What Types Of Videos Get The Most Traffic On Your Channel?

[Hypertard]

That is interesting ... what's the retention rate on that one? lol

about 2 seconds

 

[Hypertard]

I didn't know about retention or thumbnail guidelines, i tend to either use dreadful puns or a one liner that is related to the video. Is that fair use?

 

[SalvageSV]

I didn't know about retention or thumbnail guidelines, i tend to either use dreadful puns or a one liner that is related to the video. Is that fair use?

Well, there is no retention guideline. There are some general suggestions from YouTube, like the thumbnail should relate to the video. It's breach of use if you like have a woman in a swimsuit on the thumbnail and then it's a video about cleaning out your fridge, ya know? If it can be related to the video you're good. Just as long as it's not purposely misleading.

Same with titles and tags. You can't have a title that's like "Captain America: Civil War deleted footage" and then show you riding in traffic ... I mean, unless you have an early access BluRay and are giving a critique of the deleted scenes.

Retention is just a gauge of how good or bad your thumbnail and title are. If retention plummets immediately, you're maybe not getting viewers who are interested beyond your witting thumbnail, which doesn't do much for your channel in the long run.

 

[JonJeoprdy]

Oh, I know. That line is just one I struggle to tow at times. I'm probably way too conservative with my thumbs.

I hear ya, IMO the thumbnail is one of the most important things to nail. It's about the only thing that makes you stand out when the search results come up or along the side of other videos. Which is why I'd rather get a few people leaving quickly than not attracting anyone at all. Just my .02

 

[kryten]

Dude, I in no way meant that to be a call out or anything! I know you're busy. I am too.

Furreals tho ... we need to ride soon! I think both of our bikes should be cured of major ailments at this point.

I didn't take it as a callout. I do feel bad that I've just been sitting on the video though. I need to schedule time to edit. I've got so much footage and no time to edit so I've actually stopped recording just to keep from having it all pile up even more.

 

[OEGG]

I'm just starting out so I dont get traffic from many sources, but I do attend some group rides/events. I posted up of video of the New England Riders Meet & Greet event and shared it on their facebook wall. It did well. Like I said, for someone with a measly 11 subs lol. I enjoyed it though.

 

[SalvageSV]

I'm just starting out so I dont get traffic from many sources, but I do attend some group rides/events. I posted up of video of the New England Riders Meet & Greet event and shared it on their facebook wall. It did well. Like I said, for someone with a measly 11 subs lol. I enjoyed it though.

Meet videos make sense. That's something I haven't tried myself. But I know the huge GA meetup recently is getting decent views for several people.

 

[OEGG]

Meet videos make sense. That's something I haven't tried myself. But I know the huge GA meetup recently is getting decent views for several people.

Yea, I live up in New England and it seems there isn't many vloggers up here that I know of... Id love it if there was vlogging events closer to me. I dont mind traveling 3 hours, 3 days is a bit much...

 

[SalvageSV]

Yea, I live up in New England and it seems there isn't many vloggers up here that I know of... Id love it if there was vlogging events closer to me. I dont mind traveling 3 hours, 3 days is a bit much...

Yeah, it was only about 3 hours from me but I wasn't able to attend, sadly. Several of the local guys, including @Skarcrow, did go though.

 

[SalvageSV]

I found this interesting ... more people are interested in the Zero electric bike than Ducatis ... or, at least, the Scrambler. I didn't expect that.

 

[Hypertard]

I found this interesting ... more people are interested in the Zero electric bike than Ducatis ... or, at least, the Scrambler. I didn't expect that.

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The future of things is always interesting! I would love to test an electric bike...

 

[DRAY]

Put it this way PewDiePie has the No1 youtube channel and by a long way.

So there are 2 theories you can use here, do something similar and springboard off him, or do something nothing like it and hope for the best.

As for my own channel. Its a helmet review video, followed my my 2 falling off video's, then my randoms video.

Think my gopro vs drift one will take over shortly.

Man, i had never heard of pewdiepie, did a search on it, looked at his video history and reeled back in gross terror. by the looks of it, if i watched one of his vids it would be like rubbing my fingers in a snotty tissue. i have no idea how this guy can have 45 million subs and i think i never will. This guy must have cornered the weirdo market.

In terms of the my most popular vids that still get the most hits, it would be the install video and review i did on my bike, I actually linked the videos on forum related thread which i think started off a big trend. pretty soon every dude who had the same model bike was buying parts to do the mod install.
You give and you get I suppose.
The question is, how to you replicate that success.

 

[Viper1350]

Man, i had never heard of pewdiepie, did a search on it, looked at his video history and reeled back in gross terror. by the looks of it, if i watched one of his vids it would be like rubbing my fingers in a snotty tissue. i have no idea how this guy can have 45 million subs and i think i never will. This guy must have cornered the weirdo market.

In terms of the my most popular vids that still get the most hits, it would be the install video and review i did on my bike, I actually linked the videos on forum related thread which i think started off a big trend. pretty soon every dude who had the same model bike was buying parts to do the mod install.
You give and you get I suppose.
The question is, how to you replicate that success.

I feel the same about PewDiePie. His stuff is beyond weird. Maybe we're the weird ones for not liking the content?

 

[chix]

Motorcycle related - reviews are some of my highest viewed videos, behind that are how-tos and guides, crash videos, projects, and lastly, rando vlogs.

 

[SalvageSV]

Motorcycle related - reviews are some of my highest viewed videos, behind that are how-tos and guides, crash videos, projects, and lastly, rando vlogs.

Seems about the same for me.

As I mentioned earlier though, I was trying something a little different. I specifically did a vlog on a highly debated topic. It's my latest video on the proper way to make a left turn. I've had several debates about it on social media and knew I had an audience. So far it's doing well, but time will tell. I'm hoping for some organic sharing from people who recently had this debate, but we'll see.