- So, you want to know how to get more views.
Well, it's pretty simple.
You upload video A,
then you upload video B,
then you tell YouTube
you want to look at the views for those two videos
over their first 24 hours.
Which video has more views?
(cash register rings)
Well then, make more videos like video A.
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I have a question to kick this one off.
On average,
how many views do you think your videos get on your channel
in their first 24 hours on YouTube?
On our channel is around about 7,500 views.
So, let us know in the comments below.
And if you are a regular here at vidIQ,
you are absolutely right,
this is a very different, plain, simple setup.
I just want to try out something new.
Let us know what you think.
And you are right,
I've got these weird halo eyes.
It's because I'm trying to hypnotize you.
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In the YouTube Studio,
you need to direct yourself to the content section
which will list all of your videos.
For any video that was published more than 24 hours ago,
hover your mouse over it and click on the analytics icon.
I'm sure you're all familiar with this screen by now,
so the new addition I want to show you,
is over on the right-hand side
where the time period filter is.
And a new first 24-hour metric has been added.
Basically what this does is display
all of the YouTube analytics for this video
during its first 24 hours after being made public.
And that includes all this useful
traffic sources information.
What we can glean from this
is that the video performed as expected
for the channel in its first 24 hours.
It's slightly underperformed in YouTube recommendations
and you can mouse over the numbers to get more details,
but it did massively over-performed in search views.
And for this video, that was crucial
because we targeted key search terms for this video.
A week later,
and it's staggering to see
how this positively impacted the video as a whole.
What you're seeing here is a passive overview
of what happened to the video
after you uploaded it in its first 24 hours.
But what if you made changes
to the title and thumbnail in that time?
We can check those analytics out too.
That's because it doesn't just freeze the views
in the first 24 hours,
it does the same thing for impressions
and click-through rate.
That means you can review what changes you made
whether they be a new thumbnail or a change in the title
to see how they impacted your click-through rate.
Quick suggestion to YouTube while we're here.
It would be nice if you could place markers on your videos,
so when you make changes like these.
Just a suggestion of course.
Other things to look out for on this page would include
how many viewers came to the video via notifications,
as well as search terms and suggested videos.
These are all things you could optimize
in the first 24 hours to maximize the reach of the video.
Having quick access to specific analytics
about your videos and your channel as a whole,
is really efficient and just damn cool.
So, forgive me for a moment
if you let me indulge myself.
VidIQ has this neat little real-time stats bar tool
that sits at the top of all YouTube pages.
Here it's showing views over the last 60 minutes
for the channel as a whole and our subscriber count.
Mouse over the graph icon,
and you'll get detailed graphs
plus the ability to add channel views
over the last 48 hours, views over the last seven days
and watch time over the last seven days.
It'll even show you your progress
to 4,000 hours of watch time and YouTube Shorts views.
All of this is free by the way,
you just need to download vidIQ.
Now then, apart of this 24-hour metric,
oh yeah, we haven't finished
because at the beginning of this video,
I showed you that it can compare videos.
However, currently there is quite a fatal flaw
with this part of the tool.
From this screen, click see more
to bring up the advanced analytics mode.
Then on the right-hand side of the screen
there is a comparison button
and this will allow you to select
any video from your channel
and compare the first 24 hours.
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In this example,
we have two videos that performed almost equally.
So, let's drill down into the data
by checking out the traffic source analytics.
Video A got more search traffic in the first 24 hours
and potentially that bodes well
as evergreen content long into the future.
But video B does better in all other key metrics,
browse, suggested, and notifications.
That indicates more of an impactful title and thumbnail.
So, perhaps there are strategies I can take from both videos
and combine them for better content in the future.
And that's it.
That's all you can do.
Unless I've missed something really obvious,
you can compare one video to another video on your channel,
which probably has dozens, if not hundreds of videos.
YouTube, you are, oh, so close with this.
What I wanna do is compare one of my videos
to many of my other videos.
And the reason for that,
is because I'm probably creating a series of content
on how to get more views.
And I may be mixing up the thumbnails a little bit
in each video,
the video length, the style of presenting,
the actual content.
And if I can find the magic bullet in all of those videos,
I know to go laser focus on that particular theme.
In my attempt to get this half working,
I did compare a single video
versus a group of videos in advanced mode,
but as you can see,
things just didn't look right at all on the graphs.
So YouTube, you just need to make this minor tweak
so that I can compare my single video
against maybe 10 of the videos.
And that's gonna really help me and other creators
nail down what really works on their channel.
Now, I will give credit to YouTube.
They do listen to creators like ourselves
because I posted the idea on Twitter to YouTube
about adding markers for when you make changes
to your videos,
and somebody responded and fingers crossed,
it may get turned into a tool.
How cool is that?
In the meantime,
vidIQ does have a channel audit,
single-screen report card
that will show you everything that's working
on your channel.
It is free to start using
and we have a full tutorial over here.
Enjoy the rest of your video making day, folks.