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I’ve spent the last 6 years working behind large YouTube channels.
Channels I work on generate millions of views and six figures in revenue.
Here are a few recent analytics snapshots:
Here are the YouTube growth lessons most creators still don't understand.
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If you ever feel dumb...
I was surprised that my videos were crooked, so I had to rotate them in post-production, only to realize my camera stand had a piece missing.
And I haven't realized this for 2 months lol
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You can either obsess over World Cup like a peasant or create content around it and make money
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Consistency is all you need to win on YouTube and any other social media
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I know a guy who has been pushing out 5 YouTube videos PER DAY since 2014.
No traction. Zero.
Until 2025. When some of his videos started getting 100-200k views.
An interviewer asked him what made him succeed.
He said: “I don’t know. That was never the goal. The goal was 5 videos a day.”
Sometimes?
Just showing up is enough. Especially in today’s world when most people can’t force themselves to go to the gym once a week.
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Small channels don’t struggle because they are small, they struggle because of this…
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Every faceless YT guru ever
Sell courses for $50 per month while claiming each of their 20 channels make $20k per month lol
Jun 11
POV: you sell a scam faceless YouTube automation course and have never grown a channel yourself.
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This post is for video editors!
Video editing is difficult, but you know what makes it even harder?
Constantly switching between different software, especially when you’re just starting out all in the name of getting more clients.
Don’t switch just because someone says a software is easier or gets more clients.
The only time you should switch is when you’ve reached a point where another software genuinely helps you achieve more.
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Most creators don’t have a views problem.
They have a retention problem.
People click because the idea sounds interesting…
But they leave because the experience gets weak.
Long intros.
Generic advice.
Dead segments.
Overcomplicated language.
Nothing changing on screen.
Fix retention, and you’ll usually fix your views.
Here are 10 ways to keep people watching:
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10. Respect the 5-second disengagement rule
Viewers can handle small gaps.
But if nothing meaningful changes for too long, they start checking out.
Change something every few seconds:
Visuals. Music. Framing. Example. Tension. Information.
Attention doesn’t disappear all at once.
It leaks.
Your job is to stop the leaks.
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If you have a retention problem, comment "RETENTION" and let's have a look at your channel
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This is your sign to make both long for and shorts.
Or just turn your long forms into shorts
Jun 10
We analyze tens of millions of new YouTube uploads every month at vidIQ.
Uploads in the last 30 days alone: 49M long form videos.
The median one got 207 views.
0.04% hit 1M.
And a Short was 10x more likely to cross 1M than a long form video.
The algorithm isn't suppressing you. The math is just brutal.
Most creators are simply playing the wrong format.
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