How the YouTube Algorithm Works 2024 (the FIIRE Method)

[@ThatNateBlack]

Howdy! Join the group and get the FIIRE template here: radicalyt.com/howdy/ I definitely went to a cabin to take photos of logs and kindling to make the above 😂. The camp host was so confused when he saw me selecting "perfect" wood and snapping pics of it. It's what we do for content I guess haha!

[@silva-sir]

One of the more exciting encounters as a creator 😂😂

[@apocalypso3427]

Hey, it was effective! There's a reason why artists (even videographers) are considered the weirdos of the world lol. I'd never heard of your channel before, but definitely came for the metaphor and stayed for the visuals (and that hair...so jealous of that hair). I appreciate this amazing video. This is the best method I've seen for really organizing and keeping on track your content/channel planning and it really clicked with me better than anything else I've seen (and I've been obsessively studying these types of videos for several years now). Brilliant! Thank you so much for this. You really got me...fiired up...ugh, ok, that was terrible, but you started it!

[@mrswagg22music]

this a grt video🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥

[@CircainReacts]

Nate, I’ve watched all of your videos before starting my channel, and my first 4 videos all have 3,000+ combined views, you have been so helpful in my journey!

[@ThatNateBlack]

That is awesome!

[@Woodhousebodybuilding]

That’s wild! Good job!

[@CircainReacts]

@@ThatNateBlack thank you!

[@CircainReacts]

@@Woodhousebodybuilding thanks man!

[@lancebtv_]

Congrats on your channel . New subscriber 🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@sebastianstiernspetz7205]

Nate really went into the woods with a lighter just for a 3 second clip. Just for us. I'm touched.

[@ThatNateBlack]

😂😂

[@nevbo]

Me in my Morpheus voice: “He fights for us” 😂

[@RaHents]

Give me FUEL, give me FIIRE, give me REACH that I desire!

[@heyjasminek]

7:48 your breakdown of the types of content is the best i’ve seen on KZbin. It really help clarify some of ?s with content creation. Straight FIYAHH 🔥🔥🔥!

[@samanthacboyer]

Thanks for the shout-out and kind words, Nate! And for yet another amazingly helpful video 🙏

[@molamolalaaa2968]

Your videos are lovely!

[@shearfunsewing]

Hi Samantha! I just subscribed to your channel! I love cozy creative relaxation style vlogs and I actually want to start doing them on my sewing channel. I really love reflective content. Looking forward to your videos and well done on your channel!

[@samanthacboyer]

​@@molamolalaaa2968thank you so much! 🖤

[@samanthacboyer]

​@@shearfunsewingthank you! I've been wanting to get back into sewing - that's sounds like a perfectly cozy channel!

[@janette99]

Thanks! This is going to be really helpful! Good to have you back Nate!

[@ThatNateBlack]

thank you so much @janette99!

[@healthandyum]

Such an amazing video! Like all your videos, I’ll watch it a few times to make sure that I fully get everything you teach. Thank you! There is a lot of advice for creators on KZbin, but you have a different way of teaching and you also share things from a different perspective that makes total sense to me. ❤

[@ThatNateBlack]

thank you @healthyandyum!

[@Farawaynow]

One time I got drunk and fell in a camp fire, it feels similar to my KZbin experience.

[@TheFancyCakery]

I feel this!

[@DarthShadie]

A campfire once set the tip of my hair on fire. 😬 Doused it fast.

[@SonetLandman]

😂😂😂 that is more on point.

[@Oksana.volody]

I feel this so much haha

[@tylerknowsanimals]

This video was excellent! Very insightful, so thank you very much, Nate! I’ll definitely watch it a few more times to make sure I get everything down.

[@Thebeautyandthebeardadventures]

Nate!! We introduced some folks from Italy, to s’mores about 15 years ago. They were blown away. Thanks for your tips! We are struggling as a small adventure/travel channel, your tips have really helped. ❤

[@Shardcives]

So happy to see another video from you nate! You have transformed me from a simple creator putting works out there into a small influencer capable of being audiance driven and impactful

[@ThatNateBlack]

dang, thank you. Keep being awesome @Shardcives!

[@LawyerMotion]

Thanks for the template!! 👏 🔥

[@TheDorkSideTV]

How the heck has Dylan made $55k in less than a year 😫 that is insane and I need a video on that STAT! Please Nate, you’re my only hope 🙏

[@maxlexiAI]

Nate, I'm feeling so lucky that this is the video I watched before I started recording my first episode for my channel! I will follow your guidance and hope to be able to share my journey on my channel for students, teachers and EVERYONE to learn how to best make use of AI 🙂

[@GuidottiTv]

Great job you did here nate. Keep soaring 🔥

[@BlackbirdProductions]

I've watched a couple of your videos and I love the analogies and hands on examples you provide it helps me understand content creation much better than any other creator in your niche.

[@justinuriahphoto]

Incidentally, my channel deals with a lot of fire!

[@Colton_Lee]

Wow, what a helpful video! If this advice doesn't "light a fire under you", 😅 I don't know what will! I'm so eager to take what I've leaned and get my channel roaring. 🙏🔥

[@janette99]

Welcome back Nate! Been looking out for you the last few days....

[@janette99]

I'm loving this spark / kindle / log stuff - think this will be really useful!

[@janette99]

This is answering so many questions for me - including the thorny issue of how often to publish!

[@janette99]

Wet log! 😆

[@MajaReberc]

Thanks so much for this guide, Nate! It is the most intuitive one I've ever seen, and I absolutely love it! I know exactly what to do, and am actually excited about the journey! 🙏

[@fflwff]

I love your approach! I get so bored and frustrated with the "change the word algorithm for audience!" Stance Yes, we all want to keep the audience happy. But the algorithm decides who has access to the audience. For a newby like me, improvements to my videos, titles and thumbnails are only seen if the algorithm provides impressions! The irony is that "replace the word Algorithm for Audience" is catering to the Algorithm's needs not the audiences! Feel better for getting that off my chest! Have been binge watching you videos. As long as you don't start making fake live evergreen webinars, i will be sticking around! You know those outdated recordings where we have to suffer 10 minutes of the host excitedly welcoming the "live" attendees from around the world and being asked to put a 1 in the comments to show it's live (not)! You are a welcome breath of fresh air!

[@yangdagoat]

This video helped me a lot just started my youtube channel looking forward to see it grow!!

[@WheelieWeasel]

Nate, I have posted just over 350 videos and counting and been with this whole KZbin journey for over 3 years now and I am ALMOST at 10k subscribers. Growing in a not so popular (since 2016 or so) nice is making it tough, but I have not and will not give up! Videos like these with advice that is actually AMAZING just makes each step that much easier to reach. I have videos with over 100k views and shorts with over 150k views but just can't seem to find out the process in which I was obtaining those numbers. I will report back in a month or two with results from applying these tips!

[@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions]

Analyzing other competitors I was not able to figure out why some content gets more views than others. Didn't make any sense to me

[@SapphireBlueTravelExplores]

Thanks Nate, such great info and love the fiire analogy. Looking forward to diving deep.

[@DarthShadie]

You know, YT has always been secondary, but I have begun applying your tips and tricks not only to YT in a casual way, but to Medium in a more in depth way. And I have seen it work on Medium. I am going to try this method for my Medium content with the publications I publish to and the various types of stories I write.

[@artsandprops]

Thank you, thank you. This lights my FIIRE. My favorite video yet!🔥🎆

[@annaltd]

Nate, this video is so valuable, thank you!

[@187thProductions]

Wow, where have these videos been all this time. I only just discovered your channel!

[@FixItFrench]

This is brilliant brother! 🔥

[@CRUSHEQUITY]

Thank you so much for everything you do bro. You are the GOAT for YT Algorithm and just good ol content creation vids. I tell anyone interesting in YT about your channel.

[@isaysusrecetas]

I Love this!, Thanks a lot!

[@BobCrochets]

As a data nerd, this is awesome. I can't wait to use it. Thank you!

[@anitanyamizi]

Sir, respectfully WHY DID'NT YOU MAKE THIS SOONER?? This is the best video you have ever made and this is TOP 1 best video for any KZbin that's starting, any one that already has a high audience. This video works for everyone. I'm annoyed I didn't watch this a month earlier. This video combined with the roast video you made for the food eaters, that's all anyone needs.

[@ManleyReviews]

honestly a fantastic visual metaphor

[@Alexandria_S1222]

Whoop happy to have you back friend!

[@ThatNateBlack]

thank you! glad to be back

[@alenaondrejko]

Found your channel this year… let me tell you, I’m so glad I did!

[@beamnggermany]

Nate has earned the Silver Play Button.

[@DryMouse]

Well done Nate...another banger video!

[@FlightsimBN]

Nate, good job. Had to watch this 4 times with a lot of notes...Thanks again!

[@simplylivingmama]

Yeeesss been patiently waiting for you to drop another fantastic video 👌🏽🙌🏽

[@ThatNateBlack]

Yay! Thank you!

[@marlonargueta]

Glad you're back Nate! Excited to see what you'll do in the future!

[@TheYouTubePrincess]

I love this strategy for making content! This video just sparked my creative bug again 💖

[@MyWildBackyard]

Love these algorithm videos. Speaking of, I'm thinking of potentially getting into the KZbin-strategy space with you soon documenting THIS channel's journey to 1M subscribers

[@AHomesteadingHustle]

This analogy is so easy to understand! Thank you Nate! Also, I think we need to see that curly hair in a man bun! Man buns are the best! 😎

[@amymcleod393]

Thank you for the awesome vid! Your videos are my routine channel check-in, its like each video is my journal prompts reminding me what my strengths are, what my passion is, why I’m doing this and who my competitors are. Looking forward to having a s’more myself once our campfire bans are lifted. Oooh and if you want a yummy s’more, we use the caramel filled Celebrations - they are incredible!

[@ProdigyVRR]

wow im impressed with this actually definitely will be using the fire method as a guide for my channels future.

[@ViralVideoUniversity]

Nate Black, thank you my brother, for helping me grow my channel. Your content is fire and your channel is tue place to go 😊😊😊

[@AquariusTraveller]

Aussie here and I LOVE SMORES ❤, it's just not something you see around here much !

[@mrjerrypotter]

Yeah but you've got Tim Tam Slams!

[@AquariusTraveller]

@@mrjerrypotter 🤣🤣🤣 yep...that we do ❤️

[@STEMAccelerators]

Awesome video! Learned som much stuff! BTW, it has been 3 hours since I haven't recieved any email from the group. I sent the form from your website 3 times. I guess there is a problem. Again, thank you for valuable content!

[@ThatNateBlack]

Noted! Imma look into it

[@JeremyChone]

Wow, this is an awesome framework. Thanks a lot for sharing. This is one of the best videos on that topic (and I watch too many of them).

[@okkshane]

i completely resonate with all of this! love it

[@senflyer-]

Thanks for giving this metaphor! It helps to understand it better and give a visual way of thinking about it.

[@JMPoutdoors]

this video has really got me thinking about my channel. you see i have been stumbling around for 2 years doing this I am 46 and on disability so i started a channel about the outdoors, mainly videoing deer and some fishing. as of now i have 488 subs and 187 watch hours.

[@asphalt1327]

To be honest I watched this video after developing my core audience. I am over 125k views on the channel but I liked your approach and step break down that you did and I would 100% agree that this is what is needed to grow a KZbin channel. I will keep watching to learn more from you but for any fresh starter I would say that you have marked your place in my recommendations list, the channel that I would recommend beginners to learn how to do KZbin

[@shearfunsewing]

Hi Nate! I was filling out the template as I watched your video. Some of it was a little hard for me to totally understand, but I'll keep working at it. But I think the part on analyzing other channels for their sparks, tinder, kindling, etc. will make it even more clear. I guess I can compare it to the advice you've given in the past on drafting against other channels, but I can also see that here, you're looking at what makes a creator really stand out as unique and that's how we need to shape our content, too. Am I kind of getting it? BTW, I sent you a video idea, too. Hope you like it!

[@NOVA-nonhuman]

Hey Nate! Your videos help me build my Hungarian UFO & ASMR channels (the 2nd is a separate account). I implemented many of your advices and they seem to work. However, I've found it very useful NOT to monitor my Hungarian competitors. I consume crazy amount of English content both in the UFO and in the ASMR field. And because of the international competition, the quality there is high. But Hungary with its 10 million people and its unique language is a much smaller "campground", not to mention: both topics are really in the niche category. Whenever I bump into a Hungarian UFO podcaster or ASMR artist, I see how low the quality is. This makes me very sad on one level, but very hopeful on another. I think as long as I try to be as good as the KZbin content creators I follow in the international scene, I have better shot then to let myself be dragged down by the Hungarian swamp. Sorry, I know this sounds horrible, but that's how I see it. Also, I don't want to know what topics they have covered, what trends they follow -- I don't want to be influenced in my choices and decisions. I follow the international lead and my own instincts. I feel this is how I can grow and succeed. What do you think?

[@VisitLiveLoveMaui]

Fun way to analyze my channel - I’d use this framework to plan the growth (I’ve presently revived my channel) - ok, planning my camping now and will apply. Thank you Nate!

[@blingauntie]

Joined! Love this framework. Stay tuned. 😎

[@bbreak]

Pretty much did all this, except collaborate bc while im in a rather popular niche, there's little competition out there currently. Now I know why... somehow the algorithm just hates it, despite people loving it. So I eventually had to give up on a channel people loved, where i got the clicks, the AVD is high, I get near 100% likes and the subs grow like crazy per 1k views. But without getting the impressions from the algorithm I still get nowhere and there's nothing i can do about it :( So that's the end of youtube for us.

[@Jefnam]

I was just recently saying that the best videos on KZbin growth explain the same information in different ways. All of this is pretty well known, but it's applied in a unique way with an interesting metaphor

[@javizexdiaz]

Good luck to everyone starting their channels!

[@Coreybyte]

im not going to lie just from an autistic visual thinker point of view, the comparison of the youtube to a campfire really made sense to me and i think it has helped me visually picturing what i need to do with my channel, there's still some questions about what i want to make but the comparison has given me some idea of what to do outside of the actual ideas/niche.

[@Kayssoapery]

I know, hey. So much easier to understand.

[@NikkisNosh]

Nate, great to see you are back with a fab new video. I adore your hand drawn graphics - they are so so easy to understand. I am in the UK, I have no idea what smores are lol. You are the Master of the Acronym.

[@wecancanto]

I didn’t expect I also enjoyed the actual making fire part of the video! Now it has helped me to remember! Great work Nate! Thank you!🎉

[@jakeedmunds8600]

Hey Nate, love the vid! I've tried entering my deets a couple of times to get your template and no emails are coming through. I'll try again tomorrow but thought I'd flag it just in case. Cheers!

[@TheDigitalDomain1]

To all small creators, don't give up! ❤

[@morningstarhomestead]

I really appreciate your inspirational attitude and the quality of your content. Thank you!

[@AncientEgo]

Good to see you back Nate

[@OmoiSenpai]

I believe what I'm doing right now, is making Tinder and Sparks at the wrong campsite... Maybe? So, I used to do Music Education and talk about Music Equipment, but I pivoted into my music creation now. Nevertheless, I'm doing my best right now to over-throw the amount of educational videos that I have on my channel currently, so the new audience that sticks will see me creating music, and like me for that.

[@MotifMusicStudios]

Loved seeing your "Fire Method" email and here to soak in all your fabulous tips for lighting FIRES on KZbin! ;)

[@MotifMusicStudios]

Love the thought of "spark" content. Great visual.

[@DjemoGraphic]

Great video Nate! Thanks a lot for this very detailed and clear explanation!

[@theleadershipproject]

Great metaphor and wonderful advice. Thank you

[@cruisingwithkristie]

Thanks for your method. I’ve got a lot of work to do.

[@dicecrazydude]

Great video! You provide some of the most actionable advice out there, thank you!

[@Tankers4Change]

Saved to my watch later 👍 Lunch time will be fun

[@user-nlvmruu]

this is dense, and helpful BUT it would make so much more sense if you did another video where you use a channel as an example from start to finish. it couldbe fake but examples might be helpful .. you had some but i need to see it conceptually build in one example.

[@ThatNateBlack]

Awesome idea! Noted

[@SeonaidLee]

This is an excellent model. Love it. (I know fire-building pretty well, so it's a particularly apt metaphor for me.)

[@TouchHighEnglish]

Great video! 🙂🥰

[@FrankPersico]

Excellent video. Shocked it doesn’t have 4x the plays

[@AlexiGiovani]

Enjoyed the analogy of the oxygen and shared oxygen and the residual heat from loyal fans. Thanks for sharing your perspective on this for fellow content creators.

[@theseamstressatthecottage]

I always love your videos! Your passion and energy makes me believe that I might be able to get my channel to take of.

[@fathogwoodworking]

Another great video Nate. Thanks for all the help and tips. 👍

[@Chrisreedbeats]

Per this strategy, I have been using a ton of logs and not much kindling or tinder. Helps me to think about content in a different way. Thanks!

[@ThatNateBlack]

Good stuff! Nice to hear that

[@JesteneLeRoy]

Hi Nate!! Appreciate this video. Interested in a channel audit, how far out can we see your booking calendar?

[@CasaBlueHills]

This is really helpful, thank you so much!

[@EffortlessGentTV]

Great analogy and explanation! Thanks for sharing, gonna apply these ideas

[@nalapets]

If you are reading this, I hope that your channel grows in 2024! Don't give up!

[@MOONOVERMIAMI]

Hello great video information Nate

[@WhitepepperFarm]

I'm so excited right now...

[@Gaming-Enthusiast]

Great upload Nate , massive inspiration to us smaller creators 👍👍

[@DividendTalks]

He’s back! Excited for this one, thanks Nate 😊

[@ThatNateBlack]

we're BAAACK!

[@airstreamer]

I watched this. Then we will re-watch it together. Some great information here that we hope will help us grasp this elusive KZbin algorithm thing. Thank you as always for great content! - Michelle

[@SERGIOOOOOOOO]

just want to say nate know im getting more attention on my videos thanks to you much love and continuo to make this videos

[@RipRoaringGarage]

Good to see you posting

[@UFOBobTV]

Howdy, howdy! I was wondering, what happened to you. Glad to see you have a new video out.

[@jmilkslinger]

That's a helpful analogy, Nate. To take it a step deeper, the best smores are made over the embers. Something to consider...

[@ThatNateBlack]

ohhh I like that idea! Noted!

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

That fire got started super easy! I guess you know what your taking about! (I knew you knew!)

[@GeologyDude]

Good to see another episode Nate, thx!

[@ClairenParkerontheRoad]

Loved this one!