Click bait...getting tired of it on YouTube

[mikEXpat]

Clickbait is when a person posts something and the link entices you to click on it like bait on a hook. 

It's getting bad, titles like "TOTALED!", "I'm leaving VanLife", and "Bad News".

You expect to hear something serious but in reality it's nothing much. Why? Because they don't know what to talk about. Everything that was fun for them has become routine. The excitement of learning has become boring. Doing this video stuff isn't paying off. They'd rather do something else but the $200 bucks helps to pay for gas so they don't want to stop. I get it.

Here are a few ideas for you to reinvigorate your channel:

1. Start filming yourself in the bathroom.
2. Fall.
3. Say something we will all hate so we hate you. Then become really nice. 
4. Give away useless shit.
5. Keep a rotten food container.
6. Become a professional stick thrower.
7. Show us the dirtiest toilets of America.
8. Interview rangers and get them to tell us crazy stuff, like the funniest druggie search.
9. Act like you're gonna fix something but break it. You'll get likes if it's the fuel pump.
10. Cook a gourmet meal on your camp stove.

I could go on. But don't use click bait. It cheapens your channel.

PS: Smile. I was just having fun. Lighten up.

 

[KASibson]

They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
Sadly.

 

[Gary68]

yea,i cant watch most utubers for those reasons

dont do a repair vid when you obviously have no idea what you are doing

i dont want to watch you warm up a can of soup and eat it

 

[LeeRevell]

May get better results if this OP were put on Youtube?

 

[akrvbob]

You hurt yourself in the long run. Youtubes highest value is watch time, not clicks. If someone watches your videos for a long time, that says lots of good things about you. If someone clicks on, watches 30 seconds and turns you off, that says you suck at making videos!!

Producing quality videos that people like (which usually means they like you) is the only good long-term strategy.
Bob

 

[BobBski]

I've watched/subscribed to many over the last year and probably only stayed subscribed to 8-10. However, depending on my vibes about the individual, I'll stay subscribed and let their whole video run through to help them make some money, regardless of content or quality. I view it as a contribution to help them make their way.

 

[KASibson]

Producing quality videos that people like (which usually means they like you) is the only good long-term strategy.

A number of your videos I've liked well enough to watch multiple times.
And/or to recommend to other people

You definitely have quality videos.  (And the quality has definitely improved over time too.)

 

[akrvbob]

A number of your videos I've liked well enough to watch multiple times.
And/or to recommend to other people

You definitely have quality videos.  (And the quality has definitely improved over time too.)

Thanks so much!
Bob

 

[mikEXpat]

By the way, I hope I didn't offend any YouTubers with this post. Especially if you recognize the title examples I used. I think my original post may not have come across well, now that I reread it. The ideas for video themes, well, I'd really like to see gourmet van cooking.

 

[LeeRevell]

I have seen some good videos on vandwellers cooking some tasty meals. My cooking tends towards the simple and minimalistic. A holdover from my motorcycle roadtrip days.
Mod and repair videos are good too.

 

[KASibson]

By the way, I hope I didn't offend any YouTubers with this post. Especially if you recognize the title examples I used. I think my original post may not have come across well, now that I reread it. The ideas for video themes, well, I'd really like to see gourmet van cooking.

Actually...I kinda hope you did offend someone, and that maybe they'll change their ways.
Though, I think cooking on a campstove is an interesting twist on an otherwise standard cooking video, but if the "gourmet meal" is ramen noodles from a packet that ain't "gourmet" and it's barely even cooking.

 

[LeeRevell]

Gotta search out the videos featuring Steak, Shrimp and Cajun Gumbo meals, etc.
They are out there.
And Ramen ain't half bad when doctored up.

 

[KASibson]

Ramen is ok doctored up. But opening a pack sprinkling in seasoning and dumping the noodles in doesn't count as video worthy "gourmet cooking".

 

[Headache]

I include the frozen pizza in the oven in the same group as stock ramen!

 

[jimindenver]

So question here. I tend to switch videos at the end instead of listening to the music, etc. Is there a effect by not watching to the very end?

 

[ArtW]

I think there is more effect by 'skipping' the commercials
Advertisers on youtube only pay content producers if you don't skip the ads, so if you have some you really like, and you can't support them on Patreon or some such setup, either suffer through the commercials or pay for 'youtube red' no commercials, and the content producers get paid a percentage each depending on your viewing time on each one's vids