{"id":4698,"date":"2018-03-05T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:08:16","slug":"90-of-all-youtube-views-go-to-the-top-3-of-youtube-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/05\/90-of-all-youtube-views-go-to-the-top-3-of-youtube-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"90% of all Youtube views go to the top 3% of Youtube channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>The top three percent of channels got 64 percent of all views in 2006. A decade later, the top channels took 90 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>The median views per video has plummeted to 89 in 2016 from 10,262 a decade earlier<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgets.ndtv.com\/entertainment\/features\/almost-no-one-is-making-a-living-on-youtube-1819240\">Almost No One Is Making a Living on YouTube | NDTV Gadgets360.com<\/a><br \/>\nThere is now so much content on Youtube that it is very difficult for new channels to get noticed unless they have a promotional budget, outside connections, or they got very, very lucky.<br \/>\nMany of the top channels are effectively professional channels now, with behind the scenes staff and studio quality production gear (such as RED cameras).<br \/>\nA couple of years ago, I remember reading there was only one Youtube personality over the age of 40 in the top 200 channels (that being the very deserving Jon Schmidt of the Piano Guys).<br \/>\nAt the present time, the article says the best odds to obtain views are to post videos in the Comedy, Entertainment, How-To, Style and Gaming categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top three percent of channels got 64 percent of all views in 2006. A decade later, the top channels took 90 percent. The median views per video has plummeted to 89 in 2016 from 10,262 a decade earlier Source: Almost No One Is Making a Living on YouTube | NDTV Gadgets360.com There is now so much content on Youtube that it is very difficult for new channels to get noticed unless they have a promotional budget, outside connections, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/05\/90-of-all-youtube-views-go-to-the-top-3-of-youtube-channels\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}