/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

For those who missed the post that supposedly made Nijis wary of raiding (at >>46103745)
>That Brit dude just released a video showing (with receipts) that flooding a video with people that will click on it, stay for a few seconds and bail will KILL the video on the algorithm.
>He demonstrated that by putting ads on a video targeting all of the wrong demographics (too old, not interested in the subject, etc) and a video that would otherwise get thousands of views a day on being recommended alone dropped to about one hundred views a day and not being recommended.
>The conclusion is: average view time (the time people spend on average on your video) is a massive signal for the algo and having “unwilling” people boarding your video is detrimental to the point of being an algo killer.
>The Brit dude doesn’t mention live streams but YouTube twitter support made it clear many times that, for what YouTube is concerned, there is no distinction between the live audience and the VOD audience for the purpose of “average view time” or similar metrics.

Enters raids (and this is speculation on my part): as there is no distinction between a “bad ad” redirecting people to watch a video (and drop immediately) and a “bad raid”, doing likewise but live, it is very likely that the same effect comes into play here.

Funnily enough that was something people suspected because of Tempus "chain of raids" for both their batches, but it was chalked off as
>inability for form a "natural box"
but maybe it was this effect, their streams just not getting recommended to any new audience due to bad retention on raids.

Same thing might have been a factor for iLUNA and XSoleil as well

>>46104347
>so you can actually kill your competitor by spamming raid to their channel?
If you are larger enough than your competitor, sure.
It's worse than that tho, he managed to kill that video in the algo for 400 bucks worth of ads and the target doesn't even need to know it happened or who did it.
It was a controlled experiment done with consenting parties but there is nothing preventing someone from doing it for the evulz

>>46057625
>>46057758
400 bucks to kill a video in the algo. That's more than 11 bucks but ....