Hi, I'm going to have a rant about Youtube playlist because as a content creator, it is one of the most frustrating features or lack of or underutilized features in all of Youtube. And it just, ah, it just annoys me so much that Youtube are not taking playlists seriously. And let me show you why. I've been creating videos on Youtube for almost 13 years now.

I've been a full-time Youtube content creator for almost 11 years now and they have not fixed this and it's so frustrating. Let's uh, look right, here's my main Ev blog channel. Okay, sure. Okay, they've got this tab up the top.

It's called Playlist Now because I'm a very eclectic, uh channel. I've built up my audience based on a huge variety of different content. Now, this may not apply to all youtubers. some Youtubers just make the same con style of content over and over and over again, and they have absolutely no use for playlists And that's fine.

But for content creators like me that do create like dozens, literally dozens of different styles of content. and here's all of my playlists. Okay, you can actually go and see them. Okay, and I've got that.

like check them out, right? These are all the different playlists and I've spent the last. I don't know. when did playlist start? Anyway, I've spent the last like decade or more like 12 or 13 years carefully put in every one of my like 1800 different videos or however many I have into all these different playlists. But hardly anyone uses or even knows about play.

that playlist actually exist. And let me actually show you how many people how many views I actually get from a playlist and then we'll go into why this is not the case. Okay, here's my channel analytics here for my main channel here. So I've got uh, what is it? 28 million total impressions? Um, in the last 28 days, that's impressions.

That means it's been like displayed, uh to people either on like the search results or the pages or whatever. But my actual views there? They are there. One and a half million views there. Okay and watch time 216 000 hours, right? Great and look most of my content.

687 000 views comes from the browse features. so that's from the home page subscription. like and subscribe. You know.

Give it a thumbs up. do the bell notification, all that sort of stuff. We tell you that for a reason and I'll go into a another reason why that's not enough these days. Anyway, suggested videos is my second most, uh, popular way.

25 or most of my views come from Youtube actually suggesting my content. So this is the out the algorithm, uh, trademark and deciding whether or not it's going to bless me with some you know, to feature my video in search results or suggested videos or something like that. And then there's uh, people searching is the third most. 10 of my views come from that and then external, uh, stuff like my web page and stuff like that 5.5 percent of views or if my video is embedded on some other web page.

but I believe most of that comes from my, uh, website evblog.com link down below. And then it's another five percent from channel pages from Youtube. even mine or other channel pages direct or unknown not knowing other Youtube features. um, traffic wonder that doesn't fall into any other categories.

And then notification views. Uh, from notifications and emails sent to subscribers. So only 1.4 of my views apparently come from people clicking the emails uh, that you know supposedly are sent to people like notifications or to your phone or whatever. But most my people actually view most of my viewers actually view on desktop by the way.

um, the majority. not these newfangled shoe phone things. Anyway, only 1.4 of my traffic comes from subscribers, so it's almost as if Youtube aren't sending out notifications. Oh, we're all shocked.

No Youtube is shocked. No. Anyway, um, yeah, it's 1.4 Are you kidding me? I know that a huge percentage of my Uh audience are subscribed to 850 000 subscribers and only 1.4 come from there. Anyway, these are all mini rants in their own right.

And here it is. Finally we get down to playlist: 1.3 of my views. Or if actually this is playlist, this is like, uh, this could be mine or other people's playlists. Um, but this is my playlist page which I showed you before with all the you know, the playlist tab or whatever.

half a percent. So a combined total of like under two percent. Under two percent of my views come from playlists. And why is this a problem? Well, let me show you.

let's use another browser. logged out. Don't have a Youtube account and this is what a non-subscriber or even subscribers would see. Uh, for my videos here.

Here's one of my recent, uh, debunking, uh. videos, right? And where is the playlist? This video is included in the debunking. Let me show you here. It is here.

Here it is. Scroll down here. This is inside my video. It's in the Debunking playlist.

Here's all my playlists that I have. Every single time I upload a video, I go to the effort to put it in a playlist. Yet Youtube just ignores it and pisses it away. Uh, the playlist feature.

Nobody ever sees it. Because if you go back to here, Where? where is the playlist when you're watching one of my videos, or one of whoever you follow, Any content creator is the same. It's not just me, right. where look it? It puts the tags down here.

Electronics Creators which is a tag several Us electronics Youtube has actually put in so you can have a click on that and Indiegogo on marketing. So it puts in the hashtags and stuff. But where is the playlist now? I'm sure. I'm not sure how many years ago leave it in the comments down below.

if you know, and when they change this, I think the playlist used to show up here, right? It used to show up here, but now, of course. look, they've got an ad up there. Which is fine, right? This is one you know, and part of the way that I, um, earn some revenue is like the ads popped up. Here's an ad you know, quite a relevant ad for uh, Salee.com the sale logic analyzer for example.

But like there is nothing else here. There's other recommended videos, of course, some of which are my own. Like here, it is like other Eev blog videos. Great.

Okay, thank you. There's a great Scott video. I have no idea who Nile Blue is. It looks like, um, some sort of chemistry or something.

Is it? I don't know. Um, and yeah. great. Okay, and here's my second channel as well, right? So they put up good recommendations.

But where is the playlist? If you like this content, this debunking video that I've done, Where is the playlist? Why? Why? Why Why can't they have it right next to the description? Look at all this wasted white space down here. Look, it's all gone. Why can't they have a link that just says this is part of you know, the playlist debunking And then you click on that and you get all of my debunking videos. Why can't they do that? Why? Youtubers have been screaming for this for, you know, ever since time.

Immortal, I think. And it's just. it's just not there. How hard would it be to put it there? This is why nobody ever sees playlists because hardly anyone goes over to like the actual uh, Youtube channel itself and clicks on this, uh, playlist thing here.

Hardly anyone. And this is why the metrics are so piss-poor that only you know less than two percent of my views come from playlists come on right? And to a content creator like me who creates dozens of different type of content, this is so incredibly annoying. People subscribe for different reasons. They like different content.

Not all my very small percentage of people watch every single one of my videos. They've got their own particular taste and I'm like that as well. When I watch other youtubers, I might have a certain style of video that they like, which you know, I don't care for their other content and that's fine and dandy. So let's say, for example, you really liked my Dc fundamentals.

uh, tutorial video. Okay, if you click here here, it is. It does. actually.

uh, show up here. The playlist actually shows up because we're with inside a list. You can see it up here in the url. So if you go through the playlist, you actually get this feature here.

But when you actually stumble across one of my videos, or even if you're a subscriber and You go in and you play one of my videos, you have no idea it's part of a playlist? None whatsoever. You have to go through the playlist before you can see the playlist. Do you see the problem? So why can't Youtube not only on the video page actually put out, not through here, but actually put up just a text link there. a little link that says this is part of a playlist uh, you know, Dc Fundamentals or whatever and click on it and it takes you to this page which then has all of the stuff here.

I can understand they don't want to clutter the sidebar with playlists and that's fine. But how hard is it to put a little link down here somewhere? And for channels like mine that produce a whole range of different content? I'm always asking myself ever since day one, Should I have multiple channels for everything? Because should I have like, just a Eev blog? tutorials channel? Should I just have an Eev blog debunking channel? Should I just have an Eev blog? Repairs channel? Uh, you know, a teardown channel? A mailbag channel? All that sort of stuff. And as it uh, turns out, I've actually only got three. I've got my Ev Discover channel.

Lots of good video here. Like you know, actual some original uh, proof I did that we landed on the moon. For example, 747. Um.

see I visited a 747 simulator and lots of Nasa staff and other really cool things. Um, you know, on my Eevee Discover channel. And then there's of course my Evlog 2 channel which just has a real random eclectic mix of stuff. And I've actually, uh, polled my audience several times before whether or not I should actually create more channels and separate the content out into the different channels.

And the vast majority of people said no, I'm happy with the three channels you've got. Now, please don't make any more and put everything in playlist. Well, I've been putting everything in playlist for like the last 13 years or something and I'm not seeing any benefit from this whatsoever. It's almost that like the playlist almost not might not exist.

Those who seek it out and like want to view playlists, they might actually see on my channel that there's a playlist tab. They might know about it and go in there and seek it out. But basically, if you stumble across one of my videos like like this, you are not going to see. There's no indication at all of playlists on here.

So why Youtube? Why can't you like add value? All most creators I know put stuff into playlist yet it's hidden away. When you stumble across a channel, you want to know that this uh, creator makes different types of like a particular style of content so make it really obvious and it'd be really fantastic. Why can't you have a subscribe to playlist button like we're inside the playlist Here I've gone to the effort to seek out the playlist. Why can't I subscribe to a playlist? Because like, seriously, how hard is it to code that couple of dozen lines of code? Maybe I don't know, but like, how hard would that be to allow people to subscribe to a playlist? So that on a very wide-ranging eclectic channel like mine, people can subscribe to only the content that they want.

They only like, you know, five different types of my videos and just you know, don't like everything else so they don't They shouldn't get alerted to that sort of stuff. Why Why can't we have a subscribe to playlist button and make playlists prominent on this page? Is it Is it too much to ask? Seriously. Anyway, I rant over. let me know your thoughts and comments down below.

Is this a good idea? Do you like should playlist be more visible Should you be able to subscribe Uh, to playlist? Will this help you out? As a viewer of an electric ecliptic channel like mine that has a ride wide ranging style of content, the creators that I watch I only would watch you know often certain types of their content. so it'd be great for me to just be able to subscribe to the ones I want. So then uh, you'd I? You probably don't have to send out as many emails, your server, your Youtube server doesn't go because it's got to send out. You know, 20 billion emails or whatever.

Potentially less because it only has to send out the alerts and notifications for the particular type of content that people watch on a channel. And sure, there's channels out there that have absolutely no use for playlists and everyone subscribes to watch every single video. And that's fine. But come on, all of us creators.

Here's my dashboard, right? For the last 13 years, I've been sticking things in playlists here. They all are right. Video Accounts: 74 videos in my 74 repair videos I've put in there 93 in blab, uh, videos? Can I? and can I even sort by that? No, I don't think I can. Um, yeah, and this is not.

I've got multiple pages of these, right? 148 videos, 12 videos, 19 videos, 158 videos For product reviews and and tear downs, I've been carefully categorizing every time I upload. Creators have gone to this effort and Youtube just don't care. They just the the playlist feature almost might not exist for I'm going to all this effort, right? All that stuff's there for a lousy. like.

less than two percent of my views come from playlist. Come on. If you made it more prominent, I guarantee that would go up by at least an order of magnitude. Anyway, I had to get that out of my system.

Let me know what you think down below and as always, give it a big thumbs up and install the um, dislike counter plug-in which you can get for your browser so you can still see the dislikes. So anyway, also leave it in the comments down below. Do you seek out and use playlists Because it's obvious only a very small percentage of people actually do this? Would you want to see it? Is it obvious that I have a playlist and all of my content is categorized in there? Would this be a useful feature to you? Let us know down below on hassle, Youtube, on the Twitters and everything Teamyoutube. Catch you next time.