Here it is ready. This is the big secret to YouTube good videos get watched, okay, you won't need any sort of trickery or marketing plans this that good videos get watched they get passed around themselves. So if you make a great video, it's gonna get passed around, it's gonna go viral, it's gonna get seen. And that's what we're talking about this course is hot, how to push you to make viral great videos. When I look at my channel, fuzzy puppet I see the highest viewed videos versus the least viewed videos. It's no coincidence that the highest viewed videos are no, obviously the best videos.
They really are. They had the best thumbnails the best I put the most effort into them the funniest storylines and the ones that got the least views, the ones that really just went through the motions and didn't work very hard on let's talk about the YouTube algorithm for a moment to basically a set of code. It's like a think of it almost like a robot that takes a look at your video. Every time you upload a video to YouTube, this robot this algorithm this code takes a look at that video and it It measures all these different metrics about it to determine Is this a good video or not? If it's a good video, you won't have to pay to advertise it or ask your friends YouTube will for free on its own recommend your video on the homepage and the suggested bar on the side everywhere across YouTube to people Hey, this is a good video you should watch it.
What does it used to measure? Is it a good video or a bad video? You might not know this or not, but views don't count as much as they used to on YouTube. Now it's watch time. How much of your video does the person watch how many minutes if it's 10 minutes video, and they only watch two minutes of the 10 then your video got two minutes of watch time. And whichever video on YouTube for that topic has the most collective watch time.
That's the one that YouTube algorithm is going to promote. For example, if in your title, description and tags of your video. If you say your video is about something else, let's say I make a fuzzy puppet video and I say this video is about learning the ABCs because I know kids are watching videos these days about the ABCs and I want My Videos not really about that. It's about, let's say learning numbers. But hey, maybe somebody who wants to learn the ABCs is going to click on this video to the algorithm is not going to like that it's going to punish you. Because what's going to happen is it's going to recommend your video to somebody who actually is looking to see a video about ABCs.
And as soon as they realize, hey, this video is not about ABC, they're going to click off of that video, the algorithm is going to say, Hey, everyone who comes to this video immediately clicks off of it, it must not be very good. We're not going to serve this up anymore on the homepage to people because this is not a good video, so don't not try to trick the algorithm. Be very honest in your tags, title and description of what the video is actually about.