Rewatches are a signal you can engineer Word is segments viewers scrub back to and rewatch send an outsized positive signal — stronger per-second than passive linear watching. A source says videos wit…
Collabs bleed audience the wrong direction Heard this from creators who've done big collabs: the channel that uploads the collab keeps the watch-time credit, while the guest channel gets a description…
Tags are dead — but the field still hurts you Word is video tags carry almost no ranking weight anymore, yet creators are reporting that stuffing irrelevant high-volume tags can still mislead the earl…
The Q1 RPM cliff people mistake for a penalty Heard this every January: creators panic that they've been 'shadow-demonetized' when ad rates fall off a cliff after the holiday quarter. Word from people…
Live replays are dragging your VOD numbers Word is the flat retention graph of a leftover live stream — long, low-watched, full of dead air — feeds the same channel-level averages that decide how your…
Your auto-captions are leaking ranking signal Word is uploaded videos with accurate caption files are surfacing in search for phrases the creator never put in title, description, or tags — the system …
