One year ago I started an experiment. I moved my live YouTube shows to a whole new channel, on the theory that the live shows on the main channel, which get great views while live but then very poor views after (which is understandable), were hurting the main channel. 1/🧵
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Not sure if I’m happy or sad to report that it made no difference. Views/clicks/etc on the main channel saw no notable change comparing before/after the new channel. So the good news is I can move my live back to the main channel. Bad news is main channel metrics still suck. 2/🧵
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Which means I can’t blame the live shows for hurting the channel. Given the extremely good relative performance of the ONE uploaded video to the live channel, I’m still convinced that the main channel is somehow broken, but there’s nothing to be done except keep on trying. End/🧵
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what can happen though is a string of underperforming videos basically signals the algorithm that this channel just isn’t working. so a bunch of live streams could do that. a string of SEO friendly videos that do very well could pop you out. don’t go for quantity.
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Replying to @imPatrickT @photojoseph
I still believe that YouTube wouldn't be so ignorant to consider livestream performance the same as uploaded video performance. They even give you different metrics in the studio for each type so I don't think this is far fetched.

Apr 5, 2022 · 1:58 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @imPatrickT
That was going to be my response Aaron. You don’t believe YouTube would be ignorant, but they removed the dislike button because some creators’ feelings were hurt, yet they do nothing to stop the spam bots that are actually costing real viewers real money.
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Replying to @aaronpk @photojoseph
if you do a search you can see a lot of creators talking about this exact thing - they've also said shorts don't impact your channel's weight in the algorithm, and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.
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Yeah I'm not convinced. People are good at finding patterns where there are none. I do wish YouTube would just tell us one way or the other though, it seems like it would benefit everyone to have a clear answer either way.
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