# Reviewing YOUR YouTube Channels (for FREE!) ## Метаданные - **Канал:** vidIQ - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0 - **Дата:** 12.05.2026 - **Длительность:** 1:52:05 - **Просмотры:** 6,226 ## Описание Get channel coach now👉https://vidiq.com/coaching/ 🎮IF YOU ARE A GAMING CHANNEL FILL OUT THIS FORM: https://forms.gle/VpRfunhz24u7WUa98 📋 IF YOU ARE A NON-GAMING CHANNEL FILL OUT THIS FORM: https://forms.gle/b3iMwc1kovhaxq9Z8 CONNECT WITH US! =============================== 🛠️ - vidIQ CUSTOMER SUPPORT: support@vidIQ.com 👥 - FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vidiq/ 🎵 - https://www.tiktok.com/@vidiq.tiktok 🐦 - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/vidIQ 🦋 - BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/vidiq.bsky.social 📸 - IG: https://www.instagram.com/vidiq/ 💬 - DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vidiq =============================== #moresubscribers #moreviews #GrowYourChannel ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) This is your weekly YouTube channel audit live stream. All you need to do is use the correct link in the description, fill out the form, and we'll consider your channel for review. That's right. Channel reviews are free, but you can send us a super chat and watch us discuss your question live on air. If you submit your channel for review, expect the following. We will share with you our knowledge, experience, and passion as fellow YouTube creators. I want to give a massive shout out and thanks to our moderators who do an awesome job every single live stream. That's your onboarding done. What channels have you brought us this week? Hello. Welcome back everybody to another VidIQ channel review live stream. Fun fact, this is actually not live for more of you than it is live for the people watching right now because more people watch this after the fact. So, we are a little late, but it doesn't matter to the majority of you, which is kind of cool. So, shout out to those of you who are watching this after it was a live stream and didn't say they're late because you don't know the difference and I appreciate that because I can be as late as I want then. It's awesome. Not just me though. Rob Wilson is also late. — [cheering] — Hey everybody. I love it how Dan finds a way every single week to alienate the community and he's done another fine job this week. I hope you're all grand, lovely, creating awesome stuff and we're really looking forward to auditing your channels today. Isn't that right, Dan? — Alpha is also late. Hey yo, — what's going on, guys? — How's it going? man? — Uh, so yes, no, I am looking forward to auditing some channels. Uh, we got a whole bunch pulled up here and then we'll do some randoms as well and that should be a nice full day. So, uh, is everybody ready? — Well, wait. Who is Jeff? For those of you that are not on the stream every single week, I think we should give — That's not fair of me. Yeah, — the big plug — or he can plug himself. — Either or. But uh yeah. Yeah, first things first. So, my name is Jeff. I have it he up on the screen, but yeah, my name is Jeff and I'm one of the coaches with the Vid IQ one-on-one coaching program. Uh for a lot of people who've been a part of our Vid IQ community here in the live show. I've been I was a mainstay. I was here for a long time every week. Uh but I've gotten so busy over the past few years with coaching that it's just kind of been rough. But — but that being said, I'm excited to be here with you guys. We're going to be checking out some channels. uh giving as much feedback and advice as we can. Um so shout out to everybody who's here. who is submitting their channels for uh for audits and yeah, I'm just happy to be here, man. But um also love the coaching program. So we've got people who've been in our program who are also in the chat. Um but if anybody's ever decided to um you know check us out, make sure you do. We'd love to have you. It is an undeniable fact that Dan and myself are mere amateurs when it comes to coaching. And these channel audits are just a tease of the awesome advice and guidance you can get. And that will be proved by the number of knowledge bombs I will be um pushing Jeff's way uh this week. So start with a free channel audit here and then get a proper coach. It's my advice. — That's right. — All right. So, uh, thank you for indulging us. And Jeff, welcome back. We're — There's more indulgence to come later on. — No, that was it. Uh, all right. We're going to take a look at the first channel today that we're taking a look at. Not the first channel submitted because a lot of you keep submitting early on the forum that we've already seen, which is interesting. So, I picked somebody I didn't remember. Uh Dave's show 454 subscribers, 221 videos. Their — their form reads as follows. Uh they describe their target audience as superhero fans and comic books. So fans of comic books, superheroes. All right. Uh their biggest obstacle, they're not able to get people to watch their videos and they want to know how they can improve to get their videos recommended. So by the way, one quick forum thing. Uh, if you guys could link your channel and not just put the at handle, that helps us out. I had to This was a nice specific one. So, it popped right up, but sometimes they're not very specific and we're not sure who's who. So, uh, this could get you skipped, but I did not skip Dave's show. Uh, just quick FYI. All right. Um, so here's what we're taking a look at. First impressions. — Okay. I want to ask a question right off the bat here. Um, and this is a bit to, uh, for Jeff's um, thoughts on this. So, if you just scroll back up to the top down to get a basic layout of this channel, they've made 200 videos. So, they've been doing this for a while and ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) they're close to 500 subscribers. But if you look at the videos themselves, we're at a point now where everything made in the last week has less than 10 videos and everything on screen right now has less than 50 views. So that suggests to me that this creator has been trying something for hundreds of videos and it's not worked to the point where now there might be a bit of a trust issue with the quoteunquote YouTube algorithm and their channel. And I want to ask Jeff this question like when you see a channel that is just struggling so much to gain any momentum whatsoever. Is there ever a case of say you know what it might actually be better to just start a brand new channel with like a really fresh strategy or would you advise like continuing to work on this channel but a new strategy? Um, I think first personally I don't I would start because starting a new channel to me is kind of like the nuclear option and a lot of creators don't want to do that especially when they feel like they've already begun building a community and that sort of thing. So if they feel really tied closely to this then I would recommend um a whole new strategy and being super consistent moving forward. But there's obviously things that this creator needs to do that they need to address immediately. Um, if we start at the top, the banner, we need to have I think what what's lacking is value proposition. Like what am I going to get from Dave show? What does that mean? What does Dave show mean? Um, so we need to know what exactly is going on this channel cuz right now I don't know. And then packaging when we talk about titles, thumbnails, we really needed to address that um as soon as possible to start getting these things to be clickable because you can have the best content around comic books. like you could have the best opinions, you could be super funny and charismatic, but nobody's going to find that out if your thumbnails aren't clickable if you don't if you can't stop me from scrolling past you. So, I think that's going to be a big one. But, yeah, I think new strategy, first things first, working on the packaging, making sure that you know who you're trying to reach with your content, making sure that your video topics are chosen based on who your target audience is. Um, so that you can have consistency, so you can be consistent with every single video targeting the exact same viewer. And that can turn a channel around. I've seen it happen multiple times. — But you have to really commit to something like that. And some creators aren't willing to do that. Not saying they won't, but you know, I've seen it go both ways. — There you go. I was just laying up Jeffy's first — knowledge bomb within the first minute. — So, I will just add on to what you all have said and just in terms of packaging, I feel like some of the topics on this channel could actually work really well. It's just the packaging is like close but not quite there. So, I like this one. Things Dr. Doom can do in Avengers Doomsday. — As somebody who's like reading the comic books, this person has like a unique advantage over someone like me who would just watch the movie, right? I don't read the comics, but I'm interested. I would like since there's not a lot of information about the movie yet, I would love the speculation of here's like all the options for Robert Downey Jr. 's Dr. Doom when we see him in Avengers Doomsday. But I would be using Robert Downey Jr. 's face and then I would tease it with some text like, you know, this wouldn't be what you would say, but like kills everybody and then an arrow pointing at Robert Downey Jr. maybe with his like Dr. Doom costume or something. — Dan's trying to spoil it. — I By the way, all those notifications are me. I — No matter what I do, I can't seem to get the notifications to stop. Okay, sorry about that. If you if your Slack and Discord didn't go off, that was just me. Sorry. Um, so I would just say the Robert Denny Jr. Dr. Doom right now is really recognizable because that's like mass media we're talking about and you are talking about that but you keep using the comic book imagery and it's also not like full screen thumbnails and things like that. So you're like missing out on the click. It's nice that you're not just reacting to the trailer. You're like going back into the backlogs and saying like these are all the things I think Marvel could do based on the stories I've read. And whenever I watch comic book movies with my friends growing up I would always go to them and say like you read the comics like what's you know what was that all about? Was that accurate to what happens in the comics? I was always interested. So, those could be cool conversations and I would take your comic book knowledge as expertise and lead with that. But use the imagery people recognize when you make your thumbnails. Like I a lot of people don't see this and have nostalgia for it. But we definitely know what Robert Downey Jr. looks like and we're excited to see him come back in Doomsday. — I have two more uh small observations. If you just scroll down a little bit down here and not don't click on these, but can you just mouse over these ones which look like they have clips from the trailers or the films or they're not actually playing? — They were before. I don't know why now. — Uh cuz what I was wondering is like were these kind of edited clips from the trailers or the movies and then if you scroll up to the top we have these uh three videos where they're now getting ### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=600s) Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) in front of camera. So again, that feels like quite a pivot from what might have been like a faceless editing channel, which we've seen many of, to them trying to inject more of themselves into the content, which is brilliant to see. And you know, we do have this I mean, it's a t in terms of the grand scheme of views on YouTube, it's a tiny outlier, but it is a big outlier for them, but it got more than 30 views. And so that's encouraging to see as well. Oh, yeah. And the most recent one that you just moused over, Dan, and it's them again. Um, that's kind of like a faceless human channel. — Yeah, — it's Spider-Man. Peter Parker is on YouTube. That's brilliant. — Yeah, I've seen quite a few of them where people wear masks and stuff. It's cool though. Like I don't mind. Some people don't want to show their face and that's totally fair cuz even for like for myself when I first started my first initial videos, I wasn't on camera. I get what that fear feels like. So, um, but even so, being there, showing that there is an actual human there, that's that makes a big connection. even if they can't see your face. — I'd say that's necessary these days. So, no, it's good that they're doing that. And yeah, I think some of these later videos are really good ideas for like a small channel to kind of tackle to hopefully become a big channel. Avengers Doomsday Predictions, but like every single in every single instance, the thumbnails are not speaking to me at all. I would scroll right past these. So, I would definitely be trying to scale up in that department. Also, quickly, uh, topic focus, I can see, uh, Minecraft Skywars, Resident Evil games, things that can happen in, um, uh, Five Nights at Freddy's. — I I feel as if it was pitched as a Marvel channel, and — they're straying too much, I think, for what their audience would probably like to see. — Yeah. And these were just this year, too. So, — yeah, I do think channel focus, it needs to be at the forefront, for sure. I think they've got plenty to be working on there. Uh — Dan, — yes. So, we will move on to the next channel. This is going to be our first gaming channel we're looking at today. — Yeah. — And uh they say their target audience is the zombie survival genre. Uh biggest obstacles first 30 seconds thumbnails and titles. And what part of your channel want to focus on? Everything because I want to get more into live streams and shorts while making quality long form content. So, I want to like stop on this right here just for a second and talk a little bit about doing three things at once like that. As someone who's done that many times and continues to dabble in all three of those mediums, uh, it's a lot. And I feel like it's a for a lot of creators, especially if you got other stuff going on. This is not your full-time job. You're going to be kind of okay at three different things. and what you want to be so you can grow is really good at one thing and try and maybe introduce one of the other two like later on. I think you can dabble in all three, but I really would focus make your primary focus one of these. I would suggest long form content, but we'll get into the channel and see kind of what they're doing. — Yeah. Okay. — All right. And the channel is Rig by Nater, I think. — Hey, nice. Well done on 1500 subscribers. Yeah, — good view counts there in the top row. Matching subscriber count sometimes exceeding. Y — that's very encouraging. — What do you want to look at shorts? Should we quickly look at shorts and then see what the health of those is as well? — Okay, we got some tens of thousands here. — That's pretty good as well. — Maybe um forcing you to re adjust your opinion here, Dan. Let's have a look at lives. uh lives. Okay. So, — not bad though. Not bad for replays. Not bad. — Yeah. Well, you're probably thinking maybe they at least have a room full of people maybe watching their content like 10, 20, 30 concurrent viewersh. — So, like I appreciate what you say like and usually I would agree with you, but it feels like in all of the disciplines they have some growth in all areas. So, I wouldn't unless they're finding it overwhelming. — Mh. [clears throat] And you know there is that argument of hey let's say if you put all of your time into long form content just imagine where you could be in six months as opposed to 18 months if you're still making shorts and live streams. So I think that is a choice that the creator does have to make. And if they have to make that decision I think for them right now it would be like do you really enjoy making shorts more or do you enjoy making long form content more? — The answer may be well long form content actually pays some money. Hopefully they've hit monetization. feels like they're probably just about there with watchtime hours maybe. Um, but yeah, that's a I guess an open debate. I maybe Jeff again chance for you to add some more knowledge bomb credit to yourself. Like what would be the 20 30 second answer to this dilemma between all three formats of content? [snorts] — Well, I don't know if it's so much of a dilemma. I think if anything, it just depends, right? because I've worked with some creators in the past who've ### [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=900s) Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) struggled with the um time split between trying to do all three things. — And one of the best ways I've seen people do it is when they approach it more tactically. So if they're doing live shows and that's like something that they're doing very regularly from what I'm seeing here, that's what they're doing. Um then there are many ways that they can turn those live shows into regular long form videos and shorts. So but structure is important. So, when they do their live streams, they're going to want to have structure. run uh intro hooks. re-engagement. They're going to want to run uh outros and stuff so that they're able to cut that stuff out of the live show to create more content. So, it's basically kind of like a work smarter not harder type of situation where if you can do it live, by all means, and then you can once the live is over, you can well, I know Dan knows like with like OBS, you can stream and you can record the whole thing locally. And then from there you can edit, you can pull chunks out of it for, you know, five to 10 minute long videos that you can post on your channel as regular videos and you can pull shorts out of that. So there's no reason why you can't do both. One run, well, you know, one recording could turn into, you know, three long form videos plus, you know, five or 10 shorts — and that's one sit down. But the only way that's going to work is from the very beginning as you're planning the live stream, you're thinking topic, title, thumbnail, and structure. How can I get videos into this stream? How can I pull shorts out of this stream? And as long as you're doing that like mental math ahead of time, you can have some serious bangers come out as your live streams and it's going to make your workflow so much easier. — Dad, we're just trailing behind so far now. Like two nil down on the knowledge bombs. — I will say I do maintain what I said. I think it is good to make sure to focus on one thing and get good at it. Now, that being said, this creator — is a few steps above a lot of the channels we have been seeing in the past whereby I can't say anything bad about their thumbnails, their titles. Like, I feel like the their issue might be that State of Decay is an old game now, but they have a lot of the fundamentals figured out. So, I think this creator has more room to bounce between the three. — But, I myself feel pretty confident about my own thumbnails, my own titles, but I know that my own live streams aren't increasing in viewership. I they're kind of just at where they're at, right? I'll get like 200 concurrents or something. I'm like, well, this is fine, but I know I'll get more if I do better on the long form side, which I do neglect from time to time. And as I look at these creators, this creator's live streams, I can see that their viewership hasn't really gone up in that like nice steady climb that they're probably hoping to see. So, that still my point still stands. if they're if they can get another like a big win under their belt in long form, maybe a new game comes out or something and they can really like tackle it in the same way they're tackling the games they're currently playing that could bring a whole new audience in and then their next live stream will look back and see that it got a thousand or 2,000 views after the fact. — So, I know we're still laboring on this point, but their cadence is very high for long form content like — two or three videos a week, which is impressive. — And go back to short stand, fingers crossed, is our tool going to work? Will it tell us? — Yeah. Six days, one week, two weeks, three weeks. So, a couple a week. — Okay. So, that seems like a fair cadence as well. And I was just interested to know the current landscape of State of Decay 2. Dan, if we do a search. — Yeah. — Is there a an audience still existing for this? — There's a State of Decay 3 or at least people are talking about one. — Yeah, I think I saw one of their titles addressing that topic. — Okay. Seven years ago. Okay. One year. [snorts] — That is the challenge, isn't it? Yeah. There's one video there and that's a good idea actually. Like how does this game run? — Yeah. The most recent year. Maybe they could uh cover that type of video if they haven't already done some. But yeah, unfortunately they're going to have a bit of a ceiling. Uh unless they're kind of ramping up for the release of the next the sequel if it does arrive. — Yeah. I think this is also another thing worth pointing out. If you're a gaming channel and you have focused kind of on one game, you know you're focusing on an old game when the most popular videos are like postmortem style. How good is it in 2026 when the game was like really old and that's why the video is interesting? So if this video from, you know, these creators, let's look at the larger one. 55,000 subscribers, 44,000 views 3 weeks ago. So, if this video is able to pull those numbers, what can you hope for on a more day-to-day kind of like State of Decay content as a channel making videos every couple days? Like, you know what I mean? You're still playing the game as if it's brand new. And that's why I was saying hopefully a new game because I I'm just sensing that this, you know, this channel because you're talking about being in the survival zombie survival genre is willing to like play some other games. So, jump in there and uh yeah, I think it's time to kind of bring in some new viewers, especially there's a third State of the Decay coming out. You know, you just you get to kind of play around and try some stuff until that happens. ### [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=1200s) Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) — They did try Days Gone. I saw a thumbnail for that game. And also Surrounded in 2026 that and that video did okay. So, the audience may allow uh some lateral movement in games. I almost what I almost hope for this channel is that they discover a new love and passion for a much more recent trending game and you know whether they pivot onto that game on this channel or they start a new channel knowing exactly how to build up this sort of community and things like it almost feels as if this has been their grounding their foundation to learn how to do YouTube the right way and then like when the moment's perfect they just strike And you know, they quote unquote get lucky, but they they'll get lucky because they figured out how to do YouTube for when that moment of luck arrives for them. — Yeah. — The [clears throat] other idea I have for them, uh, seeing these other games, too, it reminded me there's a lot of people who when they focus on a genre, they like to go onto Steam and like maybe find the worst reviewed games in that genre, like playing five of the worst reviewed zombie games. So if the game is unpopular, you can always lean on like the Steam review aspect of it to kind of carry the content and the idea forward. So there's things you can do too that are a little more outside the box that will help also build your expertise a as a creator in the space covering a specific genre of game. — What's our summary here then? It's that the creator is awesome. They're just in a really quiet video game topic and there might be a ceiling that they need to try and figure out how to negotiate around. — There there's more old zombie games than say decay 2. You could play look we type decay 2 and the first thing was how is it in 2026? Go back and look at all the games that came out in the last 10 20 years and try do that over and over again for all of them. — Yeah, Left 4 Dead is another one. — Left for Dead. Um, oh, what's the one in the mall? Uh, Dead Rising. — Dead Rising. Yeah, — Dead Rising is great. — And both of them have multiple parts. — Yeah, there's another one that's like a top down. Uh, it was really popular still to this day, but it's old. Um, anyway, they probably know. — So, yeah, they could be my members. — No. Um, I don't remember now. — Little throwback there to all of you, uh, SNES fans out there. — 1994, I think that came out. I remember spending all of my um birthday money on that one and I thought it was, you know, mid6 out of 10. Sorry, we're getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we? I might as well do the um — We can talk about it. You don't have to do that. — Uh here we go. But mashing [music and singing] hearts collide in this corner. We take from eight land. — Did anyone else get some horrible feedback that — Sorry, that was me. I didn't mute my screen. You I did say you shouldn't play it. — Oh well. Welcome everybody to self-indulgent gaming corner which is actually a question about what have you been doing to disconnect from YouTube. We know a lot of you play video games but some of you go hiking, play music, read books. We want to know in the comments right now what have you been doing and we can talk about such things ourselves. I'm going to start with Jeff today. Uh video gaming or something else occupying your time outside of YouTube? Actually, it's been a bit of both. So, it's been a mix because I've been trying to have a little bit better balance in life. — Um, so definitely been doing some hiking. We have amazing hiking trails here in the San Francisco Bay area. We have amazing hiking trails, but also um I for the May the 4th holiday. Um Steam had a sale on a lot of Star Wars games, so I went ahead and picked up the um the Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed 2. So, they're old school games, but I'm excited to play through them again. Um, because I love the storyline and the plot on those. So, I'm like I'm excit I just haven't had a chance to play it yet, — but I will as soon as I can. I'm just, you know, we're working through content first, you know, business first, then we can play afterwards. — Dan, how about you? — I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my AY and Thor. So, uh, I'm setting up, you know, all of my stuff for that as much as I can ahead of time, buying all the accessories I want to buy. — And, uh, I've been playing, — for some reason, I just keep going back to like Pokemon Leaf Green, Fire Red. So, been playing those. About to finish a living deck, which is fun. — And, uh, and none of them are the recent uh, Pokemon releases. This is just you being nostalgic, right? — Pretty much. They did re-release those games on Switch recently, but uh I already had them, so it just got me wanting to play them again. — So, yeah, that's what I've been doing. ### [25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=1500s) Segment 6 (25:00 - 30:00) — So, uh this week it's continued to be CLA obscure expedition 33. And I don't know if you've ever experienced this, Dan or Jeff, where you've been playing a role playinging game and you're on a boss fight and you're like 10 15 minutes in and then they just have this death move like, "Oh, I didn't see where that was coming from and now my entire team's dead and I've got to redo this all over again. " — Yeah, — that's happening a lot. But there's something about the game which says, "Yeah, but just one more try. " because it has this parry and dodge system in there. So, you can actually learn the moves. It's one of a It's a weird and it's an RPG that if you're good enough, you can go through the entire game not getting hit a single time if you learn how to dodge and parry. It's you might almost compare it to like a music driven game in some senses because you're listening for the audio um triggers for when to dodge and parry. But I'm on one of the absolute final bosses and I got 20 minutes in at lunchtime and then that just wipes me out with like one move and it's like oh I'm gonna have to try this again and I want to try and get this done before Batman Lego whatever it's called is — releasing decks to make sure — I still want to finish Arkham Asylum before that comes out and I don't know if I'm going to So yeah, I feel you. — I my biggest complaint about JRPGs in particular is that thing. It's two things. It's the grind. Sometimes you have to do like your characters are way underleveled for some reason. You have to like just play the same in the same little area over and then — doing a 20inut boss fight which is just way too long and then dying. Like I usually that is when I put the game down. So I was playing Octopath Traveler and really enjoying it and ran into both of those things. I'm like I really like this but I just have to put it down. It's just making me too angry. — And I got one more tangential story because we were talking about zombie game channel just a minute ago and we're watching through The Last of Us and we got into season two and it was one of those situations where I know what's happens and my wife doesn't and um I don't want to spoil it, but that thing you all know about in the second game or in the second season happened and she was just like — What? And I was like, I've been serving I've been holding on to this knowledge for two years. Finally, we were able to collectively experience it last night. What a TV series. I mean, talking about turning a game into a TV series. Incredible. — All right. Uh, let's jump back into some channels. We do like to take a break to talk about how we like taking breaks on YouTube. You should take breaks on YouTube. Absolutely. — Uh take breaks, recharge your brain, your creative battery. All right. So, uh we our next channel here describes the target audience as a luxury fashion channel. So, the audience is meant to be people who want to talk about luxury fashion and see related vlogs and boxings. The biggest obstacle right now, I have no idea what I'm doing with thumbnails or SEO. And they wants to focus on their thumbnails when we get over there. So, Rob, pick this channel. — Yeah. Now, just before you click on the channel. Whoa, whoa. Right. Oh, damn. You did it. You spoiled what I was going to say. — I thought for sure when I looked at the form, I thought this is going to be one of those AI channels talking about luxury and products and stuff. And I was so pleasantly surprised that this just feels like your classic old school creator who has a passion for something and I want to share it with the audience and they've been doing it for a while now. They've been grinding, you know, YouTube level grinding, let's uh call it that, uh on this topic for a while and they they've built up a good audience. I think they're at like three and a half thousand subscribers and they've got like a template in there. You know, we'll talk about this template a little bit uh going forward, but they've put in the work. They've really put in the work and they have this core audience of between like a thousand and 2,000 uh subscribers. Um, the first thing I want to try and encourage them to do is Dan, just click on any video to kick us off. — All right. Uh, I see. — Yes. So, what I would try and politely say to this creator is, especially when you get past this point and you look at the thumbnails and how they're talking to camera, this beginning intro, which lasts 10 to 12 seconds, — just feels so inauthentic and overproduced once we get into the ### [30:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=1800s) Segment 7 (30:00 - 35:00) content. So, I would encourage them if they can to try and kill that darling. Get rid of that. Either start with you as you are here, you know, this bright, bubbly personality on screen, really good at talking to camera, or some sort of tease about something later on in the video. That would be my biggest suggestion beyond the thumbnails. But now we can get back to the um channel itself and look at — the point. Oh, go ahead. — Yeah. — Oh, no. I was just going to say that I agree with Dan because and I'm sure if this creator looks at their audience retention graphs, — I I'd love to see what that number looks like in the first 15 to 30 seconds. — And if they're experiencing a big drop, then this intro's got to go. Now, mind you, it's cute. It looks cool. I like the branding behind it. So, I want to give you kudos for that. Uh and many of us spent tons of time and money as well having these intro scroll things made. Uh for me personally, it was a waste of money. um they look cool, but they were actively hurting my audience retention and my videos started performing better once I got rid of it. So, just uh I would look at if you want proof, look at your audience retention graphs. — Yeah. Sorry, I'm lagging a bit, by the way. Um it's obviously fun on my end, but I'm seeing people say it's lagging. I'm I'm hosting the stream today and I got a hundred tabs open. It's I you know, I'm doing my best. I we won't sit on the video watch screen for more than a couple seconds. Um, and I'll keep in mind that we can't watch videos very well today. What I wanted to say on this point is that yes, kill this, but also if you're going to have it, I would at least make it shorter and I would play it after your hook. So, I'm clicking on a thumbnail where I see you talking about a thing and I want I think it's really nice when the thumbnail matches the first few frames of the video. So, do your hook. Play a short like 5second version of your animated intro if you have to have it and then get into your content. Like that's about as long as I'm willing to tolerate as a viewer when it comes to those animated intros. I have to see a hook first. Usually I'm into the video enough where I'm like, "Okay, five seconds of like, oh, my channel. " And then back to short. Okay. But I agree with the panel. We should probably just kill it. Unfortunately, — I almost guarantee, especially for return viewers, they're either doubletapping on the right hand side of their mobile device or pressing I think it's L, which skips 10 seconds to get to the next part. Anyway, I'm going to throw this open to you two just like in terms of what you think of the thumbnails because I think that's what they wanted us to look at specifically. — There's definitely some work to be done here. I want to give them kudos though because um I like the fact that they have stuck with font and color — as far as the text and they're keeping text not minimal on everything. Some of them are still too wordy like the um the Hermes items to buy to get a Birkin offer. That's too much text in a thumbnail. So, I like the fact they've chosen a font. They've chosen a color. Stick with that. Now, the next challenge there is going to be using, you know, three words or less. If you can do that, um the other thing that I would want to bring up is the we need separation from the background because sometimes the background is very cluttered. So, we need some sort of separation there. So, where you can this where like layers come in. But the beauty of it is if you have Vid IQ, we do have the thumbnail generator. you can prompt it to say, "Hey, um can you um you know, highlight the subject and darken the background a little bit, like desaturate or whatever, and it can make it so that you pop out more on the thumbnail. And then when you do apply text, the text is much easier to read because now the clutter in the background is desaturated and like a little bit darker. " So, just my thoughts, but that could be I think that could be an easy improvement on these thumbnails. I was going to say like certain ones stick out to me like the one you just watched. It's about handbags. And if you look carefully, you'll realize there are three handbags that were clipped like just posted onto the thumbnail. These are not on a shelf in the back, but they blend in with the background to the point where I almost thought they were just part of the set, — right? — You know, it it's your background in your thumbnails is just too cluttered to be putting like, you know, extra bits on it. And then the fine jewelry one. My fine jewelry collection. If you look carefully and squint, you can see that we're holding a box full of the jewelry. But the title can do all of that heavy lifting. If you're just going to repeat what's basically in the title anyway, you should just hold the box of jewelry and not put text over it. — Yeah. — And I saw a few people saying this and I tend to agree. While I agree with Jeff that it's good that you picked a font and you're sticking with it, I do find this font not YouTube great. It's fine, but I like thicker fonts. And because the background's cluttered, I agree it's hard to read, but I would say it's just it's not like the best font I've seen for a YouTube channel. It's just a little it's like on the cusp for me. — Font snob. — What I would like to add is I thought we had a t-shirt for you, Dan. I'm sure you've said that before. I don't want to be a font snob. Or no, what was it? You didn't want to be a fossil snob. God, can you remember that? That's going back ### [35:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=2100s) Segment 8 (35:00 - 40:00) a while. Anyway, what was I trying to say? There are two things I like about the thumbnails in terms of I think Jeff kind of mentioned this. There's a consistency. So there's a bit of branding. So return viewers, even if the thumbnails aren't that great, they see the creator. They see the text and font and think, "Yeah, that's a creator I know and love. I'm going to click on watching them. " And again, there's also this kind of rawness and authenticity to them, which I kind of admire and perhaps looks a little different to what you may expect in this space, which is luxury items. And so Dan, can we just do a search for Hermes Hermes? Is that how you pronounce it? Hermes bag in a search. And what I was looking at is, well, what is a typical type of thumbnail? And like sometimes it's just like the bag itself is the hero like these big bright flashy colors. — And I don't want the creator to go that far because that feels like almost overproduced. Mhm. — But if we look at this one where Hermes bag collection, it's the lady who just sat in front of tons of bags, there's a lot of grounding there. And again, that does have authenticity. I'm not suggesting for a second that this creator can replicate that, but this has more of an emphasis on the products themselves. They're also in the thumbnail and the font is easier to read. So I think there's three elements there that I think the creator could maybe try and adopt if they can along with everything else uh you just said. If you go back to the channel the other point I wanted to touch on was and if you go to their form if you have up Dan if I can remember rightly said something specifically which I find found really cute and it was I have no idea what I'm doing with thumbnails or SEO. We've addressed the thumbnail topic, but if you go to SEO, I think they're doing absolutely fine with uh with the SEO side of things because they drop in the name of the company, the brand, and they have an opinion most of the time. Sometimes they don't. Like I look at a few examples here. Five luxury items in 2026. That video didn't seem to perform as well. The lowest cost per wear items in my luxury collection. again didn't perform that well. But when it includes a brand name such as Hermes or what's Vest Vestier that one that if you include a brand name it seems to guarantee at least a thousand views. So I would be thinking again about how you can include one of these brands in the title. Even if it is like five luxury items I will never buy and why. Maybe you could re um manufacture that title to say um I would ne never buy uh Hermes bag and this is why but the video itself can be about five other items you know like you're just making a headline statement and it creates a bit of tension in the packaging like you have this opinion and your audience may agree or disagree but it's going to create conversation. So that was just my general thought about your SEO is fine. I think you just need to recognize the key words that are bringing in more of an audience and make sure that they're emphasized more in kind of intrigue and opinion. — See the description real quick to make sure um since we talked about SEO. — Uh okay, cool. I was looking to see if there was like a giant wall of tags or something like that. — They're fine, man. That's the thing. So, I wouldn't put um just for this creator and anybody else who's listening in chat or on replay, um try not to put too much emphasis on the importance of SEO at this time. Um it's still like if you're using Vid IQ, let our tools make that easy for you, right? We have the description generators, we have the tag suggestions. So, we have that stuff. Let it make it easy for you. Instead, focus on what your video topic is. And if there are keywords that you want to include, then use them in your script. And that's truly important because we know YouTube the AI that's when you're it's ingesting your video. It's watching and reading your video, listening to your video, what you're saying. It's creating a transcript so it knows what you're saying. It knows what your video is about. It has context. So just use those keywords. You like SEO, think of it as like what you're actually saying in the video and that seems to be um more effective in that sense. And then just let our tools back that up, you know, let our tools make it easy for you. All right, — last thing to mention, Dan, if if I please can I just share my screen for a moment? — Sure. — I took this opportunity to plug this channel into our not so secret, completely free, you should use this now channel audit tool, and it gave it a the channel Accounting for Luxury, a really good score, 84 out of 100. And it suggests that it's doing most things well. As we've kind of pointed out here ### [40:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=2400s) Segment 9 (40:00 - 45:00) you know, some of the thumbnails are getting poorer scores. They do need a bit of work, but the overall health is that the channel is in great shape. And, you know, us now offering this kind of much more bespoke advice is hopefully which just takes their channel to the next level. And I also noticed as well that they had um affiliate links and stuff in uh description, which is cool. They're already thinking about how to make this more financially sustainable just beyond AdSense. So, uh kudos to them. So yeah, if you want to do this for your own channel, just go to vidiq. comyoutube channel audit. I think there's a link in the description as well. So you can just click it there and yeah, tell us what you find out. — All right, — should stop sharing my screen now, shouldn't I? — Oh yeah, there we go. — So we can go to the next channel, uh, which was one that I picked before we started today. Their audience are fans of Hot Wheels and roller coasters, but main mainly kids and fun-loving adults. Their biggest obstacle they feel like is reach, impressions, and getting their videos to a wider audience. And they wants to focus on their delivery, thumbnails, titles, ideas, so on. All right, which I already have their channel here. Uh, it is Chris Cross Dash. 685 subscribers, 122 videos, making awesome POV Hot Wheels tracks. So, we've seen channels like this before and u I just thought it was cool that uh you know these are always really like impressive to me people take over their entire home and yard with this type of stuff. Um but I think off the bat you could probably see some areas for uh improvement. — Yeah, I think these channels live or die by that thumbnail which just draws you in and looks really impressive. We've got some POV ones uh there. And I think already the curiosity for me right here is that pool uh the one with a pool. — It's going down slide. I just has some visual intrigue to it. Uh, so more thumbnails along that lines, but I think also of them just doing a search on uh YouTube for maybe POV Hot Wheels or POV um backyard rides just to see what other types of thumbnails are being made because D like as you say, we've audited channels like this before and it's quite a competitive space, isn't it? There's already a lot of really talented creators who visually know how to package their content. — Yeah. But, uh, you're right. When seeing like the pool, any thumbnail the pool is in, it immediately gets more views than the other ones. — Is that their unique um pitch then that they do stuff around pools that they have waterbased Hot Wheels rides. Maybe that's their positioning. — I think it's that, but I think it's not just about the pool. It's about like the scale. The scale comes to life when you see that pool. You're like, "Oh, I know what that is. That's an above ground pool. " if they could do this in a another area that shows an impressive scale like not you wouldn't do this but like off of the top of a building right uh like that would be the same kind of effect I think where it's like this person really took this seriously rather than just because anyone can do this throughout their living room you know and it's not that I'm saying you shouldn't do that it's just I would expect a lower view count versus the stuff where you go out and like it's kind of like you know a dude perfect video like the You imagine the thumbnails for their videos are always really just like the scale is immense and you're like, "Whoa, okay, what did they do here? " — And that's what these remind me of when it's like out clearly outside and above a pool or something or in the water. — Look at that. They're fans of Jurassic Park as well, Dan. — Jurassic what? — Jurassic Park. — What's that? — Yeah, you'll find out someday. — All right. Uh, so we could take a look at one of these for a couple seconds just to see the production uh quality at work. Only a couple seconds because my internet is apparently potato today. [snorts] Wow. So, I'll just go ahead and mute it. It looks like it's just going to be music. Whoa. Is that a big crash? — Yeah. Do they ever talk? Um, I'm going to say no. At least not in that one. — So, these musical montages of all of these POVs, — I guess we're laymans here. We don't know if that is the style. Yeah, I would love it if they kind of like upped the production of one of these just to try it and tell us about the process of making it. Tell us the story about it, you know? I think if there was someone commentating these a little more and it would give you an excuse to make them longer. I feel like that could help a lot. That could get more ### [45:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=2700s) Segment 10 (45:00 - 50:00) watch time. I don't think that would be a bad thing at all. They have other videos too where they kind of talk about like the action cameras they're testing and stuff like that. — Yeah, I felt that was a really good idea actually. And — we're testing out seven action cameras ranging from 30 — Yeah. And I think this is like a tech video now and that's good. It worked. People are very interested in how they could do this themselves and you're kind of scratching that itch. — Jeff, what do you think? Oh, — sorry. No, go ahead. D, please. Well, you're asking Jeff for his thoughts. — Jeff's been taking it all in. I just wanted to know if there's anything you want to jump in with. — This is a little inside. Uh if it goes quiet, uh we always think Let's ask the person who hasn't said anything yet. Hopefully, they've got something to bail us out here. Jeff, please say something. — You muted though, so I guess you didn't want to say anything. You just muted on us. — Did they mention the creator? Did they mention anything um specific that they wanted us to take a look at? uh this — thumbnail, titles, ideas. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, I get that. I think more than anything else, um thumbnail-wise, again, similar to the creator that we just spoke about, um text over like cluttered backdrops can make it tough to read the text. So, I would argue that for like let's say the there's one in the bottom right that's a remote controlled uh Corvette C8. um that we probably don't need the text there. If anything, I would have cropped in and made it tighter on the Corvette. Um that way you can see the car clearer, the track a little bit bigger, you can see the dog in the background. I think that would have been cooler and you let the title do the heavy lifting. So, I think simplifying some of these thumbnails could probably work a little bit better, especially if you've seen like the genre. Some of them are text heavy, but there's a lot of them that are just straight photography, straight up just like a perfect screen grab, you know, whatever it might be. And that might be the way to go. Let you know sometimes we don't need text getting in the way for something like this, especially when a lot of it is like action POV. Um that might be the way to kind of simplify that. And that's something that they could AB test if they wish. Um but you know, that's personally that's what I would be doing. I'd be looking at like text versus no text. Um but also thinking about the composition of some of these shots because let's say on that Corvette one, if we removed it, we have all this dead space around the Corvette now. So I would really punch in. And I want that Corvette to take up more of that thumbnail. Um, but just my thoughts there. — I kind of wonder if some of their thumbnails, maybe most of them, not most, I guess this one is not an example of this, but like they kind of take their thumbnail after the fact and that's part of the issue. Like they get a shot of the car in motion and then I'll make that the thumbnail. But this one to me stands out a lot. It's didn't do like great, but I like that it feels I don't know. it it has that nice photo quality to it whereas some of them just kind of feel blurry and like the car was moving but this is a good enough screenshot so I'll make it the thumbnail. — So if you can make some more intentional thumbnails like this I think that would help a lot and that might take some trickery. Maybe you have to put some putty underneath the car to get it like to not be moving on a part of the track that's really photogenic and make, you know, take some pictures of it and do like a really nice job on that thumbnail versus just being beholden to whatever the GoPro can pick up that's mounted on the car. I — I think a classic example of why they're not getting their thumbnails right at the moment is on the right hand side there, it says Hot Wheels hot dog delivery to the grill. The fact that you have to have a big arrow pointing to the hot dog with the words hot dog tells me that the thumbnail isn't doing the job it should be. You know, it should be much closer in. I can clearly see there's a hot dog on this and that it's going at some pace. Like there's some blurred motion. — The grill needs fire. — Yeah, those are all like the I guess next level types of thumbnail generation. Uh two questions Dan. Can you scroll to the top and sort by most popular? I just want to know if there are any outliers here which may help. — Um, you see, you look at these thumbnails, no text, and there is a sense of uh movement or excitement or jeopardy. I think we can all see why those thumbnails maybe got more clicks just — Oh, yeah. — like instinctively. — There's something about these which is intriguing. The underwater one is kind of cool and interesting. Like, can a Hot Wheels still travel underwater? The action shots are great. These And look, no text. — Yeah, no text. That's the one big um pattern in the outliers. And then Dan, if you just scroll to the very top. Uh can you just open up our quick channel stats? Does it suggest any um Oh, right. It hasn't done enough information on it. Um sometimes it will suggest alternative channels to look at and I was just wondering if there was any um channels for inspiration where you can look at the packaging and stuff. And I always ### [50:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=3000s) Segment 11 (50:00 - 55:00) salute channels that give up their house to the pursuit of YouTube. In this case, uh, Hot Wheels tracks all over the place. — So, when I just type in Hot Wheels POV, uh, you've your main competitor or now the person that seems the biggest in the space, or at least one of them, is Backyard Racing. And right away, you could just kind of tell this difference in the thumbnail. It's still in — not that much different. I think there's better versions of what they're trying to do, — right? The quality of those thumbnails though, like everything is in focus, but usually that would be like a bad thing in a thumbnail, like you'd want some depth of field, but for this it works really well because we get that scale. Again, it isn't a backyard, but you could just see tracks everywhere and you your eye just starts to travel around the thumbnail and you just want to kind of see everything it has to offer. Same with down here. And you can kind of see why these are doing so well. Then there's Five Mad Movie Makers. Um, they've done a bunch of stuff, but — no text on any of these thumbnails, by the way. — No text at all. And this kind of points to the quality issue I was talking about with a lot of your thumbnails. Like they're sometimes they're just blurry and stuff. Can you get a better camera, a better shot for some of these? Like this is this one is I think the closest out of your recent videos to the ones we were just looking at where a lot of stuff is in focus and there's color, right? the pool is very blue and the orange track everything's popping. Like those other thumbnails were really saturated and I think that was helping them quite a bit. They're saturated and sharp and I think if you can mimic that'll help a lot. Final thought from me. There is obviously the challenge of first movers advantage and this channel is potentially years behind other creators who have in the space and are making good content. I know it's late on in this discussion, but is there a way that they can find a unique angle for their content without while still continuing to appeal to the Hot Wheels audience? — Yeah, they're doing good though. They're doing good. So, it's like overall I think I'm excited for the channel. I'm excited for small tweaks that are going to take this take them to the next level because the stuff's entertaining, you know, and then short form for this type of content. — It does numbers. So, — you know, making sure that they have good short form strategy, even if it's just clipping, you know, shout out to the clipping tools out there or if you do it on your own. Um, you know, but yeah, shorts from this kind of stuff. I've come across them many times and um on multiple platforms and they are great. So — yeah, well done. All right. So uh before we move on to the next channel, uh something we did in our Discord is that we had a stage recently where Alex, our Instagram — expert genius Yeah. shout out to Alex who's just amazing. uh did a review over on our Discord channel of folks shorts and we challenged everybody to take the feedback Alex gave and try to make their next short better. And so we're going to show you the short that won this challenge and we were going to show I'm going to show you the short. Hopefully it plays okay. And then we're going to take a look at their channel overall. So let's pull this up right now. And here we go. The slime will search for a player or iron golem within a 16 block radius to attack. Normally, slimes don't have the ability to pathfind, meaning it will make its way in a straight line. Now, hiding behind a wall causes the slime to instantly forget you because there is no straight path it can take. But if you kill a slime that's bigger than size zero, it will split into smaller slimes, dividing its size by two. Now, what you don't know is that if the killed slime was an odd size, like three or five, it will divide by two and then round down. But what you definitely don't know is that because the size zero slimes do no damage to the player, they don't prevent the player from sleeping. The SL [snorts] — facts about slimes, Minecraft slimes, and their critique was that their editing could be smoother. I don't know what you guys think. I thought that was really smooth. What we Sorry, what is this the output? This was before or this. — Yes, sorry. This was at the after the I'm trying to keep it efficient and I know my internet's bad so I didn't show you the before, but there's been an improvement to their smoothness of their editing and — yeah, I don't see a issue like the editing in my from watching that didn't bother me. Like I was just listening and learning these factoids and I was cool with that. So, um, kudos to them because if they took Alex's advice and definitely improved, um, because I didn't I, you know, subconsciously a lot of people, including myself, I think a lot of viewers and a lot of creators as well, when we're watching a video, we're looking for an excuse to scroll or an ### [55:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=3300s) Segment 12 (55:00 - 60:00) excuse to find a different video. And I never got that push. And I'm not even a Minecraft player. So, kudos. Yeah, — I am pre-programmed to expect the short to be 20, 30, 40 seconds. So, like, as I said, the pre-programmed version of me felt that was a bit lengthy and a bit over complicated or overexlainy. Having said that, the music at the very beginning, it's like a musical hook cue which set the tone and kind of suggests, hey, the pace of this is going to be a little slower and I'm going to go into a little more depth. — So, it's kind of like swings and roundabouts there. Like, — I want it to be quicker. faster. I want it to be uh get to a point more quicker than it does. But I also appreciate that this creator is doing something a little differently and trying to appeal to a maybe a certain subsection or niche of an audience and it's working pretty well. — I don't if it was advice there or not. It was it's just my observation. — No, I noticed it too. And I also noticed like with the pacing of the video, what they did to keep my attention was those in between hooks throughout the video. But what you don't know, but what you definitely don't know and I picked up on those immediately because I'm like, oh, what don't I know? You know, even if this is a topic I'm not super interested in, I'm like, I know what a Minecraft slime is, and I know they break up into smaller slimes. So, that was somewhat interesting as someone who's played Minecraft before. Um, the other thing I want to say about their whole channel, cuz that was their prize is that we're going to look at their channel now. I love the way they've branded their thumbnails by making a super flat world with total red blocks. They like anyone who does a super flat world always does grass and you can edit them to be whatever you want and they just they're like okay my you're going to know it's my short when you see the red all over the thumbnail. — I was like do you think that's red or is it burgundy or royal brown — whatever it is it's — teal red. — They did a good job. — Unique and distinctive, isn't it, Dan? Yeah. — Yeah. I think it makes their videos stand out. What's interesting is they're getting millions of views when they were doing this other style with their thumbnails here. — Oh, — now these could still reach many many more views if they wanted to. But this is interesting too how many more views these have and the style is even more distinct. — Piglin Hunter explained. Can we do that one? Piglin Hunter explained. Uh this 1 million view one. Yeah. When a piglin has an uninterrupted line of sight to a hoglin, it has a 10% chance to start a hunt, causing all piglins in a 16 block radius to attack the hoglin. Now, because there is a 10% chance for each piglin to start a hunt, the more piglins there are, the higher the chance of a hunt to occur. Additionally, on Bedrock Edition, piglin brutes can also join the hunts when — Okay, so that was a little shorter, wasn't it? Uh and there's also consistency there in the content in terms of this. This is all about statistical probabilities and numbers. So it's this is so tight. — Yeah. — Content wise, channel focus wise. — Yeah, I could see why this one got more views just because it was easier. Like you earlier you said the other one was like a little overexlained and I was kind of I was leaning in agreement. I'm like this still has a lot of views. But yeah, it was a little it was like one or two more factoids than I needed. This one felt like just the right amount of facts, — right? — And the only critique I have, and it happened in this video, too, is that their sound effects are just a little too loud compared to their voice. — Yeah, — that is one critique I will give them. — Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I was catching on to that a little bit as well. But little this is, you know, stuff that they can take the feedback on, focus, try to improve, iterate. So that that's something that could work for them in the future for sure. — Very good editing. — Very clear. It's one of the rare occasions where I've seen a channel that has memberships and they're gatekeeping content shorts. They're gatekeeping shorts behind members content. — Yeah, I'm curious to know how well they do. — I've only seen one other channel do this and I've been very frustrated by it because it's a channel about a cat and they got another cat, but they took all the stuff with the new cat and locked it behind a member wall. I'm like, I want to see the new cat and but I didn't want to become a member. — Here's a question for you, Dan. Maybe well for Jeff as well. Do you think they could translate this into long form content? And what I mean by that is they don't start making five, six minute. In fact, I always trying to stretch out this, but yeah, — they almost make like uh 60 to 90 second versions of these where they just add a little bit more context, but they can almost repurpose a lot of what they've already done here. Or am I just trying to put a spoke in their shorts wheels, so to speak? ### [1:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=3600s) Segment 13 (60:00 - 65:00) — That's something that could work for sure. Like especially with some of the ideas where we've got hundreds of thousands if not millions of views on some of these shorts. There's no reason why they couldn't do a deeper dive. And I've seen creators do this for their long form where they do a deeper dive on, you know, whatever these outlier shorts they've done, whatever that topic was, they do deeper on it. So whatever that might be. Another way they could, if they wanted to go the repurposing route instead of creating a separate video would be putting this into compilations, you know. So, that's another way they could try to do something like that. — Um, but couple different ways to do that. — Earlier when I said you could be really good at like doing one of the three things, this is an example of a channel that just did shorts and they became really really good at it. — And maybe they could try long form or whatever, but this is when you see these dedicated channels, you always see this extra level of quality because they just decided, I'm just going to it's tempting to do this other stuff, but I'm just going to focus on this and see how big I can get in this one category. You're doing a great job. What I'm curious to know here, Dan, is just so they've got is it 30,000 subscribers, but their cadence for a shorts channel is pretty small. Like you look at this, they've only done — uh like 10 shorts in the last Just scroll down a little bit more. — 10 shots in the last two month. Well, — maybe scroll. All right, keep scrolling down. What I want to know is when they get to a three-month point. All right, 5. 6 million. So, they have got enough shorts for use to get monetized. So, the channel should be monetized. That's great. Yeah. — Yeah. They they're not posting once a day, which and the — I mean, it proves again this kind of idea of you don't have to post all of the time. This person is really focusing on the quality of their content. And YouTube, I guess the YouTube shorts feed will wait for them to complete their next short and be willing to serve it up to the audience that's already been satisfied by their previous content. — Yeah, we've made Jeff late. Um, sorry Jeff, thank you for being with us. He did say he had to go before the stream is over. — Yeah, no, no worries, man. I appreciate you guys having me on. I appreciate the chat. I appreciate the people who watch us on replays. And, you know, make sure if you want to talk with, you know, have somebody have your back when it comes to your YouTube journey, make sure you guys check out Vid IQ 101 Coaching. So, we got an extensive team, some amazing, amazing coaches. We're all content creators ourselves. We all have probably, if not a single channel, multiple YouTube channels. Um, and you know, we'd love to help everybody out that we can because we love our Vid IQ family, man. So, um, you know, especially our community. Our community is the best. Um, and for me, that's where I got started, too. So, if you guys remember, I was just a member in the chat and a customer before I ever became a moderator, before I ever jumped in the Discord, before I ever became an employee of Vid IQ. So, this is, you know, we're here for the community as well. But everybody, have a good day, fellas. Thanks for having me on. I'm gonna get out of here. — Thanks, Jeff. Peace. Just earned himself one more shameless plug bomb there. — Shameless plug bomb. Uh, so Jeff is, as we said, one of our coaches here at VidIQ. So if you're interested in having Jeff or somebody else as your coach, link is down below. Um, check that out. vidq. com/coaching. Uh, all right. So, we have a couple things to get to here. Uh, real quick while we're on this screen, let's do super chats. Uh, because there we're going to fall behind on that. And then, — we should probably do the next thing, too. Um, Evac Solo is back. Uh, thank you so much. How do I know if it's the ideas or packaging tanking my views? — Oo, well, I guess the answer would be is if you are consistent with your packaging and your branding so that your content is very recognizable and instantly and then a video doesn't perform that well, that would suggest a ideas problem. However, if your ideas are very similar, but your thumbnails keep changing and all of the time, then that would suggest more of a packaging issue, I believe. Or there's more reasons coming into my head, Dan. Let's say it's content that starts to grow and build over time. That might not suggest a an either an ideas or a packaging problem. that was just a it's not a trending type of content. So, you've got to just be patient and wait for the audience to naturally organically discover the content. I'm sorry I've kind of overexplained. I've YouTube explained that question. I don't know if answer. — My more sensitive answer, I guess, would be because I don't disagree with you. I mean, I think it's sometimes just in retrospect, it's easier to look at your video and kind of decide for yourself like maybe the thumbnail and title could have been more clear. You know, hindsight is always 2020 and I found that to be true on my YouTube videos. Um, yeah, good luck. This next one, I definitely have a soap box to get about. I find it very interesting. Um, I want to bring old YouTube back. How can I do so? So, this question can ### [1:05:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=3900s) Segment 14 (65:00 - 70:00) mean so many things. First of all, YouTube's very old now. So old YouTube to them might not be the same as is for me. But old for me — was back when people were putting Justin Bieber in their tags just because the tags were really broken and that's how you showed up in search. — Old YouTube for me is when you would do a video comment reply to latch onto somebody else's video. like it would be a Justin Bieber music video and you would put on a video reply which was like how to um log out of Facebook or something like that. — So yeah, I would say having been on YouTube for a long time and with different channels and things I've tried the YouTube we have now, you know, maybe minus like two to three years is my favorite. I really do think that the recommendation system works really well finding viewers for my channel. Uh the real answer to this question is no, you can't bring back old YouTube. Uh not for the sake of getting views. There are extensions you can download that will turn off the recommendation feed and you could just focus on your subscription feed and your searches if you want, but as a YouTuber, you there's nothing you can do. You need to kind of evolve with the times. And I've watched channels with a million subscribers disappear because they didn't evolve with the times. So it is just learning these skills and keeping up with everything and you know there's no way to bring it back but I don't even know which version of it you're trying to bring back but it won't happen. It's just — let let's let us know in the chat which um YouTube do you want I don't do like whether you do by era or a year or I don't know. — Yeah — that's a question for you. — Uh a few uh membership notes here. So, um, Red, I'm not sure how to say the rest of your name, has been a member for three months. — Uh, the Demitorm Network has been a member or just became a YouTube member. — Emotional damage. These are custom sound effects again, by the way. — Right. And then Lush on Success System something. I'm close, I think. Uh, became a YouTube member. — Thank you very much. Uh, Leo gave us another thank you super chat for the live stream. Appreciate you, Leo. Uh, we have movie versus song here. Stay a while and listen, said Kane from Diablo. Thank you so much. Uh, MacTacular uh, Five Nights at Freddy's. Thank you for the super. Uh, another moment moment in creation. Okay, got it. Another moment in creation. The in wasn't capitalized. Uh, thank you for the super chat. Uh, Cipher Rebels, the null is watching. Remember the signal. I actually don't know that reference. I know the Diablo Kane one, but I don't know this one. — Nah, you got me. — Yeah, but thank you. Uh, does my channel remind you of Laser Beam? Uh, I don't know, actually. Uh, we're not going to be looking at your channel. I'm just looking at your channel artwork. I don't watch Laser Beam, so I'm just not sure. Uh, but we don't look at channels based on super chats. And thanks for helping folks. Thank you. Appreciate it. Um, — all right. Well, I'm going to say no more super chats because there's a really uh low chance we get to them at this point uh given the time we have. Rob, we need to get to the next segment. — Yeah. Uh so, if you remember last week, it was a Star Wars themed memes of the week. And uh this is what you sent us, including the longest meme ever because it takes so long to read, but it's worth it. Here we go. Hey, hey. — Yeah, there was a lot there, but it was a good one that last one. I did enjoy it. I guess we got a dilemma, Dan. Do we have time for memes of the week this week? — I mean, we could probably do something quickish, right? We're getting into random selections. Last time I did this, I said the death of the claw, you know, and that was pretty funny. Your prompt today could be life without the claw. You know, it's been, let's say it's been five years and people can't get over the ### [1:10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=4200s) Segment 15 (70:00 - 75:00) claw. All right. — So, that's — remembering the claw all these years later. Uh maybe there's claw children that have been having to grow up without their claw mom and uh — oh goodness, — the visions. So, um I this is this only the regulars are going to be frantically working at this, right? Uh so, we've got the Discord channel all set up for it, have we? — Uh yes. Sorry. Uh we have memes of the week set up here which is going to go full screen right now. Uh so you're looking for the YouTube land category and memes of the week and you can put your memes in there. We'll be coming back to this very soon to check it out. Um all right. So let's get back to channel reviews. So — I'm going to pull up the gaming form today first and we are going to take a look at a gaming channel. Now, I'm just going to use my very efficient number picker and pick number 53. Nope. Claw's dead. 53. Uh, I am primarily an RPG channel lately, and I've been really focused on Limbus company, but looking to expand or spread out soon again. I don't know what this is. I know what RPGs are. — Squaresoft, like a company that just makes lots of RPGs. — Okay. Uh, your biggest obstacle not getting tied to one game, trying to stay relevant in a larger niche. Okay. Mhm. — What part of your channel wants to focus on? Primarily hooks. Please don't look at the a reaction video. Those tend to be where I ran out of time for videos. Also, I think the what thing says about Sorry, can you interpret this? The what things says about you format is a good switch. What thing says about you? Okay, I think I see what they're asking, but we got to look at the channel to know exactly what's going on. So, let's just go over here. [snorts] Alden Fowlor Gaming. Okay. So, the first thing I want to say is on their form they said don't look at the reaction videos cuz they like ran out of time or something. Um, it kind of feels like when I read that what you're saying is, and this if this isn't you, I'm sure it'll help somebody. What you're saying is you're making content based on a schedule. you promised yourself you're going to upload x many videos a week, a month, whatever it is, and you ran out of ideas and so sometimes you just react to something just to get something on the channel. — Looks like — four a week in terms of cadence. — Yeah. And so if you're doing uh wow, four videos a week, I mean, — 15 minutes or more. — Yeah. I really think all of you should just consider allowing yourselves time to just work on your next video and not worry about like, oh no, it's Monday. I said I was going to upload tomorrow, but I don't have anything. It that is a really easy way to burn out on YouTube. And if that's what this creator is finding themselves doing, I would encourage them to just breathe. We just looked at a shorts channel that was uploading just like a few times a month and they're doing fantastic numbers. a shorts channel, mind you, where shorts is like a go go usually. That's the mentality. That's the advice. Okay. So, the there's a distinctive branding uh from this. I don't know if it's a character from the game or it's their graphic AI generated avatar or whatever, but that grounds the content. So, a viewer always knows when they put up a new video, they have this purple character, some white text, red text. I think that's good. Uh, the view counts compared to the subscriber size seemed healthy as well, like at thousands of views for thousands of subscribers. So, that's healthy. There's one or two videos that just seem to blob, like reacting to Bloom's day take on modern writing, missing social tension. Uh that feels like it's a departure from what they usually talk about. — This was the reacting video that like don't look at the reacting videos because they're just kind of thrown together. — And then there's another one at Bloomsdale vids breaks down the villain archetype. That those two didn't re resonate with the audience there. So that that's clearly telling you something just by how much those videos didn't uh do anything for the channel. — Yeah. But beyond that, Dan, I kind of feel as if I need to watch one of these because like I'm not getting video game vibes. — Yeah, I'm not either. I don't feel like — I'm not I'm getting anime vibes right now. — Yeah. So, let's take a look at this one. Yeah. Over 2,000 views. It's doing good. Especially for their subscriber size. Like, that's not a low number of views. — Totally acceptable. Yeah. 500 videos. — Things other hands, tools, food, and even the city. However, without fingers, the hands would be useless. And let's face it, that's the only reason you ### [1:15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=4500s) Segment 16 (75:00 - 80:00) clicked on this video was to hear which finger fills that hole that you have the best. Can I after all this time guess what your favorite finger Limbus company says about you? Or am I doomed to fill? Well, let's find out. And we're — having fun with the hook. Uh, let's scroll forward a little bit. We'll go into like the middle of like the index finger section. I just want to see the game. Damn it, you have a chain of command and you're going to follow it to the tea. Sadly, you are only slightly better than a sheep. And if I had to guess, and well, I kind of do because if I didn't, this entire video would be kind of useless. You are the most likely to join a cult. — I know the game. — Also, they've committed the cardinal sin here. The video is 7 minutes 59 seconds long. What were you thinking? — Oh my gosh. — We needed two more seconds there. — Yeah, one more two more seconds. — Uh so I like kudos to this creator. Like if their cadence is um that much I don't know if they have an editor helping them out, but like this is all based on um a faceless channel with editing after the fact, I believe. So yeah, that's incredible work to be pushing out content on that regular basis. They have like a good template and as you say Dan, the actual game play only seems to take up a small portion of the content. It's vis a lot of I guess in jokes and characters and visual style. — Yeah. — So I think that's all to their credit, but I'm struggling really to advise them on — well — where they're going wrong. — They said that they were worried if I read their forum post right. They said they're worried about getting stuck in like one game, right? So, they're trying to focus on like the company making the games. Was that did I read it correctly? I don't even know where it would be now. Um, not getting title one game. Trying to stay well relevant in a larger niche. So, for this here, I think the answer is to do some research and try and figure out who would be where'd it go? who would be the target audience that would play these style the style of game. Like you're playing a turn-based RPG. There's a billion of those. So, you pick one that's coming out that's going to be popular soon. You start preparing for it. It launches and you just try a series of videos on it just to see because listen, we try stuff here all the time and they represent kind of like tests for us, swings that we wouldn't normally take. And when they don't pay off and we go back to what we were doing, it doesn't break the channel. It doesn't kill us. It's fine. It's okay to test stuff. And so that's the key to not getting stuck in one game. You have a preferred genre that you like and you've built an audience that likes this game that you like. So, and I see you're talking about From Software here. So, yeah, it looks like they're already starting to branch out a little bit. Um, from software games are not the same as like what I saw in this video, though. I don't think from software game, they don't think they make any turn-based fighting games. Um, but like a game like I mentioned earlier like Octtopath Travel, Octopath Traveler, something like that. I think you could deep dive another one and as long as it appeals to the same playing audience, that should be a nice switch. They won't all join you, but the idea is to get some new viewers in the door as well. at Bloomsday Vids. Right. I'm I've seen that mentioned three times on all of their by far worst performing videos. Can we just scroll down and see if there's any more examples? Who or what is that? And why is it having such a detrimental impact? Is it a collaboration that's just not working out? Are you reacting to a prominent commentator in this space? whatever it is, it's not triggering — collabs that did really well. Um, — yeah, clear mantics I've seen come up a couple of times and they get — okay views from them. — We don't know who this person is. I know you told us not to look at these, but I just want to click on who is this person. — So, is this somebody that you like had do a reaction for your channel or I it's not they're not resonating. this is like a friend of yours or something like I would say no hard feelings but um this could be you reacting to the reactions I have no idea but it's just not — some software has this — they're just not hitting at all and I think you'd be better off not posting that day and taking that time that you did to put this video together and focusing on the next video you're going to post like I think that would be a better use of your But uh any other final thoughts there? — I can't think of anything. I do should I mention this? Should I not? I don't know if it's going to ### [1:20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=4800s) Segment 17 (80:00 - 85:00) send the creator off on a completely different um tangent. Uh so no, I I'll hold on to it. Hold on to this. I'm making a video about it, but I don't feel as if I've formed enough of a idea or suggestion that would help this creator regarding it. — Okay. All right. So, we'll jump over to a non-gaming channel. 309 on the form 175. All right. Their target audience, people who like crafts, animals, and baking. So, basically cozy stuff. Okay. Biggest obstacle finding what to post and keeping my subs entertained. And I want to focus on their videos. — Really? I was thinking of focusing on their community posts. — Okay, we can do that. — No, they've got two. Okay, welcome to YouTube first of all. — Yeah, — two shorts. Um, we'll just be straight here. Your first video, if you just go back to the last for a second, D. — Okay. — Your first video is about baking some shortbread. Your second video is about uh a tour around Minecraft. Mhm. — I couldn't think of two topics that are almost wider apart uh in terms of potential audience. So — yeah, — maybe think about that long term. You know, you're still early on in your journey. So I will allow you time to experiment with content for different audiences. Uh, and then shorts wise, Dan, we have feeding bunnies, baking stuff, and the view counts are kind of capping out a thousand here for shorts. And then there's some Minecraft stuff there as well. It feels as if there when I say basically cozy stuff. It feels as if the there's too many the tangent is too wide on cozy stuff cuz like yeah, Minecraft is cozy gaming. Yes, baking is a you might describe it as a cozy activity and rabbits are definitely cuddly and cozy, but they're all different facets of coziness. I don't know if I I'll leave I don't want to try and overexlain that. — No, it's instinctively you get what I'm talking about. — Yes, the cozy category. This can happen sometimes. Uh first of all, if you ever make a Minecraft short, please don't make me turn my phone in the shorts feed. That doesn't really work. just do it crop it differently. Yeah. Um but secondly, stop doing Minecraft if you're going to focus on the cozy baking stuff. Like be the cozy baking person, you know, and you could do some stuff adjacent to that. about how like kitchen tools you use or something that you've done in your kitchen that looks really nice, like some kind of decoration. Like I do think that like there's something to be said for baking and coffee and like those cozy, relaxing, food related, food adjacent vibes. And you could make your whole channel about that, which would give you a lot to work with. But you can't, I say can't with quotes, you can't combine cozy gaming and cozy baking and you know this, that, and the other. Like the cozy channels that I watch are focused still. Like there's still a focus even though they're like, well, I'm cozy, but I'm like I do cozy like setups around my house like co like cozy, what am I trying to say? Like decorating things like that. um they make cozy spaces, right? Or they play cozy games and they just do that. Things like that. — I think they can eventually lean into this cozy holistic lifestyle once the creator themselves is known and popular. But yeah, right now it's a challenge. — Yeah. What I will say though, Dan, is, you know, I would allow them 25 long form videos and maybe a hundred shorts to decide this is the type of cozy content I enjoy making the most or I'm most passionate about and then lean into it. You have to make a decision right now. — The other way to bring in some of your other cozy hobbies would be to make a more broad video that's like 10 cozy things I do to relax. Yeah. — Get off my phone. Or then you could do a video where you're just talking about the thing I like to bake. I like to play Minecraft. I like to blah blah blah blah. — Can we just watch this and bake some shortbread with me? Because although the thumbnail is very basic, the quality of that image is striking. So I want to just find out more about the footage itself. — Is there any audio, Dan? — Yes, but uh we're not talking, — right? I — a couple minutes in. — Yeah, I would love to hear them like ### [1:25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=5100s) Segment 18 (85:00 - 90:00) — Yeah. So, no narration and I'm not getting strong ASMR vibes here either or not — audio vibes. And of course, it's filmed in um — portrait. — Turn your phone when you film these for long form. I think that's uh crucial. It's just makes it hard to watch. Like I can tell that the video's cropped in. I know there's more. I know there's a larger bowl there, but I can only see like the middle of it. — Stuff like that. Um, it makes the content unfortunately kind of easy to click off of. — But the lighting was good and everything else. The sound was good. — Let's pause it there though, Dan. I think that for a channel that, you know, just starting out, I think they've got plenty of stuff to be — working on there. — Hopefully, we've uh helped you out there. I see the memes coming in, too. We'll go to those soon. So, get your memes in and we'll pick a channel. Pick our favorite one. Uh, we'll go back to the gaming form and pick a number 97. — They make Roblox videos. They're obstacles getting views and anything you find is necessary or needed to be fixed. Okay. All right. — All right, Dan. I think what we should do is find just two primary things they need to look at. — Yes. Nice and simple. They want views. Let's give them something that helps them maybe get a couple more views. — I know I say this a lot, but for those of you who are new, try to fill this out in a little more detail. Everyone's obstacle here is getting views. Why do you think that is? You're not getting views because you're not good at thumbnails because you don't have a lot of time to make videos. I want to know about the physical obstacle in your life keeping you from getting views. I think my physical obstacle in life is uh YouTube 2026. Just thinking about that comment from earlier. — Yeah. Uh all right. Uh it looks like they have 2,000 subscribers. They have a bunch of shorts. — No, no shorts. Uh no long form videos for eight months. So, let's have a look at the shorts. — Yeah, this was popular. This is just popular from a year ago. Let's look at the recent ones. — 20,000 now. — Yeah. I have seen these shots so often like it's this thing where they have a Roblox person doing like a little platform thing along with some AI voice either saying something philosophical or telling a story so on and so forth. Uh just let's just pick one of these. Do um uh yeah pick one whichever one you want. The Roblox brain rot is gone. Let me explain. So recently, if you were playing Roblox, you would know that last few days, the for you page on Roblox was flooded with brain rot noeffort games. Well, David Bazooki tweeted and said that instead of recommending brain rot games, they will recommend highquality and creative games that are actually fun to play. And this tweet made so many brain rot developers sad. — Oh no. All right. So, that was like a Roblox update there. — I I'm not a fan of that voice, but you know, we could go on about that. My thing would be I would have liked to like the whole time I was kind of like, what's their opinion, though? And it wasn't like a curiosity maybe want to stick around for their opinion. I was more just getting frustrated. I would have loved if the video opened with more of like finally brain rot content is dying on Roblox or my favorite types of games are being banned from Roblox. That's one or the other, right? That kind of like puts your opinion on its face and then you could it's like my favorite type of game. Now I'm curious what type of game. Oh, brain rock games, you know? So, I would say the story structure could have been a little bit better there for me. — Uh, but they are focused on the news, the culture around Roblox. So, they have a channel focus. Uh, just slowly scroll down. I just want to see like the average view counts cuz we have some tens of thousands like the they're the bottoming out at like three or 4 thousand shorts. So they've like they've broken through like the seed ceiling if you know what I mean. Like they're not in people call this view jail, right? — But they seem to be hitting uh a decent audience quite frequently. I guess my question to the creator would be is there a particular Roblox uh game or mod that you're covering or just the community at large that has that bigger audience um interest like there's one there just banned fake headless and so that's got tens of thousands of views and I'm wondering if that has just kind of a bit more intrigue or there's a certain word but I feel as if this creator like they were saying that they were struggling to get views. Like you're doing pretty well. Got some — yeah, — you have this kind of typical of between 5,000 and 25,000 views. You pretty good ### [1:30:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=5400s) Segment 19 (90:00 - 95:00) place to be in um for a channel where this is probably a really competitive space and a lot of people are making similar videos. uh as Dan said, like maybe more storytelling, maybe more opinion, and there is there some sort of uh primal branding you can add that makes it unique, whether it's the character you're using that looks a bit generic with the black outfit and the — Yeah, this is like the default character, — the JRPG hairstyle. Yeah. I'm wondering if you should make a custom avatar that gives it a bit more character. And yeah, Dan, maybe using a unique voice or something or maybe your own voice to create that moat because I think this is content that can be easily uh replicated by other creators. — Oh, very easily. Especially that I've heard that voice a thousand times in different videos and stuff like there's a lot of le ways you can skill up, but yeah, there's — I was just going to say it does show some human touches though, Dan. You know, with it showing the tweets and like adding a bit of commentary, comedy there. you like the thing about developers uh brain rock developers are crying. That was a nice touch to add. — Yes. Uh so yeah, that I found that part entertaining and I can see why they've gotten tens of thousands of views in the past. But uh there's also some headroom for sure to improve. So uh good luck to you. And we'll look at one more channel before going over to memes. So this is your last call for memes. Last call. All right. And we'll pick 302. It was a very recent one here. Forms are linked down below. Their target audience are rappers and I'm trying to make beats. Uh type I'm making type beats. Okay. Biggest obstacle. One video taking off on a new channel for like 50 to 100K. Then it's just flatline for a long time. Exactly. In this niche and then wants to focus on YouTube giving so little impressions. — Uh it's so there's like a millions of searches on this topic. YouTube gives them very few impressions. Okay. — Okay. Type beats. Okay. Oh, it's a the I see. It's a beat similar to this artist you've heard of before. That makes the more sense. Wasn't sure what to type. — Right. Okay. First thing, Dan, can you just turn on restricted mode? — Yep. — Little thing we can look at here. If you go to settings, restricted mode. Okay. So that's not an issue just because it said explicit content. So I was wondering if that might — if it's just a beat, I would get rid of that because they're not there's nothing explicit about just upbeat if there's no lyrics in it. And then if you mouse over, uh, now I guess the argument here is that presumably this is the this is not your original video footage that you're adding beats to existing melodies. I'm maybe not um describing myself correctly there. Oh, hang on. And hang on. Just scroll down. This channel is only well there's only 10 days worth of content on here. Does that mean that they've removed loads of content trying to — I think it's just a new channel — or is this a new channel? — May 1. Yeah, a new channel just posting — like a couple times a day, once a day. — So I wouldn't say that they're not giving you impressions because you're a brand new channel getting sometimes hundreds of views. — Yeah. Yeah, that's fair, Dan. Yeah, maybe we just haven't hit the uh search criteria. Do we mention like this? This is a search term that's used millions of times. Type beat. Can we just search for type beat — or is it going to type beat? — I think that's just the artist. Um — so yeah, we do see some search volume here for sure. So, it's just competitive. I mean, — you're still getting views with a as a brand new channel in a competitive space. There's nothing to be worried about here. — Yeah. It could be that it's just too saturated and your beats are just too similar to what's already out there. — Mhm. I do worry a little bit about maybe using unless the artist is allowing critics to do this just kind of using their video footage. So — there may be copyright reasons why this stuff is not discoverable because it just YouTube is just treating it as so similar to stuff that's already out there. I'm like thinking about the reused um aspect of the content. But yeah, Dan, I guess going to your point in that 11 subscribers, 11 videos, they have some videos at hundreds of views, but you're in a very competitive ### [1:35:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=5700s) Segment 20 (95:00 - 100:00) space. Your titles are right because you're using the SEO of Type Beat and he's stating that it's free. Can we just click on one of these, but don't actually play the music? I just want to see what the description says. not profit and you're crediting the artist. — I just wonder if it's um this challenge if it's not that transformational. — Yeah. Also, another thing to kind of consider here, I'm not saying this creator is doing this, but it just I'm just pointing to the competitiveness of the space. it would probably be very easy right now to get an AI to just manufacture these and you could just have a billion of them really quickly. So, I'm just pointing that out as like a point to say like this is a very saturated space and it's probably more saturated than ever in the last couple of years. Um, don't know how you're producing these and that's fine. If the if they are humanmade, that'd be worth maybe putting in the title just to help stand out a little bit more. But overall, uh, I would get rid of the parental advisory thing because they're just beats. assume assuming there's no lyrics in these doesn't make any sense to have that there. I if everyone's using clips from music videos and stuff, I guess you could just do that, but I also don't think that's very transformational. I think that's just kind of setting yourself up for failure. I don't know what the visual would be. It could just be like an old Microsoft visualizer thing instead of uh you know, music videos that you don't have the rights to. But — yeah, those would be my things. It's this is a tough space. I we don't really dabble in the music side of YouTube much because it's very like there's all kinds of pitfalls. — Tug tugging uncomfortably at my shirt saying a music channel. Yeah. Yes. — Yes. But uh you're if you are any creator on YouTube as a brand new channel that's 10 12 days old and you're getting hundreds of views, you're not getting impressions. You're brand new. Your audience is being built right now. So — just be patient and doing the work. — All right. — We're gonna look at some memes now. — We asked you, "What was life? What's life like now that the claw is dead? " And uh real quick, we did get one super chat before I put up the warning that no super chats to be read. So, real quick, um I don't see many tips at all for DIY maker/tinker channels. Uh we do cover a lot of those in this live stream. So, uh, plus a lot of the advice applies to a lot of different channels. I wanted to pull that up real quick just before it got lost. — Yeah. Yeah. We've we've looked I think we probably do a DIY channel like every month or two. — So, just stick around, keep submitting. We'll we'll get there eventually. — All right. So, we'll pull up the Discord. I got to move a couple things around here. So, let me put us over here and then like that. Okay. — Nicely done. — All right. Maybe a life without the claw. What do you mean? I don't I — I don't get the meme reference, unfortunately. — I don't either. Uh back in the day, back in my day, we didn't get picked by algorithms. We got plucked by this thing at Vid IQ. — Yay. — Look at this next one. — I don't know to May 12th, 2026. Beloved claw unless you're Dan. I love it. — This is just picking on me for the internet today. Um, when you're 37 minutes and 48 seconds into Toy Story and hear the claw. — A is that exact the exact time stamp? Nice. — It probably is. Yeah. Um, me at work then I remember him and his balls. Okay, — that's really good. — You like that one? — I do like that one. Yeah. — Uh, never heard of the claw. You experienced the claw. You were chosen by the claw. That's pretty good. Uh, claw — appealing to me now. — Yeah, that's when Shane McMahon bought WCW in Storyline, of course. When my future son asks, if I ever got picked by the claw. All right. Uh, hey guys, welcome back to another. This feels like an unfinished meme. Okay, so those were our picks. — Thanks for the efforts. I know you didn't have much time there, D. I mean, surely — fast and furious, right? — It was pretty good. — The card is good as well, but — that card is really good, too. If we have time, maybe we'll pick one more, but I don't know if we all have time. Uh, thank you everybody. I like — this channel before. — I think we might have. We'll see how they're doing. I really like the just the templates where I just say, "Here's the thing," and just see what people ### [1:40:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=6000s) Segment 21 (100:00 - 105:00) come up with. — Yeah, we'll have to do that more. — All right. Uh AJ Plays Sims, 850 subscribers, 144 videos. Maybe we haven't seen this. We've seen another Sims channel. I don't know if we've seen your Sims channel. — Uh, all right. Okay, so we're doing updates and news. — Wow, look at the cadence there. All those last four videos are in the last day. — Wow. — But then there was a break. So unless this was update stuff, which it sounds like it was like so there was really something trending and they jumped on it. Kudos to them to like being first, being current, being recent, and not worrying about like um production quality. Uh yeah, I applaud you, but just be careful. Don't burn yourself out. If you need to space out videos a little bit more, that's fine as well. — Yeah, it does seem like there's an update on May 12th and so 6 days ago they were kind of prepping for it. Maybe even before that. — And then yeah, they dumped a whole bunch of stuff just about the update, which makes sense. This is I've seen channels do this around games with like big updates. Uh the thumbnails are very 2011 uh with this brightly colored background bit like what you see right now in the uh stream, but there's no consistency there. — Yeah. — And it is also it's quite flat. And what I mean by that is you have the same importance as the text which has these tiny screenshots which you can't see. So I usually give the advice here of spend twice as long making your thumbnails and make them half as complicated because I think there might be a bit of a complexity issue and just spend time doing you know don't worry about making the next one perfect. Um, but yeah, like a bit of consistency, a bit of branding. You being in the thumbnails is perfectly fine. Um, but yeah, they just feel very outdated, these thumbnails, as they currently appear. — I agree. Uh, I think there's probably a lot to say right now. The Sims is a constantly updating game, but some stuff has happened with EA that has made it even more interesting. — Yeah. — That happens, does it? I've stopped kind of playing the game just because of all the stuff going on, but I know the community is still deeply passionate about it and it's I'm glad you're jumping on these very trending conversations and I think it's paying off. You have videos in the thousands in some cases at 850 subscribers. Uh so this start I'm just curious uh all this content — four months. That's it. — Yeah. Wow. So the start of this year — Yeah. in a very old gaming space and to have built it up already uh to this amount that's impressive work. — They did great. I mean, they're already doing challenges. You've been trying a lot of different stuff. — thumbnails as well. I'm not going to say the thumbnails have gone through an evolution, but keep trying, keep cracking. — I think they've improved. I think they have. I would like to say that you cover a lot of the most up-to-date trending stuff, right? Once in a while, and I think maybe if you haven't done one at all ever or in a bit, you're probably due for this. Once in a while, it's good to zoom out a little bit and just talk about the state of the Sims in 2026. Especially if the May 12th update is it for a while, if you don't know of any other updates on the horizon and you're thinking about like, okay, what do I want to do next? What the reason I'm bringing this up is because that video is going to be more broad. You can cover all the updates that have come out in the last several years that have made you happy, sad, etc. And what you're trying to do is make a video that is going to get a lot of new people in the door. It's not it's that would be relevant to me if I was about to pick the Sims up again, right? I'm like, how's the game doing right now? I know there's a lot of controversy. So, I might look at like the Sims 4 2026 and I might find your video, the state of the Sims in 2026. Maybe the thumbnail suggests something good or bad. And I'm going to click on that get the update on all the updates. Like, okay, if you haven't played the Sim playing the Sims in a couple years, here's what you've missed. You know, they were bought by this company. they now have these many restrictions and there's been a few quality life updates. Like do like a 20 minute like dive into all the things people have missed in a time frame and do those once in a while to bring in like a lot of new people, you know. — Nailed it, Don. Uh can we watch one of these videos for 20 seconds, 30 seconds? — Sure. Uh the latest one? — Yeah, why not? Hello. Hello everyone and a very happy update Tuesday morning to you. This is not the update video, but this is something that might affect us all as we're going to be going after the update. So, let's take a look at what is happening. It is drama. It is not very um it's not the drama that you would expect, okay? But if you are in the modding scene, if you use color ### [1:45:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=6300s) Segment 22 (105:00 - 110:00) sliders, if you use more traits and cast — nice, I envy creators who can just press record and talk to camera and have I guess this personality and you know not be falling over their words or like getting conversation block. So, I applaud you for that and the fact that you have done like Yeah, you pressed record and just filmed, but you've also done a little editing after the fact and I applaud that as well. — Yeah, I I do too. You're trying to turn these videos around in short time here. It is May 12th right now and you are talking about I assume the May 12th update. So, yeah. Well, good job just like getting this out there. And that's really what it takes when it comes to being a news channel like at all but in the gaming space like just trying to be the first to something — like I would say like in the next two to three months congratulations on hitting a thousand subscribers because I think you're going to do that and you know by the end of a year fingers crossed you've hit monetization and you are continuing to enjoy the Sims 4. — Yeah. Uh, the last thing I'll say too is just what I was talking about earlier goes into like advice about content buckets. So, current events is like one content bucket. The one I was talking about earlier would be like another content bucket. It's still it's like events, but they're not super current, but you're trying to bring people up to speed. Maybe there's a third content bucket where you're actually playing the Sims, you know, in some videos. But having multiple content buckets is a good way to kind of help balance out your channel and bring in different subsets of viewers throughout the community. Um, so good luck. Thanks for the meme. That was awesome. Uh, that was really funny. We have some more time. We can do another one. Fantastic idea. I can incorporate some of my other videos — as cards to mention. Uh, wonderful. Uh, it's a great evergreen idea. Awesome. I'm glad it helped. Sweet. Uh, hopefully we'll get to see your channel again here in the near future and see how it's doing. — I think you're on your way to a thousand subscribers. Easy. So, good luck. Uh, all right. Let's open up the memes again. Watching on one screen, other screens focused on when the update hits. — See, this is about being first. That's really that's literally what you have to do. — Yeah. — Uh, yes. We are honored to be your second screen content as you get ready to make more content. — Uh, all right. So, I will just bring up Discord again real quick here. — Dan, you are going well into overtime here. I'm impressed. — Are we? Oh. Uh, shoot. I forgot. I forgot we shortened the length of the stream. I was aiming for two hours. — Go. But we'll spend like two minutes on one. — Okay. Sorry. That's totally my bad. Um Okay. Which one did you — Yeah, it was that one. It was the um the card. — The card. Okay. — Yeah. — Let's do this one. I'm so sorry about that. I did say my internal doorbell hasn't gone off yet, which means that food is not on the table. — That's how my wife summons me for food. I'll just — You're dingdong. You're gonna leave the office and realize that she's out for the day and you were supposed to make your own food. — Well, what she might troll me because if she's watching a live stream right now, she might just press the doorbell and think just say, "Right, food's ready and I've got to jump. " Anyway, — completely my fault. Uh, all right. So, 1. 11k subscribers is dreaming the stream. — New arena update in Fortnite isn't great. I already like this concept here. Title thumbnail. — These are all a month old though, Dan. I'm just curious if they have any more recent content. — Yeah. What about shorts? — Okay. 12 hours ago, — right? — Fully rebuilt my setup. So, this got 12 stream again. — Oh, — uh, okay. That's really short. I Okay, here's what I'll say. Since you're focused on shorts, go into a little bit more detail on these types of videos. Act setup tours. I love watching setup tours of all shapes and sizes. I would have loved to see more of this. And you just kind of like danced the phone around and that was it. We're gone. I appreciate a very short short, but that was like, oh, but you left me wanting more in a way that made me disappointed. [snorts] — Look at that three screen setup there. like no no symmetry or like same screens being used but like you just use what you have and the um somewhat antique desk that they're on. It's cute. It's fun. I like it. — I assume we're on this screen up here. — Yeah, — at least we better be. Uh aftermath of the land. Oh, I've been here. — Yikes. It wouldn't hurt to like go a little deeper on some of these, but ### [1:50:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgPpt0WdN0&t=6600s) Segment 23 (110:00 - 112:00) it seems like your setup videos are doing pretty good. So, yeah, there is a question of what the channel is about. I'm seeing viral cat cute. Is that your cat? I'm also seeing I found Minecraft's abandoned city. I know it's been a long process, but what you you're giving us an update on editing a video. I was just kind of exploring the world of YouTube right now and just uploading content. That's cool. — Yeah, — keep enjoy enjoying doing that. — You can definitely do that. Uh but a channel focus is going to be necessary, I think. — Well, right. I'm not saying that this channel needs to be here by tomorrow. But remember, Dan, we looked at that incredible Minecraft channel from earlier on which had that — extreme focus. Yes. and knew exactly the audience they wanted to speak to. Um, that's where you kind that's what you would like to should be aspiring to if you are going to make a Minecraft content on a fairly regular basis because right now I think it's like there's a bit of tech, there's animals, there's gaming. Um, you just for not want of a better phrase, like there's a bit of content vomit here. And you know, that's fine for now, but at some point, I think you'll have to decide, right, I really love making setup videos or I really love covering Minecraft. What's it going to be for you long term? — Yeah. So, uh, best of luck. Thank you for the meme. And we will, uh, we'll call it there. Sorry about the overtime. — Danny, I don't think you have to apologize to the audience. Like, — no, to you specifically. — They were whining. You were all whining about how we were two minutes late and we've just given you an extra 21 minutes right there. — There you go. All right, everybody. We'll be back doing again next week. Uh videos on the channel constantly links down below. VIQ. com/coaching. Uh we'll see you later. Have a good one. — Bye everybody. Love you all. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50531*