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- Oct 8, 2018
Another issue is his channel is incredibly incompatible with the algorithm. His channel is a weird mix of drama, random subminute non-shorts, chopped up into multipart long titled video essays, game reviews, political takes, media news, live stream VODs, and other crap.
The algorithm currently seems to favour either short content that is actually uploaded as Shorts, 25-45 minute content, or going for the full on long form content of over 90 minutes. Everything else is punished and has been for about three years. Most important though is to be consistent in the type and length of content you make and stick to a schedule.
Acerthorn uploads randomly on a whim, even if his core content had a schedule he would be punished by his random 15 second to 10 minute long reeeing sessions when he throws out a video randomly. The goal is to have people watching you as long as possible without clicking off too early leading to high viewer retention percentage and time along with them bouncing through your videos or being something people specifically look up through Google or the YouTube search function to start a viewing session. Attract or maintain viewers on the platform.
You also want to aim for that 10 minute minimum, but really only channels that put out multiple videos a day and crank out the releases can do the minimum now. Everyone else needs to be going longer as YouTube doesn't want short content outside of Shorts as watch session length is king. That or you need to be established as then you're likely to be part of someone's daily catch up rotation and not punished since you are suddenly extending that catch up cycle by 10 minutes.
Staying in a lane is important as all your viewers need to be coming for at least most of your content. If you do three types of content your average viewer needs to be a fan of all three, and random update videos need to be avoided as those will get punished by the algorithm. This is because content that is skipped by most of your regular viewers results in the channel being punished by the algorithm.
Acerthorn, when you ignore everything else about him, is just bad at the type of business he's trying to do.
The algorithm currently seems to favour either short content that is actually uploaded as Shorts, 25-45 minute content, or going for the full on long form content of over 90 minutes. Everything else is punished and has been for about three years. Most important though is to be consistent in the type and length of content you make and stick to a schedule.
Acerthorn uploads randomly on a whim, even if his core content had a schedule he would be punished by his random 15 second to 10 minute long reeeing sessions when he throws out a video randomly. The goal is to have people watching you as long as possible without clicking off too early leading to high viewer retention percentage and time along with them bouncing through your videos or being something people specifically look up through Google or the YouTube search function to start a viewing session. Attract or maintain viewers on the platform.
You also want to aim for that 10 minute minimum, but really only channels that put out multiple videos a day and crank out the releases can do the minimum now. Everyone else needs to be going longer as YouTube doesn't want short content outside of Shorts as watch session length is king. That or you need to be established as then you're likely to be part of someone's daily catch up rotation and not punished since you are suddenly extending that catch up cycle by 10 minutes.
Staying in a lane is important as all your viewers need to be coming for at least most of your content. If you do three types of content your average viewer needs to be a fan of all three, and random update videos need to be avoided as those will get punished by the algorithm. This is because content that is skipped by most of your regular viewers results in the channel being punished by the algorithm.
Acerthorn, when you ignore everything else about him, is just bad at the type of business he's trying to do.