REport: Castlevania’s Last Ditch Effort
Added 2022-10-09 07:35:46 +0000 UTCHeyJ, team! Some sad news today: Castlevania’s numbers are in, and they’re pretty ugly. We were prepared for a hit, but nothing quite this extreme, and it’s been a dark, eye-opening first week of October. Despite our best efforts, it seems time to surrender to YouTube’s preferences and base our next year of projects around the algorithm. We’ve pulled a set of about five trending games to pursue and will tell you more about them shortly.
Thank you for truly being a rock for this channel and giving us the chance to go hard (and fail spectacularly at times!) We will be adjusting our 2023 budget to continue RE as responsibly — but still with as much quality — as possible until we can hopefully get Random Encounters re-aligned within YouTube’s system.
Beard Salute!
~AJ
Comments
One thing I am concerned about is the fact that if you are ONE DAY too late to the trending game party, the algorithm ignores you. The same week RE posted their 12 Minutes song, people were pulling in millions of views on gameplay, which subsided on that week's Tuesday or Wednesday, causing the Friday posting to fall short. The algorithm had moved on by the time RE posted their musical on the game, even though it has been trending that same week. Something else I've noticed is that popular let's players like Markiplier seem to set the standard for what's trending on YouTube in terms of newer games, so it is definitely worth it just to see what's going on around YouTube, as well as keeping track of what's doing good on channels versus what's not doing well. That's just my view on it, though.
Cat and Books are Life
2022-10-09 13:13:44 +0000 UTCCompletely understand the shift in direction, you guys deserve to be doing way better than YouTube seems to be allowing for so if taking on more of the small popular games that pop up from nowhere and go right back there months later is going to help then I'm all for it. (Honestly, a lot of my favourites from you guys have been about games I know little about and/or about lesser known series so I don't anticipate enjoying the musicals any less. Heck, I know basically nothing about Castlevania and the new musical is already a firm favourite of mine)
shadowofshinra
2022-10-09 10:53:15 +0000 UTC
