Three other avenues of interest

[kexej28769@nongnue]

Three other avenues of interest that I just found potentially valuable.

Older videos perform better on average, but newer videos get a boost.

One is that older videos tend to perform better in the rankings on average, but new videos get a boost when they come out early. So in the data set, Justin created a great graph that looks like this -- zero to two weeks after the video was published, two to six weeks, six to twelve weeks, and one year later, and here are some more.

But you can see that the slope of this curve follows usa number data idea that there's a new boost here in those first two to six weeks, and it's strongest in the first zero to two weeks. So if you're publishing regularly and you're like, "Oh, this video didn't hit. Let me try again. This video didn't hit. Oh, it got it. It nailed my audience search. That was really powerful." That seems pretty good.

Helps channels promote their videos.
Channels are something Justin looked into in depth. I haven’t covered it much here, but he looked at channel optimization a lot. Channels help promote their individual videos, such as subscribers who comment and like, and have a higher average watch time than videos that are disconnected from subscribers. He noted that around 1,000 or so subscriptions is a good target to start taking advantage of the metrics that a good subscriber base can bring. These also have a positive impact on views and rankings. Whether this is a correlation or just causation, though, is hard to say.

Embeds and links are related, but not sure why.