Hi,
I wondered if anyone else has seen this. I'm in the UK, and 99% of my viewers watch my videos between the hours of 6am and midnight. I launch new videos about 2.15pm twice a week and get the usual spike in views and impressions, however recently I've seen something else happen. About 1am the following day impressions goes through the roof for almost 8 hours, but it isn't followed by a ramping up in views, impressions then flatline and the video dies, literally, views and impressions go to zero.
Now if these hours changed I would put it down to something a little more random, but it is always the day after the video launch, and between 1am and 9am UK time, which interestingly is 5pm to 1am PST, in the evening on the West Coast of the US. But that's no good to me, as I'm in the UK.
It's only just started to happen with my last two videos, but my concern is that it appears to have dragged down all my stats, there's a definite downturn that coincides with this change.
I know the algorithm is a complicated thing, but surely it has the data it needs to boost videos at the right time of day for the geographical location of where the video is made, and where the majority of views come from.
Now on the plus side, if youtube are trialling my videos to a more global audience then that's a great thing, I just need to scratch my head on how to make my videos appealing to an audience outside of the UK.
I wondered if anyone else has seen this. I'm in the UK, and 99% of my viewers watch my videos between the hours of 6am and midnight. I launch new videos about 2.15pm twice a week and get the usual spike in views and impressions, however recently I've seen something else happen. About 1am the following day impressions goes through the roof for almost 8 hours, but it isn't followed by a ramping up in views, impressions then flatline and the video dies, literally, views and impressions go to zero.
Now if these hours changed I would put it down to something a little more random, but it is always the day after the video launch, and between 1am and 9am UK time, which interestingly is 5pm to 1am PST, in the evening on the West Coast of the US. But that's no good to me, as I'm in the UK.
It's only just started to happen with my last two videos, but my concern is that it appears to have dragged down all my stats, there's a definite downturn that coincides with this change.
I know the algorithm is a complicated thing, but surely it has the data it needs to boost videos at the right time of day for the geographical location of where the video is made, and where the majority of views come from.
Now on the plus side, if youtube are trialling my videos to a more global audience then that's a great thing, I just need to scratch my head on how to make my videos appealing to an audience outside of the UK.
