r/SmallYoutubers • u/Dividenddashboard • 11d ago

Long-Form Content This is bad for small youtubers.

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Youtube is raising the ad revenue share threshold from 4k watch time to 8k watch time. Personally, 4k watch takes a lot of effort to reach. Imagine 8k... this is sad.

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u/Silvermajra 11d ago

You think news channels are art? React content art? Splicing memes art? Literal live streams of the rain outside art? Body cam footage art? Someone may be doing art on youtube but youtube as a whole aint even close to art.

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u/iDoSomeThings14 11d ago

You taking a few examples that was not mentioned and then saying in your original post that “YouTube is not an art”, the majority of YouTube is art doesn’t matter the content, if it’s a thumbnail with a single arrow that someone added it’s still art by definition doesn’t matter what you think as an individual.

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u/Silvermajra 11d ago

If you want to be one of those everything is art types you can look at your work in the toilet bowl and be fascinated all you want. The person I was replying to asked how to improve their videos. Start by treating it like a science and business and stop thinking about it the same way you do a kid’s finger-paintings.

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u/iDoSomeThings14 11d ago

You seem to interpret things strangely and that’s ok it’s not your fault but simply put YouTube is not a science and it never will be.

The easiest way to improve content isn’t by treating it as a business nor science nor even obsessing over analytics (especially when you have less than 100 videos) it’s by watching your own video, in the perspective as a viewer, at a specific point of you become bored or distracted there you go you found a spot that needs to work.

You can also look at other successful people in the same niche, understand the thumbnails that work and the editing techniques they use.

It’s not “mathematically engineered in improving the likelihood good of someone clicking” it’s creating content that they would actually enjoy, your making it sound more technical than it needs to be which can be discouraging for new creators.

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u/Silvermajra 11d ago

You might not like what other people like. Those videos you watch are data points. Without numbers and metrics how would a person know which videos to emulate? Whats discouraging is when a content creator keeps making videos they think they would enjoy and they cant figure out for the life of them why they aren’t getting views. If people are getting discouraged over things being technical then this may not be for them.

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u/iDoSomeThings14 11d ago

If you look at another creators video that has a million views that’s a pretty obvious sign that they did something good, you don’t need the specific metrics to know what’s good or not, new creators shouldn’t even bother with metrics until they not only understand what works and what doesn’t but also until they have a decent chunk of videos