My 3-Weeks Experiment With YouTube
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
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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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
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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.