Trick is when you've made enough, stitch them together (or at least relevant ones) and upload them as a marathon omnibus episode, they get loads of views, as people love to listen to them like a podcast while they're doing stuff. But other than that, over 8 minutes is the "good" ads spot.
1 month ago | 157
Chris, I hope you can keep making videos as long as you feel they should be. Something I absolutely love about your content is how respectful of my time it is.
1 month ago | 77
Good choice, we don't like sawdust in our videos. Keep up the good work!
1 month ago | 47
I love your videos, but sadly can’t afford the Patreon or the membership. However I would like to say that I have full notifs turned on, I share your videos and I always like them! Doing my bit despite a lack of funds 😅
1 month ago | 7
Maybe have an epilogue on each one where you review the sandwich you bought when travelling to the spot you choose to film in. I jest but I’d probably watch it just as much as the main feature. Love your work. Keep it coming.
1 month ago | 2
I prefer your content the way it is, short and concise with that sense of humour. Having the one break for the sponsor is already the most I'm willing to tolerate. That said, I pay for YT Premium, but I don't know how much more my view counts in the long run. Do what you must!
1 month ago (edited) | 16
"I don’t want to start stretching my videos out with a load of nonsense. So I’m starting a Patreon" watch out for the trap where you offer "i will read your name at the end of the video" as a reward. and then have to drop that and just speed through them a couple of years later once the ending becomes 10 minutes.
1 month ago | 8
Could do you a lower tier than $4.50? I have a lot of creators and I prefer sticking to around $3 per month for all.
1 month ago | 2
Nice one brother. Only make vids as long or as short as they need to be, it’s why I like them they’re to the point with out filler.
1 month ago | 1
I'd rather you had normal videos than longer ones that people wouldn't finish watching. Does that affect payment?
1 month ago | 2
Ah, so that's why most YouTubers talk nonsense and don't get to the point. 🙄 money. 🙄 It's a shame concise information isn't encourage
1 month ago | 1
I was going to ask where your patreon page was, i thought i was going mad when i couldn't find it... this now explains it. Glad to see you on it so i can now support this totally underrated channel.
1 month ago | 0
Big step forward for the channel. I hope it gives you a little extra coin for having fun. My family is from the UK a few generations back, so it's cool to see the motherland in your videos.
1 month ago | 10
I regularly skip past other YouTube videos that are 15 minutes plus, where they answer what should be a simple question. Because I know it'll include lots of waffle. 🙄
1 month ago | 1
Is there any reason why content creators don't do smaller amounts? Does Patreon not allow it anymore? I do a buck per video for climattown and I would do that for more content creators but most only have tiers starting at ~5 bucks. However I don't really want to give 5 bucks for every creator I want to support. Can't you make a lower tier? Literally not expecting any perks, just the ability to automatically support your and other peoples work.
1 month ago | 1
If you're doing a video about Pitsea Tesco you best mention the roller skating price checker of the 90s as the place was so large!
1 month ago | 2
It is odd that YouTube prefers longer videos because long videos put me off. I really value being concise and to the point.
1 month ago | 5
Chris Spargo
I like making my videos as concise as possible, but YouTube’s ad system heavily incentivises longer ones. Sometimes that makes sense, but I don’t want to start stretching my videos out with a load of nonsense.
So I’m starting a Patreon to hopefully help balance the scales a bit.
I’m not planning to put a huge amount of bonus content on there, but I have put up an initial “thrilling” text post on something I’ve noticed about Tesco store names.
www.patreon.com/c/ChrisSpargo
If you can't use Patreon but would still like to support the videos, I've also turned on YouTube membership. YouTube takes a 30% cut of this but it’s still very much appreciated!
youtube.com/channel/UCTzkxNEnbdvbBlgYl_W9daw/join
And if you don’t want to join either of them, no worries!
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