Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and today we are celebrating something to
do with 3.
3 of these ones ...
Yes that's right, 3 million subscribers!
That is so many, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, 3 million times
to all of you who have subscribed.
Special thank you to those who have been around for a long time, since the early days.
Loyal subscribers.
And thank you also to those of you who are new and helped us tick over the 3 million,
welcome to the How To Cook That family.
We're sure that you'll love it here, everyone is very kind and really nice in the comments
and very supportive of each other, so welcome.
Thank you to everyone who has watched the videos and has subscribed.
Now to help celebrate 3 million subscribers, because it's super exciting, we thought we'd
hide some prizes around the world for you.
So with the help of some friends of ours, we have hidden 3 movie tickets in 3 different
libraries around the world.
So check out this next bit of the video so you can find out where they are and be the
first to go and get them.
Now no video about 3 million subscribers would be complete without talking about the changes
to the algorithm that has been a big topic on YouTube at the moment.
The algorith basically says what's going to be suggested on the side of videos which makes
a big difference as to what gets views.
So what used to get views seemed to be the channels that you've subscribed to, that you
liked would be suggested on the side.
YouTube shifted it to be things that are new and trending and viral rather than the stuff
that gets views over time.
So basically any channel that has evergreen type content, so quality content that takes
time to produce, doesn't get viral views straight away but builds over time ... those channels
have suffered in the algorithm change.
Which as you would expect would be a lot of cooking channels, a lot of the gaming channels
have been affected, in fact most of the YouTubers that you know and love would have been affected
by the algorithm change.
Make sure you actually click on your subscription tab and go in there to turn on notifications,
so you get notified when they have a new video.
And check out their video each week, make sure you watch it, make sure you comment,
like, make sure you share to let other people know about it.
And if there's a video that you don't like, that you think is just clickbait, don't comment
on it.
Don't click dislike, don't interact with it in any way, just click straight off it.
Because if the algorithm sees you commenting, it doesn't know you're saying I don't like
this, it just thinks you're passionate about it.
You're interacting with it, so go back to the people that you're subscribed to and comment
on their content.
Often it's a lot easier to be negative and say we don't like this, rather than going
we do like this, so take a moment to actually be positive.
Go to the channels you do like and comment on their's instead.
And this is also the week sadly we have to say goodbye.
We have filmed 250 odd videos in my very own kitchen in Sydney where we lived.
Beautiful natural light, big benchtop, all the videos that you've seen.
This was also the house that I brought Jedd home in as a baby, rocked him to sleep when
he was really sick for those first 4 weeks.
Brought him back from hospital there.
But we're packing everything up into boxes and driving all the way over across the countryside,
changing states over to Melbourne.
Sadly the kitchen where we are moving is actually not suitable for filming.
So we had to make a BIG DECISION as to where we would continue filming because we need
to put in quite a financial commitment to obviously make somewhere suitable for filming,
get all the lights that we need because there's no big natural light window facing the right
direction and everything like we had at our old house.
But don't worry, we have decided to invest the money for you guys and spend the money,
so that we can continue filming.
There might be a few weeks of transition as get lights and different bits set up where
it might be a little bit unusual but we will get there and it's going to be exciting and
an exciting journey.
We have a new Community tab in HowToCookThat so if you go to the actual channel page, there's
a video tab but there's also a COMMUNITY tab.
If you go there and watch the very first post there's a video explaining how you can get
involved and what the Community tab means.
And amongst the big, massive 3 million subscribers, it's like a smaller, niche of super subscribers
I guess, or community subscribers.
People who want to be part of the actual, I guess HowToCookThat family and community.
So if you'd like to be part of that, make sure you go to that tab and turn on Notifications
for Community.
Subscribe to HowToCookThat for more crazy, sweet creations.
Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday.