Help me understand my Stats!

[keen wren]

Hey,

My most recent upload is doing decent, but I'm just wondering why the views/impressions are starting to flatline?

I've sent all of the stats for my video if someone is able to help me understand what I need to improve upon! Thank you!

(Im not sure how much this matters but the niche is gaming (specifically my first playthrough of a game) and it currently has 195 comments)

Any information / feedback would be super useful!

oh the video is also 30mins long

[gentle nova]

Its only been 1 day So i wouldnt worry about it "flatlining"
Sometimes video's get a strong push to a relevant audience then die off. Some videos pick up a week later/months later/years later.
Take this at face value in 1 day its netted you 35subs or another way to look at it you gained more than 10% subscribers of your total subscribers in 1 day.

[keen wren]

Okay thank you, its weird that some videos get pushed straight away and trickle off and others dont do anything for 2 days and pop out of no where. The algorithm is so interesting! Yeah thats true, and im happy its getting positive attention, realistically I only do it because I enjoy it but I also love to find out new information/understand things like this to try to see if I can understand parts that I need to improve. Thanks so much for replying to my post. I appreciate it! ❤️

[gentle nova]

Sometimes theres no rhyme or reason in our eyes are creators.
I average 2-4k views a video and sometimes a upload wont break 100views. It just didnt hit my potential viewers or its awful packaging either way Im going to keep uploading.
So because you have above 1k views here whats your average view duration on this video?

oh i see it now

9:06

[keen wren]

Thats fair, its so complex to understand that sometimes it feels completely arbitrary. Yeah thats true, cant let it dishearten you! If you enjoy making the videos then thats all that matters at the end of the day ❤️

the video does contain a long dialogue that lots of people that have already played the game would have seen so it brings the avd down just a smidge. What AVD is considered good in gaming playthroughs?

[gentle nova]

So your AVD is above most peoples averages here so this video is a win in my book.

AVD comes down to video length.

Itll fluctuate as well.

[keen wren]

oh this is such a good graph thank you for this! ❤️

so im exactly median atm basically

slightly below

[gentle nova]

Its close enough to 10minute avd I wouldnt stress a minute. If you had 1-2minute avd then you would know your content isnt engaging.

[keen wren]

yeah true, and the comments so far have been positive. Thanks for all your help ❤️

[gentle nova]

So if you want some more insight on where your video might have issues if any post your rentention graph for this video.

[keen wren]

its not avaliable yet actually, ill have to wait until tomorrow i think

I was about to send it then until i realised

[gentle nova]

oh ok do you have the 5.5k retention graph? Its the same concept.

[keen wren]

steady decline isnt a good sign right?

do you want the rest of the stats for this one or just the graph?

[gentle nova]

Ok so your intro will be your highest click off point always. When it says above typical thats compared to your own videos not youtube as a whole.

This is actually a solid graph a steady decline is actually want you want, that means nothign was really egregiously bad in the video. The small bumps are people fast forwarding a little bit but outside of that you have no huge spikes that look like V so thats great.

1sec i have some funky retention graphs I can show you

[keen wren]

oh awesome! Yeah i guess that actually does make a lot of sense, so big spikes are indicative of people leaving or specifically forwarding?

so even tho this is small this means some people fast forward like 10 seconds?

[keen wren]

I do really appreciate this, thank you!

[keen wren]

okay so this one on the left has lots of moments where people leave and skip forward? meaning there may be parts that are unattractive to viewers at these points?

[gentle nova]

Big spikes downward means thats a huge click off point.
Spikes upwards means people are fast forwarding

[gentle nova]

Correct while both graphs are a bit rough the one on the right is a more gradual drop off.
On the left you can assume the intro was awful and overall the video people skipped through.

then theres this thing that was a tier list

[keen wren]

I see, so the aim is to have as straight a line as possible, which often ends up being a steady decline because people just leave randomly throughout rather then being provoked to leave via bad content. The one on the left could be a tutorial video or something right? Where people are only there for a specific reason so they skip past everything they dont need?

[keen wren]

ahhh which makes sense because the majority of people just want to see whats ranked where?

[gentle nova]

well the video was terrible but those who did stay did that yes.

[keen wren]

lmao im sure it wasnt that bad. If anything its being used as a useful learning tool right now! ❤️

[gentle nova]

So itll never be truly straight but basically the smoother the line the more "natural" it is. People will always fall off through out the video thats naturual. But the spikes are where theres a fundamental flaw in your video that made people click off.
Tiny bumps are whatever.

[keen wren]

Okay thanks so much for this! I'll wait until I can see the engagement graph for this most recent one and see if theres any specific parts people didnt like

[gentle nova]

I will say dont be discouraged if you game hop. So for your past two uploads that were about ultrakill gave you about 20-40% of your current subs if im not mistaken. So the odds of those viewers specifically watching non ultrakill content may be low.
So you might take a hit in that regard but main thing is aiming for repeat viewers.

[keen wren]

Yeah thats okay! I have come to terms with that, next upload is a continuation of my News Tower series and some people have already said they aren't bothered about it, but more than I expected also said they were happy to watch. Specifically on my discord. Which is nice to hear because from what I've seen the ultrakil community is pretty diehard for their game

[gentle nova]

Understandable. Sounds like your making watchable content and going by your stats your performing pretty well and you have something there that people want to watch.