next up on our list. Next, next up on our list, we got uh Brainfire by Mac Movement. Uh they upload one time per week or more, but been on YouTube for less than a year. Type of channel is fiction, low-fi, sticker movies, and audio books. Goal of the channel is to.

Make money. And they say, 'I use AI, but it's still 90% me. ' The question is, what flips someone to a regular viewer? I just hit six months and went from three to six. Do they need to finish an episode and watch more, or can it just be shorts? So when it comes to people becoming regular viewers, they need to see your content as a resource of some kind for them. Be it entertainment, education, motivation, whatever the thing is, you know, unique insights, whatever. Um, uh, they need to see your content as, you know, valuable to them and want to keep coming back for that and then they keep coming back for that. One of the aspects of that is by making, you know, what it is that you're doing recognizable to people.

So, you know, for example, I see you're doing a lot of AI content, but there are things that you're doing also that are outside of that. So, let me show you what I mean here real quick. >> Pulling them up. >> Yep. So, if we look at this one, right, we have the replacements, training files, neon fang gang or fang gang, and this one looks like it's some type of anime related thing. And then 3 weeks ago, you published this video about a nature vault. Small moments you usually miss. Um, ants at a spill extended. Not sure what that is. Another one, Nature Vault. And then here we get back to a galactic tournament, right? So, so basically you're doing these types of things and then you throw this type of thing right in the middle of those, right? So there's other aspects of this. So here you have um slip, Hulk Robinson, Welcome to the elseway, the rules of the elseway. Not sure what any of that is.

Um Trace Sense 3D sci-fi crime. Okay, so here you are being clear that it's sci-fi crime lowfi cyberneor clearance dive.

First, I would just make I would make regular titles instead of just trying to stuff a bunch of stuff into these. Um, but you have very clear here what it is that you're actually offering compared to this where there's no real clarity on what it is that you're offering. Same with this one. Trace sense 3D uh 3. 5D sci-fi crime loi cyber New York clearance delta 7. So you're at least being clear this has something to do with like a sci-fi crime, you know, in some way. So by doing this type of thing, you're able to speak to a certain group of people that are interested in sci-fi related things or specifically sci-fi crime. And then here you have um like an urban fantasy thing. So, one thing just to consider and and I'm not saying that somebody that watches this can't watch this, but what I'm saying is if you dial things in to where everything it is that you're doing is for a particular type of enthusiast, it can help increase people that are wanting to become regular viewers of your content. So, here you have this where it's just like urban, you know, fantasy stuff and mystic urban fantasy stuff in here also. So you have something here that is tapping into one type of viewer and this stuff over here that's tapping into a different different type of viewer.

So one thing that I would just consider when it comes to your YouTube channel is if you are trying to get more returning viewers and you know increase people clicking on video after video going and binge watching your channel stuff like that is I would start thinking okay um what type of stories am I going to be telling here and who might be interested in those stories and how can I make the videos on the channel about things that a particular type of person would like to watch over and over and over again to where they would come and are likely to binge watch my channel. Um, and you know, just as an example, if everything about your content was sci-fi uh, crime stories, then in that case, it's all, you know, explained here that it's sci-fi crime. Here, it's explained that it's sci-fi crime. And then for the people that enjoy these videos, and again, I'm just using these as an example. If they click into one of these and they watch it and they're like, 'Wow, this is great. ' And then they click on your channel because they want more. and then they come here and they're like, 'Wow, they've got a whole channel, these amazing sci-fi crime videos, then that gives you the opportunity to really tap into a very specific type of viewer with this. And then they can come and they can just binge watch everything it is that you have. So, I would consider uh I would just I would consider that when it comes to your channel because right now you're putting out a bunch of like different types of content, which is kind of scattering things out a little bit. I mean, you've gained 1. 5,000 subscribers, so you know, people are, you know, responding somewhat to what it is that you're doing. Um, but if your question was about returning viewers, so because of that, if you're wanting more of them, then I would, you know, try to dial that sort of thing in and really think about who it is that you're trying to reach with your content and what it is that you are uh what it is that you're going to offer those people.

D, will you uh cover this for one second? >> Yeah, I sure will. Kane going in the kitchen. It's our birthday weekend. Hey, happy birthday. >> Yeah, happy birthday to you. I'm heading into the chat here. See if there's any questions in the chat. I don't I do not have access to the channels over here, so you have to wait for Nick to get back to pull those up here. I'm going backwards. Clear over clever home rapid repair says yes, YouTube is not a place to be clever. You have to think about who you know, you're going to appeal to a more broad audience if you are just clear. If you are clear and you're speaking directly to the right people because if you're cl nobody has time to try to figure out what you're doing, right? People are scrolling, they're not think they're just they're open stuff up and they're not putting a lot of time into something. They don't want to have to pause and figure out what what does this mean?

Is this the right video for me? We are impulse clicking on things. We're searching for something. Okay, that looks good. And we click on it, right? Or we just open up YouTube and we start clicking on stuff. It's impulse. Nobody has time to figure out what you're doing by being clever. Yeah, being being clever can definitely uh can definitely hurt you. Yeah, everybody say happy birthday to Tango in the kitchen. Everybody Everybody say happy birthday to Tango in the kitchen. It's a birthday weekend. And you know, they party hard because they're not like, 'Oh, Sunday is my birthday. ' No, it's a birthday weekend. She She has a birthday weekend.

Most of us have a birthday. She has a birthday weekend. She knows how to party. That's what she's trying to say. That's right. Happy birthday. Let them roll. There you go. Uh, that's great. Uh, Chana says, 'I'm just testing if you understand Russian ingredients from Germany. ' I knew it was Russian language, but I I didn't know what it was saying. I just know that the I can tell the characters are Russian. No idea what you said, though. I I hope it wasn't uh I hope it was something good and positive. Monday is a holiday here, so I have one more day.

So, she's going hard. She's doing like a four day she's doing like a 4-day birthday weekend. >> Oh, nice. >> Yeah, >> that's a good uh That's a good weekend. That's a That's a good birthday celebration. >> That's a good birthday. Yeah. Even when I turned 50, I was like, 'Okay, I'm 50. ' I spent like, you know, had like a little birthday cake. That was a thing. And it was over. >> She's like just probably >> raging all weekend. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I don't even know how old you are, but it's probably not even like a like a a milestone.

It's probably like, you know, 33 or something like that. 33 partying to go for it. Four >> four days straight. You know, send the kids to the to the grandmother's >> just 4 day hard this weekend. >> 4 day bender.

So, next up we have Baseball Legends Chronicles. Uh they upload one time per week or more. Been on YouTube for less than 6 months. They do baseball legends documentary content. Uh, the goal of the channel is connect with others who like what they like. And the question is, 'Started the channel in October 2025. Looking forward to advice to grow more views and ways to improve my channel. Um, please look at titles and thumbnails. Let's see what you got going on. ' Baseball Legends and Chronicles. Take a pick. See what we got going on here. >> Are you pulling them up? >> All right. Baseball Legends of Chronicles.

Let's see what you got going on here. Let me take a sip of water here real quick. A >> little hydration before you get going. Wet the old tongue. >> All right. So, uh, hold on. Okay.

I need to switch between stories to stay interested. Okay. So, um, I respect this. Hold on really quick. Um, so I I respect this idea. So, Mac Movement, the channel that we just looked at, the AI channel, says I need to switch between stories to stay interested. 100 episode goal. Now, I got to uh retitle everything. Okay. So, um if you're uploading the the videos to the channel because you just want to go back and and watch them, you know, yourself and you're not, you know, like you don't care um about, you know, the the channel, you know, like picking up momentum and all that stuff, like it might still, you know, end up okay. But if you are actively trying to grow the channel in every way, um it's important to remember that when we publish videos to YouTube, it's about the viewers, not necessarily us. Like, I mean, it's about us too and our interest and things like that. But when it comes to making the decision about what you're going to publish on a YouTube channel, it's important to make sure that you're thinking about the viewer first in that case, right? So, you make the stuff that you want to make, but the stuff that gets put on the YouTube channel, you got to make sure that that is for a particular type of viewer that's .

I am interested in very specific things. And the reason for that is because the more bingeable you make your channel, especially if you are telling good stories and people are enjoying the content, the more bingeable you make your channel, the easier it is for people to go and watch videos back to back. The easier it is for the YouTube system to be like, "Hey, every person that we put this in front of that goes here and watches this, you know, this channel—not every person, but a nice percentage of them—they continue on to keep watching video after video on this YouTube channel. " When those types of things happen, like that is what causes channels to start taking off because then their system detects, okay, when we show a video to somebody on, let's say, the homepage or suggested videos and they click on it, there is a certain percentage of viewers that just end up watching, you know, two videos instead of just one. So because of that, because this one video is responsible for so much watch time because it is causing these binge sessions—somebody is watching two, three videos on this channel—then in that case, let's show this video to more people like these people that are having that pattern. Um, and by doing that, as long as they keep responding that way, then it can cause, you know, those videos to do really, really well. But when you start breaking things up to where it becomes difficult for people to find additional content on the channel without looking around for it, then in that case it starts working against you because there is so much content on YouTube that it makes it, you know, like it is just easier to go and like, oh, hey, let me just go search for something else instead or to just go click on something over in the sidebar instead of going and looking for more of that and digging around trying to find it. So again, you can absolutely grow the channel by segmenting things like, you know, like you are currently doing. Um, but if you are interested in dialing things in to, you know, give the channel more momentum, just remember that when it comes to YouTube, if we are wanting other people to enjoy what it is that we do, just making sure that, you know, what you are publishing is, uh, you know, almost all the videos or all the videos, um, are just a perfect fit for a person that is interested in very specific things. Um, if you do that, then you are increasing the likelihood that you are, you know, that you are going to do well on YouTube. Um, and again, you can do like you can have, you know, two or three breakout videos that drive the whole channel. Without question, that can happen. But if you are like really wanting to knock it out of the park, um, I would just, you know, think about it and say, "Okay, um, I am trying to, you know, reach a type of viewer that is interested in these types of stories. So therefore, let me make sure that everything on the channel is something that they have a high likelihood that they uh that they will enjoy if they run across it. And by doing that, you are making it to where if YouTube recommends additional content to them, they are likely to click on it and so on.

And it benefits you in every possible way except for your own interest in terms of, you know, having to do it because you do not get bored, right? So uh so just think about that uh when it comes to that. But again, if you are just doing it for fun, no, no big deal. And it is possible to grow the channel in the other way, you know, the way that you are currently doing it. But the way that the way that I am, you know, trying to explain it is if you, you know, want all that stuff to happen faster than the the typical path for that is dialing everything in for a particular type of viewer. All right.

So, um, back on BA Baseball Legends Chronicles. So, see what you got going on here. Actually, let me pull this down real quick so I can check the question again really quick. Yeah, they just want feedback on titles and thumbnails, I believe. Yep. Okay, so thumbnails and titles. So, the kid Griffy Jr. , the kid who revolutionized baseball series. Yeah, instead of putting the kid on here, like I mean, I know you have, you know, him on here, but instead of putting the kid on here, like I would just do King Griffy Jr. right across the top. Boom. And then also, I would just focus on one image, right? Just one strong image of him, just like a good image. and then you know put his name up here. So then anybody interested in him you know it will be clear you know that it is baseball clear that it is him and then you have also got his name on there so anybody interested in him uh they can recognize that and click on it story worth saving.

So you have baseball imagery which is great. Um in terms of the you know plaque that you have here um I am not sure I know at a small size you know suggested videos this little plaque here that you are probably not going to be able to see that but on you know mobile feeds homepages you probably will. Um, so I think it is fine, but it might clutter things a little bit. But here, very clear baseball imagery, um, with what it is that you are doing there with your thumbnail and title. And this is another one. Instead of a story worth saving, I just put the person is name up there right? Or if they if they do have the special award, so you know, if it is like a, you know, uh, you know, even putting like the, you know, MLB legends or MLB legend Dennis, uh, Earsley, right? putting that up here so that it just kind of suggests that you know he is a historical player or something like that would be something that I would do. Um how you have David Ortiz here like you are you are doing that here right? You are like hey here is David Ortiz or Ortiz I am not sure how you say that. Um but here you are doing that thing and this video has you know a little bit more views on it. Same here with Barry Bonds you know same thing. It has a little bit more views on it. Joan Sodto a little bit more views on it than these other ones. Granted, it has been on here for two weeks, but um yeah, here with their name on it.

Derek Jeter. The name on it. >> You shot. >> You shot him. Yeah. Right. Yeah. The other guys, you know, if you if you have seen that. Yeah. But yeah, man. I would just make this easy on yourself. So, one thing that I would do is I would pick I would pick a a style that you are going to go with and I would do like, you know, player, who they are, and then like that is it. And I would just focus on that. And then that is going to grab the attention of the people that are interested in in that player or baseball. And then they can go down to the uh title from there.

Also, you have here David uh Ortiz, the legacy of Big Poppy MLB Legend series. So, this is interesting, right, in terms of the title, but if you wanted to level this up a little bit, um and and of course this starts, right? You have to make these types of calls before you make the video so you can make sure everything is appropriate that you do in the video for, you know, this reframing. But instead of it just being David Ortiz, the legacy of Big Pop, uh, Big Poppy MLB Legend series, having it, you know, David Ortiz, this is why, you know, he is a legacy or this is why he is a legend or, you know, something along those lines. Um because then what you do there is instead of it just being a statement of hey this is him and this is who he is it it suggests that you are explaining what made him who he is which is a different type of perceived value from the outside uh when it comes to the packaging. So I would consider that type of you know kind of reframing when it comes to uh some of these titles.

Uh, next up, next next up we have got uh, Gig Life with Stardashians. >> Kardashians. >> Kardashians. Yep. They do daily content. Um, they do gig work. Comedy is the type of channel. The goal of the channel is to have fun. And uh, the question is, how can I grow my subscribers and viewership on my lives? I have tried almost everything. And it is a ride along with gig working and working hard while having fun doing it. So, let's see what you are doing here. >> Oh, so they are like door dashing and stuff like that. Interesting. >> Pulling them up.

>> Okay.

So, right out of the gate, you are doing like what you are doing is not clear in any way, shape, or form. So, I guess star dashing is is maybe uh Door Dash. Pure Door Dash, Uber Eats, Instacart, or Ship Driver. Okay. So, a couple things. One, unless you are a cartoon cuz you said it is a ride along. Yeah. Okay. You are not a cartoon. So, I would not use cartoons here to represent you guys. Put real people here >> cuz this suggests that something different is behind this video, right? All of these. >> Right? When you use the cartoons like this, it suggests something different is back here, which is going to cause people that are interested in that to click on it and then they will quickly abandon the video because that is not what they that is not what they are getting. Um, so I would I would get real people in the thumbnails.

Um, number two, celebrating two years of bloopers and funny moments. Feel free to skip around. So here you have two years and funny moments celebrating two years. There is no clarity at all here about this having anything to do with any type of, you know, delivery service, any type of, you know, uh, Door Dash, any type of thing related to that, there is nothing here that suggests that your content has anything to do with that. So, if you are trying to collect viewers that are or or or get yourself in front of viewers and get them responding to your content that are into that, which it looks like here, if you are a Door Dash, Uber Eats, Instacart, or uh shipped driver, if you are trying to reach those people, make it obvious that that is what your content is about from the outside. >> So, I am I would start there. >> I am a little confused. What do they expand that expand up the top there? The more .

About what their channel's about. Yeah, it says, 'If you're a DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Shipt driver thinking about becoming one, you're in the right place. Um, we're everyday uh North Carolina gig workers turning our delivery grind into unfiltered entertainment and real talk about the apps. Um, on this channel, you'll see wrong house drop-offs, crazy drive-through moments, and wild customer requests, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Shipt, North uh North Carolina, and relatable gig worker wins, fails, and you won't believe this, order stories, tips, mistakes to avoid, and honest experiences from the delivery streets. ' Okay. So, there's also they're documenting what they're doing. Yeah. I'm not I see I didn't pick that up at all with the packaging and the ideas. Yep. So, yeah, a couple things, too. Um, another thing that I want to bring to your attention is here you have entertainment content that you're putting out that would apply to anybody interested in just being entertained. And then here you're doing tips, mistakes, uh, to avoid and honest experiences from the delivery streets. So, here you're trying to add value to delivery drivers. So with these, you are reaching anybody that's interested in just kind of seeing the behind the scenes of what's going on in the delivery world. And then down here, you're talking specifically to delivery drivers.

So step one, I would get clear on who it is that you're actually targeting with this. Step two, I would go in and I would put real people in your thumbnails and I would repackage everything so that it's clear that it has something to do with delivery driving. And when it comes to your titles, even here you have throwback Christmas of the past, funniest moments, uh, re-release. So, even here, none of this is clear that it has anything to do with anything related to delivery in any way, shape, or form. Same with this one. Same with this one. A YouTube thumbnail design. That's out of Yep. Instacart loading tips nobody talks about. Okay, that one at least lets you know that it has to do with Instacart here. How to make the perfect thumbnail. This is a completely different audience eight months ago. So, yeah. So since you're back on the horse now because you took a huge break um start publishing content again and then uh uh yeah repackage everything so it's clear that you are delivery driver and also make sure that you are clearly targeting one you know one side or the uh the other of the content some thinking needs to happen figure out which direction you want to go in. Yep.

Next up, we've got Alicia's World of Pets. Alicia's World of Pets uploads one time per week or more. The goal of the channel is to make money. And the question is, 'How can I make my channel more personal and reflect my story instead of solely focusing on my six pets? Let's see what is going here. ' Pets. Yeah, they're rescue pets. That's pretty cool. Love that you're uh doing that, by the way. um six. Okay, so really quick here. So the question is, how can I make my channel more personal and reflect my story instead of solely focusing on my cats? So when you're making the videos themselves, make them about your story. So here you have the most adorable kitten reactions. So this is all about your cat.

Here, purring orange cats are the best for Sunday relaxation, right? Everything that you're doing right now is about the cats. So, because of that, you know, that's the audience that you're building, people that are into the cats. If you want to make this about you and your story, then making videos about, you know, this is why I, you know, rescued, you know, this cat from the the shelter. And then you got at least six of those. Um, in addition to that, um, you know, uh, you know, if you're rescuing a cat from shelters, these are things to look out for. Um, uh, you know, these are problems that I've ran into from rescuing cats. Uh, making videos about those types of things, um, shares more about your story instead of making videos that are, you know, just cute things that the cats are doing. So, if you want to get if you want to make this about your story instead of the cats, then in that case, you have to make the content that's about your story instead of content that's about the cats.

Uh, creator ambition, thanks for the super chat. says, 'Are VidIQ and TubeBuddy still useful um for creators or do free and lower tier plans give misleading title and thumbnail advice? ' So, if you're stuck between the two, I would use VidIQ. Um I'm not going to go into a whole rant about TubeBuddy, but I would use VidIQ if you have the choice between the two. Um, and just really quick, if you just go to Google Chrome store and you look at the reviews between the two, and then you go to their YouTube channels and you look to see how and their Twitter accounts and any place else, and you look to see how VidIQ supports their community and their users compared to the other one, um, then you'll quickly see what the right choice is. And in addition to that, um, VidIQ has every feature that TubeBuddy has that matters. The only one that VidIQ or the only one that TubeBuddy uh or that VidIQ doesn't have is the A/B testing tool for thumbnails, but YouTube has that so you don't need it. So, uh so yeah. So, so that should answer that question. But in terms of can you use the free plans, you can absolutely. So, when it comes to the free plans, they give you enough information, but one thing to just be mindful of is when it comes to and and I make tools, too. So, I also have a tool that analyzes thumbnails, helps you, you know, with titles and all that stuff. And when it comes to all of these tools, including mine, it's important to not fully depend on them. It's important to make sure that when you're using any of these tools that you're thinking through the viewer that you're trying to reach and how that how that title and thumbnail um is going to be impactful to those viewers that you're trying to reach. Um, all of these tools are absolutely fantastic for brainstorming, right?

And sometimes they'll give you a title where you're like, 'Oh, yeah. This is great. I'm just going to use this. ' And if you think it through and it matches, then that's perfectly fine. Um, but one thing that I would not do is I would not offload your understanding of your viewer and what it is that they care about. I would not offload that to a tool. instead use all these different tools for brainstorming. You can use AI, you know, for brainstorming, all that stuff. Um, but when it comes to, you know, saying like, okay, this is the title I'm going to use. Don't look at the scores they give you. Don't look at any of that. Instead, think through and say, okay, if I'm trying to reach people that are interested in X and I make a video about this and I package it using this thumbnail that it says is a 10 out of 10, is it really a 10 out of 10? what about this is going to help them identify that this has something to do with they, you know, with something that they might care about, right? Um, when it comes to this title, is this title something that's actually compelling for the people that I'm trying to connect with, right? So, all the tools are great, but when it comes to, you know, offloading the decision-m, don't do that.

Instead, use them for brainstorming and be like, hey, I like, hey, this word here is super impactful, but it might be better if I add it to this title um over here that I was working on. Right? So mix matching things and stuff like that is the best approach there.

Roto Blake says that the best tool modern YouTube is one out of 10 currently. VidIQ is a close second. Yeah, depends on Yeah, for sure. Depends on, you know, which things that you're using them for. And then he says, 'Third best tool is YouTube ass studio. ' Yep. And the inspiration uh tab there. And uh fourth best is uh Google Gemini. Yep. And and also just good old-fashioned autocomplete is a gold mine. gold mine also, you know, like when it comes to autocomplete, you know, one of the cool things about that is that it helps you be able to know how people are looking for things, right? Um, so that's great because it helps you understand like, okay, if people are looking for it this way, then there's a really good chance that they're thinking about it in this way. So, if they're thinking about it in it this way, then how can I use that to present my content to them in the way that they might be thinking about it, right? So, uh, yeah. So, all kinds of helpful ways to uh you know to do that.

Yeah, one out of 10 is really good. I've just recently started. I've been using their browser extension. I'm not paying for I'm just using the browser extension just just to see just to find outliers and just to identify things. Yeah. I find it really helpful. Yeah. I I think with you know with with all the tools I you know like everything has its you know pluses. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.

But but I think when it comes to anything like you know like you really have to make sure like I can't undervalue the power of intention when it comes on YouTube and I don't mean like you know mystical intention. I mean like yeah I don't mean intention like you know like you're trying to align with the stars. I mean intention like you are thinking about you know like okay this is my viewer. This is the video that I that I you know want to make for them. Is this appropriate for them? um is this something that they would just absolutely, you know, love or would get value from or whatever the thing is. And then if so, then, you know, how how am I going to package this up? Why am I going to package it up that way? What am I going to use in my thumbnail? Why am I going to use it my thumbnail? This text I'm putting in my thumbnail, do I even need it? Why do I need it if I think that I do? Um, when it comes to the.

When crafting your title, consider why you are writing it in this way. Is there a better way to write this title that might be more impactful for the people you are trying to reach? When they first click on your video and the first things that you say, why will these things matter to the person that you think is going to be a great fit for this video? And then, after we get them through that part, for this next thing—like why are you doing this and showing this or sharing this, or whatever the thing is in the video—why will this matter to the person? Do you need this? Can you cut it out? Or is this something that you need for the video? Just going through that process with intention can make a huge difference in what it is that you are doing.

Next, we have Indie Voice. They do daily content. They've been on YouTube for a year or more. They do video games and reviews. The goal of the channel is to make money. The question is, should I stick to long-form content or keep short since I've been seeing my views for long-form have been small? Okay. A couple of things I want to talk about here. First off, it's important to make sure that when it comes to short- and long-form content on YouTube, you don't look at them the same. The reason for that is because they are two completely different things. Yes, both are video content. Yes, they get in front of the people that you are trying to reach, but the experience for the viewer is completely different. The times that people might watch them are different, and the things that viewers expect can also be different. So, when it comes to short-form content, you still need skills in order to have that content do well, but you need fewer skills in terms of grabbing people's attention, coming up with things that people will care about, and thinking that this is going to pop up in somebody's feed, so you need to handle this short appropriately when putting it all together. When it comes to long-form content, it's harder to get views because YouTube isn't just showing it to somebody; it doesn't just pop up.

Instead, they'll put it on somebody's homepage, and somebody has to make the conscious decision to click on it because you've captured their attention. They've been compelled by your packaging to be interested to say, 'Hey, let me see what's behind this. ' And then they click on it. Then they come in and watch your video, and then you still have to go through the process of putting the video together in a way, usually for longer periods of time. So, when it comes to short-form and long-form, dismissing long-form because you are getting more views on shorts isn't always the best call because if you are getting views on shorts, one, make sure that they are engaged views because YouTube counts an impression as a view on YouTube Shorts. So, if it just shows up in somebody's feed, YouTube is going to count that as a view compared to people that actually engage with it, which counts as a real view, which is what YouTube calls an engaged view. And you can see that inside of your stats. But then, when it comes to long-form content, because it doesn't just show up in a feed, there's a lot more skill involved because, in addition to learning how to make the videos and hold attention for longer periods of time, you have to nail the topics and make them compelling so that when YouTube recommends them to people or people search for it, it's something that people want to click on. And then, two, you have to learn how to make good thumbnails. You have to learn how to package them from the title perspective. And then you still have to learn how to make the video good. So, there's a lot more involved when it comes to long-form. So, because you are getting more views on shorts isn't a reason to dismiss long-form if you are interested in doing long-form. If you are not interested in long-form, if you are like, 'I don't care. I just want to go wherever the views are easiest,' in that case, shorts is probably going to be the thing.

But if you are only making that decision because your long-form is underperforming compared to shorts, then in that case, that just means that you have more to learn when it comes to long-form content. And what I mean by that is learning how to come up with good topics that are appropriate when they show up on a homepage, that there's going to be enough people that are interested in it, helping them identify it through the thumbnail, and then making the title compelling, and then making a good video.

Next up, we've got Sew Girly Bags. Sew Girly Bags. Upload—been on YouTube for a year or more. They do sewing tutorials. The goal of the channel is to connect with others who like what they like. The question is, how can my tutorial-based niche channel break out of a small loyal audience and start getting recommended to new viewers? I've been testing new topics in most of my recent videos that I feel have been appealing to a broader audience. I think it's helping get new viewers to my channel. Okay, so let's see what you are doing. If you are showing people how to make bags, this is going to be really easy. Let's see what's going on here. This channel is for women. Let's pop this open here. 'Learn to sew, build your brand, sell with confidence. ' Okay, you are teaching people how to make bags.

This is for women who want to learn how to design and make feminine, high-quality products that turn skill into extra income. If you enjoy sewing but feel unsure about what to make or whether your products would actually sell, you're in the right place. Super cool. Teach women step by step how to sew feminine-quality products that actually sell. You'll learn how to create timeless, useful pieces with polished finishes and understand what makes handmade products marketable and profitable. This is great. That's very specific. Yep. Love it. So, a couple of things to think about here. You have 'Sew with me—um, so beautiful bags with me—beginner-friendly projects you love. ' Okay. One thing I want you to think about, and you make bags, when it comes to a thumbnail like this, do you think if this showed up on your homepage that it would instantly be recognizable compared to something like this, right? So, one thing that I would recommend is if you are teaching people how to make these bags, I would definitely showcase the bags. It's okay, but I would have the bags as the star of this show, so to speak, when it comes to your thumbnail.

And the reason for that is because for the people that you are trying to reach, you want—because you are doing this for women—so you want women, when they see that bag in the thumbnail, to go, 'Oh, that's cute. What is this? ' Right? And then, 'Oh, I can make this. Oh, this is great. ' Right? So, I would definitely put a really strong emphasis on the bags themselves as hero content, meaning content that has the potential to get lots of views on it just based on the interest. And I know this might be outside of what it is that you are normally doing. But if you have the ability to show people how to duplicate bags, then you can do that sort of thing as well. Like, 'Hey, make your own—I don't know—bag name. Do you know any bag names? Chanel. Okay. Make your own Chanel bag at home,' right? Something like that.

So that you know, people that are interested in that, you are basically leaning on something that's popular already to bring attention to yourself. And then by doing that, again, you wouldn't do this with every video unless you wanted to, but basically the idea is that you are leaning into something that's popular already, showing people how to make that as a means to bring attention to yourself and your skill set and position yourself as that person that knows how to do things at such a level that you can even duplicate those types of things. So, yeah, that would definitely be something that I would try. So, step number one, focus on the bags themselves because that's the thing that you want to grab their attention. 'Sew with me' is perfectly fine having that in there, but you know, a bag as like the primary focus with like a 'make this' with an arrow pointing to it. In my opinion, would be more impactful than you as the focus with a 'sew with me' as the text. Same here. 'The setup you need: my cutest sewing room upgrade yet. ' So here, if you are doing this, the sewing room, then you might want to focus on the sewing room, but when it comes to the thumbnail, if you are really wanting to do a slam dunk for the women you know who you are teaching how to make these bags, and the whole thing is about making bags, have my cutest sewing room upgrade yet—having the thumbnail where I make these bags and then again having an emphasis on the bag itself, and then the thumbnail text would say something like, you know, my setup for making these bags or something like that. I try to make it just super concise. But the idea is again focusing on the bags or the studio itself, right? One of the two. But I think this one where you are focusing on the bag is good. And the DIY, but I wouldn't worry about putting time limits and stuff like that on there. I would do that in the titles themselves.

I'm curious here. Okay. Looking for anything recent. Okay.

So, we got 11 months ago. So, it's interesting that all of your videos, all of your top videos, all the way down to this one here from 3 months ago, um, with the exception here. This is where this is where the exceptions start, but it happens twice. So, all of your top videos seem to have a focus on the bags themselves, right? It's like bag and then make your own, make your own, make your own. You know, that seems to be I mean, granted, some of these are older. 10,000 views, cutest Bible cover you'll ever make. Okay. So, so one thing I want to bring to your attention here also is you're promising, and I know this is like nuance stuff, but I just want to bring it to your attention. So, you can do stuff like this sometimes if you're like, hey, like what else can I make for people? and you know all that stuff. But when it comes to just home run nailing the people that are interested in making the bags here, you you're doing bags, but then down here you're doing Bible covers and a phone wallet. So I guess the phone wallet would still fall under that, but the Bible cover, not sure. Unless I guess the Bible cover is a bag, which it might be. So if the Bible covers a bag, then you know, then I guess you're okay.

But uh but yeah, I I would definitely focus on the products here more than the text uh in your thumbnails. That would be the first thing that I would work on right now. And really, because it looks like, you know, you get views on some of these, I would go through and start AB testing that right away. Like on this one here that you did 5 days ago, um if you're open for it, um I would go in and because YouTube has this feature for a reason, right, for for us to test things like this. I would go in and I'd say, "Okay, let me take a just three thumbnails. one I'm going to have this one because this is going to be the, you know, my original that I'm going to compare against. And then I'm going to have one to where it's just a nice shot of the bag sitting on a table >> and it's a closeup and the and a majority of the frame is filled with just a beautiful shot of this bag. And then the next one is going to be the bag with something along the lines of, you know, make this at home with like an arrow pointing to the bag and then see which one of those performs uh see which one of these performs best. But I would start doing those types of experiments with every one of these videos that you upload because you've got views here or videos here with views on them which means that people do respond well to your content if you can get them to click on it. Right? So, because of that, um, I would really start putting a lot of emphasis on, uh, your your thumbnails and titles with this and really trying to help people that are into DIY bag making, help them just instantly be able to identify at a glance that this has something to do with, uh, making those bags. And really, I would leverage the imagery because it looks like what you're making is really cool stuff. Um, so I would really lean hard on the uh, imagery there of the bags to uh, to try to connect with uh, you know, try to connect with those people. And even stuff like this is better, right? It's not it's not as zoomed in as I would like to see it.

Um, but that's way better than what it is that you're that you're doing up here because the way that you're holding all this stuff, it's still more, you know, kind of pointing it towards the bag. Um, but at a small size, right, in suggested videos, and I'll just do these. If we scroll down here, right, it's really hard to see that bag. But if this was filled up with the bag, then yeah, that would be uh that would be great. She had to focus on that. >> Yeah, people are responding >> to some of those. >> I wonder why. >> What are you looking for? >> I just I just found an error here. >> Oh, >> no. It's fine there. It's just some of the videos. I wonder if it's size. I'll figure it out.

Okay. So, next up on the list here, >> Valentine Station says, "My >> oh says, "My takeaway today is to record uh some shorts inside of two of the old cars I have. Thanks for the ideas. " >> Interesting. >> So, Girls Bag says, "Awesome advice. Thanks indeed. Definitely will change up some things using your advice. " Awesome. Yeah, let us know how it goes, too.

So, next up, we've got uh Fala Cruiser Ren. I hope I'm saying that uh correctly. They upload one time per week or more, been on YouTube for a year more. They do soccer club, general discussions like news, game analysis, and others. Goal channels connect with others who like what they like. They said they're thinking of a customized Minecraft live stream where I play soccer customized version while talking about soccer theme to attract younger supporters and have another stream. Am I out of my mind or is there something that can work with news and analysis content as well? Um, I mean, you know, you can always experiment with stuff like that, but one of the things to think about is if you're going to be pulling people in on Minecraft, but you're talking about soccer, then, you know, you're probably going to have a little bit of misalignment there. So, yeah, with with what it is that you're currently doing, cuz I remember that we pulled you up um on our last stream. With what it is that you're currently doing, I don't think that that's a that's a great approach. Um, because, you know, like you're pulling people in from something that is way outside of what it is that you're normally offering. And I think that you're that you're going to be pulling in the wrong crowd uh with that one. Try it though. I mean, it is experiment. You know, if you want to try it, give it a shot.

But uh but yeah, I would be uh I would just be cautious there. >> Your review channel says the audio sync is off. Thank you for the heads up. >> Shouldn't be.

So, next up, we've got uh Travel Act Jazz. I hope I'm saying that one correctly. They upload when they have time, been on YouTube for less than a year. They do travel content. And the question is, can I merge other ideas into my travel content? So, you say here that being a healthcare provider who understands mental health, how do I merge those skills into my travel content? You talk about the stresses of travel, right? And and talk to people about how to manage those types of things. And that's really a unique position that uh you know that that you might be able to offer to separate yourself from other travel channels. Um because you know like as you know traveling's great but you know having a dealing with like a plane delay that's going to cause you to miss mix miss the next two planes. Yeah that's not great right? Um you know going somewhere and dealing with culture shock and feeling uncomfortable. You know mentally navigating that side of things. You know solo travelers. I see one of your videos here is a solo travel video.

Um you know I see on Reddit and hop on on Reddit if you're not on there already and look in like the the solo travel subreddit. um or just any of the travel subreddits and you'll see lots of people that go out and they do these solo adventures and they do it because they see, you know, somebody on Instagram or YouTube or something doing it and then they go out there and they're like, "Yeah, this sucks. I hate I hate having these experiences by myself. " There's so many Reddit posts about that.

>> Yeah. Where people are like, "Yeah, it looks great on the internet, but then like when you go out, you're just having, you know, you're just having these experiences without anybody to share it with. " >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And a lot of people don't like that. Some people love solo travel, but some people don't like those sorts of things. So, so being able to, you know, help people manage those types of things, you know, uh, with their, you know, psychology, I think is definitely something that you might be able to help with there. >> What were you going to say? >> I was going to say you really have to be comfortable with yourself and be okay being alone if you're going to solo travel. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Otherwise, you're >> Yeah. And being able to entertain yourself too. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

Like I I know I've had some times like, for example, like if I did like a visa run in the Philippines and stuff like that to where, you know, it'd be fun. Like I'd have a good time, but it's just it's just not the same, you know, as traveling with somebody. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like uh you know like like like you don't share stories with anybody. Right. Right. So you're having the experiences, but like it just doesn't give you the opportunity like like when we've traveled places like we can you know talk about that stuff but like when you go by yourself it's just like you know you can just remember it but it's just not Yeah. It's just not the same. Yeah. It's always funner to share it with somebody. >> Yeah.

>> You got a super chat. >> What's going on man? Hope you're doing great. says, "Um, my videos typically take many months to get ranked in search and gain views. However, I had one pop off crazy right out of the gate. Can you give me your insights on this? Um, so did it pop off in YouTube search right away? Um, if so, that's fantastic. Um, it could have just, you know, that there could have been a hole there that YouTube, you know, tried to fix or they could have, uh, in terms of, you know, like people are looking for that, but there wasn't anything, you know, that people were responding well to. Um, and then maybe when your video went up there, people just responded to it better than anything else there, so YouTube kept it there. Could be that. But I would definitely check your traffic sources, which I'm assuming that you've done already. But I would tra check your traffic sources to see if, you know, it is all coming from search. But yeah, like I've had that happen too to where, you know, you publish something and then like it's just it's ".

Brent is solo traveling to China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan this summer. Yeah. What I think solo travel is good for is like confidence building and like self-reliance building and stuff like that because, you know, because you don't have a sounding board, right? Like there's nobody to like, you know, go through stuff with. So instead, you're like, you know, you just got to figure stuff out. So like I think that sort of thing is definitely an advantage. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, it came from the YouTube homepage. Oh, okay. Yeah. Then YouTube was shown it to people and they just responded to it. So, yeah. So, one thing to I'm actually gonna open your channel and see if I can figure out which video that was. Um, I'm going to guess it was a recent one here. 250,000 views. That's it. Easy fix for sagging doors. You know, man, it could be that just there's so many pro people with that problem. I've actually seen big videos on TikTok like this, too. Literally, people fixing this problem with sagging doors. Uh right over here. 250,000 views two weeks ago.

Wow. So, one teachable moment from here or learnable moment I should say is this worked well. So, thinking to yourself like what are the most common problems that people have? So, when YouTube does recommend this to people on their homepage to where it's going to have the highest relatability, right? Like like you know uh yeah off the top of my head I can't think of something but basically being like okay if people related to this then uh you know what else can I make a video about that's short similar to this one that uh that's a super common problem that people have you might want to hop into like Google trends probably wouldn't be the best one for this h yeah it would comparing different things against each other so yeah hopping into Google trends for that.

Easy fix for a leaky faucet. Easy fix for a running toilet. Just normal normal problems everyone has at some time or another. Clogged toilet might be one. Easy fix for clogged toilet. Easy fix for noisy neighbor who cranks their music at 4:00 in the morning. Yeah. How to fix a clogged toilet with no plunger. Yeah, that's probably a huge one cuz then, you know, like if you teach people how to do that, they can do it at somebody else's house, too. Step one, call plumber. Thanks for watching. Call Roger Wakefield to be specific. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, those types of things might be the uh might be the approach there. Plus, it's only two minutes. There's not much of a commitment there. Yeah. Yeah.

So, a couple things here, uh, just really quick. So, um, the very first is I do want to remind you, um, that this stream is brought to you by OpusClip. Um, it is the industry-leading clipping tool that will help you repurpose your content to other platforms, help you stay consistent through that repurposing, things like that. If you're somebody that's been intimidated by shorts content because you don't have the time to make it, Opus Clip is the solution for that as well. Takes your long form content and it makes it where you can easily use it elsewhere. You can try it for yourself at opusclip. com or if you want to hook me up with an affiliate commission, uh, which it doesn't matter to me either way. I just make it available if you do. Um, you can go to tryopusnow. com. And in addition to that, we've got a bunch of helpful links for you down in the description as well. A bunch of other helpful, you know, stuff that we make, some free stuff, some paid stuff, all that. You can find more details about that down in the description.

But one thing that I do want to remind you of though, if you are a new content creator or your creator that's struggling and you're having trouble breaking through, um I want to remind you that YouTube is a learning curve just like anything else that you're going to do. Um when you start a new job, you start playing a new instrument, you have like any skills that you're trying to develop at all, there's a bunch of stuff that you have to learn around that, a bunch of skills that you need to develop in order to be able to do it efficiently. And YouTube is the same exact way. So, I know it can be frustrating. I know sometimes you just want to, you know, when you publish a video and it doesn't do well, you're just like, "Oh my gosh, I spent so much time on that and like people didn't respond to it. " Keep going. Hang in there. Keep learning. Be intentional about what it is that you're doing. When you're listening to these streams, like I recommend that you take notes on stuff. Um, and and anytime we pull up a channel, anytime we answer a question, you know, ask yourself like, "Okay, is this something that I can apply to my content? " If yes, then, you know, then then go and do that. And if you need to go back on the replay and do that or just do it next stream, whatever, that's fine. But like um uh I just want to encourage you because this stuff is challenging. It takes time.

Um and it's you know there's a lot of moving parts to it and the more you can dedicate to developing the skill sets around doing it and the understanding of who it is that you're trying to reach with the content, the better off you're going to be long term. So hang in there. You got this. Have a great rest of your weekend. Yeah. Good stream.

And uh Roberto's going live on the Opus Clips channel, I think. Oh, he is in about an hour, I think. That wasn't scheduled earlier. or I would have redirected to it. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to drop this in here. Let me go over there really quick just so you guys don't have to go and search for it yourself. I'm going to find it for you right now. Yeah, in 1 hour. Okay. Yeah, he's going live in 1 hour over here. So, I'm going to go ahead and drop this link in there for you. So, you can go ahead and over there and get that scheduled. He's actually talking about shorts and growing your channel with shorts. You got a Hey, if that's something that you're interested in, definitely make sure that you uh head over to that and uh and hang out with Roberto Blake for a while.

Got a last minute super chat. And really quick, uh Nate the lawyer, thanks for the super chat, man. I appreciate said, "If YouTube only sends three notifications per day, including shorts posts, um, and a fourth won't notify subs, should I limit uploads to three per day? " Um, you don't have to because that's just notifications. That doesn't mean that they don't show it on homepages. It doesn't mean they won't show it, you know, suggested next to another video. That's only for notifications. So, it doesn't mean that your viewers aren't going to see it on their homepage. So, if you want to publish more um or in their shorts feed. So, if you want to publish more, you absolutely can. But when it comes to the to the content that is getting the notifications, that's the stuff that you want to prioritize. So if you publish a bunch of videos um in a day, then you want to say, "Okay, which one of these um it would be super important for the people that are subscribed to my channel and have the notifications turned on, which one of these would be, you know, the best for them? " And you want to make sure you prioritize those. So yeah, so you can definitely publish more and people will still see it on their uh homepages that are a good fit for, you know, that content. So, on that note, everybody have a great rest of your uh weekend and we'll see you next Saturday at 9:00 a.

m. Eastern.