What do YouTube traffic sources mean? Browse, Suggested, Search & External

[@FilmBooth]

Do you ever check your traffic sources? If so have you ever reacted to them and seen a benefit to your channel?

[@FilmBooth]

Yea they are vague aren't they!! Took me a little while to get to grips with it

[@NailsbyBunnyBear]

I just did for the very first time!

[@SmartHobbies]

I did recently. My more viral videos had a large browse % (> 70%) while my tutorials had search % above 15% which is what I was hoping for. Thanks for the great content. Your channel has come a long way since this video.

[@JECCPSN]

What about the videos my gaming videos get suggested that are a total different topic, I have my category as gaming tho. It suggest my videos to ppl who would not be interested on them. How i can fix this? So my videos get suggested from other creators on my niche

[@randomlylegend]

I had one with 2 advertising views, though I never advertised or bought ads for the video

[@WhereTheLocalsRoam]

Thank you for taking the time to go over this! Short, sweet, and to the point, and now I feel like I can go dig through my analytics and have a much better sense of what some of those things mean! 🍰

[@onwardandup]

This layout has now changed... any chance of an updated 2021 version :) It would really help us out.

[@helenaroman1543]

Thank you for this, I'm trying to learn KZbin for my new channel and it's like learning a new language!

[@MeditationVacation]

Thanks Ed! Makes more sense now. It can be very confusing which traffic source to make content for.

[@TheMobBoss666]

Your channel should be called "KZbin god" I expected you to have millions of subs , I subscribed

[@nowgettheretravel]

Nice video. Great explanations for the KZbin stats. Thanks

[@JamesCAsphalt8]

This is great information presented in an organized way! Thank you. As a creator, I appreciate your taking the time to explain this.

[@ocklind]

Hey man! I recently uploaded a video and got 500 views, where 95% of the views came from the source "KZbin Advertising". But I have not done any advertising at all. Any idea how this could happen? In your video you mentioned Harry Potter but I don't believe he paid for any ads without me knowing...

[@CampfireGuitarHero]

🎂🎂I’m sending you a cake to say “thank you” for this video😄. Lots of good stuff in this one Ed. I’ve also learnt to play your vids at 0.75 speed as I can’t recall enough in real time. PS: You showed remarkable patience with the crashed computer thread also.

[@FilmBooth]

Haha Victoria sponge is my fave. The speed thing is tricky, I used to be slower but got told to speed up, so I did and now people say slow down hahah. I have found that cutting any slight pause has increased retention now though. Maybe I should release the scripts so people can read them too. Saying that, they'd have to make sense of my gibberish spelling.

[@floramargarete1736]

haha I was just wondering if I am too tired to keep up or if this might be the first video I need to watch slowed down 😅 nonetheless, so much great information for someone who’ve just decided to take a serious dive into this youtube pool 🏊🏻‍♀️ thanks a lot!!

[@chuchien4293]

I’ve Been binge Watching KZbin Growth Videos (mostly yours lol), and so far I’ve learned more from You than The others Your Videos are REALLY Helpful! And hopefully, I’ll be able to master these Tips. 😁

[@FilmBooth]

Awesome, glad to hear it

[@Brawlholic]

3:48 my browse features and suggested is my 2 highest 😅

[@shonvibes]

Within External, I show Google and Google Search as two separate traffic sources. What's the difference? I'd assume they were the same thing but clearly I'm wrong...?

[@productdesignermaker]

Another great vid! Thank you.

[@FilmBooth]

Glad you liked it

[@passiondimension]

my channel has more 'external traffic' watches eg from social medias etc than KZbin clicks, is that something I should look into? How would it affect my channel recommendations, positive or negative? Thanks!

[@Kelly--]

i see 'channel pages' at 4:54, but still don't know what that means in terms of where the people come from. does anyone know what it means?

[@NailsbyBunnyBear]

What about the opposite? Do you have any videos on High in suggested, low in search?

[@Revitauto]

Does YT track Pinned Comments? Would thta be a (Direct Or Uknown) traffic source?

[@WaleyAI]

my channel were attacked by direct and unkonw source , the attacker keeps watching my channel, casued my channel will not be promoted by the system. what can I do?

[@ZULU25LF]

In traffic do I click on the ones that's giving me the most views or do I just leave it like that

[@inclebnito]

Looking at the traffic revealed why my last two videos had 1% of the views of previous videos. I posted a "shorts" with a 16:9 ratio as an experiment. It was picked up by Reddit and made me think 16:9 is okay. Found out it doesn't get picked up by shorts feed.

[@neilinvests]

Hi Ed, my computer crashed, fix it for me please bud. 😂 sorry man. Found your channel yesterday and loving every second of it.

[@FilmBooth]

🤣 you would not believe the things i get asked in the comments, thinking of changing my name to Google

[@ChestertonGi]

What does a QR code come under in traffic source ?

[@Garland67]

Very helpful for this beginner. Thanks!

[@ZULU25LF]

Do I click on the ones that give me the most view or do I just leave a blank

[@Thehappyhomemaker]

I have a video blowing up (for me anyways compared to my others) and its pretty much all coming from external?? Idk what's going on. Everytime I refresh there's more views. Do people seriously look for chocolate fudge recipes this often...😅😂 I didn't share it externally..I actually deleted all my social media accounts besides my youtube.

[@numberoneappgames]

Ya'll should update this video. Otherwise, it was super useful! :) Thanks.

[@musictherapyjourneys]

That was really useful. So if I run facebook ads, its gonna be in the external section right?

[@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia]

Our latest video is showing external sources as 28% from Gmail is this some trying to spoil our channel as the visas just stopped at 900 views yet has amazing retention likes subs etc

[@mamuntelecom7997]

Traffic source Views External 82 - KZbin recommendations 28 - Channel pages 12 - Direct or unknown 4 Audience Retention 0:48 (21.2%) Average view duration Lifetime 100% 66% 33% 0% 3:47

[@wo0dy]

have they removed the search date? I just followed along and I cant deep dive into the youtube 'search' to see the words :/ I'm sure I heard/read (on youtube creators) they were removing this feature ??

[@FilmBooth]

Thats interesting, I hope they're not. What time scale are you looking at? If its a new video that's less than 2 days old these often don't show, also if it doesn't have many views from search yet then that could be another reason, it would be madness for them to remove this

[@KVshotsMedia]

Thanks so much for sharing, you are a real game changer I’m having trouble with my KZbin channel, I got demonetized because of reused content and applied for an appeal but it was rejected and I now have to wait till 2nd/oct/2022 for another chance to reapply. MY BURNING QUESTION IS… if I delete all my videos with copyright claims, will my revenue (which has not yet moved to my Adsense) still be accessed? I’m having a lot of fear that if I delete em, i might lose my watch time hours and my ad revenue. Please let me know if deleting these videos will give me a chance of being monetized again without losing by watch time hours and adRevenue. Thank you, looking forward to hear from you.

[@perasitestudio8987]

Gotta subscribe bcoz of that kyowt two thumbs up and also for the explanation of yt ad. I didn't fully understand it thou😅

[@Romans-1221-]

Hey Ed! Weird thing happened in my latest video. 1.2% of my views are coming from KZbin Advertisement. What does this mean? I'm not a business and I don't subscribe for any ad services.

[@anartisticadventure]

How do you get KZbin to know what kind of videos you create when you're a small Channel without putting what the video is about in the title

[@Davhy]

Is it bad if I have 60% Twitter traffic does that hurt my channel to get out to ppl actually on youtube

[@TheChristianPinoyLayman]

Hello! Very helpful. Quick question, would you know the reason why the traffic sources aren't clickable? Did KZbin change the feature?

[@FilmBooth]

change your date range to the 28 days range and you can click them :)

[@TheChristianPinoyLayman]

@@FilmBooth it works! Thanks so much!

[@terencethien]

Thanks for these! Good infos

[@ARUNKUMAR2M]

Sir what traffic source will KZbin show if video is watched through Facebook

[@jshighlights6541]

External

[@site_is_down]

I've been looking on KZbin for that explanation, and I didn't even know Film Booth had this video, hm😜

[@dontmessgamer150]

Thanks sir

[@SailingPivo]

Great content man. 👏

[@RosinFlyFishing]

Crazy you have less than 1000 views on this... will you modify the title and thumb to get it more traffic? genuinely curious!!

[@Love.AnitaBlue717]

Thanks! ✌

[@TheCaribbeanKids]

Very insightful. One of my videos did well 144k, but lately been in a slump

[@mainehistoricalsociety]

I don't have REACH in my menu :(

[@Outdoorswithmike]

Great video I have a education channel so would this be hard to continue with and still learning KZbin

[@SaadonAksah]

Thanks for sharing! Ive subscribed for more! 👍 checking is every 35 mins 😂 i check mine every 35 secs 😂

[@FilmBooth]

Haha glad you're keeping an eye on the data either way. Thanks for subscribing too 😁

[@ContentPiano]

One of my videos did incredibly well the previous month. It obtained 14k views primarily from browse features, however abruptly KZbin stopped showing the video on the Home Screen and switch the traffic source to search. Which results in 300 views a day rather than 800. How is this possible? Does this happen with you guys as well? And is it possible to get the traffic back at it was before? Please let me know if you know the answer or have the same issue!

[@sosteve9113]

So the Browse is the important one,but how can you understand how it works i recently found these analitic page on my channel,you can say ,im as you would call ,not a expert in these matter

[@boutinelass]

You keep pointing above to card links that aren’t there. Great video though.

[@NailsbyBunnyBear]

This is soooo helpful

[@BeComingNyrell]

82% of my traffic comes from the home page yet 88% of my viewers are non subscribers....

[@PakYanaNi]

ed really improved this video is so pale in comparison to his latest vid

[@prakashv1750]

I have been uploading weekly 5 videos but I don't get views on my gaming channel

[@FilmBooth]

So try spending longer on one video than trying to release lots of videos, its about keeping viewers watching for as long as possible, so you need to work out how to get your audience retention as high as possible, when this happens with a great title and thumbnail you'll fid more views come. Also, gaming is has a lot of competition so its important to think long term, keep improving and work on finding ways to make videos that appeal to your viewers so that they can find them. This can take years! Check out some of the other videos on the channel, I think they will help

[@EggOnBeansOnToast]

Thank you 🙏

[@gamelab759]

I watched the whole you never blink 🙆🏼‍♂️

[@quotestv3359]

Hi. Can you put a subtitles to your videos.

[@scarlettox]

Bro took 6 minutes to explain

[@Rexsitudio-WarcraftRumble]

one of my youtube video get hundred views by youtube advertising i didnt do anything, dk how that advertising come from

[@KUBONIJUAN]

Im a fan.

[@pramodgupta7795]

My pc crashed and is not restarting , is that because of shortcut video editor ?

[@FilmBooth]

Have you commented on the wrong video?

[@pramodgupta7795]

Sir , I see that u are an expert so can u please tell me the solution

[@FilmBooth]

@@pramodgupta7795 I'm afraid I don't know, computers crash for many reasons

[@pramodgupta7795]

But SIR is my problem related to any shortcut video editing software issue?

[@FilmBooth]

I'm afraid I don't know, there could be hundreds of reasons the pc has stopped working. Software or hardware, you could try to uninstall it to see if that fixes the issue

[@legoobsessedweirdo5676]

Most people find my videos from discord...but I don't have discord lol

[@RPGElite]

Thank you very much. This was extremely informative and will have me checking my analytics a little bit more. Apparently, browse features is the number one way people find my videos. Interesting. Time to double down.😊 Thanks again. Peace and hair grease! 👊🏿

[@radhakrishn_lover1381]

I get views and likes only thought external soruce 😔 Without external source I didn't get that likes which I deserve😔😔 What should I do😭

[@sweetsisters5031]

👍

[@Antscolony62]

Only youtober can understand des video