YouTube video responses, good or bad? there's one keyword that's massively important to YouTube & Google, I'll come thereto later, but once we understand this word, I'm sure that you simply will accept as true with me, video responses are an honest thing, for both parties.

I can remember once I first began on YouTube and that I read somewhere (I can't remember where, sorry!) that having a video accepted as a video response helped both channels in various ways.

The most obvious way is that providing the response is accepted, the responding video is going to be displayed underneath the prevailing video, and a few buy permanent YouTube subscribers may click thereon and check it out. Since the newest redesign of YouTube, I even have to mention that this particular aspect has probably diminished in usefulness, as video responses are shown quite far down the page, below top-rated comments.

It is this particular factor though that has led to tons (if not most) people refusing to simply accept video responses, the fear being that rather than further rummaging through that person's content, they'll be leaving to travel watch another channel.

That's a really understandable concern, but I feel it's over-anticipated. Here's how I see it breaking down on my channel.

Most of my buy YouTube subscribers know that I publish tons of content, and there's a degree of variety therein content, with commentaries either being game related, or completely 'off-topic' and will be discussing gaming news or news generally, with a couple of atheist/religion-themed commentaries as it is a particular hobby-horse of mine.

They watch my content for a reason, odd because it could seem, there's something there that they like, and once they are within the mood for my content, they're going to come and watch it. When they've had enough, say after about three minutes, they'll want to travel and watch something else. especially, if a video of mine has expressed an opinion about something, they'll well want to travel and watch something else associated with that. If there's a video response thereto video, it's an all-round good thing for them to travel and listen to someone else's opinion, albeit it disagrees with mine.

Now, if they are going to watch someone else's opinion, they'll come to discuss my video.

Even better though, the one that has the posted video response, a number of their viewers/buy youtube subscribers may come and inspect my content too! Their video is going to be showing as a response to my video; this is often vital.

The keyword I mentioned? Engagement. YouTube LOVES us once we engage with our communities. The more engagement we've, the more YouTube thinks we must be wonderful, and pushes us up program rankings, not just on YouTube, but on Google too.

No one outside of YouTube knows exactly how YouTube algorithms work, but I feel it is a fairly safe bet that each sort of engagement doesn't carry an equivalent value. So for instance, a comment is worth one point, a comment from a get active YouTube subscriber is worth 2, a video response we post ourselves (of our own content to our own channel) is worth 1, alike is worth 10, a video response from another channel is worth 50.

I'll admit I'm pulling figures out of the air here, but there'll undoubtedly be some quite weighting system, and video responses from one channel to a different are going to be pretty high thereon list. I'd also guess that as YouTube loves engagement such a lot, more weighting is going to be given to acceptors of video responses than the video posted as a response.