Are you struggling to grow your YouTube channel? Whether you're just starting out
or have an established channel it makes sense to study successful channels which
are killing it. In this video you'll learn 7 ways to reverse engineer
successful channels so you can improve your own channel. Hello my name is Herman
Drost from drostdesigns.com if you want to grow your audience on YouTube and
generate traffic leads and subscribers on autopilot hit the subscribe button or
hit the bell notification icon. Here are 7 ways to reverse engineer
successful YouTube channels number one create a list of the top channels in
your niche Enter your main keyword and YouTube search box so take the example
dog training and click search we're gonna look at the top 10 videos that
have got the most views in a very short time so the first video here has got 10,293
views that's one day ago here's another video
from the same channel that received twenty four thousand two hundred thirty
seven views five days ago here's another one from the same channel over
two million views here's another one from the same channel which received
almost half a million views within eight months that's definitely good
channel to check out other successful channels would be this one almost half a
million views ten months ago and this one's got 40,000 views from seven months ago
so we're gonna take a look at the top channel we're gonna copy the title "dog
training" is a keyword from here we can see the channel has received over a
million subscribers put that in there label this top 10 channels so we know that
this channel is very active and growing fast
2. Review the channel homepage so here's the channel homepage you can
see it's got a great channel banner because it's about dogs it has a great name
for the channel Zack George's dog training rEvolution here's the links on
the page click on patreon so it's got a patreon page he's got 453
patreons from which he gets $3,384
per month that's how he's supporting his channel and he's got
channel links here besides the patreon link he's got a Facebook page and a
Twitter page here's a channel trailer which is thanking everybody for 1
million subscribers let's take a quick look at it
"this is the blog where we have surpassed 1 million subscribers"
ok that looks pretty good let's see if he's got a call to action at the end ok he's
got a great call to action at the end so that's a great channel trailer let's
take a look at the sections so the first section has got his main uploads got the
first playlist here which is a step-by-step guide to teaching your
puppy or dog so this actually introduces people to training your dog then he's
got another playlist "stop leash pulling" various examples with different types of
dogs and here's another playlist "everything you ever wanted to know about
teaching fetch" and how to train dog tricks easy to most difficult and an
example of Jacob the rescue dog this helps viewers to go more deeply
into the channel content from the channel home page let's take a look at
the about page ok he's got a good description here this is the official
YouTube channel I'll be the dog trainers act George in order to get the most out
of my videos I recommend that your one of my book if you want me to definitely
see and answer your dog training question go here traditional videos and
interaction join me on Facebook thank you for subscribing follow me on
Facebook and Twitter and here's the email address. That's a great description
because it explains exactly what the channel is about and how to get more
training from the patreon page and also how to get in contact with the author
here you've got the channel links patreon link Twitter Google+ Facebook
and the website let's have a look at the featured video so if I subscribe then
refresh it see what kind of featured videos done ok over here is go what to
watch next it's like you show on the same video to the subscribers as non
subscribers then he's got some other videos here which related to this
featured video 3. Study thumbnail design here's the 1 million
video which clearly shows on his thumbnail 1 million how to teach your
puppy to actually listen to you what's it like to make your dog training videos
I choose the best dog how to choose a dog so it looks like all his thumbnails
are pretty descriptive it clearly states what the
video is going to be about based upon the thumbnail and the title he uses a lot of
contrasting colors bold text and great expressions on his dog's the only
improvement I would make is to make sure that all the thumbnails are congruent so
it's obvious it belongs to this channel 4. View the most popular videos
So if you click on videos I'm going to drop down list and select most popular now
you can see his first video has received over two million views within
one year and also this video has received two million within three years two
million over four years two million within just a year so his top videos are
receiving over two million views within one to four years Let's have a look at his top
performing video...so I've talking about the new puppy okay he's going into the
meat of the content let's take a look at the call to action at the end notice
he's added the number of cards click on the card icon he's got a poll here "will you
be buying the book?" Yes...No...maybe and he's promoting his related video how
to stop your puppy biting and here's another related video puppy leash
training and another related video potty training made easy so these are all
related to his main video at the end of the video he's promoting his book
inviting people to his patron page, inviting people to subscribe and to
check out the related videos 5. Study the playlists. His first playlist is
called Puppies it could have a better description than that he's got thirty
six videos in there so here's all the videos in the playlist here's a playlist
on how to train dog tricks it says this one has almost a million views and then he's
got how to teach a dog to do things in minutes three ways to teach your dog
to shake these videos in the playlist are all closely related to each other and
that's a good thing 6. Study the comments it says "I don't
have a dog but I watch all the videos that's the weirdest coolest looking dog
I've ever seen" "Jack I absolutely love your videos i love
your videos so much anddon't have a dog but would love one" ... so you can see
that these comments all come from dog lovers if you scroll through the
comments then you'll probably find some questions too that you can make for
future videos such as this one from Tyler "what kind of dog treats would you
recommend" and "how many treats can you give your
dog before you have to worry about over feeding" here's a suggestion from Chris
"can you please make a basic obedience training feature Rottweiler"
so here's even a suggestion for another video
7. Use Channel analysis tools Let's take a look at socialblade.com Enter the YouTube channel
username and here's a summary this particular channel has got a b-grade
subscriber rank of 4648 a video view rank of 26,504 and it's got two and a half
million views in the last 30 days and it's got thirty thousand subscribers in
the last 30 days here it shows the stat summary by days the date subscribers
video views and estimated earnings it also shows the monthly views over the last
six months and it monthly subs over the last six months
both these graphs shows that it's increasing which is great you can also
look at future projections The projection in the next 30 days is that they'll have 1
million thirty-five thousand subscribers and in 3 months time they'll have a million
ninety-eight thousand subscribers six months 1 million 192 thousand subscribers
2020 they'll have two million so you got subscriber milestones and viewer
milestones you also got detailed statistics and it also shows similar
channels about 50 of the latest videos 50 of the most viewed videos 50 of the highest
rated videos and 50 of the most relevant you also have the live subscriber count
so social blade is a great tool to compare the statistics of your channel
with related channels here's a bonus tip repeat this process for the other
successful channels and videos in your niche keep in mind there are other
factors that make channels successful such as the personality and mindset of
the creator people tend to gravitate to someone they know like and trust let me
ask you an important question...What factors
motivate you to subscribe to a YouTube channel? Post your answer in the comments
below I'd love to read them and I'm sure others would too if you want to learn
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