I'm looking at youtube and trying to identify those videos that are most viewed as a result of searches on youtube. I can do a search on a term e.g. athletics, and then sort by most viewed. Some of them have huge views, but these are not all from onsite searches, often a large proportion come from sites that link to or embed the videos. I would love to subtract these linked clicks from the overall figure for total views but there is no easy way. Also, I would love to normalise the results so that views are divided by the number of days on Youtube. Anyone have any tips for determining what is a long term "hot" video? thanks
There is no real magic forumla. One obvious way is to break news with a new video reporting on a very recent event or whatever, get it up before anyone else and it will usually become big. But I don't think it's that hard to get a video like that big, I wouldn't be proud of doing that, but getting YOURSELF a video you've made big. Is something to be proud of. I've been on the 1st page of most viewed about twice, with stupid videos, but I cheated them using Firefox refresher. But now I have a pretty good account with like 370 subscribers and 97,000 views in total from about 17 videos, all natural. Not cheated. In terms of 'stupid' videos which become big, there's not anyway of knowing other than to just make your videos and shove em up. There gna get big or they wont it's like a viral lottery. Other than that, I think the best way is to help people. My account with the 370 subscribers has a few tutorials (I've been doing card magic about 6 years) i'm 17 now, and one of those has about... 23,000 views. Just make quality videos, that's the only real answer.