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Weisbrot: YouTube should acquire newsletter platform beehiiv
“Like, YouTube should probably buy Beehive. I'm calling it now. YouTube should buy Beehive.com.”
Weisbrot: YouTube ads brought hundreds of thousands of non-returning subscribers
“I was able to attract several 100,000 subscribers because of the ads, but 99% of them Don't come back and do anything.”
Weldon: Creators oversimplify AI agent deployment to sell courses
“These YouTuber are mostly Instagram. Actually, Instagram is amazing for these things. They're just promoting their stuff to sell their program, to get you, to make you feel like it's simple to do and to build an alpha, super simple, make it work in your busine…”
Cross-Platform Social Analytics Fail for Asian Creators Compared to North America
“If you told me that we're working with a North American content creator who has statistics on, let's say Twitch on Twitter and YouTube. I think, yeah, that's should be collated because all of those three platforms can be directly linked together to look at cer…”
Bimani: Formal education is not important compared to self-taught knowledge
“Formal education is not important. Knowledge is right. You can go to a four year degree and still come out dumb as a rocks, or you can learn on Google or in YouTube. Like I have reading books and know everything you need to know to get ahead.”
Agobin: Website SEO and YouTube compound value unlike transient social platforms
“So there's certain things and it's like SEO on your website and YouTube. Are the two biggest things that pop out as kind of this evergreen content. And if you think about it as profit per minute, every minute you put into doing amazing YouTube content or amazi…”
Weisbrot: Short horizontal clips grow organic audiences faster than full interviews
“What I realized was I can grow the audience much faster organically if I have these, because if somebody doesn't know who I am, but they're being fed a three minute video, they're much more likely to watch that three minute video than that 30 minute interview.”
Davis: The majority of YouTube views now occur on smart TVs
“Like now the majority of YouTube views are happening on smart TVs, right?”
Weisbrot: YouTube Shorts views dropped from thousands to ten using AI
“When I started uploading those videos to YouTube, my shorts views dropped to five or 10 per video where the human doing all of the work, I was getting 500 to 10,000 views per video per short.”
Frasier: Social algorithms penalize accounts and posts that include outbound links
“Anytime you're encouraging people to leave the algorithms for social media will start to punish your account. This is something people don't talk about. So YouTube, for instance, when you create a YouTube video in the description, the first thing that you say …”
Weisbrot: 70% of YouTube Viewers Drop Off After Three Minutes
“I know from YouTube's algorithms, after three minutes, 70% of them have already dropped off.”
Weisbrot: YouTube Shorts Outperform Mid-Length Videos but Fail to Convert Subscribers
“With shorts on YouTube, it'll get like, Sometimes 5000 or 10,000 views, but on average it's like 500 to 2000 for a short. But then like the three to five minute content is like a 102 hundred views, maybe 300 views. So the shorts perform much better than the mi…”