Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer and it's Thursday, which means it's time
to do some YouTube Q&A with you guys.
One of you wrote and asked this,
"Hi Tim.
Thanks again for a great video.
I was looking to find out the peak hour when my viewers watch
my videos, so I could post my new videos at that time.
Unfortunately YouTube analytics do not
show the views hourly but only daily.
Is there anything you would recommend
to publish our new content at the best time of day?
And thanks for your constant good work."
Yeah, there's actually a couple different tools that'll
attempt to show you when the best time for you to upload
a video is and when your subscribers are most active,
and things like that.
I'm going to share two of them with you,
and then I'll share some of my own thoughts and opinions
on them to add to the end.
But the first one is vidIQ, if you are I paid subscriber
to their service you get this little box right here
that gives you two different options.
One, that you can pick the best time to post based
on subscriber activity, which, if you're in my case it
indicates that it's around 3:00PM on Mondays,
which means I should post my video a little bit before that,
probably around noon.
Or if I want to see when I'm getting the most
comments on my videos, you can see here
that that's around Friday at noon.
So you look at that, you say "perfect, that's
the data I need, how I get access to that for my channel?"
Well not so fast, because there's actually
some conflicting data about this,
so if you go over to Tubular Labs
you'll see that they show me that my best time to post it
actually on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM, and again they
recommend posting a few hours before that.
So which is it?
Is it on Mondays?
Is it on Fridays?
Is it on Tuesdays?
So here's my thoughts on this guy's.
Basically, I think the best time for you to post your videos
is when it works best for you, whenever you can do it
consistently and regularly and predictably.
So here at Video Creators I publish three videos every week
for you guys.
One on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, and one on Thursday,
usually around 11:30PM Eastern time.
And I have found that that's the best time for me to publish
and because of that you guys are then
able to work it into like your daily and weekly rhythm,
so I just chose to pick the best time that
works for me to publish my videos at a time
when I can do it regularly and consistently and predictability
and I just choose to try to train you guys
as best as I can do know when to expect my video so when
to come back looking for new content.
And if I do a good job at that, well then
that should then eventually become the best time for me
to post.
Another thought on all this guys,
is that I wouldn't stress too much about trying to figure out
the best time of day to post because whether you choose
to post at 11:30AM Eastern time or 11:30PM Eastern time.
What makes good content really perform well
isn't like the time of day you actually published it,
it's having really good, valuable content
for your subscribers that makes them
want to watch your videos regardless of if you're posting
in the morning, afternoon or evening.
If you're bumping into this problem like "hey Tim,
I'm publishing videos but it's just really
hard to get people to actually watch them," then
I would suggest that picking a different time of day
to publish your videos probably isn't the solution that you
need.
There's probably other things going on, and in my book
"30 Days to a Better YouTube Channel"
which you can click right here to go check it out.
That will definitely walk you through a lot of things
around your channel, but the biggest thing
is how do you take your YouTube channel
and make it highly subscribable, so that people
who are viewing your channel become subscribers,
and that the subscribers then become active viewers,
and those active viewers then become
like an integral part of a community that surrounds
your videos, who will watch your videos regardless of what time
of day you're posting them because your content is so
valuable to them and you are in engaging with them
and talking with them and doing tons of really good audience
development.
So all that, like you guys want a step-by-step process
to really figure out how to do that on your channel
regardless of what content you're creating,
this book will really help you do that so a link to that book
is in the description text below.
I'd love to hear from you guys in the comments below about
any other tips or advice you have about what you've
found has been the best time of day
for you to publish your videos, and how you might suggest
someone else go about figuring that out for their channel.
And if that's a question that you are currently
wrestling with, definitely go down
there read the comments that other creators are leaving.
They are always-- you guys are amazing,
you're always the really helpful, valuable stuff
for each other.
So thank you so much to all of you
who are regularly contributing to the community
here at Video Creators and if this is your first time here
I'd love to have you subscribe.
Every Thursday we take a look at some
of the things you guys are working on
and I do my best to answer your questions
in a way that helps you and other people as well.
Tuesday's we take a look at the online video news
and talk about the implications that all the updates
on this platform have for us as creators in our audience
development efforts here on YouTube,
and then on Wednesday's I give you
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like that just to help you guys out because I really believe
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