) how to grow on youtube

Creator: Andrew Kirby Price: Free Link: The Science of How to Grow on YouTube: Full Guide (webflow.io ) : Password: youtubemastery Type: #litnote #todevelop Topics: [[ Youtube ]] [[ Make Money Online ]]


  • Intro
  • How does youtube work?
    • It wants you to stay on the platform. It is terrified of you leaving the platform to got to netflix
    • Youtube 2 metrics are: Viewers need to click on the video and wathc the video
    • CTR and AVD:
      • The more people watch and the longer they watch, the more youtube will promote your video.
    • Likes, Comments, Shares and subscribers don’t count.
    • Tags, SEO, and Descriptions
      • They don’t matter much
      • Youtube will show the most relevent video with a hight CTR and AVD
  • The IDEA behind a video matters the most
    • The quality of your ideas caps the all other things, thumbnails, titles, your ability to keep people hoooked and much mor
    • Everything comes from quality of your idea
    • Cheat-sheet for Ideas:
      • New and Beneficial
        • The best ideas are both new and beneficial
        • Old and beneficial= boring
        • new and not beneficial= scam
        • old and not beneficial= politicial
      • Great ideas are radically new and incredibly beneficial
    • CTR Potential
      • Think of CTR potential first before you proceed with the idea
    • AVD Potential
      • Can this video get an incredibly hihg Average View Duration
    • Channel Love
    • If you want massive results, viewers should watch 3 more video from your channel after they watch the first one.
  • Generating IDEAS
    • Creativity is like a dirt tap. Good ideas will come once you clear away all the bad ideas
    • MrBeast: Sit down for at least 1 hour a day and brainstorm ideas
  • CTR
    • Thumbnails:
      • Has to be able to draw eyes
        • Faces
          • We are drawn to emotive faces
          • Expressive faces draw the human eye but forced expressions push the human eye
        • Brightness and Contrast
          • Bright thumbnails and high contrast colours draw the eye more
      • Able to understand
        • Whatever you want to focus on, don’t make them small. Make those things fill in the space
        • Don’t focus on the wrong stuff
        • Don’t use too much text and colurs and fonts that are hard to understand
      • Want me to click it
        • Write a list of:
          • Who is in the video
          • What are they doing in the video
          • Where are they doing it
          • Capture all of that in the thumbnail
        • Pick 2 or three important things to focus on and show that on thumbnail
      • Add thumbnail updates
        • If the CTR is not well-performing after 1 hour of upload, update the thumbnail to see any changes.
    • Titles
      • Make it simple
      • Make it personal
      • Word choice
        • Who
        • What
        • Where
  • Audience Retention
    • Retention is about one thing: Questions
    • Humans hate unanswered questions and we want to find those answers
    • ALSO, People have to care about the question and enjoy the journey to answering questions
    • A Compelling question(INTRO):
      • Setup your central question in the first 5-10 seconds of your video
      • Your question should hit:
        • Clarity
        • Unknown answer
        • Beneficial
        • Decrease skepticism
        • Uncertainity
    • An Enjoyable Journey(The Video)
      • B-plots
        • Set up 2 plots so that audience will retain for another plot even one bores them
        • Fake Answers
          • Answer the question and the pull it away
        • Emotional Highs
          • Take your audience on rollercoaster of emotions
        • Pattern Interrupts
          • Don’t let your audience become complacent. Create a pattern. Break it.
        • Decrease Bad Bits
          • Boring characters
          • Click-off emotions
          • Inauthenticity
    • The Answer(end)
      • Don’t make long outros begging subscribers. This ruins the video
      • Their time is valuable.
      • Answer the question and end the video.
  • Mindset
    • Healthy attitude = Authentic you and no burnout
    • View of youtube
      • See yourself as the servent to an audience
      • Make somthing that is worth watching for the audience
    • When views are down
      • Don’t get upset and blame the algorithm
      • Keep moving
      • Learn why views dropped. View it as an opportunity to learn more about the audience
    • Level of fun
      • Views take care of themselves.
      • Focus on making cood content and let you joy shine through your videos
    • Humility
      • Don’t be arrogant about your growth
      • Don’t have a hidden pride in your growth
      • Always be humble. Ask for help when needed.
      • Always keep learning. Give more to your audience
    • Wealth
      • Don’t go with the mindset of making money only
      • You are rewarded for how much your audeince enjoys your content.
      • You will be rewarded for making great content so make that
    • Action
      • Don’t let your actions fluctuate with views
      • Be consistent: Have a fixed upload and production schedule and brainstorming schedule
      • Best youtubers have a team that will him serve thier audience
    • How to avoid Creator Burnout
      • If you don’t enjoy doing something, hire someone to do it
      • If you are not excited to get out of bed every morning to do your job, hire someone to do that things
      • Pay others to do your job

MAKE VIDEOS PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH.

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