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Small channels that got past 10,000 total views in 90 days typically posted once a week.

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Rob Wilson was at Made on YouTube. His rundown covers what's live now and what's still coming.

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MADE ON YOUTUBE 2026 YouTube Announced 20+ New Features Rob was at Made on YouTube. Three of the 20+ announcements change how you'll make videos: whole-video A/B tests, thumbnails YouTube picks for different viewers, and Shorts series. Jaws dropped at the video tests, which will compare up to three cuts of one upload on watch time. Rob asked YouTube whether they tie into title and thumbnail tests, and got a straight answer. Watch All 20+ In Five Minutes

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VIDIQ EXCLUSIVE CREATOR INSIGHT Long-form videos that credit a second channel, compared with solo uploads from the same channels Collabs got 1.9x the first-week views. Of 23,922 channels that posted a collab and 3+ solo videos in the past month, 3 in 4 did better with the collab, and it held at every channel size. Yet only 1 in 230 long-form uploads was a collab. Collabs can also be bigger productions, which may explain part of the gap. vidIQ data, September 2026.

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