Creator
15:58Brian G. Johnson tests the retention myths against his own channel's analytics and finds the real signal behind recommendations: average view duration, not watch percentage.
October 12th
13:08A 13-minute breakdown of why relevance, not quality, decides which videos YouTube keeps pushing.
October 8th
20:51A YouTube creator whose channel was losing viewers a few months ago breaks down the three-part system, research, an almost-perfect title and thumbnail, and minimal editing, that turned it into a 600,000-view quarter.
October 5th
07:10A vidIQ study of 4 million 2026 uploads plus YouTube's own built-in guidance, broken down into three drivers behind titles that are actually pulling views right now.
September 27th
07:51A creator tracks a jump from his usual 14K-24K views a month to 165K back to one habit: reprogramming YouTube's custom feed to study which titles and thumbnails are breaking out right now.
September 6th
12:38A 12-minute studio essay that reframes an age question as an originality question — and names the two algorithm updates that make the answer matter.
June 17th