What Do People Search to Find You? | Channel Checkup ft. Mike Boyd

Want to know what a typical meeting with a Partner Manager is like? The goal of Channel Checkup is to show you how you can analyze your own channel by taking you through a typical meeting with a Partner Manager. In this video, YouTube Partner Manager Melissa sits down with YouTube Creator Mike Boyd to go through what's going well, what can be improved, and to answer some of Mike's questions about his channel. Hear Melissa's advice around diversifying content, YouTube Search optimization, live streaming, thumbnails, YouTube Community Tab and more! Consider how you can take some of these insights and apply them back to your own channel!

[TravelTipsbyLaurie]

Forgot to leave the comment yesterday; very helpful that you showed us in his analytics how to better read the audience. Find out what they want. Now I just need to figure out how to get to that graph like you showed. Aaaah, so much to do, but this helped me pinpoint one area in which to start. Thanks! I'd love to consult with her. She's gentle but firm in making him think.

[drekberg]

I usually really like these Partner Manager channel reviews. This one wasn't bad, but it seemed too staged. It was like you were saying what you believe we need to hear instead of really looking into the analytics.

[IamWedge]

As someone who is just growing a channel, all these points help. I started out with gaming stuff. Moved on the Drones. But there are times that I can't fly my drone. I noticed it helps to live stream just to let your viewers know that you haven't disappeared. I think the biggest hurdle is putting yourself on a live stream. Thanks guys!

[ThumbsUpFamily]

It might be nicer to see these segments with smaller channels that are actually putting in hard work but still can't seem to get suggested.

[OnlinedoctorslLk]

Whatever said by others, I had lot to learn with this video.

How to improve content, how to identify our potentials, how to target our audiance and etc

[MozzySails]

I kind of feel Mike has he content nailed. It's called learn quick, because it's a video about his learning. Yeah, people searching how to may come to his videos, but they're so much more than an instruction, it's a journey of learning. I think just tagging 'how to' is enough.
I also like his channel because of how genuine he comes across. He's not constantly asking for subs, or putting out benign questions via community posts. Just putting out quality videos showing the ups and down of his learning process that is so relatable.
Maybe the idea about playlist was good...

[BlackapinoTheTechGuy]

I checked out my Search's on Youtube and found out I have more searches from Youtube then anything else, Plus looking at where my Channel was BACK in 2017 as Oppose to 2018...Significant improvement. 2019 will be AWESOME.

[jigarthakkar]

woww.. thanks for this.. I learned, 1. I have to make playlist for most of my videos. 2. How people find my videos, I got to know that from where traffic is coming so I can put my title accordingly. 3. Community posts, and 4. Collaboration with other creators..

[up-ke]

I love what mike doing is diversifing what he will do

[TakingOff]

Some good info for me, a relative newcomer. I wish the partner manager program had a lower threshhold. But in the meantime, will keep slugging along, building, growing.

[kingsoftwarebr]

We consume enough content from the YouTube Creator Academy, really are very useful tips for creators

[Hagazo]

Id like to see one of these with a gaming channel since the tips for gaming might be different or specific, considering for example that we could make easily 3 or 4 gameplay videos a day. Id like someone that understands gaming channels to tive tips on optimization, best practices, discoverability etc. would be nice

[SailingABSea]

The takeaway for us was the community tab. So we instantly posted a picture of how glamorous (not) the liveaboard cruising lifestyle is. It's laundry day!

[GenealogyTV]

My take away from this one was when Mike said he went to his lesser performing videos and uploaded new thumbnails. I'm going to try that for my channel. Thanks Mike! Also looking at the traffic sources/YouTube Search to see what they're searching on YouTube was a big one.
What I want to know is... what a realistic expectation/goal in time to hit 1000 subs? I'm at 326 subs today on Genealogy TV and while I'm thrilled to be getting a couple a day... as I plan 2019, I'd like to figure out when I'll hit that 1000 sub goal? Then I'm trying to figure out what is realistic to hit that 4000 hours of watch time (another year)? While this is not my entire focus, but it is one of many goals I have... to hit 1000 subs/4000 hours of watch time. I'm uploading about two videos per week pretty consistently. Any ideas?

[sarahdippity]

It would be helpful if YT helps smaller and new channels to grow, instead of the channels that have so many subs and viewers already. I thought that would be an obvious thing that YT would know to do.

[MakeWeirdMusic]

I really appreciate these videos. I do wish they were a bit more scientific. These guests have found success already, which is great, but for those of us with just a few thousand subscribers, it'd be great to understand how to grow the audience in a very competitive landscape.

[WideWorldofTrains]

I have done at least 500 live streams out " in the field" thats as authentic as it gets. with 40K subs I never got more than 100 viewers in any of them. The biggest thing I got was constant complaints that the few people that did like the streams almost never got notifications. I dont even go live any more it was a total waste of time and money. I even got a second phone account to have more data to stream more, again a total waste

[HATO_PHI_TIP]

Why my channel held for additional review??? All videos are my and I don't have any copy right...so help me to monetize as soon as possible so that I can continue...

[MatthewRobertHenry]

A great step would be to do a quick follow up to each video that is a how-to. So you learned a thing, maybe the hard way, maybe entertaining, whatever. That's your content. But following it up with a more evergreen how-to video could be really cool successful. "Today I'll teach you how to... I know how to because I learned how myself - if I can learn it, you can to. But I'll save you some time by breaking it down into 4 steps..." something like that could drive new viewers to your content, diversify, and grow your channel.

[ElizabethEvaTV]

I find these videos very useful, even if we are a very small channel, these tips are still very useful. thank you <3