YT Episode 108

Julia gives rapid-fire answers on the importance of the “little” things like adding tags to your videos, a good description, and location settings. She also discusses how the algorithm treats your channel when you return from a break. Don’t worry, most of these are easier than you think!  Main Topic: Does It Matter? 00:33 Location…

Ricky & Nathan are talking about YouTube Analytics and Stats. They’ll walk through which ones matter and how often you should check them. Main Topic: YouTube Analytics & Stats 01:15 P24 Question: Click Thru, Retention, & Performance 06:49 Over Analyzing 07:18 Analytics to Look at Regularly 18:13 Analytics Not to Stress About 19:29 When Subs…

This week, Nathan and Julia discuss the lesser prioritized art of creating a good thumbnail, how much it should reveal, and ways to evaluate your thumbnail. Listen in and share your thoughts in the Community comments. Main Topic: The Complexity of a Good Thumbnail 01:23  Creating Good Thumbnails04:28  Over Explaining vs Under Explaining12:26  Scroll Stopping19:03 …

In this episode Nate & Ricky dive into best practices and ideas for channels that create series videos. They share their recommendations for producing series videos in a gaming entertainment channel. They also respond to a member question about A/B testing. Main Topic: Series Channels & A/B Testing 02:58 YouTube & Series 04:28 Recommendations for…

In this episode, Nate talks about what to do if you find yourself with a divided audience and how to focus your channel audience using the channel archetypes discussed in Episode 9. Main Topic: Focusing Your Channel Audience 00:43 Divided YouTube Audience 04:07 Approaches to a Divided Audience 06:02 Considering Archetypes 11:30 Determining Your Archetype…

In this episode, Nate teaches when it is (and isn’t!) a good idea to delete a video from your YouTube channel. As an added bonus, he also share his findings from a “Best for Viewer” End Screen experiment he conducted. Main Topic: Deleting Videos From Your Channel 00:48 Off-Topic Videos 02:32 Attracting the Wrong Audience…