Hi Just thought I'd show you something interesting in my Youtube analytics here. Now if you want any uh, evidence that Youtubers are constantly pushed more and more, uh, to produce click-baity titles and you know, shouty, controversial, uh type videos and content in order, uh, to get recommended in the algorithm trademark. It's all about the algorithm and this mysterious algorithm youtube algorithm that no one knows how it really works. But you know that if you uh, produce uh videos that are, you know, click-baity and and get popular and get engaged with uh, you know, thumbs up, You can't thumbs down.

We can still thumbs down and I can still see it with a plug-in. But anyway, like if people engage with videos and they're more popular and you do more outrageous things to uh, please the algorithm, then you'll get recommended more. It's like a positive feedback mechanism. You keep feeding the algorithm and it'll keep boosting you up and it'll just feed upon itself and boom off you go viral and you want some proof that this happening? Well, you don't have to guess at all.

Youtube literally tell you here. It is right here. Here's my latest video. What's this Smd part and you can see the blue line.

Here is how this video is actually doing and this gray region here. This is what pre my previous videos have done now. um it. It doesn't actually uh tell you how many previous videos over what time period that it actually calculates this window of uh data here.

But hey it's you can show and see that my latest video is just a smidgen above, right? It tells you there you go. 19 200. Typically, I get up to 17 700 after this amount of time and this is a really good you know Youtubers see this graph. It's the first thing you see when you go into the analytics for a video.

You don't have to go into anything advanced. it's just in the overview here. And yeah, you can see that I've been slightly above my previous video and views are up five percent. A lousy five percent over where it's it's calculated that previous window is.

But this is enough to trigger the algorithm into recommending my video more. Look at this more. Regular viewers are choosing to watch this video and I'm sure engagement too That or that all counts into the algorithm as well. and they're watching longer than usual, helping to increase its reach on Youtube recommendations.

There it is right there. They they tell you that because your views are up five percent and your watch time is up compared to, however, it analyzes your previous videos, it's going to recommend this video more so you know you might be able to see. I don't know. Maybe a little uptick there where I'd normally expect it to flatten out.

It's kind of like uptick in a little bit. Not a good example. Um, but you can, possibly, uh, see that there. Maybe there's a little uptick there as well.

It's because it was above my previous videos. The algorithm recommends it. More like you don't have to guess at this stuff. Youtube literally tell you this.

So this is the constant pressure Youtubers are under to feed their algorithm and make sure your new video is more popular than your previous video and there's just more pressure, pressure, pressure build up. And some Youtubers just you know, uh, blow a gasket and um, it can't handle it anymore and this is like in your face, right? This is like right here in the overview. Of course this like doesn't bother me. I've said in a previous uh rant video how like I've deliberately done videos.

I know that will do poorly in like whiteboard tutorial videos. My Ac new Ac tutorial series are linking the video up here if you haven't seen it and how I deliberately do those videos even though I know I'm going to get hammered in the algorithm. But this actually raises an interesting question. If you know that you've got, you know, a video you've got in the bag coming up is going to be like really popular.

It'll have broader appeal for example, and I don't know, you might be able to do some really nice clickbaity thumb title or title and thumbnail. Um, and then what would happen if you then deliberately did a couple of bad videos. Not bad videos, but videos You knew boring videos that you knew weren't going to get a lot of views if you did like, you know, like maybe a handful of those first, I don't know how many. If you know how they actually calculate this, leave it in the comments, but I doubt anyone knows otherwise.

you'd be able to game the algorithm right. And the whole point is that it's a mystery. Nobody knows how the algorithm works, but I'm wondering if you could deliberately do like a couple of boring videos in a row and then that would drag down this average and then all of a sudden boom, you release your big popular one. Will it do better? Hmm.

That would be an interesting experiment. I don't I'm not going to test it, but um, let us know if you know other Youtubers that have tested this kind of thing and does it work. I don't know, but I don't. I don't have a mainstream, uh, appeal, which is my why my videos now almost never go viral or anything like that.

I just want to show you that this is what Youtube shows us youtubers every single time we log in and I've done that video on how they remove the dislike to protect us because oh, we don't want to see that. Um, you know we've been abused by all these dislikes and you can just go in like I'll go back and I'll show you and I've done a video on this here. It is right. Here is where I go into my content and it tells me the number of dislikes.

Anyway, it's right in your face. They lied to us. Yeah, like they said, oh, we're burying it away for your protection, right? It's just in your face right there and as is this in your face right there It it tells you it always comes like this: This sort of text changes depending on how if it's under. I can't remember what it says, But like it says, oh, your video's doing poorly, you loser.

It's just like they don't want to protect creators, right? They've got these messages in here and it literally tells you that if you do better than all your previous videos, we're going to recommend you more. Um, so that's just constant pressure to do better. It's just nuts. Anyway, it doesn't bother me, I just make the videos I want to make and I don't try and chase the algorithm, but just realize that a lot of other youtubers you may, uh, watch a like they're under this sort of pressure to keep producing more content and uh, and as a side note, yeah, 143.

Uh. estimated revenue for that video? Uh, 44 000 views? That's actually a Cpm or cost per mil or revenue per uh thousand views basically of uh, 3.20 which isn't too bad. Um, yeah. Normally, like a video of this, it'll get like 50 or 80 bucks or something like that.

so it's going up a little bit. But anyway, um, it still doesn't pay for the time to actually make the video really. Although this one was pretty easy to make, but you get the idea. So I hope you like that little behind the scenes here in uh, the youtube analytics here and how uh, Youtubers and constant pressure to produce anyway.

leave your thoughts and comments down below. As always, if you liked it, give it a big thumbs up and engage. And maybe this one. Actually, I'll put this one as a blab on my main channel and see what happens.

Um, yeah, why not catch you next time.