How Old is ‘Too Old’ To Be A YouTube Star?

Almost none are over the age of 40 – sounds just like Hollywood, doesn’t it? 🙂

… the youngest performer (from the numbers, painstakingly, I could gather, mind you) is the South Korean guitarist Sungha Jung (“jwcfree,” subscriber rank: 113) who is 16-years-old. The oldest is one of the guys from The Piano Guys (subscriber rank: 125) who is 47. The mean age of a top YouTuber is 27

via How Old is ‘Too Old’ To Be A YouTube Star?.

Which is the same average age as it was in 2006 – in other words it’s not increasing. Young YouTubers are starting to think about this – and realizing their own careers may be nearing an end as they pass through 30 years old.

“the biggest demographic of YouTube viewers are 18-34 [year old] females”

How YouTube selects which videos to recommend in search and recommendations

From the Youtube page here:

YouTube suggests videos in search and recommendations that are likely to increase how much overall time a viewer spends watching and uses watch time to improve the ranking of videos in search and recommendations. If people click on your videos and stick around to watch, your videos are more likely to appear more often in suggested and recommended videos and growth in new views could increase. If your videos drive more watch time or inspire your viewers to check out a related video (either yours or someone else’s) your channel gets an advantage!

 

Is it impossible to get views on Youtube anymore?

Last week I was at Seattle’s Fremont Solstice Parade (including naked bike ride) and the affiliated Honk! Fest West.

(Some photos in the Flickr viewer are NSFW.)

I posted still photos on Flickr, each of which has had thousands of views. In fact, in the past few days, I’ve accumulated about 100,000 photo views, mostly for the Solstice Parade, and about 1/4th for Honk Fest and other photos on my web page.

Youtube? Hardly anything. After several days, just over one hundred people watched one of the naked bike ride videos! Two of the parade videos have zero views!

I have seen videos on Youtube and online blog and forum posts lamenting the difficulty in getting anyone to watch their videos anymore. In the past, it did not seem hard to get at least hundreds to a few thousand views. Now, its becoming difficulty to even get tens of views!

What are other people experiencing?

Is  Youtube search prioritizing its matches to give higher priority to those videos that have monetized (run ads) their videos?

Youtube relies on independent content creators to produce their Youtube content. If most are seeing their viewership drop, they will give up – or at least post less to Youtube. And that would not be good for the Youtube business model!

Recommend using Side-by-Side 3D for Youtube uploads

This past week I mastered several video clips taken at Seattle’s Fremont Solstice Parade and Honk! Fest West – all in 3D, most of them shot using a Sony TD10 3D camcorder.

When I watched them on Youtube they looked basically like over compressed crap. It did not seem to be matter if I used Sony Vegas or Magix Movie Edit to produce the file.

Tonight I did some experimenting and concluded that given two identical upload files (in terms of bit rates) to YouTube – but with one in side-by-side format and the other in top-over-bottom format, that the top-over-bottom format came out looking worse. Consistently.

This seems odd since the TD10 records two full 1920×1080/60i streams. When combining for 3D, we should be able to take the odd scan lines from one stream and the even scan lines from the other stream and not worry about de-interlacing since we only need half the scan lines.

Well, for whatever reason, the side-by-side looks noticeably better than the top-over-bottom after uploading to Youtube. Both formats looked fine on my 3D TV when I played them directly from the original MP4 files on a hard drive.

Recommendation: Use side-by-side format when uploading 3D to Youtube.

Would be interested to know if others have experimented with these formats?

How to file comments on FAA proposal to ban FPV model aircraft

See FAA proposes ban on First-Person View (FPV) model aircraft operation

Then, file your comments on the proposed regulation by going to: Regulations.gov – Rule Document. Then click on the Comment Now button in the upper right.

Your comments become part of the public record which the FAA must consider in implementing its proposed rule interpretation or rule making procedure.