The beginning of a YouTube video is probably the most important part of your content. When you look at the analytics, it is clear that the beginning is where the drop off in viewership occurs; you need to pay attention to your hooks so that people stay throughout the entire video.
In the beginning of the platform, YouTube was emphasizing growth in the company. The view count was what mattered and that was the order of the day. However, when we get to the early 2010s, YouTube’s management began to change the rules.
Watch Time is the new baseline here.
This has been the main way for creators and filmmakers to get popular on YouTube.
You want the drop off in the beginning of the video to be quite small. What you want is people watching the video throughout the entire time so that they basically do not change the video to go to the recommended list on their apps.
The most ideal situation here is that they watch the entire video to its conclusion, and after the ad if they are not premium, get a list of your videos on autoplay or similar video from another YouTuber.
How to keep your audience’s attention:
Get the hook.
My advice is this here:
Get your audience’s attention just as you would writing a book or even making a video game.
Make sure that the audience knows what the video is about from the beginning. Do not just focus on endless elaboration.
Sometimes your hook can be something flashy or sometimes it can be something that provokes thinking in your audience.
What is important to grab their attention. This is even more important with YouTube Shorts. You need to deal with a generation of kids who are not as interested in long-form videos. Getting that attention early not only helps viewership but creates trust among viewers. They keep coming back again and again.
Overoptimization can cause some creators to have burnout. Just be yourself and have passion for your projects. This way, you will have success and grow your channels.
On YouTube, there are many ways to get attention to your videos. However, I think one of the most important ways is to optimize your video titles.
Introduction to Making your Videos have relevance in a local area.
This post will not just be about making your video titles great but specifically how to optimize them for a local area.
In the early days, YouTube was more about memes and pop culture, these were part of the monoculture as some people call it. Now, there are videos everywhere are about every topic. In order to truly gain an audience that will subscribe and be engaged, you have to provide some unique insight that people have not seen before. One way to do such a thing is by embracing a sense of building locally and thinking globally when making your videos.
As a result, you will be able to have audience that will be local as well passionate about your content on the site.
How to optimize your video titles:
When it comes to making videos about a local event or attraction, you need to emphasize certain parts of your title.
[Local Area] + Subject can be what you use.
The video title in my opinion is probably more important the thumbnail in that people see that first not the thumbnail.
YouTube says that the thumbnail is more important. However, the title is very important in a synergy with the thumbnail.
When your channel is young and you have few subscribers, the thumbnail is probably at its highest in importance. Video titles also need to synergy correctly with those images.
Such video thumbnails should relate to the place you are talking about.
As an example, you take a video of the Parthenon in Athens on the Acropolis. How do you make such a video special or interesting?
If your channel does not have the bonus of having friends who share it or you have a big reputation, you have find a way to get people to look at your video.
Your video title should emphasize something specific about your visit to the place. There have been many videos uploaded of the Parthenon on YouTube.
Emphasize:
What was special about your visit?
What was the time of day when went there?
Any special insights you want to give about it?
YouTube is a place that is highly saturated with videos about many topics and issues. You need to find a way to stand out among the sea of videos on the site.
Giving your video some local flair is very important towards getting your videos to have attention on YouTube. People are yearning for more personalization rather general videos. The video title and thumbnail should be able to be general enough but also talk to a more specific audience.
Fox corporation has launched Fox One, a new streaming service which puts all of the corporation’s entertainment properties. It includes the news, entertainment and sports channels under one streaming service. The price is $`19.99 and it is probably one of the best places for cord cutters or cord nevers because those two groups are growing and have more influence on the culture now.
The Cord Nevers in particular are of great interest to Fox One. Unlike the Cord Cutters, the Cord Nevers have no experience with using Cable TV. Such a group generally involves people who are in the younger generations. They maybe be aware of Fox News but have spent time on the website or even seen clips on YouTube. However, having this app will help to solidify Fox News’ ability to get more of the younger generations as the old TV stations have been ossified for so long and are hemorrhaging their audiences. Fox One has launched at the right time for getting into streaming media. One of their rivals has been around for some time in streaming but it has been stagnant as their brand is seen as stuck in the model of the big three era. While some people may want to return to that, it was always skewed by competent reporters before they began declining into decadence and incompetence.
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Fox News is Right-Wing or Conservative, but it is among one of the best sites representing the United States’ ideology based in 18th Century ideals. Unlike most news sites, it is not obsessed with baiting its audience about everything just to make a quick buck. Most of their articles and news focuses on stories that the decay media system is unable to report on.
As such they have a news app which will appeal to many types of people in the United States.
Unlike CNN, which is just basically a rage bait channel at this point for siloing people into certain political ideologies, Fox News seems to be angling for a lean but not totally taking that position that is most dominant among its viewers.
Most news streaming services have been not very good in quality. CNN+ was horrible and CBSN and other services have been add-ons to largely stagnant brands that had their best times in the past.
Fox One is going to change that and help Fox News get even more popular.
Who should get Fox One?
Anyone is interested in Fox’s catalog. The entertainment side is sparser so it should be more the people who are interested in the news and the sports.
On the news side, this is very useful streaming service which allows for people to subscribe to Fox News and other local channels without having to pay Cable TV prices. This means that people will saving hundreds of dollars every year and be able to spend it on something else.
The news that is available is basically what one gets in their cable tv news packages.
Every program on Fox News is there. Fox Business is there as well as the local stations other Fox channels.
One advantage this has over YouTube is that you can look at clips of particular sections of a show without having to watch the whole thing. This curation by Fox is one of the best parts of the app, allowing for viewers to not have to focus on endlessly scrolling as one sees on sites such as Netflix.
Their mobile app is also attempting to utilize the Tik-Tok style shorts system. While I have reservations about this, it is important to reach the younger generation with this. Long-form reading, while desirable amongst our populace is not going to be enough to reach everyone. We need to have a platform that make the news enjoyable to people. This is what a lot of the people who scream about news deserts seem to forget about; newspapers in the traditional form, whether they be in print or the old style internet sites are outdated and simply ineffective at reporting the news.
The site is also very smooth and seamless. When I click on an icon on the site, the video loads up correctly without annoying ads slowing everything. The app’s categorization of its news is much better than that of YouTube or any other news app out there. This is of great use to anyone who wants to get Fox entertainment properties without paying for cable or watching broadcast television.
This means that Fox is available in a seamless way for anyone using a mobile app or on their computer.
This may be the most popular news app that is “paid” not free. Unlike CNN’s app, Fox One has something to appeal to consumers.
Fox One is the best News Streaming service right now.
News sites have struggled to get onto streaming services. Much of this is due to the arrogance of many of the people who were in charge of those companies. They had been at the top for so long that they did not believe that they could be touched by those upstart companies on the internet. YouTube began to change this process but there was still much inertia in the entertainment system in the United States. This inertia has been taking time to be changed in our culture.
Fox One is still in its early stages. However, Fox News is making the right investment here in getting Fox News onto a streaming platform. Instead of it being on YouTube and having to deal with constant ads and annoying recommendations, you can get the content on there without any distractions.
In my opinion, this is one of the best News App you can pay for right now on the internet. You will be saving tons of money by using this app instead of paying for cable. This is what cord cutters and nevers should be focusing on, saving money with reliable and affordable services.
So getting the service will help save you money on a whole as well getting reliable even if at times biased news coverage. Such a deal is superior to wasting it on Netflix or any other streaming service
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