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thegreenhell

15,346 posts

219 months

Monday 28th February 2022
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Mezzanine said:
Jonny is obviously aware of the potential issues as he makes reference to it in the introductory video. He is moving to two videos a week now so I guess content needs to come from somewhere.

Matt Farah has spoken about how badly effected their algorithm became by putting the Smoking Tire podcast streams and bike videos on their main channel - it skewed their figures so much that even people who were subscribed to the channel and had all notifications turned on were still not seeing the new car videos in their timelines and so not only were people not engaging with the ‘different’ stuff, they were not even seeing the main product either.

Generally ‘the internet’ hates anything that moves out of its very narrow classification niches.
Is that the case, or is it a separate coincidental issue? For example, I can't get any new Jay Leno's Garage videos in my feed despite subscribing to his channel and watching most of his videos. They just don't show up in my subs feed or home page recommendations - I have to type into the search to find them. I've heard of others having similar issues with other channels that haven't ostensibly changed anything about the content they are outputting.

Mezzanine

9,215 posts

219 months

Monday 28th February 2022
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thegreenhell said:
Is that the case, or is it a separate coincidental issue? For example, I can't get any new Jay Leno's Garage videos in my feed despite subscribing to his channel and watching most of his videos. They just don't show up in my subs feed or home page recommendations - I have to type into the search to find them. I've heard of others having similar issues with other channels that haven't ostensibly changed anything about the content they are outputting.
YouTube really is a confusing beast at times - that’s infuriating!

I can only repeat what Farah said as he will obviously know more about the details - they split the podcast from main feed a couple of years ago and he said the uplift in main channel views and new subscribers was considerable.

As someone mentioned above, Harry also tried bikes to enable a two video a week schedule and they flopped.


Blib

44,111 posts

197 months

Monday 28th February 2022
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Hopefully, Shakey will bring a lot of bike fans in.

He's well known and respected in his sphere. There's not a biker in the land who's not familiar with his name and he seems to have a good on-screen presence.

Best of luck to both of them in the new venture.

fbc

179 posts

136 months

Monday 28th February 2022
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thegreenhell said:
Is that the case, or is it a separate coincidental issue? For example, I can't get any new Jay Leno's Garage videos in my feed despite subscribing to his channel and watching most of his videos. They just don't show up in my subs feed or home page recommendations - I have to type into the search to find them. I've heard of others having similar issues with other channels that haven't ostensibly changed anything about the content they are outputting.
Separate issue. The subscribed-channel videos not appearing in your subscription feed seems to a general, random YouTube glitch unrelated to the almighty algorithm. A fix worth trying (if you've not already) is to un-subscribe to the channel, and the re-subscribe.

The issue Matt Farah refers to is far more likely to be that the vastly lower view counts, watch-time and viewer engagement of their podcasts, bike content etc dragged down all of the videos on the channel in terms of how the YouTube algorithm works, meaning all of their videos were less likely to appear as suggested content (though it shouldn't have had any impact on the videos appearing in a channel subscriber's subscription feed / page). Hence moving the podcasts to a separate channel and doing less of the less popular content helps increase the channel's overall average views etc and the algorithm will favour it more.

DuckAvenger

324 posts

133 months

Saturday 5th March 2022
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Jonny Smith/Late Brake Show really should cut down mentions about their whatever latest video. It's almost spamming. Following them on Insta and Twitter

wpa1975

8,797 posts

114 months

Saturday 5th March 2022
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Really enjoyed his Lotus Cortina videos.

Simes205

4,539 posts

228 months

Saturday 5th March 2022
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thegreenhell said:
Is that the case, or is it a separate coincidental issue? For example, I can't get any new Jay Leno's Garage videos in my feed despite subscribing to his channel and watching most of his videos. They just don't show up in my subs feed or home page recommendations - I have to type into the search to find them. I've heard of others having similar issues with other channels that haven't ostensibly changed anything about the content they are outputting.
I can’t see the Jay Leno ones either, subscriber since the start….will unsubscribe and try again!

2172cc

1,105 posts

97 months

Saturday 5th March 2022
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Simes205 said:
I can’t see the Jay Leno ones either, subscriber since the start….will unsubscribe and try again!
Same here.....not sure what the issue might be.

milu

2,353 posts

266 months

Wednesday 9th March 2022
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I thought I was fairly clued up. However I didn’t realise that a Mk2 Lotus Cortina was a thing. I always thought just Mk1

So I’ve learned something there. Another good vid

generationx

6,747 posts

105 months

Wednesday 9th March 2022
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Great stuff about the Mk1 Lotus Cortina Crayford convertible, definitely a new one on me. A shame AAGR couldn't be here to comment.

Trooned out

46 posts

26 months

Wednesday 9th March 2022
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Simes205 said:
thegreenhell said:
Is that the case, or is it a separate coincidental issue? For example, I can't get any new Jay Leno's Garage videos in my feed despite subscribing to his channel and watching most of his videos. They just don't show up in my subs feed or home page recommendations - I have to type into the search to find them. I've heard of others having similar issues with other channels that haven't ostensibly changed anything about the content they are outputting.
I can’t see the Jay Leno ones either, subscriber since the start….will unsubscribe and try again!
I thought it was just me !

For the last year or more this has been happening to me. Fully subscribed and have ticked the little bell , but I get no notifications of new videos. They do appear on my home page , but randomly in with other suggestions/ subs.

milu

2,353 posts

266 months

Tuesday 15th March 2022
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Great 917 vid. A couple of clever chaps.
Went a bit top gear at the end( in a good way) along the sea front

Pflanzgarten

3,942 posts

25 months

Tuesday 15th March 2022
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https://youtu.be/Wxhmrvxnbjw

It would appear someone from this very website has gone and built a 917k replica.

AndrewGP

1,988 posts

162 months

Tuesday 15th March 2022
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Fantastic video on the 917K, if I had the money, I'd love one!

rallycross

12,793 posts

237 months

Tuesday 15th March 2022
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AndrewGP said:
Fantastic video on the 917K, if I had the money, I'd love one!
It’s amazing they could build that from scratch a great watch - another great bit of tv from His channel well worth watching!

wpa1975

8,797 posts

114 months

Wednesday 16th March 2022
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AndrewGP said:
Fantastic video on the 917K, if I had the money, I'd love one!
It was brilliant, good to see the Pistonheads reference and sticker.

thegreenhell

15,346 posts

219 months

Wednesday 16th March 2022
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Indeed a most excellent video of a wonderful car.

I remember seeing the bodyshell when it was originally advertised for sale, and briefly daydreamed about taking a punt on it and turning it into something. I wouldn't have been able to make half the job of it that these guys have done, though.

wpa1975

8,797 posts

114 months

Wednesday 16th March 2022
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Original thread for the bodyshell here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

callyman

3,153 posts

212 months

Wednesday 30th March 2022
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Latest Video is an early RX7, been in a garage near on 30 years.
Another great watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bfYJqd2xg

monthefish

20,443 posts

231 months

Thursday 31st March 2022
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I rate Jonny Smith really highly, and think he'd be a great guy to spend hours chatting about cars, but I find a lot of his videos a bit boring if I'm honest.
It feels like he's a great Youtuber (the hardest bit to nail) but he just can't often get hold of the right content...


You can see it in the viewing figures, two videos both released 2 months ago:

The Secret Mercedes Museum - 333k views
Mercedes Rally Car - 43k views (still not bad in the grand scheme of things I guess)