I Tried Youtube Shorts for 365 Days!

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Growing a youtube shorts channel may seem an easy thing to do, but when you're first starting out your youtube channel, you have a lot to learn.   For the past 365 days, I've been experimenting with youtube shorts and the results have been mind-blowing! I got over 20 million views, man!   I'm sharing all the right and wrong things I did to grow my channel in that 1 year.   If you want to make viral youtube shorts and considering whether it's worth your time, I'm sure you'll learn something from this video

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00:00I've been running a faceless YouTube channel for over 2 years, getting millions of views,

00:04until I realized that I've been doing it all wrong.

00:06There's a way to achieve these results in just a few months.

00:09Let me explain.

00:12So the channel I'm talking about is called Zio,

00:14where I make short and long form videos about Marvel movies.

00:17In this video, I'll focus on the short form content,

00:20how you can get similar views as quickly as possible,

00:22and show you the exact method I use to make them go viral.

00:30Treat your channel as a brand.

00:31Decide what fonts and colors you'll use,

00:33and keep them consistent throughout your channel.

00:35To get started, you're gonna need a logo and a banner.

00:38You can make them in any photo editor you want.

00:40Or if you're not a good designer, you can make one using Mid Journey, like I did.

00:48If you're posting randomly without choosing a clear topic,

00:50sorry, but you can't succeed on this platform.

00:53So pick a niche you want.

00:54Make sure there's people out there who want to watch content from that niche.

00:57You can ask ChatGPT to give you a list of the most popular niches on YouTube.

01:01Or go to Wikipedia, search for list of hobbies,

01:04and pick one that you're interested in.

01:05Then jump straight into step three.

01:10You need to analyze other big channels in your niche

01:12and see which type of content is doing well recently.

01:15I did the same when I started out my channel

01:17and saw facts about movies doing pretty well in my niche.

01:19You probably saw at least one video like this.

01:22Did you know in Avengers Endgame?

01:23Do you know that in Spider-Man?

01:25Did you know in Thorlof and Thunder?

01:26So I found a bunch of interesting facts

01:28and explained them as simply as I could in my videos.

01:31One thing I strongly recommend is don't overthink it.

01:33Spend as little time as you can on making each video,

01:36especially when you're first starting out.

01:38You're gonna have a lot of time to improve your content.

01:40But when you're in the beginning,

01:41just publish your first video as soon as you can.

01:43Get comfortable making that style of content.

01:45Then choose one side of the video to improve next time.

01:48For example, focus on making better transitions in the next five videos.

01:52Then better subtitles, better coloring, better sound effects, and so on.

01:55It will definitely increase your video quality

01:57instead of trying to make everything perfect.

01:59Back to the channel.

01:59After publishing consistently for about three weeks,

02:02I made my first viral video.

02:09After publishing around 10 shorts or so,

02:11you need to go back and analyze data.

02:12See which videos are doing well and which doesn't.

02:14This step may be a bit boring for some of you,

02:16but it's definitely the most crucial one.

02:18So don't skip that.

02:19And the only important metrics you should check for YouTube shorts

02:22are view count, retention, and swipe rate.

02:24But more importantly, just re-watch your most viewed videos

02:27and try to understand what makes them different from the rest.

02:29Write them down in a viral recipe list.

02:31And you can either try to tick as many boxes as you can in your next shorts

02:35or choose a few for each video and implement them one by one.

02:38I made that list for my viral short.

02:40It saw the subtitles were shorter,

02:41the scene was changing faster,

02:43and I made a joke at the end that wasn't funny.

02:46Anyways, I used this list for my next videos

02:48and I got two more viral shorts at the end of that month.

02:50So in December 2022, I finally got monetized.

03:00What worked in the past may no longer work today.

03:03After replicating the same formula for the next month,

03:06I realized the formula is not working anymore.

03:08Even though it was monetized,

03:09the channel's ad revenue was less than $20 a month.

03:13Obviously, things weren't looking good.

03:14Even though I used the same techniques,

03:16the views were getting lower in each video.

03:18If you came across that hitch on your channel too,

03:20it's the sign showing the golden formula is broken or needs a revision.

03:23You need to repeat step 3 and 4 and add new points to your viral recipe list.

03:27And when I did it again,

03:28this time I saw better performing videos had a sound effect in the beginning like this.

03:33Some type of graphic that takes attention.

03:35And most of them didn't have a voiceover.

03:37They were just cool edits of recent movies.

03:39Even though I was a bit suspicious,

03:41since it was easier to make this type of content,

03:43I made more of them.

03:44And they did really well.

03:45The channel was getting more and more traction every day.

03:47The ad revenue went from $20 to over $150 that month.

03:51Everything was great.

03:52I was sure it would easily turn into thousands of dollars in a few months.

03:55Until one day I got an email from YouTube.

04:00It said,

04:00Some of your videos have been taken down.

04:02Due to a copyright notice,

04:03we had to take down the following three videos from YouTube.

04:06So basically, my three edits about the movie Spider-Verse

04:10has been taken down by Sony.

04:11And my channel got a copyright strike.

04:13But that's not the worst part.

04:15A few hours after that,

04:16my channel got demonetized because of reused content.

04:19It turns out, my edits weren't edited enough to meet the fair use.

04:22It was just the worst thing that could ever happen

04:24after the channel was starting to take off.

04:27But that didn't stop me from posting.

04:29I now went back to adding voiceovers to my videos.

04:31Repeated step 3 and 4 again to make my formula even better.

04:35And will reapply the YouTube Partner Program in a few weeks.

04:39So if there's one principle you need to use on your channel after this video,

04:42it's determination.

04:44No matter how challenging it is,

04:45just learn from each experience and try to improve.

04:48Find solutions.

04:49And don't lose your motivation.

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