I Tried Youtube Shorts for 365 Days! — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've been running a faceless YouTube channel for  over two years getting millions of views until
2. 0:04I realized that I've been doing it all wrong  there's a way to achieve these results in just
3. 0:08a few months let me explain so the channel I'm  talking about is called ZIO where I make short and
4. 0:15long form videos about Marvel movies in this video  I'll focus on the short form content how you can
5. 0:20get similar views as quickly as possible and show  you the exact method I use to make them go viral
6. 0:29treat your channel as a brand decide  what fonts and colors you'll use and
7. 0:34keep them consistent throughout your  channel to get started you're going to
8. 0:37need a logo and a banner you can make  them in any photo editor you want or
9. 0:40if you're not a good designer you can  make one using Midjourney like I did
10. 0:47if you're posting randomly without choosing  a clear topic sorry but you can't succeed on
11. 0:52this platform so pick a niche you want  make sure there's people out there who
12. 0:55want to watch content from that niche you  can ask chatgpt to give you a list of the
13. 1:00most popular niches on youtube or go to  Wikipedia search for list of hobbies and
14. 1:04pick one that you're interested in  then jump straight into step three
15. 1:09you need to analyze other big channels in  your niche and see which type of content
16. 1:14is doing well recently I did the same when  I started out my channel and saw facts about
17. 1:18movies doing pretty well in my niche you  probably saw at least one video like this
18. 1:22did you know in avengers endgame did you know  that in spiderman did you know thor in love
19. 1:26and thunder so I found a bunch of interesting  facts and explained them as simply as I could
20. 1:30in my videos one thing I strongly recommend is  don't overthink it spend as little time as you
21. 1:34can on making each video especially when  you're first starting out you're going to
22. 1:38have a lot of time to improve your content but  when you're in the beginning just publish your
23. 1:42first video as soon as you can get comfortable  making that style of content then choose one
24. 1:46side of the video to improve next time for  example focus on making better transitions
25. 1:50in the next five videos then better subtitles  better coloring better sound effects and so on
26. 1:55it will definitely increase your video quality  instead of trying to make everything perfect
27. 1:58back to the channel after publishing consistently  for about three weeks I made my first viral video
28. 2:06after publishing around 10 shorts or so you  need to go back and analyze data see which
29. 2:13videos are doing well and which doesn't this  step may be a bit boring for some of you but
30. 2:17it's definitely the most crucial one so don't  skip that and the only important metrics you
31. 2:21should check for YouTube shorts are view count  retention and swipe rate but more importantly
32. 2:25just re-watch your most viewed videos and try  to understand what makes them different from
33. 2:29the rest write them down in a viral recipe list  and you can either try to tick as many boxes as
34. 2:34you can in your next shorts or choose a few for  each video and implement them one by one I made
35. 2:38that list for my viral short and saw the subtitles  were shorter the scene was changing faster and I
36. 2:43made a joke at the end that wasn't funny anyways  I used this list for my next videos and I got two
37. 2:49more viral shorts at the end of that month  so in December 2022 I finally got monetized
38. 3:00what worked in the past may no longer work  today after replicating the same formula
39. 3:05for the next month I realized the formula is not  working anymore even though it was monetized the
40. 3:09channel's ad revenue was less than 20 dollars  a month obviously things weren't looking good
41. 3:14even though I used the same techniques the  views were getting lower in each video if you
42. 3:18came across that hitch on your channel too  it's the sign showing the golden formula is
43. 3:22broken or needs a revision you need to repeat  step three and four and add new points to your
44. 3:26viral recipe list and when I did it again  this time I saw better performing videos
45. 3:30had a sound effect in the beginning like this  some type of graphic that takes attention and
46. 3:35most of them didn't have a voiceover they were  just cool edits of recent movies even though I
47. 3:39was a bit suspicious since it was easier  to make this type of content I made more
48. 3:43of them and they did really well the channel was  getting more and more traction every day the ad
49. 3:48revenue went from 20 to over 150 dollars that  month everything was great I was sure it would
50. 3:52easily turn into thousands of dollars in a few  months until one day I got an email from YouTube
51. 4:00it said some of your videos have been taken down  due to a copyright notice we had to take down the
52. 4:05following three videos from YouTube so basically  my three edits about the movie spider-verse has
53. 4:10been taken down by Sony and my channel got a  copyright strike but that's not the worst part
54. 4:14a few hours after that my channel got demonetized  because of reused content it turns out my edits
55. 4:20weren't edited enough to meet the fair use it was  just the worst thing that could ever happen after
56. 4:25the channel was starting to take off but that  didn't stop me from posting I now went back to
57. 4:30adding voiceovers to my videos repeated step three  and four again to make my formula even better and
58. 4:35will reapply the YouTube Partner program in  a few weeks so if there's one principle you
59. 4:40need to use on your channel after this video it's  determination no matter how challenging it is just
60. 4:45learn from each experience and try to improve  find Solutions and don't lose your motivation