The Community-tab poll that pre-loaded a video's first hour A source on a 180K gaming channel told me they started posting a Community poll 24 hours before each upload, asking which of two angles view…
Adding chapters lifted retention on long videos Heard from a DIY channel, average video 22 minutes, retention sagging. They added timestamp chapters to 15 videos, nothing else changed, no re-edit. The…
Front-loading the search term, measured Word is a gardening channel went back through 60 old uploads and rewrote titles so the search phrase sat in the first three words, moving 'How I finally...' sty…
End screen vs. mid-roll card, the session-time experiment A source running a 250K history channel told me they tested moving their 'next video' nudge from the end screen to a mid-roll info card at the…
They cut uploads in half and grew faster Heard this Tuesday from a mid-size tech reviewer, 90K subs, stuck flat for a year on three uploads a week. They dropped to one, poured the saved hours into res…
The Shorts-to-long pinned-comment funnel, with real conversion Word is a cooking channel cracked the Shorts crossover problem most people fail. On every Short, they pinned a comment linking the full l…
