If you see these 5 signs, your channel is about to BLOW UP — Transcript

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1. 0:00Most people don't realize this, but you
2. 0:01could be just one or two videos away
3. 0:03from seeing total success on your
4. 0:06channel because there's five major signs
5. 0:08that appear on almost every YouTube
6. 0:10channel right before the moment it blows
7. 0:12up. Now, these signs are buried deep in
8. 0:14your analytics, which is why most people
9. 0:16never see them. But in this video, I'm
10. 0:18going to break them down so they're easy
11. 0:19to spot and easy to understand. And if
12. 0:22you recognize any of these, it could
13. 0:23mean that your channel is on the verge
14. 0:25of something very exciting. Let's get
15. 0:27into it. Okay, then. So sign number one,
16. 0:29your returning viewer rate is
17. 0:31increasing. Now this is a brand new
18. 0:33metric that was released late last year
19. 0:35in 2025, but YouTube is now making a
20. 0:38huge push on this for 2026. It's going
21. 0:40to be their new main metric to judge
22. 0:42channel success on. So if you haven't
23. 0:44really paid attention to it yet or you
24. 0:46don't know what it is, listen closely
25. 0:48because this will be one of the most
26. 0:49important metrics on the platform from
27. 0:51now on. Now your returning viewer rate
28. 0:53basically now separates all of your
29. 0:55viewers into three main categories.
30. 0:57brand new viewers, casual viewers, and
31. 0:59regular viewers. So, in other words, it
32. 1:01shows YouTube how many people are
33. 1:03discovering your content for the first
34. 1:05time versus how many people are actively
35. 1:07choosing to come back and regularly
36. 1:08watch your content. But to simplify it
37. 1:10for you, new viewers are people who are
38. 1:12watching you for the very first time.
39. 1:14Casual viewers are people who have
40. 1:16watched one or two of your videos in the
41. 1:17past, but are not regular viewers. And
42. 1:19then regular viewers are people who come
43. 1:21and watch pretty much every video you
44. 1:23post out. So, in the ideal world, what
45. 1:25you want is a big solid portion of
46. 1:27regular viewers who are consistently
47. 1:29coming back and watching more and more
48. 1:30of your content because the algorithm
49. 1:32would see this as a massive positive
50. 1:34signal. Because look, anyone can get a
51. 1:37random view on a random video. But
52. 1:39actually, getting someone to keep coming
53. 1:41back and watching more of your content
54. 1:43is now how YouTube will measure loyalty
55. 1:45and trust. But let's imagine the
56. 1:46opposite scenario. Let's say the vast
57. 1:49majority of your viewers are brand new,
58. 1:51like brand new viewers on every single
59. 1:53upload, and you have very little or very
60. 1:55few casual or regular viewers. This
61. 1:58would tell YouTube that people might be
62. 2:00clicking on your videos, but nobody's
63. 2:02actually like coming back and watching
64. 2:03more. And that would suggest that
65. 2:05something might be off. Like maybe your
66. 2:07content isn't giving people enough
67. 2:09reason to return to you. Now, don't get
68. 2:11me wrong, you do want a large portion of
69. 2:13new viewers on every video because
70. 2:15that's how your channel grows and how
71. 2:16you gain new subscribers by having new
72. 2:18eyeballs on your content. But the key
73. 2:20here is balance. YouTube wants to see
74. 2:23new viewers coming in, but it also needs
75. 2:26to see casual and regular viewers
76. 2:28staying high. And when all three of
77. 2:30these are moving in the right direction,
78. 2:32that's when the algorithm really starts
79. 2:34to trust your channel. So, if you're
80. 2:36noticing your returning viewer rate
81. 2:38climbing over time, even if it's just
82. 2:40slowly, that's one of the clearest signs
83. 2:43that your channel is about to blow up.
84. 2:45Then we have sign number two. Your
85. 2:46impressions are increasing, even if your
86. 2:48views aren't. Now, this number right
87. 2:50here is impressions. And this basically
88. 2:52shows how many times YouTube is
89. 2:54suggesting your video out to people.
90. 2:56Now, impressions happen when your video
91. 2:58appears on someone's homepage or on
92. 3:00their suggested videos or in their
93. 3:02subscription feed. like it's YouTube
94. 3:04putting your title and thumbnail in
95. 3:06front of someone in a bid to have that
96. 3:08person click on it and watch it. So if
97. 3:10your video has let's say 10,000
98. 3:12impressions, that means YouTube has
99. 3:15shown your video to people 10,000
100. 3:18different times. So if you see this
101. 3:20number start to gradually increase over
102. 3:22time, it means that the algorithm is
103. 3:24actively testing your video with wider
104. 3:27audiences to try and find people who are
105. 3:29most likely to be interested in it.
106. 3:31because it basically now thinks that
107. 3:32your content is good enough to be pushed
108. 3:34out more. And this only ever happens to
109. 3:36videos that are of high quality. Like,
110. 3:39we all know how harsh the algorithm can
111. 3:41be. Now, if you're getting loads of
112. 3:43impressions, but you're not getting
113. 3:44loads of views in return, don't panic.
114. 3:47That doesn't immediately mean your
115. 3:48content is bad. It might just mean that
116. 3:50YouTube hasn't found the right audience
117. 3:52yet. And this is actually one of the
118. 3:53hardest jobs the algorithm has to
119. 3:55perform. But you can help the algorithm
120. 3:57and YouTube find the right audience much
121. 3:59faster by improving things like your
122. 4:01SEO, your titles, your thumbnails. Like
123. 4:04you need to make it crystal clear who
124. 4:05your video is for. Now, if you do
125. 4:07struggle with SEO or titles or
126. 4:09thumbnails, give this video a watch
127. 4:10after. I'll cover everything in there.
128. 4:12But the key thing to understand here is
129. 4:14this. YouTube will only ever increase
130. 4:17your impressions if it believes your
131. 4:19content is good enough to test in the
132. 4:21first place. like rising impressions are
133. 4:23a good sign that your channel is about
134. 4:26to blow up. Trust me. Now, if you're
135. 4:28starting to see these signs like
136. 4:29increasing impressions and YouTube
137. 4:31testing your content more or loads of
138. 4:33new subscribers coming in, this is
139. 4:35actually the best time to start thinking
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141. 4:40just YouTube. Because the truth is, even
142. 4:42when your channel is doing well, we are
143. 4:45all like still held hostage by the
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146. 4:52does. So, if anything ever changes, like
147. 4:55a really big algorithm update or if your
148. 4:57channel gets hacked or if your views
149. 4:59just suddenly drop, then you risk losing
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184. 6:14let's get back to the signs. Sign number
185. 6:16three, you're getting more comments than
186. 6:18your subscriber count would suggest.
187. 6:20Now, you may have heard of the view to
188. 6:23subscriber ratio before, which basically
189. 6:25compares how many views you get per
190. 6:27video against how many subscribers your
191. 6:29channel has. Now, for example, if you're
192. 6:31getting like 2,000 views per video, but
193. 6:33you only have like 400 subscribers,
194. 6:35that's a really strong ratio, but this
195. 6:37also applies to comments, too. So, if
196. 6:40you find that your videos are generating
197. 6:41more and more comments compared to your
198. 6:43subscriber count, that's also a massive
199. 6:45sign that your content is really
200. 6:47starting to connect with your audience.
201. 6:49Because think about it, like leaving a
202. 6:52comment requires effort. Like, someone
203. 6:54has to literally care enough to stop
204. 6:56watching and actually go down there and
205. 6:58write something. And YouTube knows this.
206. 7:01So when it sees strong engagement like
207. 7:03this, especially on small channels like
208. 7:05yours, it stands out and the algorithm
209. 7:07notices. Now, this signal tells the
210. 7:09algorithm that viewers aren't just
211. 7:11passively watching you, they're actively
212. 7:13engaging with you. And that's what we
213. 7:15want. And once YouTube sees enough of
214. 7:17these signals, which usually happens
215. 7:19over the course of multiple videos, it
216. 7:21will start pushing your videos out much,
217. 7:23much harder because engaged viewers are
218. 7:26more likely to return. they're more
219. 7:28likely to subscribe and they're more
220. 7:30likely to watch more content. So, if
221. 7:32your comment section is active, even if
222. 7:34it's just with a small audience, it
223. 7:35doesn't matter because it's a still a
224. 7:37really strong indicator that your
225. 7:39channel is on the verge of something
226. 7:41big. Then, we have sign four, your view
227. 7:43to swipe ratio starts consistently
228. 7:45hitting over 70%. Now, this sign is
229. 7:48really important, especially if you
230. 7:49mainly post shorts. And for those of you
231. 7:51that don't know, your view to swipe
232. 7:53ratio is basically just how many people
233. 7:55choose to stop and watch your video
234. 7:57versus how many people actively swiped
235. 7:59away. Now, my view to swipe ratio on
236. 8:01average is around 70 to 30%. Which is
237. 8:04barely passing. If your view to swipe
238. 8:06ratio is below 70%, there's a high
239. 8:09chance that YouTube won't push your
240. 8:11shorts or your videos out as much
241. 8:13because it basically means that most
242. 8:14people are actively swiping away from
243. 8:16your content as opposed to staying and
244. 8:18watching it. And that's not a good sign
245. 8:19for the algorithm. But if you can get
246. 8:21your view to swipe ratio to like on
247. 8:22average 80%, which is tough, I know, I
248. 8:25have to be honest. But if you can do
249. 8:27this, you'll have every chance of going
250. 8:29viral with pretty much every short you
251. 8:31post because anything above 70% is the
252. 8:34sweet spot. Like one of my shorts on my
253. 8:36travel channel has over 8 million views
254. 8:38and my view to swipe ratio is just
255. 8:40hitting 73.7%.
256. 8:43Proving to you that anything above 70%
257. 8:45should make your videos go viral. So, if
258. 8:48you're seeing some or maybe all of your
259. 8:50shorts hitting over 70% with the view to
260. 8:53ratio, it could be the sign you're on to
261. 8:55something big. Sign number five, YouTube
262. 8:58starts recommending your videos next to
263. 9:00bigger creators. Now, this is one of the
264. 9:02signs that most of you probably won't
265. 9:04notice at first, and you might actually
266. 9:06have to rely on other people telling you
267. 9:07about it. But, if you start to see your
268. 9:09videos appearing in the suggested
269. 9:11section or on the home feed next to the
270. 9:13bigger creators in your niche, that's
271. 9:16not random. That's now your competition.
272. 9:18And what this means is YouTube now
273. 9:20believes your content is good enough to
274. 9:22sit alongside the bigger channels in
275. 9:24your niche and you're no longer being
276. 9:26treated as a small creator. You're now
277. 9:28being tested directly against
278. 9:30established players. Now, this is huge
279. 9:33because it means you're starting to
280. 9:34solidify your place in your niche and
281. 9:37YouTube now sees you as someone worthy
282. 9:39of capturing a larger share of the
283. 9:41audience's attention. And it also means
284. 9:43that more and more viewers are being
285. 9:45exposed to you in the right context.
286. 9:48Like people start seeing your channel
287. 9:50next to creators they already trust. And
288. 9:52then subconsciously they begin
289. 9:54associating your channel with those
290. 9:57bigger names. And once that association
291. 9:59starts forming, growth can accelerate
292. 10:01very very quickly. So, if YouTube is
293. 10:04putting you in the same arena as the big
294. 10:06players, it's a very, very strong sign
295. 10:08that your channel is much closer to
296. 10:10blowing up than you might realize. Now,
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