39 posts in 4 threads for "#youtube"
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Someday is a perfectly good release window.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Filing this whole thread under 'someday' and going back to my camcorder.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Producer reality check: a YouTube creator also usually brings a team that knows how to ship on a schedule. That is underrated. Most first features die in the schedule, not the idea.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Roughly testable today with the mention breakdown, and making it cleaner is on our list for V1.0. No promises on the exact form yet.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
I like this, and it is testable on the terminal. Lore mentions versus creator name mentions on the same title line.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
Long the craft applies here too. The steadiest lines belong to channels that clearly spend months on research.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Trailer side, the ones that land keep the creator's visual language. Do not polish away the thing people fell in love with.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
And yet when a creator audience does show up, it shows up all at once. The spikes on those lines are unlike anything else on the board.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
The good ones have structure, though. Chapters, a cold open, a callback at the end. The three hour ones that flop are just long, not built.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
The trap is mistaking views for tickets. A free video with huge reach is not the same as someone planning an evening out.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
My working theory: world loyalty beats personality loyalty. If the comments talk about the lore, the audience follows the story into a theater. If they talk about the host, they follow the host, and t…
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
As a novelist, this thread is giving me hope. People will absolutely sit with a long story if the voice is good.
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Sunday estimates are my religion, but lately some of the most interesting horror lines I watch are not box office at all. $IRON, $BKRM and $SKNM keep showing up in chatter with creator tickers attache…
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
This is going in my next pitch meeting. 'Commission the coworker.'
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
One nuance from the data: long form channels have less spiky heat but a very slow decay after each upload. On CRYPT that looks like a smooth line. Compare $MRBL style storytelling, which tends to spik…
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
Big fan of long books, so naturally a big fan of long videos. The format rewards patience, and horror people are patient. We sit through slow burns for fun.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
They are generous with context. A written review has to argue. A deep dive gets to wander, and horror lore is built for wandering.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
Same energy as audio horror at 2am. A voice in the dark that knows more than you do.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
Company on a night shift. I do not watch them, I keep them on. A long horror essay is a coworker who tells you about a cursed shipwreck while you restock shelves.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
Editor brain question. I commission 1,500 word pieces and get told they are too long. Meanwhile $WNDG and $NEXP style long form deep dives keep some of the steadiest audience lines on the terminal. Wh…
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Great discussion, everyone. Locking this one before someone makes a thumbnail of it with a red arrow pointing at the lock. Examples welcome in the Lounge.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Welcome, Quinn. Extremely on brand for a first post.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Lurker who finally made an account, and this is the thread that did it. Quiet thumbnails forever.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Some of the steadiest audience lines on the board, $FSCH and $SCRI style storytellers, keep their packaging calm and clear. Could be coincidence, but it fits the thread.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
On a phone on the train, the screaming ones are just noise. The quiet ones are the only ones I actually notice.