WHO ARE YOU? 10k Subscribers Special (w/ Channel Analytics)

hi there we have just crossed 10000 subscribers on this channel and that is an absolutely mind-blowing number to everyone who's subscribed thank you and today for a bit of a special occasion I thought we would look at you yes you handsome one of the 10,000 subscribers of this channel and we're going to dive into the YouTube analytics and see who you are and what you like and how you behave so if you've never done YouTube as a creator this is what it looks like you can see right here there are ten thousand and seventy one subscribers right now and if you look at the videos attention is all you need is the most popular video on this channel it is also one of the oldest videos on this channel probably it's in many university curricula now and there's like half a lecture allocated to it and that is not enough to understand this paper so people come to this channel I was still using kind of Adobe Reader at the time and itching in sort of there's only one color it's super laggy but for some reason people like it and I'm not gonna debate with people about what they like and what they don't I might do another one on attention is all you need just because I understand Transformers much better nowadays and I think I could do a better job at explaining them more clearly so a lot of the NLP models tend to do very well as videos because I think people are interested and practitioners are interested and they just want to learn about these models and what they're doing also there's Siraj controversy very popular it was a fun event and a sad event this video

right here deconstructing lottery tickets it just outperforms all the other videos absolutely mind-blowing Lee Rockets over everything but if you look at the retention I only retain people for two minutes on average which is the retention is the lowest of any of my videos and I could not understand this for the longest time and that it occurred to me if you title a video deconstructing lottery tickets and you put a bunch of math on the thumbnail people are gonna click and then be very very disappointed when you don't tell them how to win the lottery and that takes them about one to two minutes to notice like oh crap I can't make any money using this video so if you go to the general analytics tabs

it's very interesting to see what people like you see the last 28 days I've uploaded every single day except here this is a bit of a gap I have accidentally deleted the backdrop in the brain video and had to reapplied it the next day so if you look at the last year the views have gone up substantially these subscribers have gone up but they're our subscriber spikes right here and these spikes are usually sometimes when some large personality recommends this channel the channel gains a bunch of subscribers that doesn't necessarily translate into more views it's just people that click on subscribe and then never care anymore the metric that's most interesting to me personally is watch time and as you can see here watch time has gone substantially up in the last month which I find to be encouraging one minute of watch time means that I get to transmit one minute of information to the viewer and that's what really matters to me of course if I'm doing a worse job at explaining then the viewer has to watch for longer but that usually doesn't really work out because they're just gonna click away all right to the fun

part the audience who are you now as you can see here 69% of you are not subscribed what are you doing not being subscribed though this has changed in the last month significantly I believe now it's about half and half what I find most interesting though is that 10% of you have this Bell notification on so 10% of you actively want to be disturbed whenever I upload a video I am incredibly flattered by this is the biggest compliment not even I do this for the channels that I follow demographics also very fun about 93% of you to be male and about 6% of you tend to be female at least according to YouTube's statistics and that's a pretty good intersection of YouTube being mostly male and machine learning field also being mostly male if I'm doing anything to attract any particular type of person please let me know so I can diversify a bit everyone's welcome here you tend to be above 18 which is good because we have very much adult content on this channel I'm happy to see that none of you is underage now I think that's just--that's YouTube just don't not reporting underage statistics but most of you tend to be 18 to 45 years old though to the older viewers you're of course also very welcome though I'm pretty sure that some of these is just because you were underage when you created your account and you just told them you were born in 1923 so most of you tend to come from the United States or India or Germany this is very incomplete list I think the most people simply are in the other category of countries which I think means YouTube just doesn't know but it is cool to see that India is so high up one of the reasons I started this channel so the main reason is because it forces myself to read papers more thoroughly if I have to explain them one other main reason I started this channel was because I thought there was a gap between what you could get from a beginners course any sort of Coursera course and where research is right now and to bridge that gap you basically have to go to a very good university and I know that most of the world doesn't have access to these very good universities so my idea was to kind of bridge that gap to make that person that has a basic understanding of machine learning be able to be up to speed with current research to be able to read current research papers and the fact that I have quite a number of people watching from countries where top universities maybe aren't located is very encouraged to me thanks for watching from all around the world one person is watching

this with Russian subtitles da okay we can go into the advanced statistics here and that is pretty interesting as well you see here most videos kind of spike when they come out especially the news videos they tend to be very popular just the moment that I release them and then they sort of fall down traffic source I find particularly interesting if you look at the last 90 days there are these spikes and these spikes tend to come mainly from Google searches so at some point people simply Google search for stuff and then they find this channel which is encouraging most people actually search for attention is all you need or things like this YouTube doesn't show you anymore what people search on Google but YouTube shows you what people searched for on YouTube and that tends to be mostly attention is all you need new 0 my name hello so if you correlate these spikes in searches with geography some of these spikes tend to be worldwide like this one here or this one here but this particular spike is only United States and if you look at the videos that I released during that time period one of these videos right here so either it is the shmita bird drama a lot of people searching for that maybe it's imagenet v2 or the online conferences I don't know you can see right here I didn't make many subscribers of these spikes it's simply people being interested in content which is pretty cool it is also interesting to see that these spikes right here they correspond mainly to mobile phone users so mobile phone users go in Google searching for content on this channel I have no idea what's going on alright now the last question to solve is of course monetization how much money does this channel make and the answer is none so far so there are multiple reasons why I haven't applied for monetization yet I find YouTube ads just incredibly annoying especially now that they've decided to stick to ads in front of videos I just don't want to bug users with that if you look at what I gained from it it's not that much any money that I would make I would like to sort of reinvest into the channel and right now I just don't have any requirements that might change in the future maybe once we get to a hundred thousand subscribers alright that was it for YouTube analytics of this channel I hope you are still enjoying this content if you're not subscribed please do next update will be at a hundred thousand and I hope that everything is as enjoyable as ever thank you for watching thank you for subscribing thanks for being here and to the future