How I Transformed my YouTube Videos: Creating Deeper Connections, Longer Retention

It's just You know there's so much to do but that's one of the things we're obsessing over now And I think we just nailed it perfectly on the Abandoned City But in the content that's yeah I mean that's I think what I said ten months ago Like what's interesting is like ten months ago that was when we really just started going all in on it We had a couple of videos on our boat like the ages one through a hundred I believe maybe like one other Now we've had a bunch and it's like I'm seeing the impact like grocery store Like that is a like I think that's twenty five minutes or something I don't know might be misquoting it but it's a long video We really built up that guy and just let a lot of things breathe And the retention was phenomenal I mean that video is almost on two hundred million views Same thing with Trapped Together You know so that format did really well Just like making the videos longer letting things breathe letting you really get to know the character and just like adding a little more depth to it and you know same thing with the seven days videos everything like my average video probably used to be like eleven minutes and now they're closer to twenty like I've factually almost doubled like the length of my content and which is a big deal like I don't know no one really notices it because it just kind of like subtle like the videos went from like twelve to But my videos are twice as long as they used to be And they're like thirty forty percent slower than they used to be And I'm yelling probably fifty sixty percent less than I used to Mr Beast with fifty percent less yelling I know I mean I looked at the old videos and I'm like I don't even know why I was yelling I don't know I just kind of that was just what I did I think it was because I used to not wear a lapel and someone talked really loud to the camera mic And I just kind of I didn't even realize that was a habit Our old videos were screaming and were yelling too Yeah And I I catch myself sometimes I'm filming and I'll just like start talking absurdly loud And I'm like I don't even know why I'm doing that It's kind of like an old habit Um so we kind of just like you know and these are all things people you know used to tell me and give me feedback on the video saying they're too fast-paced And it was just like I just wasn't you know good enough to know how to like act on that information because it's just something you have to learn over time And it's a skill set I never learned And so we're we're just so much better at all of it now And it do it my way not like you know like I could have easily done what someone in traditional would have but it was like figuring out how to slow down a video but in a mystery style because they still are fast paced but they're like yeah they're like they're slow compared to my old stuff but this is how it should have always been You know what I mean I feel like we hit a good medium now where it is just very very enjoyable and you feel something and you leave more fulfilled watching the content