# How to Go From 100 to 100,000 Views on YouTube

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- **Канал:** vidIQ
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpZMWx_wuvo
- **Дата:** 11.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 12:36
- **Просмотры:** 11,318
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50532

## Описание

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The distance between 100 views and 100,000 views on YouTube can feel insurmountable. However, with the appropriate tweaks to your content, you could go from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands of views over the course of your next few videos! Once you manage that, 100k views becomes a very achievable goal.

In this video we'll do a deep dive on @RealTrueCrimeDetective and how Carol went from getting hundreds of views and overall low numbers, to getting 10's of thousands of views on a regular basis.

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0:00 How to Go From 100 to 100,000 Views on YouTube
0:51 How Carol MASSIVELY Improved Her Retention
3:52 Two Things that Made Caro's Content More Authentic
6:21 How Carol Trained the Algorithm to Recommend her Content
10:41 How Carol got Views to Click on Her Videos

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### How to Go From 100 to 100,000 Views on YouTube []

This channel was constantly seeing their videos get four, five, 600 views per upload, which is not horrible, but can be a bit frustrating when you're not growing, especially when you've got a hook like former police detective who breaks down true crime. But suddenly things changed. 45,000 views, 81,000 views, 36,000 views immediately after, not to mention the over 5,000 new subscribers. And all of this, did I mention happened in less than a month? So, what changed? Well, it wasn't exactly about putting in more hours and just working harder and posting more. You see, former detective Carol actually joined the VidIQ 101 coaching program. And I'm not here to give you a hard sell on it. I'm actually going to give you a lot of the advice Carol got, but for free. Her coach actually identified three different things that were killing Carol's growth. So, 174,000 plus views later, it's time to take a look at what changed, and maybe you can learn a thing or two for

### How Carol MASSIVELY Improved Her Retention [0:51]

your channel. Before we talk about exactly what changed though, let's take a look at this retention graph. This is one of Carol's and I want to show it to you because it is absolutely abnormal. The gray shaded area on this retention graph represents Carol's typical performance, but look at the blue line now, soaring above typical range. On a 24-minute video, she's hitting a 55% AVP. That alone is very rare. If you've been doing YouTube for any meaningful amount of time, you're probably well aware that retention graphs like this don't appear often. But it gets even more interesting when you look a bit closer. At the start, almost 80% of people are still watching after the first 30 seconds where typically that dip would plunge much deeper. For contrast, this graph is just for a 3minute video where almost 50% of the viewing audience left after the first 30 seconds. This new graph though shows you one thing immediately. Carol earned trust from her viewers and fast. But let's dig even further. Do you notice the shape of the curve on this video? Look what happens between minute 10 and 20. The line is almost completely flat and we call this the leaned in plateau. No one is leaving the video right here, and that's because the viewers watching are now involved in the content. They're paying attention and they're thinking along with her. Let's also address this spike in the middle, though. That's what we call a micro signal moment. That's where something unexpected happened. Something real, perhaps unscripted, that people saw or heard that they want to see or hear again, so they rewind the video. Those are moments you can't replicate with a perfectly scripted piece of content. So, at the end of the day, how did Carol actually achieve this? And I think most people would assume it was better editing, better storytelling, or a more engaging topic. For the typical YouTuber trying to improve, those are absolutely great places to start. But for Carol, the problem was a little more specific. All she did was simply stop reading. Because before Vid IQ coaching, Carol was doing most of her videos with a word for word script, an AI generated structure with a teleprompter delivery. This is not exclusive to just Carol, by the way. I'm seeing this everywhere right now. And I get it. I'm not judging. I totally understand why someone would want to make sure that everything is exactly as it should be because a lot of creators are striving for perfection. Messing up in a pre-recorded video, I don't think so. I'm not going to mess up at all. I'm going to cut all of that stuff out. My video is going to be perfect. The thing is, when you script every single word you're going to say in your video, you have already decided what's going to be said before you say it. That might sound obvious, but when you do that, you are taking the thinking part out of the process, which means all you have to do is perform. And if you are not a performer by trade, your viewers are going to notice. Again, it works for some people, but not for others. And in Carol's case, the moment she dropped the teleprompter, everything changed. Carol stopped narrating the cases and actually started working through them, thinking out loud, reacting in real time, and connecting dots as she goes. That's what creates moments like this retention graph with plateaus and spikes and moments where people re-watch the content. Unscripted or bullet point content can be optimized for retention. And yes, it might take longer to record and yes, you might mess up, but those small imperfect moments are memorable and they keep people watching. Now, most

### Two Things that Made Caro's Content More Authentic [3:52]

people would say, "Okay, just be more natural. " But there's another piece to the puzzle here. For Carol, something else was working in the background. And in her case, it was her environment. When a new viewer clicks on your video for the first time, how long do you think it takes them to decide whether or not they trust you? A minute, 30 seconds? YouTube seems to measure that 30-cond chunk a lot. Try 3 seconds. And it happens almost subconsciously. It's like an invisible moment where people click on a video and they're thinking to themselves, is this delivering on what I just clicked on, the promise from the title and the thumbnail? And so many creators fail at this specific thing. Before coaching, Carol looked across the board inconsistent. Let's take a look at some of her older content. This one's using a fake office background. This one is full of cozy lights and plants. You can tell it's a green screen because the lighting on Carol looks completely different from the really dark background she has. I don't know about you, but what I'm seeing is that somebody's clicking on a channel called the true crime detective, finding out that this is a person with an actual police detective background, and they're getting into the video and looking for signals of expertise and not really finding them right off the bat. I don't think viewers were really thinking that deep about it, but I do think they were clicking on the video, expecting one thing, and getting not what they expected, and they were leaving. It's not necessarily the backgrounds themselves that were a problem. It's all of it. Because the backgrounds look so dramatically different from the way the camera lighting was set up, you immediately notice it's a green screen. And when green screens look kind of that fake, it can be distracting. Combine that with the very obviously read out loud teleprompter AI structured scripts, and now people are really distracted. Obviously, the advice here from Carol's Coach was to move into a more real environment. Now, this didn't mean spending thousands of dollars on a huge studio setup, but just do what you can with what you have, and let's create something a little more authentic. The focus was on small details and real objects, the types of things one would keep in their background to signal to a new viewer who they are as a person before they even talk. If you're in Carol's position, where you're an expert, a coach, a specialist, it's important to understand that people aren't subscribing because of how well your script is written. They're subscribing because of your expertise and the way you think. Scripted content is optimized for efficiency. You record faster, you edit faster, and you stay consistent. But Carol traded that efficiency for something way more valuable. And her average view duration jumped by 4 minutes and 34 seconds. She went from being completely stuck to 174,000 views in a month. However, there

### How Carol Trained the Algorithm to Recommend her Content [6:21]

was another problem that Carol was dealing with, and chances are you are too. For months, her channel felt random. Different cases, different angles, no clear pattern. And from the outside, it just looks like I'm experimenting. And experimenting like this is something you may be doing on your channel, but from the algorithm's perspective and your audience's perspective, this just looks confusing. Remember, the YouTube algorithm is for viewers. It's not for you, the creator. And its job is to make sure it understands who these videos are going to. So, every time you upload a video, YouTube pulls a small group of people and it shows them that video. And it reacts to how they react to it. Do they click? Do they stay? Do they watch more afterwards? And if those signals are strong, YouTube understands who your videos are for and it can find more audience members to bring for this video and the next one. But if your content keeps changing with different topics, different formats, and it's always for a different audience, now all of that work that's been going on the background has to be restarted again and again. Now it shows this new totally different video to the same group of people and the signals are off. Something is not right. And again, YouTube has to go, gosh, okay, I'll try to find somebody that this is for. And maybe it does, but again, now that original group of people isn't watching, and you're building a whole new audience. It's essentially like starting a brand new channel every time you upload a new video. And this is what was happening on Carol's channel until her coach told her that maybe it's time to stop chasing random ideas and build a little bit of structure. The advice wasn't to just upload more content. It was to stop and then upload clear, more intentional content. So, Carol created two buckets. Bucket number one was for discovery. This is where she got her attention because bucket number one was focused on trending topics. Trending topics are obviously trending. People are searching for them right now. They're popping up in recommendation feeds and when they do, people are going to click. But a lot of creators, especially smaller creators, avoid even touching them because they feel like that's where all the big fish are. There's no way I can swim in that pond. I'm just not big enough right now. However, that is not how this works. When a topic is trending, there is a surge of interest. It's not just a couple of people. We're talking millions of people interested in that thing. They're not just trying to understand what's going on. That's important that they want the news, but they also want opinions. They want to know what people think. What is in the zeitgeist? What does everybody say about this thing that's happening? And could this video have a new morsel of information that the last video I watched missed? So, you absolutely should be covering trending topics even if you are a smaller channel because there are so many opportunities. And Carol recognized that and stepped into that demand. She could dissect these stories using her background and expertise and that was her unfair advantage. That is why even as a small channel, Carol stood out immediately. Just look at the results. One video takes off, the next one performs even better, and then another outlier from there. I know a lot of people think YouTube can be luck, but this was Carol making an intentional decision to invest in her channel by way of coaching, take the advice to heart, and make some videos where the algorithm can go, "Oh, I know who this is for. " And boom. We like to call a run of content like this a training loop. But it comes with one big caveat. And maybe you've already guessed it. When you cover trending topics, you are on a treadmill. If Carol just stuck to that one bucket, in order to stay relevant, she would have to keep running at that speed for the entire life of her channel. So that's where bucket two comes in. This bucket was designed to build Carol's authority. And when she implemented it, everything changed. Instead of just covering cases, Carol leaned into her 20 years of detective experience. And now we have titles like detective analysis or I've faced down offenders like him. Now she's not just sharing information on some case like anyone else could. She's sharing it from her unique perspective, something no AI could possibly replicate. The result of this was hitting 12,000 views in 3 days on a 40-minute video. And the authority she's building is compounding. She gave people a reason to come back and gained 5,000 subscribers in that one single month alone. So, what can you take away from this? Well, depending on your channel, it might not be that you need better ideas, but perhaps a structure. Start with two buckets. One to get people in the door and one to keep them around. If you only have one bucket, your growth might feel inconsistent. And if you can't clearly explain why should someone watch me instead of somebody else, then you're not building authority. And on YouTube, that makes you very replaceable. Now, at this point in the

### How Carol got Views to Click on Her Videos [10:41]

story, Carol had two things working in her favor. The algorithm understood who her content was for, and when people did watch her content, they stuck around. But that just leaves one problem. Not enough people were clicking on that content in the first place. If your click-through rate is 4%. That means that 96 out of 100 people saw your video and chose not to watch it. But the thing is, most creators will spend a lot of time trying to improve their next video for that 4% of people who do click on their videos without asking themselves the question, why did 96% of the people choose not to click in the first place? Giving people a good experience when they get in the door is important, but so is getting people in the door in the first place. So, what's going on? Well, in Carol's case, her old titles were accurate and unfortunately completely unclickable. They kind of lacked tension. And that's a mistake a lot of creators make. They try to be clear, but they fail at being compelling. So, Carol's coaching shifted into interrogative packaging. And look at these breakouts. Seven red flags that undermined his entire story. Was he telling the truth? This testimony destroyed his defense. These titles create a curiosity gap, the distance between what the thumbnail shows and what the viewer doesn't know yet. Notice how these videos aren't news, but they're an interrogation of the news. But you have to be careful about this because the difference between creating a curiosity gap and click baiting someone can be a fine line. Now, there's one more piece that creators tend to miss and it's the simple question of when somebody watches one of your videos, do they stick around and watch more? Because if they do, that is an extremely strong positive signal to YouTube and they take that information and feel confident about pushing your video to more new viewers. This video breaks that down. And if you're interested in coaching similar to what Carol had the one-on-one program, it's linked down below. You can work with a coach oneonone to fix the problems you're having on your channel right now. So check that out and I'll see you next