My 3-Weeks Experiment With YouTube

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Hi WA Family,

How's it going? Time really does fly. 4 days of the 365 for 2025 is gone! Yeah, time is the most precious resource. Just some random thoughts.

I wanna share my YouTube experiment. See, I’m not active on YouTube. I’m more old fashioned, sticking to my blogs. Lol. A couple of friends say blogging is dead, and they’re more on social media but AI has transformed the landscape.

December 10, I decided to try out YouTube. Coz I wanted to find some engaging ways to teach my 8-yo grandchild some values, life lessons, etc, during the Christmas holidays. And both of us learning Together was fun 🤩

So we started a channel where we posted YouTube Shorts “Did You Know? Fun Fact for Kids” stuff - about nature, animals, birds, sea creatures, etc.

We used AI to generate Shorts. Very few or no views. So by Christmas Day December 25, we decided to post short kids stories and lessons from Childrens’ Animated Movies starting with Moana.

Here’s the results from 15 short videos (excluding Shorts):

Watch Time - 99.2 Hours

Views - 4,450

Impressions - 108,400

CTR - 2.5%

Subscriptions - 28

Unique Visitors - 3,350

Kids Life Lessons Channel

Like I said, this is my first time to try out YouTube, like posting content.

I employed the skills I learnt here at Wealthy Affiliate - especially in writing keyword rich descriptions and from understanding SEO, target 🎯 audience, etc and wow! I myself could not believe the surge in traffic.

With the advent of AI, there’s so much content being generated and I think we must still humanize our posts , by adding interesting content. At least that was my experience.

Have a great weekend 🙏💙. All the best in your endeavors.

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This just might be the beginning of your you tube success

Hi Mark, not sure. Will wait and see if the videos will be evergreen to generate traffic consistently. Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for sharing, Kessy! Good job!

Hi Howard, thanks for that. May 2025 be a good year for you

That's great, Kessy. I imagine the quick traffic relative to blogging must be a rush. I'll bet the kids loved it!

Hi Dave, I think so. Will wait it out and see how it does in the long-run. Wishing you all the best for 2025

Hi Kez,

Happy New Year!

This is so impressive.

I'll also join the YouTube ''goldrush'' this year.

More success and blessing to you and your family.

I wish you a blessed weekend.

Thanks for sharing.

- Makinde

Hi Makinde,
I like your description of "gold rush". Like Google, YouTube is a big search engine, not just a video sharing site. Thanks for stopping by. Wishing you and family more blessings, too. Stay blessed

Amen.

You are welcome, Kez.

I wish you a blessed day.

Thank you.

- Makinde

I'll be doing more YouTube this year, but still have websites as well.

Mel

Hi Mel, thanks for stopping by. Yeah, I think its a good idea. Wishing you all the best

Thanks! You, too.

Mel

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