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YouTube Automation Seriesseen in 5 videos →linktr.ee/joshtriesit ↗

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The creator is transparent about their struggles and experiments, sharing actionable insights and advice derived from their experience and conversations with other successful creators. This approach builds trust and encourages engagement by offering value and a relatable journey.

Summary

The creator discusses their attempts to gain views on YouTube by posting short videos, which resulted in high retention but low overall views. They plan to create longer videos (around 40 seconds) in the next episode to potentially increase views, and encourage viewers to follow along for updates.

Structure

1Struggling to gain views with short videos
2High retention but low views
3Seeking advice from other creators
4Learning that longer videos might be better
5Planning to make longer videos and document the process
6

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Welcome back to episode 12 of the YouTube automation series, where I try to launch my own YouTube automation channel to see if it really is possible... in today's episode, I give you another update on the channel and talk about the changes I'll be making to try and get a VIRAL hit! #youtubeautomation #facelesscontent #sidehustle #entrepreneur

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For the past I've been trying off of posting AI brainrot I might be on to I think we might be onto a winner here. In the last I said that I'd just and see keep making videos, and see what happens. So, I've done that, but... Things have mostly just stayed the same. around the same views and retention, but we have managed to improve the swipe-rate by having better hooks. So... I didn't where to go from here. But luckily, I talked to some friends that I've made through posting these videos, who all have shorts channels already and they gave me some advice. Interestingly, they said it's much easier to get views with videos that are closer to the 50-60 and all of my videos so far have only been around 15-20 seconds, which has led to CRAZY retention rates, but seemingly, isn't helping the views. So my next tactic is gonna be making videos that are a little bit longer, maybe around 40 seconds. which the retention but seeing they're so high right now anyway, I think we have enough some up for longer BUT this series show EVERYTHING so that you can learn how to do this along with me. press the follow button to follow along with the journey. Stay tuned for the next episode where I'll give you another update and hopefully goes well.

Transcript

For the past two months I've been trying off of posting. I've been trying to get rich off of posting AI brainrot. I might be on to something. I think we might be onto a winner here. So for now, I said that I'd just keep making videos, and see what happens. So, I've done that, but... Things have mostly just stayed the same. We're still hovering around the same views and retention, but we have managed to improve the swipe-rate at least a little bit by having better hooks. So... I didn't where to go from here. But luckily, I talked to some friends that I've made through posting these videos, who all have shorts channels already, and they gave me some advice. Interestingly, they said it's much easier to get views with videos that are closer to the 50-60 and all of my videos so far have only been around 15-20 seconds, which has led to crazy retention rates, but seemingly, isn't helping the views. So my next tactic is gonna be making videos that are a little bit longer, maybe somewhere around 40 seconds, which might hurt the retention, but seeing they're so high right now anyway, I think we have enough some up for longer, but... this series show EVERYTHING so that you can learn how to do this along with me. Press the follow button to follow along with the journey. Stay tuned for the next episode where I'll give you another update and hopefully goes well.