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I asked a very simple question and over 90% of RU-vidrs who responded gave me the wrong answer. What do you think?
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@Daniel_Batal Год назад

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@elcafecatgaming Год назад

off topic from this video, do you make music? and if so where can i find it?

@DIYDaveOK Год назад

I'm one of those people who hadn't heard of you prior to the Filmora debacle. I'm a tiny (microscopic) content creator trying to find ways to make my videos get "out there" more, and it's a struggle, but I've borrowed some of your suggestions and they've definitely helped. I'm not a full-time creator so I don't post as often as others and don't have the time to study the metrics in the same detail, but I appreciate the help I can leverage. Thanks for your content.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

My pleasure. I hope videos like this give Creators a better perspective when it comes to RU-vid. It sure can feel overwhelming sometimes.

@SomeIdiota Год назад

To go with that last part: Analytics are tools, not rewards or measures of self-worth. You can end up hurting yourself misusing a hammer just as easily as you can use it to properly hammer a nail.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Amen. And metrics are interactive. Something creators often overlook

@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays Год назад

How does your channel not have more viewers? Such fantastic advice.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

As I was explaining in this video, not all conversations will have the same reach.

@MrCjrodriguez Год назад

Hey Daniel, thank you for breaking this down. I’ve never heard anyone explain RU-vid analytics this way. I had a recent video with a similar graph and was struggling to understand what I was doing wrong even though it was one of my better performing videos. Now I know how to better interpret the data. Thank you so much 🙌🏾

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad it was helpful. I try to remember that I can always do better but that not everything I create is going to have the same reach

@MrCjrodriguez Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Well said. I’ll remember that

@indianajim Год назад

I started following you and subbed because of that question on Twitter, and like 95% of everyone, I dove right into conventional thinking. Thanks for the challenge and the fresh perspective!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Thanks for that. I'm hoping that challenging some of the conceptions that people have about RU-vid can break some of the glass ceilings people are wrestling with.

@CountryLivingExperience Год назад

I love your analysis and deep dive on this Daniel. Thank you for talking about this and spelling it out for all of us.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

My pleasure!

@mb_ Год назад

Number 1 thing to remember is RU-vid tries to find the perfect video for the viewer, not the perfect viewer for your video. The algorithm serves the viewer, not the creator.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Well said. The other thing to remember is that RU-vid knows how ALL videos perform at scale. We don't.

@DishitaNaveen Год назад

Wow, such a deep analysis of RU-vid algo. Daniel I would love to connect with you to discuss a project.

@HomeKeepingChannel Год назад

Thanks Daniel for the live stream and this video as my mindset was right in parts but now I have a much more solid understanding.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

It's definitely something I think Creators need some different perspectives on ❤️

@idowebwork Год назад

I am one of those who did not know who you were and got caught up in the conversation of that filmora video. Love the way you explained things here.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

That was quite the ordeal, for sure

@derryXDINES Год назад

It was fun participating in this! I've been cautious about trying to hack the retention graph for the sake of doing it based on the advice because I've noticed that, at scale, the higher performing videos on my channel have graphs that look a little more like your original picture (with humps in the middle since they're search based tutorials). At my age, I'm not a huge fan of the "boom.boom.boom" retention-optimized videos for a long period. I think there are plenty of people like me who are the same, and I'm building my community there with my long form vids. Thanks for posting the original exercise to twitter and breaking this down further here, Daniel!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Right on, Jerry. Thanks for helping out! One thing we tend to see is that with more traffic, those humps often tend to flatten out a bit. But, I definitely pay attention to them whenever I see them. Knowing how viewers in your niche tend to watch content is a huge advantage.

@Everydaypartoflife Год назад

incredibe information i've never heard before and makes so much sence. Thanks Daniel, i'll definitely keep an eye on the impression now

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

👊😎☮️

@SilverHeist Год назад

I’ve had a couple of videos go to “scale” (but a smaller scale) and CTR and watch time do fade with a wider net. Making my videos best for my core audience helps prove the video as worthy of a bigger audience. So it’s hard when those metrics look good but the “browse” numbers flatline.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I have plenty of videos with “great” metrics that flatline out at 25,000 views or so. Those videos just don’t have the potential reach based on the topic that some of my others do. We all seem to get a little better at understanding which topics might connect better once we’ve made hundreds of videos.

@SimGamerTV Год назад

Oh hi! I'm one of those people that was surprised when YT started serving me your content. But your personality, content, and the Filmora story got me hooked and now I really enjoy learning how to improve my channel with your ideas.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Awesome. Love hearing that and I'm glad to have you here!

@LearningandTechnology Год назад

You have no idea how helpful this video has been for me. All my top videos have the “drop” - which I used to think of as the “drop of death” - now, it will be the “drop of distribution”. It just means it’s being served more - and that’s a good thing.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

As long as that drop doesn't happen right when Impressions are low, I worry much less about that video. Now, if I see a drop like that and my video only has a handful of Impressions and views (from what SHOULD be the people who really enjoy my content), then I know I missed the mark with my core audience. That's when I look at everything and see where I could have done better. Typically, I start with Topic, Title, & Thumbnail and work my into structure and execution

@tvtoms Год назад

This was a cool experiment, thanks for talking about it. From now on I'll begin my answers with "Well, it depends.." instead of presuming it was a problem needing to be addressed.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Even when looking at my own data, I always ask questions before deciding what to do next. That's the only way I'll ever know if something actually needs to be done in the first place. Metrics out of context can be incredibly deceiving.

@tvtoms Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal I have absolutely no doubt. As a former affiliate support person from ye olden days, it was always extraordinarily tough to convince people to remain calm. I've only put out a couple of model train videos on YT so far, but it is still fun to see the new listing vigor. Reminds me of when I used to refresh stats for a living!

@G-and-J-Chapel-Artworks Год назад

I believe the video you highlight is the one that introduced me to your channel.

@FleshToDust Год назад

6:10 "my video about filmora cancelling lifetime memberships reached people who didn't even know who I was." I'm one of them. Had no idea who you or filmora were but I like your content a lot especially your discussion on brief homelessness.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Awesome. I appreciate that ☮️

@CynsCorner Год назад

That Filmora video you mentioned was what introduced me to your channel too. I do know Filmora, which is why I decided to watch. It was one of the first video editors I ended up purchasing when I was trying to decide which one I would prefer for editing my RU-vid videos. I ended up settling on Movavi. I just clicked with it better than Filmora. But the subject matter of your video was definitely an interest for me because of my familiarity with the product. And now I just like to check out whatever you've got for us, even if it's not something that might not interest me - haha

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Well I appreciate you sticking around!

@yarning4asmile Год назад

I really need to hear this. I am reaching my 1 year mark and I must admit, I began feeling a little blah about my growth and I just needed to hear some reassurance.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Stay on it. This might be helpful. One of my private coaching group members is in a similar niche as you are and is crushing it: www.youtube.com/@HookedbyRobin

@yarning4asmile Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Yep I "know" them. They started when I did. I suffered an attack by a spammer and lost my channel last March, everything was deleted, but I had allowed it to grow stale and to be honest there was not consistent uploads. It was a push I needed to really work on this do over.

@reallyanti Год назад

My .02¢: Even if 100% of people in your niche are fully into your video, once it gets out in front of a more general audience than before, your stats will go down. For example, I make videos rebuilding 90's cars with retro video game sound effects and a dash of Satan. If my videos get out in front of regular viewers outside of my very specific niche, those stats are SUPPOSED to be lower. That's how I know I'm making content that is actually unique. I'm not trying to appeal to everybody. I'm just trying to make something for my people.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Very true. You can have great metrics but Impressions drop off after your content reaches the core target audience

@CoffeeandPhotographyTalk Год назад

I’ve observed these very same things and wasn’t sure what to think, great vid, thanks for the insights.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

As long as you've observed those very same metrics in very high performing videos, you're doing great. It's when you start seeing low metrics right when you publish and the Impressions are very low, that's when it time to dig a little deeper because there is a chance you missed the mark with your most engaged viewership

@CoffeeandPhotographyTalk Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Thats the distinction I learned from your video thats helped me understand the analytics better. Really getting a lot out of your channel

@DigbyCCeasar Год назад

Fair dues lol, I do gaming content and you have yet to dip into that particular pool... my last vid was the money shot series that the algorithm usually recommends, and being a gaming vid the analytics are bit different from the rest, but my 24 minute gaming video had 43% retention two minutes in, and was still pulling 25% retention twenty minutes later when it ended and credits rolled. You know there's two different worlds in youtube, the irl content dudes and us gaming content dudes, it would be SO nice to see you exploring that side of content creation and maybe how to improve it. 👍

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I hear you. I started to mention the 7 factors I think decide the fate of any video (regardless of niche). I'll try to get to that ASAP.

@xxkimbatron Год назад

THANK YOU for this!! I actually felt kinda down after seeing the comments then commenting on your last post as I was more looking at the big picture/long term analytics but the other comments were very different from how I was feeling/seeing things. I feel so much more validated and better about where I’m at now (not this channel I’m commenting from lol) so thank you so much.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad this was helpful 😁

@robandsue Год назад

Hi Daniel. Suggestion for another video- I've only just got into the analytics of RU-vid and trying to understand them with help like yours. But the other day I accidentally discovered I had unanswered comments from 3 years ago. I HAVE replied to comments the instant I get a notification, but I found quite a few had somehow slipped through the net. Is there any chance of a video explaining how comments should be properly managed so audience interaction is maximised and no gets accidentally missed and feels ignored?

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Good suggestion

@robandsue Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal I'll stay tuned then!

@BendyPlays Месяц назад

Reminds me of one time my short had a 49% swipe rate and 3 months later it got 78% swipe with 1.2M views

@Daniel_Batal Месяц назад

Truth! Sometimes you just have to build them right and move onto the next one.

@OhRonaldo Год назад

Just want to say thanks for the videos re:Filmora (very entertaining to me) and explaining RU-vid metrics (very helpful to me.) Thanks again ❤

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Happy to help!

@GringosRUs Год назад

Yaaaaaaaaaasss! I totally got invested in your channel after the Filmora drama for exactly the reason you gave here. I haven't delved into the metrics as much as Mark does. My role is to produce. I let him study the analytics. I tend to worry more about CTR, # of views, and where the video actually sits in our current top 10 list. Changing a title or a thumbnail of a video that underperformed really has yet to make any difference. I'm ok with that. We just keep on swimming and creating. Some of our older videos get little bumps when a newer video is performing well. This topic, like so many that you have put out, is spot on. Your thought process makes logical sense. Some of the things we have done since we started tuning is 1) cut our intro down to 10 seconds. It was hard to let it go completely! LOL It really was too long. Baby steps. The smaller intro has been an improvement. 2) Stop being askholes! LMAO! So blunt, but so real! The logic that if someone likes you enough, they will subscribe anyway, so why ask hit the nail on the head! Honestly, I tend to skip over that stuff when I watch another creator, so why were we doing it too? I'm writing too much here - but you get the point. Thank you for creating honest and helpful content to help us little guys out here!! 🥰 ~Gina

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Well said!

@vocassen Год назад

Great video, precise and on point. Not even creating videos, but interesting to understand the algorithm as a user nonetheless.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! It's one of those things I personally find fascinating. How RU-vid actually works.

@deepatterson1894 Год назад

I discovered your channel with your stand against Filmora. I am working on a animation series, that are funny and cute about a fat cat. I released a couple of videos pretty much only some of my friends watched. There was few others. I am not at PIXAR level by no means but their not bad either. Anyways I saw something about that when launching a new channel you should launch with at least five video's so that your channel has more value and keeps your audience on your channel longer. So I decided to work out more animations, possibly do a couple of tutorials of how I did some things, for those who are into animation or curious. I am not talented in speaking as you are, I am a artist, but I know my animations can do better than a hundred + views. I think one thing I did wrong is I used a old channel that was for my music and just recreated it for my animation series. Before I thought I need my friends on social media to spread my videos, but most are not that dedicated and I am not going to make them do anything they don't want to do. Plus social media frustrates me.. I have seen many animation shorts get into the millions of views. I wonder how they do it. Maybe mine is not quite at that level yet but I think they will be soon the more I work on them. I have been told by a number of people I know that they are either very cute, hilarious or very good. Only person who doesn't understand said it doesn't look like Disney. Any suggestions that can help? Thank you!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I feel that. I don't know if this will help or not but I try to think more about the needs & interests of the viewer whenever approaching any video content. The very first questions I tend to ask myself are, "Who are the people I'm trying to reach with this and why would they want to watch this video when it's surrounded by all sorts of other videos that are targeting their other interests?" If I can answer those two questions... I usually have a jumping off point of where to being my creative process.

@G-and-J-Chapel-Artworks Год назад

I figure that I just haven't reached my target audience yet. I do plan to make my videos shorter by breaking them into separate episodes at the "step" stage. I figure maybe an artistic painting video gets too long when posted in one shot (episode). Maybe breaking the video at each step, (background, foreground, details etc.) will not only give me more individual content and help the overall retention. This may help reach that target audience. At which point I can easily transition back to single episode shots if my audience asks for that format.

@BreakingFreeOffGrid Год назад

So happy you put this out. I understood the metrics will go down when RU-vid pushes your videos. However, I thought the CTR would be higher. Now, I understand why the CTR might seem low, but actually might be really good depending on impressions. Thank you sir! 😊

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

My pleasure!

@techexamined Год назад

This was super helpful!! When I looked at the data I started thinking the same thing.. thumbnail, title and the intro… I then thought why is he pointing at the AVD? I need more info… but then doubted that and picked the intro.. lol. When you showed more data it made more sense. I always understood the more people the video is shown to the number will naturally go down, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.. I hope more people watch this.. it’s really helpful!! 👍

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Right on, brother! There is a metric that I pay attention to that doesn't exist in our analytics and that's "Velocity". I'm always paying attention to how well my content and channel are gaining traction and that takes looking at many different metrics with a whole lot of perspective

@YouMeandSicily Год назад

Thank you for another piece of valuable information! It's all about perspective for sure on videos and understanding how to read those metrics, which BTW can get addictive! 😁

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Ugh… SOOO addictive Eszter!

@PaulRansonArt Год назад

Hey Daniel, well I was one of the 95% ers at first then stopped and had a look at my own stats before watching the rest of the video. That changed my mind. My stats for a small (but growing) channel revealed how much my channel is evolving. I used to tinker with every video title and thumbnail almost as soon as it was released. But now I rarely do unless I see an obvious mistake. Your video illustrates exactly the same changes my own videos have undergone over time. Its clear that RU-vid experiments with who see's your videos and that impacts the impressions, CTR, & AVD. IMO making changes just upsets the algo and I think may do more harm than good in the long run. My best performing video in the last 90 days are nearly all over 6 months old. Some have taken over a year to break out. My tutorials are evergreen long form in the main but a few shorts help add a little spice to the viewership. Great video as always. Thank you for sharing your insights and keeping us ontrack. ☮😎😎

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Right on. When we are smaller, it takes RU-vid longer to gather enough traffic data to push our videos out a little harder. I’ve been through that same thing. Stay on it!

@czarcoma Год назад

I haven't jumped on to the RU-vid space yet, as an amateur writer, that last message is all I needed to hear "Keep creating!" Appreciate everything you do Daniel. 😃

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Right on 👊😎☮️

@real_joey Год назад

Really needed to hear this. Thanks so much Daniel :)

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@ComfortBibleReading Год назад

Love the vid man. Thanks for all the helpful information. Can't wait to see your next music video from you😂😂👍

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Ha! It's funny that this channel started with the story of making a music video and came full circle so many years later.

@flyingfools47 Год назад

Just started my channel recently! Your videos have been so helpful and informative!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Awesome. Love hearing that ☮️

@jandarylreyes Год назад

very well said Daniel. Thanks for the video. I am planning to make my own channel soon watching you helps a lot.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Best of luck!

@StevesStrayStuff Год назад

Thank you Daniel! You have explained my questions. My 28 day data has my views up 3200, watch time is up 120 hours, impressions are up 9%, yet my CTR has gone down, it went from 8.2 to 7.4. There is still hope for me, woo-hoo. You are the bomb!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Stay on it! That's a good sign. The deeper conversation is 'What can I do to increase Impressions' and I believe that comes down to the 7 factors I mentioned at the end of this video. I talk about them a lot in the members group but I'll be making another video on that ASAP

@MrGeorgex4u Год назад

That's right ! Thank you Daniel 🫡

@travelaroundsuzy Год назад

Daniel I love how you explained this. I think analytics is the hardest thing about RU-vid. You put it into common word. Am sure I will be rewatching this to get digest all the information. Looking forward to your next video. Am one of the new subscriber due the video you reference. I got a little chuckle out of this video.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Hey thanks! I appreciate that. I'll definitely be talking about some of these aspects of RU-vid soon. I think some of the information people are getting out of context is confusing creators more. Perspective is so important.

@G-and-J-Chapel-Artworks Год назад

I think you touched on this question in another video but, a little more detail (if I'm correct) would be helpful. I'm actually looking at and experiencing this situation right now. What should you do to "recover" from an unexpected break? I recently had a tough situation, some production we'll say difficulties and a few personal struggles which led to temporarily losing the desire, ability and time to produce content. As a small, still developing channel this may not be as big of a deal as say you for example but any advice would be appreciated.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Make your next video. It's that simple.

@OddBawZ Год назад

Ok, looking at that I'd be pretty happy with the results of that graph. - It probably got new viewers who watched the first 30 seconds and decided this wasn't the personality for them or the content they wanted. - The dedicated viewers enjoyed the video the entire way through. - Perhaps some of the newer viewers watched it the entire way through. - (Niche to my own content) They watched the high octane intro and decided that was enough and I'm cool with that. So, what would I do? Make another video like that and hopefully more people were entertained and stuck to this kind of content.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

'Make another video' is always great advice!

@OddBawZ Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal If you aren't making content, your viewers have nothing to watch. The motto to live by.

@mylifejourney74 Год назад

Thank you so much for the explanation. I didn't know that information.

@MatCaveGaming Год назад

I always appreciate how you put things into perspective. Great breakdown and easy to follow. Thank you!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

My pleasure!

@TheProvokedPrawn Год назад

Superb stuff! Thank you

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@TheProvokedPrawn Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal enjoying and sharing a lot of your content. The Resolve for Noobs shorts are great btw. Keep up the good work.

@c1ph3rpunk Год назад

The only thing worse than no metrics are misinterpreting or bad metrics.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Amen to that. Especially if a creator is making changes to their content from those misinterpretations

@Andysfishing Год назад

I’d do nothing, let it ride.

@Andysfishing Год назад

I guess I’m in the 5%, almost all of my video retention graphs look like that. My average video length is about 30-50 minutes.

@lamine428 Год назад

I really wish analytic expectations were explained by the size of the yt channel. From micro, med, large channels

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

It's impossible to explain completely. That would involve divulging every bit of the algorithmc processes from every system on RU-vid running under the AI. (RU-vid will never give away all of their secrets). And the truth is, those change constantly based upon viewer behavior, niche, topic, etc.... Nobody needs deep analytics to tell them when their video is taking off. Just focus on trying to make content that puts the interests & needs of the target audience you're trying to reach at the forefront.

@philtasticcomicsandart Год назад

What I would do next: Panic - probably think about is my discussion off topic, is there a glitch I didn’t see until now, then maybe consider doing a reshoot but probably move on.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Thanks for pausing to comment! Let me know if you still feel that way after watching the rest of the video

@GettingItDoneNorthOf7 Год назад

Good info! This makes a ton of sense

@brokenfingergaming Год назад

Keep going is what I do I now use a pull plan for gearing up a mission in Arma3 I get ideas from watching other creative RU-vid channels, incuclud a world now of what's happening or look at the past. There are a ton of ideas to pull from, and I'm not a pro. I just like what I do it takes my mind off things like work, especially if you're like me , " You can't turn off your brains. Always forward... Love the channel. Keep rocking it, bro...

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Right on 🎸

@BestSportsHighlights Год назад

This "Retention graph" is soooo confused for me. My two best videos (17mil and 6mil views) have solid stats "around 30% of viewers are still watching after 10th minutes", but on the other side I have best statistics on one video that have only 32k views! This "unpopular video" have more than 40% of viewers after 10th and 75% after 2nd minutes!!!! This statistic cleary show that the content in that video is of great interest to viewers, so why RU-vid didn't suggest that video to muct more RU-vidrs I never understand!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

There are definitely other factors at play (7 to be precise). I'll try to cover those in an upcoming video.

@SirTools Год назад

As a creator I've been at war with how to fix this and there has never been a clear answer. Impressions ! Thank you Daniel you might be helping me to keep up the work flow. It's complicated by marketing firms that demand how we serve up a video review. Time to go rogue on them and fix it. 😎

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

😎☮️

@MooshiGamer Год назад

I honestly probably need to look at my data more. 😅 I worry so much tuning up my quality (tech-wise and editing-wise), my data analyzing often gets put on the back burner of "maybe I'll look at it sometime later". I need to start honing in on the business/marketing/data side of YouTubing, just have to get out of that mindset that it's "something extra" to do.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

You don’t need fancy metrics to tell you when your videos are doing well. ❤️

@JOJOUNCLEBLOGS Год назад

This is some great information, as a small creator it’s great to know it’s really useful to gather information like this. Thanks 👍

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad it was helpful, JoJo.

@JOJOUNCLEBLOGS Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal 👍👍👍

@venkygaming Год назад

Yep, this thinking sometimes make creators to make videos over-edit. Creators try to make intro fast as possible, resulting faster than audience mind

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Very true. I think there is no 'One-size-fits-all' for pacing. I'm constantly adjusting mine to see how the greater target audience reacts. For some things, faster was better but overall, it seems a more of a mid tempo pace seems to work best. Which is a little slower than my normal cadence. I'm from New England. I get excited and start talking too fast. And wave my hands around a lot. And suddenly my accent comes out. (Really annoying)

@starfishflogging7726 Год назад

100% Found Daniel from the Filmora stuff.

@SeanPaulNotTheSinger Год назад

Outstanding video. As a fairly new creator, I'm still learning the ropes, and videos like this one are incredibly helpful for me. Thank you. One thing that I harp on time and again is that context isn't key, it's critical. Metrics without context are effectively meaningless. It's interesting to see this is true with streaming platforms as it is in the cybersecurity realm

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Amen to that.

@TAKEASHORTBREAK1 Год назад

Helpful advice hopefully, I see such a graph often. I discovered your channel through one of the filmora license videos and followed the complete story, so ou are completely right about this. 🤩

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you did! I think a lot of the answers here on RU-vid are simpler than we think. You watched some of my other content. That helped you end up on this video. Now here we are talking in the comments section. That's all 'Viewer Behavior' and this thing we're doing right now? This will impact what RU-vid does with my other content. You'll probably see more of it pop up along the way because RU-vid sees that you've engaged with them. (Thank you for that, by the way ❤️)

@tonysfluidart Год назад

This was great, thank you! I often struggle after I release a video with the immediate gratification need I seem to have. My most recent video has one of the more poor CTR's I've had in a long time (just over 3%, and impressions are still fairly high for my channel) and I keep changing thumbnails, titles, etc in the first day or two. Am I jumping the gun here, and should I have waited a little longer before making any changes??

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

If the impressions are high and the engagement is good, let it ride. I I’ll change the title or thumbnail if I think it’s not quite hitting the mark. I changed this title twice already and the thumbnail 3 times, just to get it more focused

@MajeedaArt Год назад

Again the analytics stuff is a bit confusing for me on occasion as there's so much to understand and learn with regards to RU-vid it can be a bit overwhelming and mind boggling, as for video performance shorts use to perform the best for me but lately not anymore which is a bit of a discouraging head scratcher, some videos flat line then days later start to spike in views YT unpredictable hence I'm not one to immediately start changing the video when it's performing poorly I prefer to wait a bit and see, in case it's a temporary slump if not I might play around to see if I can revive the video but this isn't something I do often I typically upload and move on, if a video performs completely awful I might private the video etc, thanks for tips and encouragement ❤

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

If you learn what a good performing video looks like on your own channel, it’s easier to spot one that’s performing poorly. I always compare me to me

@TommyT067 Год назад

Hey Daniel, yeah I needed this video for a long time. You actually critiqued my channel about a month ago and gave me some advice live on how to upgrade my homepage. Since I do roller coaster videos I always get a big drop in the beginning either because people that click on it think it's gonna be a real-life roller coaster versus what is actually a digital creation of what I make, or they find the beginning of the ride slow and fast forward to the fast parts. After watching this video I'm kind of frustrated at myself because I did edit out the beginnings of some of my popular rides to see if that would make a difference and it showed me no difference at all. So from now on I'm gonna leave all my videos alone because of this awesome video that you just presented. Thank you. -Tommy

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I tend to leave videos that are performing alone, Tommy. Those are the ones I use to model success on my channel ☮️

@LilCraftyNook Год назад

Of course! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Dee and Nick explained this CTR/Impressions ratio to me three and a half years ago and it went right over. 🤷‍♀️🤪 Thanks so much, Daniel!!🥰

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I am certainly not the first to talk about this. I just think that sometimes creators (me included) need to hear things from different voices or perspectives before that lightbulb goes off in our head and suddenly we learn something that can actually help us in our journey.

@LilCraftyNook Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Absolutely! I was just beginning then so didn’t understand at all.

@PowerToolsWithThread Год назад

First of all, I didn't even know what those acronyms were - and I'm a creator! I'm a creator in an even smaller niche of a small niche. But I'm always wanting to grow my channel. I've just started lives and my core viewership love it! I need to figure out a way to reach beyond my niche. Thank you!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I love live streaming. It's a really positive way to increase engagement with your community. My two cents for reach is don't think about reaching beyond your niche, think about how to approach topics within your niche to have the broadest possible reach. I personally find that channels (especially resource or utility channels) can get stuck in "Tutorial mode" where the majority of content is based on Search traffic and showing people how to do something. Adding story to your channel can change things up a lot. Doesn't mean you can't talk about what you want to talk about or show people how to do things, it just means you can shift the viewer's perspective from being interested in the thing to being more interested in you.

@PowerToolsWithThread Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal I really want to switch from Filmora to DR but I'm concerned because I pay the monthly subscription to the Filmora library for titles, elements, music clips, etc. Does DR have a subscription like that or will I be on my own to find my own stuff. If so, what are some good sites for video elements?

@Chris-ut6eq Год назад

Just starting my youtube page within the next month. Do you have any advice for what to pay attention too? And what to just ignore in the short term? I'm learning a tiny bit about so many things to just get to the point that I can post my first couple of videos. Also expected that I make every rookie mistake along the way too! :)

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Here’s a flash back from when I just started that I think still holds a lot of relevance today: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uZb98bvi4rA.html

@Chris-ut6eq Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Watched and agreed still worth a watch. Good points to consider. Thanks Daniel!

@karolcpm- Год назад

0:42 I would conclude that the video has a pretty good retention rate for a long 18 minutes, though maybe the video intro could be worked on. Or, I would consider changing the title and thumbnail to better reflect the content. The 59% is typical viewer stats to those viewers figured the video was not relevant for them. Edit: I was right! ...close actually. Thank you again Daniel for your constructive advice. In short, your advice on the different metrics align very well with my experience with a small RU-vid channel.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Ha! You were half right! The intro definitely didn't need to be worked on and the title/thumbnail definitely should NOT have been changed. I think that's the most important part to learn here, how to read analytics in context.

@karolcpm- Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Agreed. In fact, I don't think I have ever changed a thumbnail or even the title in my years. It is funny though because the Filmora video was the first I viewed before coming here, and I thought it a very well-done video.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

So did 1,400,000 million other people... apparently! So, no changes needed ❤️

@leosthrivwithautism Год назад

This is Gold Daniel. I was constantly refreshing my feed waiting for you to upload this. Quick question. Here is an example for this question. 1 video uploaded and in the first 24 hours it gains 400 impressions. From that, here is the views break down : 15 are from subs, 5 from search, 5 from suggested. Most subs watched a little over half way of the video and some gave me likes. Search and suggested both didn't hold viewers for more than about 5 seconds. Meaning that youtube sees 25 views but none made it to the end, none of them commented, and just a few liked it. This would indicate poor packaging wouldn't it? This is an on-going trend that happens in all my long form content. Some times impressions go as high as 4k impressions but views stay around less than 30 views. How can I assist that conversation to happen a little bit more? I ask that because after the first couple thousand impressions and 25 to 30 views youtube slows down to just 1 to 5 impressions a day and moves on. Sorry for the long comment. Was just curious in your opinion and any guidance you may have. Appreciate your excellent content my friend! I'm growing every day because of your help!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

That's a great question. I started to talk about the 7 factors I think decide the fate of any video regardless of niche. I'll try go jump on that ASAP

@DanTheMonkey Год назад

Hey Daniel, what would you think of these stats on a niche genre video. In 37 hours, it got 26 impressions and an impression click-thru of 11.5%?

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

26 Impressions....? Did you mean 2,600 or 26,000?

@DanTheMonkey Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal nope just 26! No zeros after the 6 🤣

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Don't even look at your data at that point. You don't have nearly enough to form any useful conclusions. Work on building content that might have a greater connection for the target audience you're trying to reach ❤️

@DanTheMonkey Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal thanks Daniel, your story has really inspired me, I was also homeless for a short period also, now I have a loving wife and two kids, after an accident at work, that has sort of ended my career, I decided to start making some gaming videos for fun. Thank you for being an inspiration and also sharing your story with the world. 👍👍👍

@rafaeltorovip Год назад

In fact, I got to know you thanks to that video you are talking about and thanks to it, now I am a subscriber.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I appreciate that! It sure did have a lot of reach. Unfortunately not everyone who enjoyed that series will be in love with content like this so there is an upside and a downside to having certain videos do well on a channel.

@agentbond2004 Год назад

explained very well, wow! we, normal people get so caught up exerting all efforts choosing the right thumbnail, title, edit techniques this and that and doesn't even know how the analytics well hehe.. thanks for explaining man! we figured out that my viewers likes my "resort" videos hehe.. anyhow..✌😎

@THROTTLEPOWER Год назад

Great vid Daniel, thank you for sharing!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@THROTTLEPOWER Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal 👍👍

@RaymondParkerPhoto Год назад

Yep. Took me a while to figure this out. Metrics on most of my evergreen content looks like that. Flatline doesn't alway mean dead. In fact, often the opposite.

@Jr0de Год назад

If CTR decreases with increased impressions, what CTR % should a given video ideally be at based on a differing amount of impressions? (CTR at something like 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M impressions)

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Unfortunately thats an impossible question to answer because it's predicated by so many other data points. Niche, topic, timing, competition, relevance, trends... What I would say is that I've learned what a good CTR is for me when I first launch a video (for me that's anything over 13.5% in the first hour of publication if it drives 10,000 -20,000 Impressions in that hour). I would focus on learning your own internal performance metrics so that you can gauge against your own previous video performance and learn to repeat successes. If you can establish strong velocity with your core audience, you'll have a good chance of that video being surfaced further.

@Jr0de Год назад

okay thank you!

@PresentForMyself Год назад

Thank you. The number of channels out here trying to tell others how to succeed at RU-vid can be daunting. Some employ tactics that can make one anxious about analytics. Your experience, knowledge, and approach are greatly appreciated. 🙏🏽

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Happy to help.

@bncsystemsshortline Год назад

What a great video man!!!! This is exactly what I'm going through right now. Been posting weekly since January. All the older videos haven't have views in weeks. So what can I do to fix this? Do you have any tips? Thanks for taking the time to read this.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

This might help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LymvVEfmcHY.html

@bncsystemsshortline Год назад

Thanks brother!!! I really appreciate you getting back to me. It means alot! I have been doing this but, not with the same video in all 4 spots. So I got some work to do. Thanks again and God Bless!! Johnny Railer @@Daniel_Batal

@chris_sparrows Год назад

What would you say for similar graphs on a small channel (

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I’d say the same. Your metrics should be higher when reaching a smaller audience. If they aren’t, think about what really interests them, what their pain points are, what they struggle with or what they’re thinking.

@Blackroses023 Год назад

🌹I love that you made this video. I love that we have folks to guide us. Though I think what was really weird an something you see, though I see this in most of the world. We just mimic or repeat just what we heard as what makes videos good. Timing is a good thing to take into consideration, like example if I release a video at 8am it's going to drop down way low vs if I release it noon my time. I also love that you bring up that you break down the views more and what happens if people see something but may not watch all of it or intrested. The other part you bring up that I like is that bout if everything was done pefect that you are still thrown in a barrel with others and you can't always be on top even with perfection moment.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

100%. I always try to help Creators have the most important thing I think we all need.... perspective. There are so many variables that freaking out over a single metric without context can be really dangerous.

@swedishgrinder Год назад

I would go back and replay the video and see why it drops in the beginning of the video and try to remove that part or edit it.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Thanks for pausing to comment! Let me know if you still feel the same after watching the rest of this video ☮️

@LittleRestorers Год назад

I've started to not pay attention to RU-vid telling me the first 30 secs is below typical.😅 As a tiny channel I know that 99.9% of people would have no reasons to watch me, so I tend to focus on the rest of the graph. Q: How does AVD work when viewers watch at, let's say 1.5 times the speed. Many ppl watch non talking videos at higher speed. Also does adding an extra 10 secs at the end ,for end card purpose, stuff up ur stats ? ( either ur viewers have clicked to your next vid or moved on ) creating a big drop right before ur video is technically over.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

The basic math is if someone watches your entire video at 2x, you get half the AVD (average view duration) and half the watchtime. Though, you can still have 100% APV (average percentage viewed) because they've watched the entire video.

@LittleRestorers Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal Thanks for the response 👍

@outlawsFTW Год назад

I have so many questions I’m not even sure where to begin. I try to look at the data as much as possible but the more I think I understand it, the worse my videos perform. I’ve been actively posting videos on my channel for two years now. I’m proud of the fact I’ve grown to over 500 subs. I feel like I’ve gotten better at title and thumb creation, but the results just aren’t there. Earlier today I posted a short and went to get ready for work. When I came back later it had zero views. Zero. I’m sure there are still plenty of things I could be doing better. But zero views on a channel with 500+ subscribers doesn’t make sense to me. I’m devastated and feel like this is the final straw for me as a creator

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Don't let that break you. At the end of this video, I started talking about the 7 factors that I think decide the fate of any video regardless of niche. I'm going to jump on that next because I think it's one of the most important conversations that a lot of people aren't talking to creators about. Keep Creating! ❤️

@PlanetImo Год назад

Very interesting, Thank you Daniel. :)

@elc1109 Год назад

As a new creator of course I got this wrong. The most important questions I have for you Daniel: 1) what motorcycle do you ride and 2) Favorite guitar?

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I have several motorcycles but the one I ride the most is a 2021 Harley Davidson Road King. I don’t really have a favorite guitar…? Depends on the tone I’m going for. But mostly Telecasters, Strats & Les Pauls.

@mySeaPrince_ Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal 😻

@elc1109 Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal I don't ride harley's but if I did, road king, Ultra or road glide my favs. I've always loved the strat sound. Thanks for the reply for my non related questions!

@DomAZ Год назад

I don't look the analytics the first days. My best videos don't start well before to do very well in the long run.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

That's very common. I've often had that happen as well. Sometimes it takes longer for RU-vid to gather enough information on a video in order to serve it out to what it thinks is the right audience.

@freemansgarage Год назад

That was a very interesting video. Thanks for creating it.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it ☮️

@TheWonderingEnglishman Год назад

Great advice and great video

@YellowRoseDrones Год назад

5:25am CT and I ought to be asleep. But your videos are always worth watching.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Early morning club! I’ll get the coffee ☕️

@RekindledReader Год назад

INTERESTING!!! Excellent, man!

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad you think so!

@PinkyTech Год назад

Don’t look at stats in a bubble. Great topic.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Amen to that, Pinky

@Dreymasmith Год назад

I don't know what to do next. Some of my best videos have looked like that and then slowly built steam. Haha. Well. Your video looked like that for different reasons to why mine do, but at least I now don't feel stupid anymore for not knowing how to answer your question. Thanks for giving us a different perspective and more information. We need the reminder that RU-vid is not that simple and there's no one answer to everything. Magic bullets aren't magic and aren't one size fits all.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Amen to that.

@thetnpickers Год назад

Thanks for the great video and explanations.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Glad it was helpful ☮️

@TheDragggg Год назад

Your Filmora video made me subscribe to your channel and now I’m enjoying all your content. I have always had the desire to record and edit short-form videos for other platforms but never actually did it. That was until I watched your videos. I’ve now made a handful of videos and posted them online. I’ve discovered something I really enjoy thanks to you. I appreciate all you do, thank you ❤️

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

I LOVE hearing that! There is a joy in creating any kind of content (illustration, videos, music, etc) that I think really allows us to tap into parts of our mind & sould that you can't in other ways. I really do think video creation is an art form and I love seeing anyone just jumping in and giving it a try. Keep creating!

@TerraHardcore Год назад

for the question part, I would change the thumbnail and title, then figure out why everyones clicking off in the first 20 seconds

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Thanks for stopping to comment! Let me know if you feel the same after watching the rest of the video ❤️

@TerraHardcore Год назад

@@Daniel_Batal I guess, after knowing more, its probably a better idea to note what I did right and wrong, and moving on, instead of 'fixing' things that might not need to be fixed. very interesting video!

@HowWeGotHere Год назад

Thanks Daniel this makes sense

@MySonsMother Год назад

wow, high caliber video. Thanks, Daniel.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

👊😎☮️

@bricksclip Год назад

Great stuff!! I went and looked at my own analytics on my more successful long form videos and you're absolutely right After the first few days, they gained a ton of views from suggested content and a huge amount of impressions but my CTR went from 16% to 10.1% as it got pushed out more I genuinely thought maybe something was wrong with the thumbnail and that I was missing out on views but it seems that the people it was pushed to maybe weren't interested, not that the thumbnail or title was bad

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

Those are your winners ❤️

@AdelinoGambiarras Год назад

Nice on buddy you just show me one thing that I have being doing wrong all along for a very long time. Thanks for opening our eyes I am grateful. Kind regards buddy your still the best.

@Daniel_Batal Год назад

No problem 👍