After a 30-day break, our channel is now growing faster than ever.

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Have you ever thought your YouTube channel could die if you stopped posting on it? After going 1 month without posting because of a surgery, I've now seen the most growth I've ever seen on my YouTube channel in 2 days, growing by 1,32 subscribers. How did it happen? Let me tell you. First of all, welcome back to the Road to 1 million subscribers podcast, where we help you figure out what's working, what's not working, and what you can try next on YouTube. It has now been 6 months since we started this podcast, where we interviewed Jenny Hoyos, and she gave some amazing tips on how to grow YouTube channels. 6 months ago, we had 3,780 subscribers and we've now doubled since that. It's been 3 months since we published our episode, Five Proven Methods to 5,000 subscribers. So, 3 months ago, we had 5,000 subscribers and today we're up to over 8,000. And we took 1 month off. So, what happened? Well, let me catch you up. I made some quick explainer videos. My wife likes to make ambiance videos, so we made some of those. This one, I remade one of our most popular videos that we've ever posted on this channel, how to clear system data on a Mac. And as you can see, it's already got over 11,000 views. And what we did to jump start growth in that video is we went to our original video and we switched the end screen to point to our new video. And in the newer video, I took the comments from the old video where people were still having problems and solve them in the new video. So it made sense for people that still needed more help. So that was helpful. But you can see here it wasn't the source of the subscribers. Now I told you I took a month off from posting. You can see here September 6th, October 12th. So how did we grow more than we ever had in such a short amount of time? Well, let me keep scrolling these shorts and I'll show you. Oh, 167,000 views. Oh, notice this. 249,000 views, 914 subscribers from one video. Now, the way that this happened is I've really wanted to get better at Jenny's method of growing on YouTube. But I've also wanted to be a better steward of my time with my family. Been feeling like God has been asking me to do that. So, if you didn't know, we started a YouTube channel for my daughter, Jemma. And my daughter Jemma is very competitive and loves to play games. Well, after taking one month off of surgery, I thought, let me try to play games with my daughter, focus on that, and also I'll set up a camera to record it. And then when I edit it, I'll follow the format that Jenny Hoyos talked about in her YouTube content creation course, which we also mentioned in our podcast episode. Let me tell you how well they did. Five views because I posted them on my daughter's YouTube channel. And then after letting them sit there for a while, nothing changed. I thought, "These videos are good. Why are they not reaching anybody?" And I thought, maybe it's because it's a kids YouTube channel, but really these videos aren't targeted for kids. For me, it's how to have more fun with your kids, a recommendation. So, I deleted all the videos. I uploaded them to our YouTube channel, and I used YouTube's new collaboration feature to invite my daughter. If you haven't used the collaboration feature, you definitely should because it shares the reach of your video with that person's audience. They can also add it to their home section under the collaborations tab and see the metrics. If you let them, you technically retain the right and the revenue of that video, but also it adds this new subscribe button to the other YouTube channel. So anyway, when I added them to our channel, the first video got 15,000 views, which you can see here as a comparison. The videos that I posted before, 8,000, 3,000, 2,000. So I was like, this is amazing. Then the second video that I posted, look at this. 253,000 views after 3 days. Posted it on November 7th. Today is November 10th. The video is 34 seconds long, and people watched it for 102%, meaning they're watching it more than once. 914 subscribers. Look at that retention graph. People drop off as soon as they see who wins. Let me show you how viewers engage. 73% of the people that stumbled across this video stayed to watch it. And then we had another video that came out, this rail challenge, where we talk about in the video, subscribe or like based on who you think is going to win this challenge. Look at this. 243 subscribers, even though it's only got 24,000 views. I say only, I know that's significant and I'm very grateful, but the retention is much less. People normally watch only 86% of the video, but 77% of the people that saw the video stayed. And then this other video that I posted later on following the same format. Average percentage viewed. People are watching 106% of the video. Now, what's interesting about this one is we didn't say subscriber liking it. So, we got 88 subscribers. But look at that retention graph. It doesn't drop at the end because in this one, we actually started with a shocking fun completion of the video. So, people want to watch it more than once. And then because of that hook, we also have a higher stay to watch percentage. In that month that I took off, I thought I would get behind. I thought that the YouTube channel would die. But really, it just gave me this opportunity to figure out what was important to me, serving God in whatever way he wanted me to, with my family, with the church that I get to serve with, and also through the YouTube channel. So, when I got my energy back, I just set the camera up to record and started playing with my daughter. And then using the wisdom that I gained from Jenny of how to make sure that there's a strong hook in the beginning, that every part of the video is pointing to the payoff and then making sure that it's worth it at the end of the video. So, I encourage you to try it. What is one thing that you can do today that you feel led to do? Is it to take a little bit of rest, to go watch our podcast episode with Jenny? or to just have fun making YouTube content. Either way, try it. Any step you take will be progress. We'll see you in the next episode.