YouTube Shorts Function Best as Accelerants for Long-Form Video Libraries
Samir Chaudry · Asking Colin & Samir How To Make $1,000,000 On YouTube · Jun 14, 2022 · at 55:11
Samir Chaudry explains the long-term compounding mechanics of YouTube content and how short-form video funnels into long-form views.
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“You're building a library of content that, you know, our Mr. Beast interview, for example, you mentioned it, it's pushing eleven million views right now, but in the first month it did a million views. So, you know, you look at now it'll, it'll be a year in September. It'll probably have 12, thirteen million views. You know, and so that's, it's about this library building a piece of content that can be viewed over the next year or two years, five years. And when you do that, it does have, you know, this compounding effect, especially when Shorts are added to the equation as an accelerant.”
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