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Phan: YouTube will acquire TikTok and IPO at $500B within 12 months
“I'm making a prediction. YouTube is going to buy TikTok. They're going to spin out YouTube. It's going to go public, five hundred billion dollar company. Done. Clip this. Editor, clip this for when this happens in the next 12 months.”
YouTube's Algorithm Does Not Weight Comments for Video Performance
“Comments have no algorithmic waiting. Like YouTube don't look at comments for video performance, but it's a great indication of, Hey, like, especially with an audience like you have here that is Quite like a tribe of people into similar things.”
Using AI to Generate YouTube Thumbnails Does Not Violate Platform Terms
“Using AI and thumbnails is not against YouTube's terms, contrary to popular belief.”
MrBeast's Exaggerated Golden Jet Thumbnail Still Drove Over 200M Views
“Like the world's biggest creator, Mr. Beast, like he'll make a video on like one dollar versus a hundred million dollar private jet. In the thumbnail, there's a solid gold jet. Like it's just solid gold. The whole thing's made of gold. That didn't happen in th…”
YouTube Commands 33% of Streaming Watch Time Among US Children
“Total market share of the streaming market for the U S as a total number is about. YouTube, 10 or 11%. I've seen it get as high as 13%. With two to eleven-year-olds, it's 33%, so that's 33% of basically what they're watching is, is YouTube”
Schneider: YouTube business content average RPM is $5 to $7
“And if say, for example, you're doing business content, average RPM. So Views or revenue per thousand views is about like five to seven dollars depending.”
Chaudry: Ryan Trahan shoots mostly solo on an iPhone, averaging 10M+ views
“One of the most prolific creators on YouTube right now is Ryan Traham. He can't make a video that does under ten million views, but he shoots majority of his stuff with his iPhone and just by himself.”
Riley Brown: YouTube is starting to block third-party transcript APIs
“You can just like literally download your transcript or you could use a transcript API, but YouTube starting to block those.”
Senra: AI translation platforms will automatically localize podcast audio by language
“If you look at what 11 Labs is doing, what Spotify is doing, what YouTube's doing, My calculation was way off because it's not just English speaking people at the platform level. They're going to, you're going to be in Brazil. You're going to love founders. It…”
Nielsen Data Shows YouTube Exceeds Netflix in Total Streaming Time
“If you look at data, Nielsen actually put data together. YouTube, when you look at the total time spent streaming content on YouTube, it's the biggest streaming service in the world. So more people stream content on YouTube than on Netflix or any of these othe…”
YouTube Now Provides Native A/B/C Thumbnail Testing to All Creators
“YouTube gives everyone ABC testing. It allows you to upload three thumbnails every time you upload.”
Noah Kagan's Channel Grew From 15k to 500k Views Per Video
“When I first started working with Noah, he was doing 1015, maybe 20,000 views a video. At our height of working together, we were doing four or 500 K views a video.”
Lemko claims his content projects have generated over one billion views
“Over a billion views for sure on, on all the things I've made.”
Creator Matt Wolf earned $13.5K on long-form video vs $418 on Shorts
“A short that did three million views earned 418 dollars, while a long form did 1.3 million views earned 13,580 dollars, and a live stream with less than a 100,000 views earned 1926 dollars.”
Kim: Top VTubers make millions annually from subscriptions and merchandise
“They have, like, Millions of followers. They're making millions of dollars a year from subscriptions, from selling merch, et cetera.”
Sam Sulek gained two million YouTube subscribers in 2023 via daily long-form
“And over the last year he, or in 20, 23, he went from like zero to, I don't know, what's he at? Two million subscribers on YouTube posting a long form video of him working out every single day.”
Asianometry converted its 600,000-subscriber faceless YouTube channel into 20,000 email subscribers
“Asianometry, you know, they've got 600,000 YouTube subscribers, but they've got 20,000 email subscribers. So they were able to basically take their faceless YouTube channel, drive email subs”
Morenstein: Epic Meal Time was Canada's top YouTube channel within 18 months
“Within like a year and a half, it was the number one most subscribed channel on in Canada, and within two years for a period of time, it was in the top five most subscribed in all of YouTube.”
Schneider: YouTube limits creator contact email views to eight per 24 hours
“The challenge with this is it's behind a captcha and YouTube limits you to only about like eight email like opens per per time that you do this, right? Or per session. It's like a 24 hour rolling window is how it works.”
Isenberg gets 35k YouTube listens per episode despite low-budget visuals
“There's your podcast with like 35,000 listens on YouTube alone, and you've got a really, I mean, it's almost insulting.”
Courtney: Mastering.com posts 11- to 15-hour long YouTube tutorials
“If you check like their recent videos, sometimes their videos are 11 hours long, 12 hours long, 15 hours long.”
Belcaster: I have 1.5M subscribers and Jardon is nearing 1M
“I've got a million and a half subscribers. Dylan's nearing in on a million.”