Results and Thoughts about the Shorts video
Added 2021-11-23 17:06:15 +0000 UTCIt's two days since the experimental Shorts videos was released. While most regular obstacle course videos have gained 25k-40k views after this time, the Shorts one has just 13k views, so approximately a third of what's normal.
To really give Shorts a chance though, I will make one more Shorts obstacle course video, but release it on a Friday when I have no other videos planned, probably on December 31.
The result over time for these two videos will then decide if it's worth ever making more of them or not. It seems so far that the vast majority of my viewers prefer normal horizontal videos though, and the video has clearly not been shown to hardly and new viewers by the algorithm. (The few people that Did watch it seem to like it though, as the audience retention is over 100%, while most obstacle course videos have 70-85%).
In the new video, the spiked ball will drop from the top and then roll down through the entire obstacle course, and then fall down and start over from the top (the stick figures will of course Not be able to follow it and start from the top). This obstacle course works like Obstacle Course 11, where leaving the screen on one side makes them (and the ball) appear on the same height on the other side etc.
Comments
The 10-15% of the users who Don't use phones will already have a pretty small video to look at in Shorts, so I don't think it would be a good idea to make it even smaller. I personally don't like the idea of Shorts, as only mobile users can get a full screen, while All users can get full screen with the normal format.
Per Z
2021-11-24 08:23:53 +0000 UTCYup, we'll await the long term result from both videos and see how they do.
Per Z
2021-11-24 08:21:14 +0000 UTCIf these shorts do end up being as successful as the numbered courses, do you think that, for at least one more video, one of the obstacle courses can be zoomed out like in the original 7? I remember you saying how the reason you don't use the zoomed out format is because mobile users can't see the Sticks well, so maybe if the shorts do good then you could go back to the original format sometime.
Pygment
2021-11-24 02:12:20 +0000 UTCI agree with Dr. Quir, it's harder to notice those kind of videos, maybe the viewes just need to get used to seeing them? when I watched ur shorts video I didn't even think it was yours, only when I saw ur name at half of it, so.. perhaps all they need is get used to them? because I actually loved this kind of obstacle course, I enjoy new things and since the audience retention was over 100%, I'm sure most do too, but well.. we won't know until we give it a try once again will we?
Chaos
2021-11-23 21:12:57 +0000 UTC
