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Experimenting with YouTube Shorts
The winners and losers in shorts make no sense at all.
I recently day-tripped to Downtown Chicago and shot a bunch of random short videos with my iPhone 7. Yes, 7. In case you don’t know the video quality of a 7 is nothing compared to what is out there today. And real crap compared to a decent blog camera.
Shots were handheld, with no tripod or stabilizer. No background music or other editing other than length.
The whole process was shoot, shorten, and post.
I am not monetized or anywhere near it. At the time of this writing, I have 5 followers maybe 15 hours of view time. What I have posted before is totally random stuff that I find interesting. I can probably name all 5 people that follow me.
I doubt there is anything in YouTube’s algorithms that knows I am around much less boosts me.
The evening after the trip I couldn’t sleep so I posted a bunch up late at night. When I posted one I would look back at the others. At first, I did that to make sure I didn’t duplicate stuff I already put up.
To my surprise some of them immediately started getting views.
As of about 12 hours later, the best one is a 13-second clip of a random private boat going slowly down the Chicago River. It has over 1,700 views. Sorry, no…
