Massive drop in views on kid channels

[moshi]

Youtube is owned by a US corporation and thus US law controls. Other countries are irrelevant and the majority of advertising money is designed for the US particularly with toys. Nothing will backfire because the problem is already here. Youtube has killed off the under 13 geared channels. No one is getting good views on new videos. Those old video views will eventually die off and all of the channels will be dead. Youtube is telling a massive lie to kid creators as there is some type of filter that is artificially decreasing impression click thru rate and thus resulting in fewer impressions for new videos. This can be proven by purchasing a display ad through google. You can pay to have your video thumbnail shown next to an older popular kid video still getting views. It says ad but to kids they can't really tell the difference and you see what kind of click rate you get. That same thumbnail that Youtube claims was clicked 10% of the time under organic is now up to 30-40% click rate. This is obvious proof that Youtube has an artificial impression filter designed to hurt new kid videos from being successful on the platform. Now this is something they can 100% legally do, but they need to be honest about it. If your channel relies on suggested video and home screen impression suggestion, your channel will be dead very soon. High quality nursery rhyme channels and name brand channels like PBS Kids and Disney will survive because parents manually search for those videos and then hand the device to their kids. Channels that make content geared for 8 and above might survive because those kids can manually search for your channel. If you make content for the 3-7 age range, you are absolute toast.

It doesn't matter if your audience can search for your content. Anyone with a YT channel with relevant traffic will tell you 70% and up, sometimes 90% of traffic, comes from suggested views.

Also, everyone affected by this will lose notifications to subscribers and ability to post comments. If you are doing something creative like animating and so on, you NEED this audience feedback for motivation. Without this gone, no one will be making content again, that is at risk of being flagged as "children targeted". (I don't understand the word "kid" because here we say "kids" even to 15 yos, so lets say "children")

This means that there will be a massive void of lack of content for this 8-13 yo audience that doesn't like corporate crap like Disney and Peppa Pig thus will NEVER go into Youtube Kids app, but is also deprived from content that could appeal to them, like Roblox, Minecraft, and any other videogames under the risk of being banned, and only the channels that are "mature oriented" playing those games will survive, basically someone playing Minecraft being serious/talking about adult topics? I don't know what the f*ck they are talking about, but my point is, they will all end up watching inappropriate content. Even the content that ends up being non-flagged by the algorithm but still is watched by many kids, will end up stop being produced because creators will be paranoid that the FTC sues them ruining their life, thus creating a massive shortage of content for kids, so kids will end up watching inappropriate content.

Whole thing is retarded.

 

[moshi]

I have a 13 day old video with excellent analytics (for me anyway). 98% retention rate and 2 minutes (out of 2:02) average watch time. 25% click through rate.

It has received 30k views, most from an end screen of another video, and less than 5% from suggested. My most successful videos all have the vast majority of their views from suggested.

I can't understand why it hasn't been more successful. It has better key analytics than literally any other video of mine, tens of which have over a million views.

I thought it was a sure thing when I uploaded it but it's not to be. By the way, each individual video is a big deal to me as I only release less than one a month on average (stop motion is time consuming).

I'm just baffled as to why it isn't getting 'in the algorithm'. I've just changed the title - maybe that will help.

Stop motion with toys? mate i respect your craft alot, but i think youtube doesn't give a f**k about the effort it takes to create animated content. I also make animated content, but in 3d, i know how much effort stop motion takes, making it myself in 3d. If they hit my channel im going to be so f*****g depressed, i even thought about ending it all at first, for now im just coping. So many years of work into the channel. So far the channel seems to be performing more or less than usual but im scared that it will get flagged as children targeted as well. I dont want to end up killing myself or something. Those guys are insane doing this to us. I hope I can survive this nonsense. I dont want to work into a s****y job I hate for the rest of my life. Finally I was doing something positive and I feel like its about to end at any minute.

Even if the algorithm by 2020 still leaves you on the safe territory, since my content is watched by plenty of kids, i will never sleep again because you have the FTC looking to ruin your life by suing creators individually.

This will make a shortage of content for kids because no one will risk producing it. This is crazy

 

[Redterrors]

I have a 13 day old video with excellent analytics (for me anyway). 98% retention rate and 2 minutes (out of 2:02) average watch time. 25% click through rate.

It has received 30k views, most from an end screen of another video, and less than 5% from suggested. My most successful videos all have the vast majority of their views from suggested.

I can't understand why it hasn't been more successful. It has better key analytics than literally any other video of mine, tens of which have over a million views.

I thought it was a sure thing when I uploaded it but it's not to be. By the way, each individual video is a big deal to me as I only release less than one a month on average (stop motion is time consuming).

I'm just baffled as to why it isn't getting 'in the algorithm'. I've just changed the title - maybe that will help.

If you have proof of 98% retention and 25% click through at 30,000 views, I would love to see a screenshot. This would essentially prove that there is a filter being placed on new kid videos.

 

[Andrewcu]

If you have proof of 98% retention and 25% click through at 30,000 views, I would love to see a screenshot. This would essentially prove that there is a filter being placed on new kid videos.

Happy to.

 

[Andrewcu]

Stop motion with toys? mate i respect your craft alot, but i think youtube doesn't give a f**k about the effort it takes to create animated content. I also make animated content, but in 3d, i know how much effort stop motion takes, making it myself in 3d. If they hit my channel im going to be so f*****g depressed, i even thought about ending it all at first, for now im just coping. So many years of work into the channel. So far the channel seems to be performing more or less than usual but im scared that it will get flagged as children targeted as well. I dont want to end up killing myself or something. Those guys are insane doing this to us. I hope I can survive this nonsense. I dont want to work into a s****y job I hate for the rest of my life. Finally I was doing something positive and I feel like its about to end at any minute.

Even if the algorithm by 2020 still leaves you on the safe territory, since my content is watched by plenty of kids, i will never sleep again because you have the FTC looking to ruin your life by suing creators individually.

This will make a shortage of content for kids because no one will risk producing it. This is crazy

Thanks! To be fair, my whole 2 minute video isn't stop motion, but a lot of it is. I mainly wanted to point out that I don't put out regular videos, so an individual video failing is a big deal to me. I know YT couldn't care less about my efforts and disability. Your channel sounds great and I really hope it doesn't get hit. Cheers.

 

[ianmacdon]

Here's an interesting stat : 19 of my top 25 videos in real time views were all made 2105 and lower, all the way down to 2010 ...despite having created about 1000 new videos since 2015 ...with all custom thumbs, all optimized and all HD, yet these old videos are the ones on top...its crazy.

 

[Andrewcu]

^That is weird for sure. The kids algorithm is a complete mess right now as far as I can see.

 

[ianmacdon]

^That is weird for sure. The kids algorithm is a complete mess right now as far as I can see.

It would be nice if they were re-evaluating all of them and letting them be discovered / suggested again as they are all kid/family friendly and evergreen videos featuring Pixar Cars , Thomas thew Train , and Cookie Monster , even Teletubby videos, I would like to see them all popular again, but it seems like they are not suggested anymore . It is a flooded niche for sure. My views are up about 40% since the July debacle ., but still a long way to go to the glory daze...lol..Thanks for the reply.

 

[Crown]

I think "suggested videos" has taken a big hit across many niches, not just the kids niche.

 

[ianmacdon]

I think "suggested videos" has taken a big hit across many niches, not just the kids niche.

My suggested videos have increased from 36% back in July to 56% as of last week...its a nice improvement , but still a lot lower than 75% . In the right direction though.