YouTube Insider Exposes How The Algorithm ACTUALLY Works

In this video we look at some new information about how the YouTube algorithm works from an insider who has worked at YouTube for 10 years and discuss what they mean to creators and how to grow their channels.

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0:00 - YouTube insider reveals all
1:38 - The FIRST YouTube algorithm secret
3:12 - The SECOND YouTube algorithm secret
7:01 - The THIRD YouTube algorithm secret

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[LittleKitchenBigFood]

The algorithm isn’t there for creators. It’s there for consumers and the platform. Keep that in mind as a creator.

[robotflix]

me: I'm going to go viral
algorithm: Are you sure about that?

[CrashFrontier]

Community posting is what I have done for years now. For every video, I first ask my viewers what they would like to see next or which of the below titles for a certain video sounds the most exciting to them. This ultimately gives you so much insight because my audience always goes for something else than what would be my preferred choice 😂. Do it! Use community posts.

I've also noticed that the returning viewers in the audience tab are indicative of how successful a film will be. Ideally, the audience should reconnect with your channel within 7 days. PS: Liking, voting, or commenting on a new YouTube post within 7 days counts as such re-engagement too!

[theoriginfactory]

Community feedback only works if you already have an audience 😂

[storiesfromtoliver]

I just started my youtube channel. May God help us all new content creators.

[OrchestralMusicMidJourneyArt]

The community tab doesn’t work if YouTube doesn’t show your subscribers or past viewers the actual community post.

I have over 2K subs and YT will only do 10-30 impressions on that post. Really? It baffles me.

[Chembekezo]

They keep moving the goalpost so that you feel like you are doing something wrong. One day is one day.

[CrazyQuadBrothersP]

Yeah the algorithm is crazy. It’s random etc. Most of our shorts (RC CHANNEL “niche”) get 440-500 views within a couple hours. Then they completely stop right there. Then every 12-24 hours slowly get 10-15 views per day. Or stop completely. Then occasionally one short will get 3k-10k views quickly then stop and get the same 10-15 views per day. The ones that get more views seem no more exciting than the others. It just seems random… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[limitless-il]

Be motivated
Keep going and never give up
You will reach
Be limitless

[grouplelakibersekutu]

0 VIEWS IN 1 SEC- nah im done im tired i just wanna be happy man

[Love-You-Photography]

Overnight, my video views plummeted from 5k to less than 10. The statistics show that these many views originated from other countries. My videos are in German, and my target audience is also German. I have no idea what prompted the algorithm to distribute my videos elsewhere.

[NeverBackDownTrickShots]

Let’s get us all to one thousand subscribers!

[aimhighvid]

I'm sorry, but I must disagree. Every time I come to this channel, I leave more frustrated than before . I hear you say in almost every video that The "algorithm" (if there even is one) will show your content to a sample audience to get a feel for which viewers the video appeals to. I have dozens of videos with absolutely NO impressions, I have even more with less than 5 impressions. I even have one video that's been up for almost 9 months with NO impressions.

But I never here any experts explain why these videos never get a chance for an audience to sample.

It's a very simple equation that even I can work out:
If viewers don't get an option to view, then the video will get No Views !

In between a long run of Zero impressions, I promoted One video on a 3rd party Ad platform for 12 hours.. This video received a few hundred views, which was amazing, compared to what I'd gotten used to.
The views corresponded with the stats on the AD platform.
But according to YouTube, these views came from my feed ?

The next few Videos reverted to the usual pattern of getting no impressions & no views. Since around October last year (2023) the highest number of views I've received for a video on this particular channel (with the exception of the promoted one) is 136, with most receiving less than 30 views and a lot less impressions.
I reposted a couple of these videos on another of my channels (off Niche) and they got over 4k views

I post an average of 4 videos per week.

[thegreencompany]

I just try to focus on the quality of my videos instead of the algorithm. It’s almost impossible to understand how that works😅

[DanJonesHypnosis]

I have an ad observation that I find curious. I only watch YouTube on my TV, so I don't know if this is on all platforms but in longer videos YouTube now shows many ads back to back, which isn't new, but what is new is that a notification comes up on screen on the second ad saying to "watch through the next ad to see fewer ads later in the video".
To me, that is encouraging people to watch an ad they would ordinarily skip.
If the creator says "watch the ad through, it really helps the channel" - promoting people to watch an ad through they otherwise would have skipped, they can get penalised and YouTube, if they think this has been done will get money back from the creator.
Does this happen on all platforms, like for mobile viewers, or just TV?

[GaMer-FoR-eVeR]

0:25 come on rob I reached 8 days working on my last video & you always made me nervous with this sentence 😂😂

[robotflix]

I'm sorry but these things have too many variables. Luck does help. in a big way

You'd have to the Sherlock Holmes of statistics to be able to control all the variables and beat the algorithm.

Best we can do is try to make our content engaging and do the thumbnail, description and tags thing in a good way.

[BlackCatKitchen]

After 4 years of being a food YouTuber, I honestly think titles are the hardest thing to get right! Thumbnails are a close second! 😹 Great video, Rob! 😻

[GavinKohAquascaping]

After 2 years of making videos, I finally got a bona fide viral/outlier video. The seed of it was the subject, then the quality of filming, along with title and thumbnail. I'm still amazed that after 3 weeks since publish, I'm still getting 300-500 views per hour. This has been a long time coming and I certainly am grateful for the journey...difficult as it is!

[OmoiSenpai]

Spot on since the beginning, which is why I am HIGHLY WISHING that there was a feature for creators to be able to Publish and Notify ONLY to subscribers who have been returning viewers for an X-Amount of time.
Unfortunately, many channels die out if they were Part of a Changing Trend, or if they were Giving Education that a person would move on from.

And a part of the huge reason has to do with publishing to the subscription tab and accumulating the low Impression Click Through Rate.

I would very much rather have a video be impressed to 100 subscribers and clicked on by 50-60 of them, than to have a video be impressed to 100, 000 of them only to be clicked by 50-60 of them.