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by rockinghigh 1498 days ago
> YouTube ruthlessly punishes creators that don't upload on a consistent schedule. I imagine TikTok and Instagram are similar.

Older videos are naturally downranked because users want fresh content. The age of a post is a strong predictor of user interaction. However, it doesn't mean Youtube actively punishes less frequent creators. YouTube actually promotes a lot of old content (>1 year old) compared to other platforms. At the extreme, Instagram Stories are deleted after 24 hours forcing you to produce content daily.
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dan-robertson 1497 days ago
Isn’t an innovation[1] of TikTok that it happily recommends old content as well as using user feedback as a stronger signal?

[1] that is, something they do and make a success of rather than some totally original idea.

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ipaddr 1498 days ago
They do punish you. If you fall outside of the formula you will lose a lot of traffic but posting too much pushes your older content out of the formula so posting too much means any one video won't get scale.
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corobo 1498 days ago
In modern YouTube each video is ranked individually in the algorithm. Your past videos don’t harm (or boost) your new ones.

The only overlap is where your subscribers watch the video. This gives the algorithm an idea of the audience your video is applicable to so it can push it further than a video from a channel with no subscribers

Src [PDF]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

If anything you should post as many videos as you can handle in terms of workload and quality. Don’t burn yourself out of course, but don’t hold back thinking an algorithm designed to show people videos wants less videos!

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ipaddr 1497 days ago
You're missing sidebar recommendations and keywords that are carried over from previous videos which are only two deep. Plus weekly, daily and monthly summing of a keyword.

Yes I have thousands of subscribers and millions of hours watched.

I have tried to post as many vidoes as possible like I'm sure many have tried. 3 a day max works better.

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corobo 1497 days ago
You’re absolutely right, I did miss them. Been using the app for a while.

In any case I’ll stop tubesplaining, sorry! Any knowledge I have is booksmarts-deep at best 2015 onwards, any recent experience is definitely going to be more informed

Oh wow 2015 is a long time ago already..

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