Description
Watch as I review the retention graph on some of my worst performing videos to see how I can improve. 😬
What we discuss:
00:00 Welcome To YouTube Backstage
00:37 Why We're Making Jerry Squirm Today
07:42 Using YouTube's Retention Graph Tool
10:21 What Does "Good" Retention Actually Look Like?
11:18 Video Autopsy #1: The 100K Views Trick
14:16 The Drop Trigger That's Killing Your First 30 Seconds
20:20 Video Autopsy #2: Why Your Videos Get Ignored
26:18 A Shocking Gap Between New And Past Viewers
27:23 Video Autopsy #3: The One That Lost A Third Of Its Audience Instantly
29:37 The Real Reason People Bailed (It's Not What I thought)
37:09 The 30-Second Rule That Changes Everything
40:10 The Question Test: Are You Passing Or Failing?
40:48 What My Worst Videos Have In Common
45:28 Drop Trigger Recap: The Full List
47:03 What's Coming Next Week (And Why You Don't Want To Miss It)
50:59 Where To Get The Backstage Pass Invite
👉 This is part of YouTube Backstage Pass, four Fridays building my real channel live.
Most people only show you the result: the finished video, the thumbnail that worked, the screenshot of the views. We never see what happened in between — the title that got cut, the thumbnail idea that flopped, why a video didn't take off.
That's usually the part that you can learn the most from, so we're showing it.
My business partner (and wife) Candy Harper will be there to ask the questions you really want answered — and make sure I don't try and skip past the stuff that failed. 😁
Here’s what we’re showing each week in this series:
🗓️ Friday, June 19 — Video Planning, mapping out scripts, titles and thumbnail ideas in real time: https://youtube.com/live/CuVks_H00bk
🗓️ Friday, June 26 — Making Better Videos: We'll look back at the retention graphs of some of my worst performing videos (might be cringeworthy) to figure out what went wrong — then learn from it so next month's videos are stronger.
🗓️ Friday, July 3 — Video Packaging: We'll finalize Titles and Thumbnails, built live, sharing the tools, the iterations, and the reasoning behind whatever we land on — for the same videos planned 2 weeks earlier.
🗓️ Friday, July 10 — Analytics Review: Hate looking at your YouTube Analytics? Me too a lot of the time. But we'll look at my real numbers to see what's working, what isn't, and what I'm changing because of it.
Each live stream will run 30-60 minutes with live Q&A at the end to deepen understanding about whatever we covered that day.
Want to be notified for the full series?
Save your spot here: https://youtubebackstagepass.com/