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Breaking Down The Youtube Algorithm In Simple Terms

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome To The Class!

      1:26

    • 2.

      The Youtube Algorithm

      4:18

    • 3.

      Click Through Rate Explained

      3:34

    • 4.

      Thumbnail Creation Tips

      4:49

    • 5.

      Average View Duration Explained

      3:40

    • 6.

      Average View Duration Tips

      3:10

    • 7.

      Impressions

      9:22

    • 8.

      Positive Signals

      3:25

    • 9.

      Final Thoughts & Final Conclusion

      3:32

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About This Class

I wish I had this course when I was younger, this course would have saved me lots of struggles with understanding why my videos weren't getting the views they deserve, getting de-stuck and start getting more subscribers on my youtube channel.

The youtube algorithm can be a bit complicated, and a bit exhausting, but this course will make everything finally start make sense for you.
You might feel stuck on youtube, you might even feel underrated, but this course will clear everything up, and will give you methods you can use 

I MADE SURE that this course is as simple and as concise as possible, I made sure that it will help you study your youtube analytics and become and expert in navigating through the youtube studio

This course covers lots of different topics...

Do you struggle to get more youtube subscribers? This course got you covered

Do you struggle to understand the youtube algorithm? This course got this as well !!

Do you struggle to optimize your videos for the youtube algorithm? This course got that as well !!

This course covers :

  • Optimizing your youtube videos and youtube thumbnails for the youtube algorithm
  • Understanding your videos performance, why your videos didn't get as much views
  • Breaking down the youtube algorithm from A-Z
  • And much much more...

Youtube Success can be really hard to achieve, and the youtube algorithm can be stressful and hard to figure out, from how to make youtube videos, to how to grow on youtube, with all those complex youtube analytics, it can be hard to figure out how to get more views on youtube or how to get more subscribers on youtube.


Growing your youtube channel should be your main goal on youtube, understanding youtube marketing, youtube seo, as youtube for beginners can be really toxic, figuring out how to start a youtube channel, adapting and learning youtube tips and tricks, search for youtube growth tips on how to grow your youtube channel.

I will help you throughout your youtube journey, I have been on youtube for 8 years, mastered lots of youtube growth strategies, and experimenting with youtube 24/7 throughout multiple youtube generations, youtube 2018, youtube 2019, youtube 2020, youtube 2021, and youtube 2022, and I have no plans for stopping :D..

Whether that being covering how to edit your youtube videos, how to design youtube thumbnails, how to film and edit your first youtube video, how to plan and script your youtube videos, or even how to add tags to your youtube video...

Hopefully you enjoy the course, let me know because it will make my day :D

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Gamica ☑️

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I'm Gamica, a YouTuber, and an online teacher, and I also struggled with making youtube content, figuring out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it, and I made this skillshare account to share with you my faults, and how you can avoid falling into the same traps.

I started my YouTube journey in 2015, making making skit videos copying my favorite youtubers. I then went on to creating 8 different youtube channels and 600 videos all over YouTube.

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1. Welcome To The Class!: The Youtube Algorithm. Just when you think know it all. Youtube shocks you with a hidden metric that alter you understanding of what a good youtube video is just when you think your video is the best version of itself. youtube slaps you in the face with your video being the worst performing video you ever made. Just when you are proud of your videos, Youtube thinks that you are nowhere near enough. The youtube algorithm is basically the journey of my life. I've been making content on youtube for eight years. I made like ten different youtube channels, and boosted like 600 videos throughout those eight years, I made lots of mistakes on youtube. Mistakes that led me to put everything I know about the youtube algorithms and package it in this one skill share class, a class where I blast you with everything you need to know to make it on youtube in the shortest time possible. This class covers two specific points. How the youtube Algorithm works? And the steps needed to make the youtube algorithm work for you. I wish I had this class when I was younger, but I didn't. So I would ask you to be close attention when watching this class. I'm pretty sure you want to make it on youtube in the shortest time possible. So, I don't want you to keep repeating the mistakes that I already went through. 2. The Youtube Algorithm : Okay, now let me try to explain the youtube algorithm to you as simple as possible. First of all, I have to ask you a question. What do you desire from the youtube algorithm? Well, I assume that you want to grow your youtube channel, growing your youtube channel been getting more views and getting more subscriber. For you to get more subscribers on youtube will you have to get more views first the more views you get, the more there are people who are potentially can subscribe to your youtube channel. So, if you want to get more subscribers, you have to get more views, Okay, but how do you get more views? This is the main question of this course. How do you get more views on youtube? To get more views on youtube, there are four aspects you have to optimize in your videos for you to actually achieve getting more views, those four aspects are impressions, click-through rate or CTR, average view duration, or AVD. And positive signals. In the next few lessons we are going to cover those four aspects in depth. So just don't get overwhelmed yet. So we have established that success on youtube is getting more subscribers. Getting more subscribers, is getting more views. Getting more views is the four aspects we are covering. Let's start with the first one. Impressions. in fact, let me just go on youtube real quick. Let's say I want to watch one of my favorite videos, like Mr Beast squid game video. This video right here. After I searched for that video, the amount of impressions... This video has increased by one. And if I refreshed this page, again, the amount of impressions will increase by one again, impressions is how many times your video has been shown to a potential viewer. Needless of him, clicking on the video or not. The more convincing your title and thumbnail is, the more the viewer is likely to click on your video. But overall, the more impressions you get, the more views you end up getting. Now let's move on to the second one, CTR. CTR or click-through rate is basically the percentage of people who click on your video when it's shown to them. basically CTR is a percentage of views divided by impressions. So, let's say your video was shown on the homepage 100 times. And from those 100 times, five people decided to click on your video. That means that 5 out of 100 people clicked on your video when is shown to them, which basically means that this video has 5% CTR. CTR or click-through rate is basically a metric that measures how optimized your idea is, your title is, your thumbnail is. The higher get this number, the more its likely for youtube to start promoting your content. Now let's move on to the third aspect, which is average view duration or AVD. Average view duration is basically a metric that tells you how hooking your videos are how engaging your videos are. If your videos are boring, your average view duration will be low. If your videos are entertaining and mentally hooking, your average duration will be high. Average view duration is basically how much time on average, people spend watching your video. Let's say ten people decided to watch your video. Five of them watch it for five-minutes. Five of them watch it for seven minutes. That means that the average view duration of your video is going to be 6 minutes per average viewer. The higher get this number the more hooking youtube sees 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:17.435 your videos and start promoting them. And now to the fourth and the final aspect, which is positive signals. Positive signals are signals youtube detects from your own video to find if your video is actually worthwhile for the viewer. Those for the four aspects of the youtube algorithm. If you actually give this course extreme care. It will make a difference in your youtube career. Like I told you before, I wish I had this course when I was younger, I struggled a lot to actually figure out those four aspects of the youtube algorithm. And I wish you give them shot to and work with me in this course on optimizing your videos for those four aspects. And in the final lesson, we will recap all of those four aspects. So, that you can optimize them needn't you getting more views, didn't you? Getting more subscribers needn't you, finally have in your youtube success. That's it. And I will see you in the next lesson. What is success on youtube? Success is getting more subscribers. How do you get more subscribers? Well, you have to get more views. How do you get more views? Well, you have to take great care of four aspects. Click-through-rate impressions, positive signals, and average view duration. 3. Click Through Rate Explained: What is click-through rate? What is a good click-through rate? How to use click-through rate. Packaging your videos, consists of three main aspects. The idea, the title and the thumbnail. Click-through rate is a metric that can measure how optimizing the packaging of your videos is. While you are in the youtube studio press on content, then choose, any video you want and click on it. The go and press on analytics. then go and click on reach. You will find your impressions, you will find your impressions click-through rate which is CTR. You will find your views as well. Impressions is how many times your video has been shown to potential viewers. Views is how many times those potential viewers decided to click and become actual viewers. Click-through rate or CTR. Is views divided by impressions. Let's say your video has been shown to a 100 people. That's a 100 impressions. Five of them decided to click. Then those are five views from 100 impressions. Then your CTR is 5%. The higher CTR gets, the higher your video ranks compared to the competition on youtube. The more impressions you get, the more views you get. But Gamica, what is a good click-through rate CTR is relative, changes depending on the niche of your content, entertainment, education, gaming, will what game? What is the age of your audience? Gender, demographic. how long is a video? You don't like click on one hour YouTube videos as much as 30 second ones, right? Which means lower CTR for longer videos, what is a good click-through rate? My answer is always going to be higher.. increasing your CTR is making more hooking thumbnails. I'm pretty sure you can never not want to do that. Asking me what CTR you should aim for is basically like me asking you what amount of money you wish to have in your bank account. Like it's always gonna be more. You got 10% CTR that's nice. You've got 20% CTR. That's even more nice. You manage to somehow get 30% CTR that is even, even more nice. There is no magical number for your CTR to get views. The more increase your CTR the more the views will increase. It all depends on you. How much views you want to get like, like, I don't know what you want from me, like... How to use click-through rate. I would only use CTR to A/B test thumbnails. A/B testing thumbnail is basically having more than one thumbnail concept for a video. Posted the video with the first thumbnail. Giving it some time. Then switching to a different thumbnail concept and seeing how that one performs. Compared to the other one, then settling down with the one that has the higher CTR. Okay, now how to A/B test thumbnail? Let's see, you just posted this video. Let's say you are using this thumbnail concept and you decided to change it to this. thumbnail concept. You were at 7 am. at 10% CTR then, at 8 am you are over 13% CTR that mean your CTR increased by changing the thumbnail. Then you should stick with the thumbnail you just changed that cause it to go to 13%. But let's say at 9 am, you decided to make another switch and you found that your CTR dipped down to 10%. Then you should change back to the thumbnail you were originally on, that caused it to get to 13%. Hopefully you learned something new. And I will see you in the next lesson. 4. Thumbnail Creation Tips: How to optimize your thumbnails for maximum views? I will give you simple tips that you can apply to your thumbnails to optimize them for the youtube algorithm and some psychological tips to help you better understand thumbnail's performance and how to make the best thumbnail as possible Use only 0 to 2 words per thumbnail A really good thumbnail, explains itself without the need of text. the viewer usually scrolls through and give thumbnail less than a second, in which time he won't be able to read your five lines of text. So, make sure your thumbnails has 0 to 2 words in the thumbnail, Zoom Out zoom out your thumbnails when you are trying to see if it looks good or not. Remember that youtube scales down your thumbnail in lots of different areas only. Simple Fonts. I found a lot of new youtubers using good-looking fonts. They actually look quite amazing. But all of that, comes at the price of ease of reading. Make sure you use really simple, easy to read bold fonts. You will find that the biggest youtubers like MrBeast only use white font with black stroke in there thumbnails, that is if they even use text in their thumbnails. Youtube Dark Mode. 82.7% of all phone users are using dark mood. that means for your thumbnails, if the background is black or dark, They might not notice your video because it blends in with the youtube dark mode What I recommend is the use of white backgrounds. It stands out a lot amongst other videos, especially on youtube dark mode. Limit to three objects per thumbnail. Don't overcrowd your thumbnail was lots of objects. Just limit to three objects per thumbnail for example, a face, some text And an intriguing picture. Some text, an arrow and an intriguing object. Try to tell just one story, per thumbnail. Even if much more happens, telling one is better than him scrolling through. and not clicking on your video. Timestamp. A lot of new youtubers forget about this but there is a huge timestamp in the right bottom corner, that covers a huge chunk of your youtube thumbnail. You need to always keep that in mind because any text or materials in the right corner of a youtube video's thumbnail will be covered Face = Emotion. I see a lot of youtubers use just a good looking picture of them in the thumbnail. 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:06.595 That's okay. But I would recommend using a pictures that conveys emotion, that tells the story. You can just go with something like this. It stands out a lot amongst other videos. Red arrows and Red Circles. Use red arrows. Just don't overuse them. If they are used correctly they can do a lot, but don't look at it as red arrow equals high CTR. If you point at something that is not intriguing or doesn't cause curiosity, then you might just be misguidance the viewer, use them. If there is a really intriguing object in your thumbnail, that can tell a story. Plan the thumbnail before planning the video. I see a lot of youtubers wait before they hit the Publish button to start coming up with a thumbnail of the video, make sure to come up with the thumbnail concept before started working on the video. If you can't come up with a thumbnail concept that you think actually fits the video then, scrap this video idea and try to work on the next video. Drama text, try your best to make sure the text you add to thumbnail actually offers value. And add to the story. Explaining the video's idea is the title's job. Add what I call drama text. This video is called overnight in an abandoned ghost town. you have this is what you can add text, what can you add? Maybe you can add Scary, abandoned ghost town overnight or something like that. But what Ryan Trahan ( The Creator ) did is he added no laws, which added to the story, which explains that it is not just to only an abandoned Ghost town. But there is also no laws in this town. Make sure your thumbnail make the viewer ask a question. if he asks a question then he will need an answer. How badly will he need that answer? Depends on how good your video actually is. I wonder what happens in the end. there is no way they actually did that. I always wondered what would happen if I did that. if you can't think of a question then don't make this video idea, try to improve on it or move on to the next one. WouldYou.Click There is a website called WouldYou.Click you can go there, write down your title and upload your thumbnail. And it will automatically apply it to youtube templates and show you how it looks compared to other competition on youtube. You should go and give it a look. which photo editing software to use? I personally use Photoshop, but remember, the thumbnail concept is more important than the execution. I would rather you having an viral thumbnail concept executed on the default windows paint app rather than a not that, intriguing thumbnail concept executed on Photoshop, go with whatever photo editing software you might like, just go with one and start improving on your thumbnails... hopeful you learn something new. And I will see you in the next lesson, 5. Average View Duration Explained: What is average view duration? Average view duration is how much time on average people spend watching your video. Average view duration is how hooking your videos are. How engaging your videos are. The higher the average view duration, the higher your video ranks competitors a competition, the more views you will get. How to find average view duration. Your average views percentage, and your watch time Basically, you are in the youtube studio, you click on content, then you make any video you want, and click on it. then you go And click on Analytics. then you go and click on engagement Now that you are in engagement. You will find your watch time over here. You will find your average view duration over here and also, if scroll down you will find your average view duration over here. And the average percentage viewed. Those are the most importantly metrics when it comes to judging how hooking your videos are. let say that 10 people decided to watch your 10-minute video. 5 of them, watched for 5 minutes. And 5 of them, watched for 7 minutes, that will make the average view duration 6 minutes, average view percentage. If your average view duration is six minutes, and your video is 10 minutes. Then the average view percentage is 60%. Watch time. Watch time is basically the total minutes all the viewers spent watching your video. I personally look at only average view duration and average view percentage. to judge my video. 3 things I look at, When I'm trying to read the retention curve. Basically, I look at the dips. If the retention graph is going like this then suddenly it drops. I will go there and try to find out what's wrong and learn from it. So over here the retention is at 68%, then it drops down to over at 63%. I will* go there and note down what went wrong. The other thing I will go for the retention graph is I will* go at the ending of the video and try to find out how many people actually sticked to the end of the video. This video is 8 minutes and the average view percentage is at 20%. Which is not ideal at all. It should be about 40% or 50% from that. I know that I should put more effort into making my videos hooking next time. The third and last thing I look at, I go at the first 30 seconds of the intro and I tried to find how many people... if there is like 70% or 80%... if after 30 seconds of the video. There are 70% or 80%. then my intros are hooking enough for me. Those are the three things I look at when I try to read my retention graph. But Gamica, what AVD is a good AVD like CTR my answer is always going to be higher. Increasing your AVD is making more hooking videos and engaging videos. I'm pretty sure you can never not want to improve on that. AVD is also relative. It changes depending on the niche of your content, the age of your audience, like tutorials, for example, most of the time you skip through tutorials and leave when you get the information you need 00:02:52.820 --> 00:02:54.560 leading to a lower average view duration. And now you're asking me what average view duration I should aim for. That is like me asking you, what amount of money do you wish to be in your bank account right now? Definitely want to have $100,000 instead of $1000. Definitely you want to have $1,000,000 instead of $100,000. The answer is always going to be more. The more you increase your average view duration, the more views you will end up getting. So, it's all up to you. If you want more views working on your average view duration, that will lead to you getting more views. Hopeful you learned something new. and I will see you in the next lesson. 6. Average View Duration Tips: On this lesson, I will try to give you some of the most important audience retention tips and tricks. I learned the hard way as a youtuber. Music is always much better than dead silence. Make sure the music is just music with no vocals, so that the viewers don't get distracted by the voice of the singer*. Make sure the music isn't anyway, near as loud as your voice, so that people can probably hear you and understand you. which is basically adding text on the screen with every few sentences, you say is a real game changer. It can easily grab the viewer's attention. It can help your videos. If your mic's quality isn't that good. After you finished recording, you can record some A-Roll footage, which is basically you talking to the camera and trying to storytell everything that happened to you during the video. Then mixing that with the footage you shot during the video. One of the things that can really damage your audience retention is clickbait in the thumbnail or the title, but Gamica how can the packaging of your video hurt the audience retention? Well, If you give expectations in your thumbnail, then not deliver on it right away. the viewers will immediately leave leading to an audience retention that looks like something like this, all of the viewers left at the intro. I'm pretty sure you don't want that. So don't clickbait. If it doesn't add to the story of the video, cut it out. It is better less than much in creating a video. Just make sure you don't cut too much where the audience are confused where you are currently or how you got there? pattern breaks are basically, this was a pattern break. You are more focused now. but make sure there is a reason for the pattern break. I usually do pattern brakes, when there is a funny comment, I want to highlight. So, I cut up the music. He focuses on what I'm about to say. I say the funny comment. He laughs, the music continues. which is having more energetic, louder voice. Being hyperactive on camera, having tons of hand gestures and facial expressions, more camera confident, more engaging as a youtuber, Practice using your hand. when you are trying to speak to the camera think of your face as a monitor, That is showing every feeling that you are having in the current moment. SCREAM!, every now and then during filming, raise the pitch of your voice. When filming, it definitely helps a lot. Then mix them all together and keep them in mind every time you are filming. Do you prefer staring at a picture for ten minutes or a moving video, filled with cuts that is action backed? You can mix your videos with some greenscreens* and effects. Try and make some visual changes every now and then during your video so that the viewer, stays hooked. You can try zooming in every once in a while just make sure it isn't too much keep the video moderately paced. Not too fast, not too stiff. Hopeful you Learned something new, and I will see you in the next lesson. 7. Impressions: Now we're gonna move on to the next aspect of optimizing your youtube video for the youtube algorithm, which is impressions... Impressions is how many times your video has been shown to potential viewers, regardless of him clicking on the video or not. And we have already established that increasing your impressions means that you will also increase the amount of use your video will accumulate. But how do you exactly increase the amount of impression on your video? Well. for that topic, I will just give you plan out tips on how to increase your impressions. We have established that all of those four aspects lead you getting more views. So, in some of those steps, I might get into how to increase your average view duration or how to increase your click-through rate. Because all of those aspects linked together and will eventually lead your video to get in more views, lead your video to get more impressions. Leading to you finally having your youtube success. I'll start with the first one that I always recommend Niching out is basically, let's say you are making youtube videos about shotgun microphone. A Shotgun microphone is basically, another type of microphone like this a Clip microphone, this is completely besides the point, but just to clear things up, Niching out is basically you making videos about microphones at all. Niching out from that is basically you making videos about camera gear. Niching out from that is basically you making videos about film making. And you can niche out in the brand of your youtube channel, which is basically you being a channel about microphones or a channel about film making as a whole. And you can niche out on a singular video of your, let's say you're making a video about this shotgun microphone simply titling the video Will get way way less views than The reason for that is the first title, reviewing Boya BY-MM1. is targeted at people who are trying to but this same exact shotgun microphone, or at least interested in buying a shotgun microphone. But if you title it. The best budget microphone to buy under $100. Now the video is more broadly appealing. People like me who already has a shotgun mic might be intrigued to actually know what is the best the budget microphone under $100. The video now became more broadly appealing. Not only the people who are interested in buying a shotgun microphone will click, but also, the people who have a small interest in shotgun microphones. So whatever video are making, try and think, how do I target the people who are mildly interested in this topic and the people who are like casual. who have a slight interest in this same topic, let's say you are titling a video But just adding fortnite to the title, which is a video game. If you didn't know by just adding that word, you have limited this video to only gamers who are interested in fortnite. This might be a good thing, specifying the audience you want and getting higher CTR or might be a bad thing, and limiting your video just to people who are interested in fortnite. So in a certain case, a title like would probably outperform the one where you have specified fortnite. And the same thing with niching out your brand on your youtube channel. If you are making videos just about shotgun microphones, why not try to niche out? And make videos about microphones at a whole, maybe about film making at a whole. The more you niche out theoretically, the more impressions you can, can get. This doesn't guarantee you getting the click, that is CTR that guarantees getting the click, that you can get, that you are able to get. like let's say you are making a video It is targeted at the casual python user. it is targeted at the expert device on users. It's even targeted at the nonprogrammers normal people users like, if you didn't know python is a programming language, just stick with me. But if you make a video like It will obviously get no views like it's obviously targeted at an extreme niche of python users. Let's say you're a gaming youtuber and you are making videos about a really niched down, well, you are niching down pretty bad, the only people you can get from playing this game are going to be like 2000 people at max, no matter how high your click-through rate is, your average view duration, the positive signals coming from your video. There is only 2000 people on the world who are interested in clicking. If you are in a really tight niche. So maybe just try and niche out your brand on youtube. And this can eventually lead into you getting more impressions on your youtube video. The next thing we're going to talk about is I personally used to struggle with this a lot. Like let me explain something. impressions has nothing to do with what inside the video, right? Well, that's wrong because if the viewer clicked on your video and leaved early on during the video, that will give a negative signal to youtube. that your video is not worth watching and leading your video getting less impressions overall. So, if your videos average view duration isn't optimized, you will get less impressions, you will get less views. The only reason I bring up average view duration is let's say there is a certain joke or a certain humor in your style of content, a certain community joke, like. my personal youtube channel is about entertainment and there was a toy chicken, called mark. We used to joke about it in my youtube videos, but let's say at some random time during my video, I mentioned mark well, the new viewer He has no idea what mark is. Is he my friend? or is he a headed chicken toy? So that is community humor and the way to avoid that happening at all, because it can easily slip by, in your videos. Is just after you're finished making your videos, just re-watch them again as if you didn't know anything about that niche at all. Anything that leaves any sort of confusion just trim it out, no matter how funny it is. Well, it's only gonna be funny to your community and the new viewers will not stick around, will not become subscribers, and will not lead to you getting subscribers on youtube. So any sort of community humor or any sort of jokes you like to add to your intro, just trim them out. Either the joke being broadly appealing or trim it out? Because there is nothing worse than being beside a group of friends of yours and hearing them laughing about a topic you are not familiar with. You will feel left out and you don't like your viewers to left out. Do you? Like basically if you want to make an introduction for a youtube video, don't make it too complicated too community related. Make it as broadly appealing as possible. Don't use any complicated words or any community familiar words like for me personally, when I'm making a youtube education video, I have to explain click-through rate every time to every new viewer coming to my youtube channel because he might not know what CTR is and he will feel left out. So, you see how this goes, but it's the most damaging at the introductions of your videos because that is the part of the video when he judges, If he will, stick around watching your video leading to you getting higher average duration. leading you getting more impressions. Or whether he will leave during the beginning of your video, Ruining* your retention audience attention and lowering in the amount of impressions your video will manage to get. So at the start of your video explain the video idea as if you were explaining it to a day one beginner in your niche. present the title and thumbnail, in extreme simplicity. There is a certain video I always use when I'm discussing this certain topic with a youtuber, You know what non WCA mean? Well, if you do, I don't, and a lot more people don't. Not everyone is heavily interested in Rubik's cube. But some of us are casual. Rubik's cube's users, like I have a Rubik's cube it right here. I have never managed to solve it. So, I'm interested in Rubik's cubes, but not NON-WCA RUBIK'S CUBE TIER LESS INTEREST. So, a better title will be Now, the video is more broadly appealing and is simple than the previous one So, when you are writing your title, and thumbnail make them, as extreme simple as possible. Don't add any barriers the viewer's brain needs to get through for him to decide to click on your video. That's it. And I will see you in the next lesson. 8. Positive Signals : Let's move on to the topic I barely have any tips for you on. Because in fact, that is the most simple topic of the four aspects That next topic is positive signals. An example I like to give to showcase this part of youtube algorithm is, let's say you wanted to watch a new movie. Like maybe you wanted to go to the movies to watch the new sonic 2. You decided to go to the movies and watch that movie. So, we can basically say that you clicked on the movie and you watched the entire movie. So, we basically can say that the average view duration, is the length of the movie. But after you finished the movie and you came back home you can't remember anything that happened in the movie. In fact, when you think about it, you didn't get any real benefit from watching that movie, you didn't even laugh once... Yes. That movie was shown to you, you decided to click on that movie. You watched that movie till the end, but you weren't entertained by that movie. You didn't get any real benefit from watching that movie, you feel that you have wasted the past two hours of your life watching that movie. like it's pretty simple the positive signals" aspect of the youtube algorithm is basically And the positive signals vary from sharing your videos, liking your videos, watching your videos till the end, commenting on your videos, filling out surveys that they enjoyed your video or they didn't. So, there is lots of positive signals that you look at, but eventually they all lead to you making better video and making your 10-minute video worth the viewer's time, how do you track positive signals? will, there is a lots of ways you track the positive signals signals like, shares, comments him click and not interested in your youtube channel or not, him filling out a good survey or not. But why does that matter? Like why does that matter what is even positive signals? Positive signal is the viewer finding your video worthwhile. So, work on that. Don't go look for any metric. Put in the effort, make sure your videos are time worthy are worthwhile. And the think I'm trying to do in the past few months is learning how to make my videos a memory in the viewer's mind. After he watches my video, he will remember it till the day he die. That's what I want my videos to be, and that's what you should do. The more you get this sort of effect, the more you find more people writing in your comments, the more you are on your way on improving your content, don't be a cheap add those extra hours. Go for it, add those extra hours. Learn that new editing trick. Work on the version 17 of your video's thumbnail Because as I told you, there are lots of positive signals youtube looks at they don't matter for you as a youtuber. What matters for you as a youtuber Adding those four hours for that 15-second clip working on your music design and your video editing skills, watching my courses to help to optimize your videos for the youtube algorithm. Like I told you, I have been on YouTube for eight years and there is no shortcut. The only way for you to grow on youtube is actually to put in the hours. and I know you have put the hours, but you just need to optimize them a little bit. And that's what we have covered in this course. That's it. And I'll see in the next lesson where we recap everything. And I tell you the formula you should apply when making your next video. 9. Final Thoughts & Final Conclusion: Welcome to the final lesson of this course. What we're gonna do in this lesson. Well, in fact, in this lesson we are going to recap the four aspects 3 times I'm going to recap each one in like 30 seconds. Then I'm going to recap all of them in 30 seconds. Then I'm going to recap all of them in one single sentence. So, youtube success is getting more subscribers, getting more subscribers is getting more views. Getting more views is judged by four aspects. The impressions, the average view duration, the click-through rate and the positive signals. The impressions aspect of your content creation is basically, you making videos about broader topic using simpler terms when talking in your video, niching out on the topic of a single video, Or niching out on the brand of your youtube channel, the more you niche out, the more your content appeals to the beginners of this same niche. The more impression you manage to get, the more views you manage to get. And now average view duration. Average view duration is basically, how hooking and engaging your videos are. Increasing your average view duration is basically, making your videos less boring. The more you increase your average view duration whether using music or adding subtitles or adding lots of zooms and stock footage, improving your hand gestures, and your facial expressions. The more your average view duration increases the more views you will manage to get. What is a good average view duration? higher Now click-through rate. Click-through rate is how good the thumbnail, the title and the idea of your videos are, not just the thumbnail of your video. The more you work on coming up with more intriguing idea, the more you work on perfecting the title of your video and the thumbnail of your video. The more it is likely for a viewer to click on your video. The more its likely for your video to get more views. Now we move on to the final aspect, which is basically positive signals. There are lots of positive signals that youtube looks at to determine whether your video was actually worthwhile or was just a waste of time. But you don't optimize your videos for the positive signals. You optimize them for the viewer. You make sure your video is the best version of itself, so that youtube knows that your video is worthwhile, leading to your video getting more views, I would recommend that you take a screenshot of your phone or your desktop. Because like your youtube career success is right here. So just to take a screenshot. Okay, now the explanation of the youtube algorithm. to gather success. youtube. You have to get more subscribers. To get more subscribers, you have to get more views. And to get more views, there are four aspects that you need to take great care of. Your impressions. You have to make videos that are broadly appealing. Your average view duration, you have to make hooking and engaging video. Your CTR, you have to make intriguing eye grabbing Thumbnail, titles and ideas. The positive signals coming from your video, which basically means you have to make worthwhile videos. And now to recap everything to achieve success on youtube, you have to make 00:02:53.435 --> 00:02:56.705 This single sentence is your key to success on youtube. and attached to this course you will find also a pdf file You can download. 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