It IS a dark art.
Hi!
I would also like to draw your attention to my YouTube channel:
BTW: On Twitch Iām āsometimesā streamingā¦ 
Best regards
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With YouTube, one never knows.
Hundreds of hours of recording and editing, years of work, and only middling success.
Then, today, slap together a quick edit in Shotcut, just for the other Shotcut forum folks (and as a āThank youā to the Shotcut developers) upload it, and I am watching it take off like a rocket.
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Same thing happened to me on my channel. A whole yearās worth of videos and nothing, then the algorithm picked it up
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What I am laughing at today isā¦
āOf all the videos to begin getting views within minutes of uploadingā¦ā
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You can look at your analytics to figure out what caused the surge
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I was looking at my analytics when I saw it take off.
The subject matter and style is totally different than my usual work, which is why it is on a different channel, one that I intended but never yet developed. (A channel about the journey from beginner startup to YouTube monetization.)
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The analytics will show you the numbers, but digging into the trending data you may uncover what combination caused the surge. You couldāve just hit a pocket that helped your SEO. Your keyword choices may have helped because you used something that may have been favorable to searchers.
The timing may have been just right when many wanted to inquire about the new 21.02.27 version of Shotcut (which your video is actually the #1 search result). SEO plays a huge role in terms of being found. The quality of content on the other hand affects stickiness of your viewers.
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Unfortunately, this type of result is fickle. Youāll have maybe 2 weeks max, before another video bumps you off under the same search, so I would milk it while you canā¦
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I have seen that.
My most popular video has the coincidence of a title similar to (or exactly the same as) a song that is extremely popular in Australia.
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You can game that system if you know how itās played
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If you also do a Google search, your video is #7 for that search word on the front page
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ā¦up to a point.
That popular-by-title video has great Views numbers, but abysmal Retention.
People who were looking for a sweet-sad love song donāt want to listen to ten minutes of how modern Calvinism has its roots in the same 7th-century-BC monistic Hindu philosophy as Buddhism.
Like I saidā¦
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I didnāt realize this was your video until now, lol.
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That looks excellent. Good work!
A thousand kilos of hanging branch, lurking, waitingā¦
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Maybe the camera angles made it seem worse than it really was, but it looks like you were lucky on many levels. That branch could have hit you or smash the window.
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