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Now, onto today's topic - My YouTube experiments

I'm testing out a new format for the newsletter.

Where I'll occasionally share case studies from my own experiences in micro entrepreneurship.

Let me know what you think of it, I will do more (or less) of these based on your feedback.

New Faceless YouTube Channel

3 weeks ago I started a faceless YouTube channel.

I’ve published 17 AI generated videos since then.

• 10,000+ views
• 88+ Watch hours
• 75 subscribers

Here’s what I’ve learned about the YT algorithm so far 👇

The Algo

First off - Every YT short gets at least 400 views.

The algo tests your content with an initial cohort of viewers.

Determines if its good enough or not, good ones get pushed to more people.

Average ones flatten out at between 400-500 views

3 of my videos crossed 1000+ views.

And they continue to get more views.

The bad ones die out in 24 hours.

Traffic Sources

87%+ of this is YT shorts traffic.

Some of it is me sharing in private groups.

Not optimized any of these videos for SEO yet.

But that’s worth exploring in the future.

What’s the difference between a good video and a bad video?

I don’t know 😅

• The hook
• The topic
• The engagement throughout

Mix of all three

That’s what I’m trying to figure out with this channel.

Need a few more videos to pop off to understand better.

How am I creating these videos?

I’m using Autoshorts ai for them.

But the videos it automatically generates aren’t good.

So I use ChatGPT or Claude to write the script.

Then upload it into Autoshorts, and then it generates the images and the music.

Still not convinced that this is the best tool/workflow for this.

But this is the fastest approach I could find so far.

I can get a video done in 30 minutes this way.

So I spend a few hours on the weekend and schedule all the videos for the coming week.

One thing I noticed -

The more time I spend on crafting the script, the better the engagement the video gets.

Lazy script leads to dud videos.

So I need to come up with interesting topics and learn to write engaging scripts.

👆THIS is going to be most important skill in the next few years.

As short form video takes over every social media platform, we need to learn the skill of keeping viewers hooked for longer periods of time.

That’s why I’m running this experiment as well.

As a fun side project on the weekends.

Whatever I learn I can apply it back to my main projects then.

That’s it for now, lmk if you have any questions.

Just hit reply.

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Cheers 🙌

From the vault -

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• ​The Power of Asking​
• ​$23K MRR with a simple todo list​
• ​Honest thoughts about audience building​

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• ​Scouring Ahrefs is the best way to find new startup ideas - me
• ​I made $1M as a 30-year-old solopreneur - Marc Lou

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