Plus the three things that showed up in zero of them, and what 2.5 million channels say about your odds. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Plus the three things that showed up in zero of them, and what 2.5 million channels say about your odds.
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WHAT THE 5X VIDEOS HAVE IN COMMON
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6 In 10 Channels Already Made An Outlier
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Most channels have already done it. We pulled every channel that published at least ten long-form videos in the last 90 days, and four in ten have one sitting at ten times their own median. The outlier is not the rare part. Doing it twice is.
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Four Rules, Not Four Tricks
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We went through videos currently pulling 5 to 100 times their channel's normal views, looking for what repeats. Four things do, and all four are about the decision a viewer makes before the video starts.
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THE FOUR, IN ORDER
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Recognition Wins
Recognition beats novelty. A format the viewer already knows how to read is the doorway in.
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Open A Loop
Your title and your first sentence. Earning the click and holding it are two different jobs.
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Topics Don't Win Subscribers
Nobody subscribes to a topic. The sharpest hooks hint at a bigger question - who could I become if I stay?
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Answer Why
Whether you are worth trusting, decided in the first few seconds.
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What's Not On The List
Equipment, daily posting, and the algorithm.
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VIDIQ CREATOR POLL
Your Best Video Ever - Do You Know Why It Worked?
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Yes, and I could repeat it🎯 |
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I do not think I have had one🔍 |
Mulai, pick one and we will show you what everyone else said.
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What Did Not Make The List
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The four rules are only half of it. The video closes on the three things that not one of the breakouts had: fancy equipment, posting every single day, and the algorithm. Its examples run across very different topics and very different channel sizes - which is exactly what our own numbers say.
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Size Is Not What Separates You
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We expected the rate to climb with subscriber count. It does not move: 62.4% of channels under 1,000 subscribers landed a 5x video in the last 90 days, against 63.0% of channels over 100,000. Whatever decides which video breaks out, it is not audience size.
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Find Yours Before You Copy Anyone
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You almost certainly have one already. Take your best video of the last 90 days, read it against the four rules, and you have the brief for your next one. Start with the video you already made.
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Talk soon,
Rob from vidIQ
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vidIQ Inc.
548 Market St #70172
San Francisco CA 94104, US
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