no, THIS is how the YouTube algorithm works in 2024 

When growing a channel, the biggest (and most vaguely described) thing you'll hear about is 'the algorithm'. This video brought a lot of clarity on the topic that I definitely needed, thank you!

For some small channels, it feels like RU-vid ignores us no matter what we post, and it will take years for a video to get a lot of views. Doesn't matter how much time and effort you put into a video, it doesn't seem to do well. Maybe that's just me.

Thank you for making a video that is calm, to the point, and informative, rather than creating an unnecessarily overly edited, overly stimulating attempt to maintain retention.

Makes sense. For a new small channel from a new creator these things can help you avoid the worst mistakes but they cannot guarantee success. Momentum is the single biggest driver of success. Gaining momentum is the single biggest challenge to achieving momentum.

The algorithm is according to what you said & it is how I see it based on all my chats with partner support: The algorithm will sometimes choose to digest the video to people it knows will watch it but it to suggest it to non (what ever your channel focuses on) Then it will suggest it to even more & more people that are not at all interested in the content until it reaches 0% It’s designed to kill growth by the 2nd or 3rd day. Often it will see that a video got 1000s of views & many people are coming to your channel for that topic. You then upload another video on that topic & it will literally not suggest the video for 2-3 days, then all of a sudden it rip suggest it to non interested viewers. It is a terrible system that kills small channels. I know dozens of RU-vidrs that all have this problem. I know them personally & we discuss these things. I have a friend that has videos with almost 90k views but he only has 600 subs. It’s disgusting. All our subscribers should get our videos suggested to them. But RU-vid refuses to go back to that “Unfair” system lol 😂

Great delivered, without clickbait and empty information. Thanks for the info!

I should add, You are the reason I jumped from 650 subs to 100k in 2 months. Thank you.

This video is so good and aligns with everything I’ve experience my 6-months of creating content

I am here being a Witness of your Success journey...

I found this video really really insightful! Thankyou for making it.

you will definately grow, dont forget me....... i am your 780th subscriber

But what about these random 10 secondes videos with millions of views that makes no sense and is not related to what you usually watch ? And everyone in the comments are like "why the hell youtube recommended me that?" I really think this algorithm is bad. It's recommending me the same videos over and over again even if I absolutly don't care about them and I can't find new creators that I might like. Plus, it is pushing people to obey the algorithm and create the same type of videos so it has a chance to work, killing the creativity. I recently drowned in these famous "100 days hardcore Minecraft" videos with all the same thumbnail and the same exact boring content, yet having millions of views. I miss diversity and creativity, I miss finding little creators that dare making new type of videos.

This is the BEST explanation I've ever seen on this topic.

Help me!

Excellent definition of algorithm, to the point and made me watch and hear with my fullest attention!!

I dont have a core but its always nice to find little nuggets to help me out if im missing something. Any tips is always nice to share cause thats how we help each other out.

RU-vid recommended me your video out of nowhere, so you're practicing what you preach, so to speak.

yall seriously don't see anything wrong with this algorithm?

Hopefully the high amount of views on this video doesn't hurt your channel. It seems like smaller channels are getting noticed but how do they maintain momentum? Will you be able to another video like this one? It's not a knock in your channel I just hope you feel even more pressure to repeat the success of this video thus falling into the creator trap

looks like you're the small creator that took up that one slot in my recommendations. well done!

My impressions all basically went to zero overnight. Every video. All at the same time. I don't get it

Pls what software adds the b rolls to your videos

Thanks for the advice. The way you talk about it made me think that you have other you tube channels, do you?

Thank you for this well thought out informative video!

Love this video, you explained it super well! I still face the inconsistent results in views between videos and trying to figure out the common thing between higher performing videos so i can consistently delivery on that promise and build a strong core audience

Thanks for that. Subscribed

Your ai generated clips aren’t that engaging to watch so please do change it

RU-vid really recommends me smaller creators like this! *I am liked and subscribed and hopefully, you can do it!*

I will say i subscribed Creator CEO when he had only one thousand subscribers. ❤❤❤

This is lovely. How can I manage my channel to get more subscribers since mine is based on general types of skill learning

Our channel has now been going nearly 4 years. We have 152 videos regularly posted every week at the same time, about the same topic. The thumbnails are of a style that should work, along with the titles, descriptions, images etc. But its slow building. 347 subs to date and an average view number per episode of 150. HELP. What can we do?

Good video. Your video wasnt like other braindead videos who just trying to keep your attention with dumb stuff, i understand that they need to grab viewers attention so their videos can be reccomended more. But mostly videos that arent grabbing attention is most likely will be better off.

Thank you for being so “bullet point”. Nothing to scare us small channels into feeling we are doing all things wrong. 😂 and we must sign up for the course or else …

You can't compare Mr. Beast with any other creator on RU-vid. They could upload a 5 minute video of absolutely nothing but paint drying and it will get millions of views.

I just started my channel, any advice on my first videos?

The latest videoo of mine has better audience retaintion, better watch time, better ctr but why it did not get more impression just 9k while a wrost performing video got 260k impressions although the ctr was 0.9 and retaintion was worst. Please explain this is confusing me so much plz plz plz 🙏 love from india

Great video I pray my channel will grow

Yeah, we still struggling for that! Many people say that we have good videos for our niche (house music videos from parties), but not yet found the right way to promote!

Thank you for making a video that is calm

Yeah, very interesting for us, the small channels! Thanks for advices!

I'm convinced the algorithm isn't real!

Well not only that 😢 you should also Know that there the algorithm is also biased with towards content from certain countries. I was stunned wen I learned this.

Add an end screen for them to click on another video. the one thing RU-vid likes more than somebody watching a video is them watching the next one!

Do you have any experience on how viral videos work with the algorithm - my biggest video is a really broad appeal video and it has 2.8M views - but it wasn't in a particular niche my channel was know for and my audience is fragmented from covering a variety of content. I'm now thinking I need to focus on the broad appeal kind of videos loosely in my niche but obviously being broad enough means the niche itself is less important. Essentially Ali Abdal has still done very well making broad appeal videos on multiple topics right?

Very informative content dude

I mean The same goes for you and this Video.

All in all very informative video 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤝

Thanks for this. Very informative and I absolutely loved the simple explanation of the word "metadata". I've heard that bandied around a lot and never really understood it. Cheers mate.

What is Algorthim guys ?

*Your method doesn't work for me, why?* 👀👀

Saying it as it is, I like the cut of your jib 😉

00:02 RU-vid algorithm pushes videos to dedicated core audience first 01:17 RU-vid uses audience profiles to recommend content based on viewer interests. 02:30 Mr. BEAST's videos fall into defined categories, improving outlier performance. 03:43 RU-vid algorithm shifts video away from core audience over time 04:58 RU-vid testing smaller channels for better recommendations. 06:13 Click-through rate, retention, and interaction dictate video performance. 07:26 Optimizing thumbnails, retention, and interaction are crucial for success on RU-vid. 08:40 To win on RU-vid, capturing attention is crucial.

Great

I have a jam band channel that caters to a niche, phish fans, grateful dead and disco biscuits fan. How can push my channel to more electronic rock fans in general?

I want to know how to adjust my algorithm, RU-vid pushes the new but starts leaving off the ones I always want to see that I've been watching. we should be able to prioritize our subscription list.

Exactly what I was looking for , thank you so much brother ❤🎉

I think it's luck. I once uploaded a video titled top 10 greatest seasons by a RB, it got over 500 views and then I uploaded a video titled top 10 greatest seasons by WR, not even 100 views. I made a video titled top 10 greatest batting seasons, pretty sure it got over 500 views and a month ago uploaded a video titled top 15 greatest batting seasons and it doesn't even have 100 views. I've seen channels that spread racism, hate and nonsense grow massively. Now and days stupidity is what grabs attention. Who you know or are matters. I bet if I were hot chick I would have a lot more views and subscribers

Really helpful video.

I was following a music production channel who is now uploading American football videos, 1 as a viewer Im not interested in sports, 2 Lack of trust that He feel fine to just ditch music production, when ever, 3 Lack of respect of his audience, 4 I have an overwhelming urge to ask him "What the fxxx are you doing?" But Im staying silent because I want to see how much this will damage his channel.

It isn't over edited at all! It is somewhat edited! Middle on Raw and edited content! 🔴-------------------------🟡----------------------🔵 Raw. Edited Extremely ⬆️ Edited ⬆️ ⬆️ You are here! Not extremely edited

this very well explains why one of my favorite channels, the modern rogue, died. not only did they take a covid break, but they have an extremely broad range of topics they discuss on their channel nowadays. this also explains why youtubers who try to pivot their channel topics end up tanking so often too.

quality channel bro keep up the great vids

Is there a way to see how shared a video is? I can only find "external" in my analytics. Are there any numbers to aim for? I currently have 5,8% of my total views come from external.

Wish me luck

You deserve more subs man

Super 👍

My RU-vid channel is freeze please any suggestions 🥺

You did catch my attention. Thank u for this quality content, u helped me out. Very good presentation! Liked + Subscribed.

i posted shorts for the first time in February and i doubled my views, but then realized my longform are not being pushed so i made my shorts private and my longform views died. over a month of posting in march and most videos don't even get 100 impressions from a regular 20,000 per video. tried posting a few shorts again but the longform still aren't getting pushed. Is it possible to make a video about this?

Having just started a new channel and having abandoned one 10 years ago, I am seeing a massive contrast in the fact that RU-vid is now putting my videos in front of people’s faces whereas 10 years ago (and probably until fairly recently) I would’ve had to do a lot of social media marketing to get people to see my videos.

Good sir, thank you I wrote down quite a few notes.

This makes a lot of sense. Thank you for such a clear explanation.

I like the way you did the breakdown of the audience! I subscribed!

Awseome video. Very straight to the point. You deserve way more subs!!!

Best video I've seen about how the algorithm works. Really helpful information in here. Thank you!

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This is high quality and useful, thank you!

Hey I've got a question for ya. This channel I'm using used to be my gaming themed channel back in like 2016, I stopped posting for a long time. Would you suggest starting with a new or fresh channel If I wanted to focus more on content about Personal Development and Productivity for creators? I'm building a community called "Flow Creators" that is like directly associated kinda like the other half of my personal brand and I'm not sure if I should just switch up this channel or use a different one. Or for that matter go all in on Branding the channel as "Flow Creators" as the name or using my Personal Name for the channel name. At the moment, I have channels with both names, but I am not sure which to start posting on again. (The Flow Creators one used to be a small creative tutorials channel with like 100-200 subs) From your recent experience with the algorithm overlords, what would you suggest?

Thanks for this

Sounds true and i am your 701 subscriber from not your core audience ♨️

Very nice information

this was a really good video

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Fantastic video...very enjoyable. You have 666 subs at the moment March 10, 2024 Great job!!!!

Thank you for this video !! Straight to the point, clear explanation and visuals. Your hard work is appreciated 👍

0:20 RU-vid doesn’t push videos to the audience, viewers pull videoes towards them.

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us small RU-vidrs. Have a great day. 27 likes

This video is very edited good thumb nail title good description also

Reason I clicked this video was because this is the newest one I've seen. We humans are strange window shoppers. I consider from 1 month ago as outdated.

Interesting and informative video 👍🏻 thanks a lot

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I have to agree with the other comments, very well put together and very easy to understand. I have a question though, when you make videos on a Pacific problem, that will only be searched for when the viewer has this problem, what is the best strategy?

No lie told.

Thank you. This was really helpful.

Bro has 375 views

Nice video fam

This is very professional. Thanks for filling that small channel slot today and all the best!

If you are reading this… Keep on going! You can make it if you believe in yourself! Consistancy is key! So dont give up on yourself and show everybody what u got! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!

Creating amazing and clickable thumbnails but couldn’t verify my number in channel to be able to upload them youtube s*cks😢😮‍💨