Game Bundle Summeries - New Youtube Channel

Hello there.
While I appreciate the idea you, as a YouTuber, have to be aware that the average viewing time on YouTube is a maximum of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. If you do videos longer than that, it's fine, but don't be dissappointed that hardly anybody will sit through them and watch them to the end.
I am telling you this to avoid any dissappointment when you look at your video stats.

Interesting idea, keep it up!

As for feedback, you can define "chapter markers", that way one can quickly jump between the games reviewed, I think it would be helpful to add that to your videos.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en

Yep, agreed with the others. You might want to turn it into review thing, explaining what the game was about, giving partial gameplay on each aspect, and tell whether the game is good or not. Watching 2 mins per game with nobody talking and slow gameplay make it very boring that i could fall asleep right after. Not to mention that it takes 30 mins to finish everything. I myself prefer to watch short videos that are around 10 mins max, but i'm not sure about the others.

All things aside, it's a good idea! I am curious as to what you'll do with recycled bundles like what fanatical is doing though.

EDIT: just noticed the giveaway. Instead of putting them in the description, you might want to put them in the video instead so people who actually watch the video can enter.

Can't agree more with ChrisKutcher's comment, if you are making longer videos some kind of hook or some sort of summary of what's to come is definitely needed. I don't think these videos do a good job with presenting information about the featured games or their value. I can get a much more information from just looking through their individual steam pages and that would take less time. The 2 minute reviews on the Escapist channel could be something that you should look into if you plan to do stuff like this. And yeah voice over would be great, since your English is probably a lot better than many other content creators, you definitely have an advantage there.
I like the idea of the channel, sometimes I am not sure about the games in certain bundles, but it needs to be a bit more informative.

Best of luck with your new hobby!

Firstly, I'd agree with the comments about length. 2 minutes per game doesn't sound much, but when it's raw gameplay without commentary it can feel very slow, and when there are 20 games in the bundle and you end up with a 40+ min video, it's definitely too long. If you don't want to add some commentary (and I can appreciate the idea of only including the raw game footage) you need to cut it down much tighter. Hell, the name of your channel is "thirtysmooth", and honestly, 30 seconds of gameplay clips can easily be enough to give you a good impression of whether or not you'd enjoy it. Would make for more cohesive branding, too. Speaking of which...

You definitely need stronger channel branding. There's literally nothing in the video which ties it to your channel, apart from the subscribe link in the end screen. Add a discreet watermark in the corner, and add a start and end card which prominently include the name of the video series, and your channel logo - which I would also tweak a bit to make it more distinctive. Even just adding a black "S" behind the white "30" would make it much more eye-catching and distinct, for example.

Finally, even if you stick without any commentary over the game footage (which, like I said, I don't think is a bad idea), I'd strongly suggest you consider speaking over the start and end card, to hook people by explaining the purpose of the video and of your channel.

I'll be interested to watch you develop! 😁

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good luck with your youtube channel

Bumf

Thanks for all of the extremely useful feedback everyone. I've taken your comments on board and am moving to a new format which I hope is a little easier to digest.