A+N stats for 2024 | What worked, what didn't
Added 2025-01-04 10:00:06 +0000 UTCHey Patreon! 👋🏻 What a year 2024 has been....!!!!!
I wanted to reflect back on the year with A+N, what worked, what didn't, share some graphs and rant a bit lol
Sometimes when creating content as a career, you focus solely on what didn't work (or didn't work as well as you hoped). And it can be really easy to overlook the good stuff - or maybe that's just human nature? Who knows.
I created my channel on Dec 20, 2015 - although I didn't start making weekly content until 2017. The fact that we are seeing 2025 is literally ✨amazing✨it's not often Youtube channels last this long and it's all thanks to people like you. Thank YOU for keeping this dream a reality and supporting me through it all. I'm so thankful to create these videos and connect with this community, so THANK YOU 💖
I hope you had a great 2024 and an even better 2025.
Alanna x
Comments
Wow incredible!! All the best with your move to England 🎉 hope you have a great time!
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-07 09:15:22 +0000 UTCThank you so much! ☺️ I'm filming a solo travel this week, hope you like it!!!
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-07 09:15:02 +0000 UTCIn a couple of months I will do the same as you, an emigrant to England, not to Kent but to Liverpool, for work: I have a five-year contract, and I try to understand from you how life is up there. You are good and nice.
Vuoto
2025-01-06 18:40:01 +0000 UTCBy the way, the videos I enjoy the most are your solo travel adventures, you food ones be that cooking or comparing brands and your opinions about life in the UK. It is warming just to enjoy your personality!
Paige
2025-01-05 21:02:02 +0000 UTCI suppose that there are people who watch videos from someone for a while, but then they decide for some reason to move on to someone new. The attention span of many seems to be very short. However there are also the faithful who just want to see how some they really like move along with their lives and simply see how they are getting along and enjoying what they are saying about life.
Paige
2025-01-05 20:58:58 +0000 UTCThanks Brian, it does help a lot! ☺️
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:15:57 +0000 UTCThank you Steve!! Really appreciate the support 🙏🏻
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:15:41 +0000 UTCThank you! I think tapping into history stuff is a great shout, not something we've done loads of.
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:15:23 +0000 UTCThanks for the insights Theo, really helps a lot! 🙏🏻
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:14:49 +0000 UTCThanks Shaun! You're totally right. Going viral attracts all sorts of people, which I don't think I would be able to handle lol I'm grateful we have a very chill community here in our little corner of the internet 🙏🏻
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:04:45 +0000 UTC😂 Thanks Stuart! Poor little tree has an unusually tall top bit lol To be fair he's losing lots of his plastic bristles, so might not make an appearance next year!
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:03:40 +0000 UTCThanks Tony! Hope you feel better soon 🙏🏻
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:02:02 +0000 UTCThank you!! 🙏🏻 I really appreciate it
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:01:32 +0000 UTCThanks Steven! The guitar is the Butler's from university, I've never been able to get the hang of it!
Adventures and Naps
2025-01-05 10:01:15 +0000 UTCThis was a very interesting analysis of your channel’s performance over recent times. You asked if any of us had any ideas for content matter in the future....? I’m the wrong person to ask, really. I’m a creator myself - I started my channel accidentally in 2009, when I stumbled upon a way to upload a couple of music videos I’d made, playing and singing with other members of my family. I then discovered that YouTube had given me a CHANNEL of my own, much to my astonishment! I didn’t even know that was how it worked back then...! I carried on making random videos for my own use of various, odd events (the Olympic torch being carried through the city of Wells, near where I live, in 2012) and some of them I decided to show-off to the world by posting them on my weird little channel. I’m almost 75 and retired, so I don’t do it for any kind of income (good job - as I don’t get any income at all from my channel and never expected to!). My Channel description says: <<“This is my channel - mostly a collection of my own videos which include songs (a few of my own orginals plus covers of other people's songs), a few tutorials on how to do certain random but useful things, and some that showcase my own, virtual creations in the PS4 game "Lego Worlds". There are a small number of TV clips I wanted to share with you, too. I have to be honest here - I started this channel simply to publish and show off the first few videos I'd put together - and, unlike most other channels, I DON'T post new stuff regularly - like, every week or so! I only post when I feel inspired or I have something new to show off! Some of my videos have proved surprisingly popular and get huge numbers (multiple thousands!) of regular views and comments - while others languish, unloved, and haven't reached above double figures yet in their views - but hey, c'est la vie! I hope you feel like browsing through my work and I hope you even find something that inspires you!”>> In 13 years, I’ve only amassed 618 subscribers and I’ve posted just 106 videos to date. So I’m the last person qualified to suggest new ideas to keep your content fresh and interesting. I’ve noticed a guitar in the background sometimes in your flat - but you’ve never once mentioned if you or the Butler play - or sing - so I don’t know if that would be an idea or not? My few followers do say nice things occasionally about my songs - and my other, random videos now and then - but my most popular videos by FAR tend to be ones where I’ve showcased mainly clips I’ve isolated from TV programmes or OLD films over the years (NOT the BBC - they are fanatical about copyright infringement!) - though my very VERY best popular one is my own - where I demonstrate my own method of gift-wrapping a tapering cylinder (a tub of Celebrations). That gets thousands of repeated views, boosted every Christmas, after 8 years! I’ve always enjoyed watching your regular videos every week - but I don’t know how you manage to keep coming up with new ideas the way you do! I certainly couldn’t! I can only suggest that you flick through the videos in my “Steve Parkes” channel (I’m the one with the white beard, round glasses and a red & black lumberjack shirt), looking at “videos” and “Popular”, to see what has been most successful for me - and see if any of them give you any ideas for new content you might be able to do?
Steven Parkes
2025-01-04 23:38:14 +0000 UTCGlad to see I'm not the normal demographic 😂, tend to watch technical electronic channels but seem to have gone into an American lawyer as the law over there is weird sometimes. Keep up the good work Alanna, love your content, don't get too hung up on the figures
Tazz1669
2025-01-04 19:08:46 +0000 UTCBeing consistent is good particularly when it comes to the pay cheques, the last thing anyone needs is a massive one just before the end of the financial year resulting in a high tax demand and then a few months of low ones after and worry over paying the tax bill. Please no drastic changes to the channel, my poor old ticker wouldn't like it, particularly after several days of an unknown illness, just been shivering constantly with a very dry coated mouth and just the occasional sneeze but nose streaming like Victoria Falls. Dreading the Leccy bill as had Electric Blanket on low all night for 3 days and 12 hours a night in bed, my supplier no longer has an instant readout for the smart meter available as has had a falling out with the supply company and meter owner over charges levied to provide it. Have a good 2025 and hope you are not freezing your bits off in supposedly sunny and mild Kent. Couldn't even put a bin out for an abnormal collection day for the Holiday period as my steep sloping garden was a sheet of ice and was worried over falling and spending several days in A&E, if anyone found me before hypothermia set in. Forgot to buy the salt this year as haven't needed it for a couple. Dishwasher salt too dear to use. With temperatures due to fall to -12C wouldn't work anyway.
Tony S
2025-01-04 13:53:40 +0000 UTCHow about a reaction video to a reaction video? No? Oh well. I started watching Ads & Ns before lock-down because your thoughts on how to cope with living and working in a new country really took me back to my first few weeks, living Sydney Australia. After that, Tuesday afternoons or evenings, I always watched your creations. it seemed like you were talking just to me, and I loved must of your output. The Saturday content was the icing on the cake! I might've watched you reciting the 7 times table...maybe! In short, I agree with other comments, I really appreciate the way you make it personal. I've never thought I was watching "Click-bait". Unlike huge lumps of YT! Keep doing what you do! PS Could you A) Move to a room with a higher ceiling or B) bore a hole in your floor or C) Buy a smaller Christmas Tree! As the Aussies would say: "Yer bloods worth bottling, mate!"
Stuart Hamilton
2025-01-04 13:46:46 +0000 UTCA fascinating insight into the behind the scenes of your channel, thanks. I’m glad you are not letting YouTube force you into being a reaction channel. I love the reaction videos you do because you add lots of your own input, but I also love all the regular A&N content too. While it would be nice to go viral sometimes, I imagine that attracts lots more trolls in the comments. Maybe a more pleasant life when it is supportive subscribers commenting.
Shaun Garratt
2025-01-04 12:23:11 +0000 UTCHi Alanna, I found this video very interesting, it gives great insight into how YouTube works, and the things content providers have to factor in. Firstly, to answer your question about your content I like to see; personally I really enjoy when you are out and about visiting places and events. Regarding reaction videos, I have to admit I do enjoy watching them - I think people generally enjoy them because it’s like sharing an experience with someone – which is a very human need IMHO. As to why there seems to be a lot of US reacting to UK videos, I think that’s mainly down to the fact there’s an awful lot of US YouTubers reacting to UK things, and people generally like to get a perspective of their country / culture from a different point of view. I think one thing that’s appealing about your channel (and Girl Gone London) is authenticity - I think people really pick up on that, and it’s a reason why you get consistent audience levels. Anyhow, I look forward to some out and about videos – keep up the good work – happy New Year 🎉
Theo
2025-01-04 11:50:27 +0000 UTCThanks for showing us a glimpse behind the scenes. Fascinating. I wouldn't pay much attention to the "other videos watched" data - if YouTube has you pegged as a "(north) American reacts to British stuff" channel then they're going to recommend more of that kind of thing to your viewers, so they/we aren't being given a free choice of what to watch and the whole thing becomes self reinforcing. Maybe some local history videos would be worth a try - a bit like the solo adventures, but with some research beforehand?
Dr Philip J Naylor
2025-01-04 11:01:05 +0000 UTCAlanna, You see yourself as a "creator" and wish to produce original content. This professionalism will ensure the longevity of the channel. I'm confident I'll be able to enjoy A&N content for many more years to come. Stay hydrated and moisturized...🇨🇦🇬🇧 P.S. And who doesn't like a good chart? 🤔📊
Steve Mikre
2025-01-04 10:43:07 +0000 UTCI would say try collaborations. The ping pong of ideas of collaborations is fun. And maybe do lives on YouTube for dressing up on Halloween or some other British holiday to drum more patreon or members. React to British goth bands. Those are 3 ideas. I'm sure there will be more ideas from other people. Hope that helped.
Brian harrington
2025-01-04 10:42:27 +0000 UTC
