YouTube’s Hot Spot-Secrets to the Perfect Video

A holy grail story I know… What defines the perfect video?

Here is my good friend Casey Zeman to tell you his secrets on creating the perfect

video!

Take it away Casey…..

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Video tastes are subjective, but what if I could show you statistical and empirical

evidence that could help you in your discovery of the Holy Grail…er I mean the

perfect video?

There is a place I love to go when examining my video stats.

A YouTuber’s best friend, the Insight Feature…

Hidden deep below the surface of the Insight tab is a secret gem called…-Hot Spot.

Ok, well this feature is actually nothing new, in fact it came out several years ago.

However, have you ever gone so deep into HotSpot (subsequently analyzing over

400 videos to determine a pattern in gaining the highest consistency of viewer

attention) that your eyes popped out of your head?

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Well I have, and luckily I was able to put them back in long enough to share this

with you.

The YouTube Hot Spot Feature analyzes a video’s viewer attention.

The analysis is based on all of the views of a particular video and when in that video

those viewers start to lose interest and stop watching.

Whether it’s the beginning of the video, middle of the video, or at the end.

The Hot Spot Feature can tell you whether your video is instant yawn material or if

it’s making people stand up in their chairs screaming…”Wow, this is the Citizen

Cane of Web Videos!!”

A Quick Note about the Hot Spot

feature from YouTube:

YouTube’s features

documentation states that you

need 300 views on a video after

March 2011 for the Hot Spot

Graph and data to propagate. Well

I have found this not to be the

case.

Here is a screenshot below of a video

that has over the 300 views and it was

uploaded May 23, 2011.

Here is the Hot Spot Data from that same

video. As you can see, YouTube is saying

that there is insufficient data to display

the Hot Spot Graph.

I have tested it out on many

videos, and a good rule of thumb

for a minimum number of views

to guarantee Hot Spot data is

about 1300-1500 views.

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We are going to continue on by examining the two categories of video content,

Entertainment and Informative.

First -Entertaining Videos

An Entertaining Video analyzed in Hot

Spot will usually show that when

someone comes to an entertaining

video their attention to that video

starts HIGH and ends LOW.

Entertaining videos tend to have the ability to reel people in through cool

thumbnails or animation. Therefore, the attention starts high from the audience

and the greatest fallout of a viewer is at the end of the video.

Usually Entertaining videos start great but tend to only go downhill from there.

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REMEMBER-Entertaining videos generally follow the rule to grab ones attention

within the first 5 seconds of a video.

Usually an entertaining video loses interest not because the content starts to fail,

but usually because the length of the video is too long.

A dip can occur at a time where much of the audience is starting to ask the question,

“where is this video is going?”

A nice rule of thumb for an

entertainment-based video is to keep the

video length between 1-3 minutes.

Usually anything more and you will begin

to loose the attention of the audience.

Second-Informative Videos

An Informative Video will show

the complete opposite data…

interesting! Informative videos

are designed to provide usable

information.

The informative video can be in

the form of a “How To” video or:

News

Tutorials

Training And More.

The informative video tends to

start LOW and end HIGH.

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Another way to look at it is in the beginning of the video, the highest number of fall-

outs occur. BUT, those that stay to watch the video, tend to watch it till the end.

People who come to watch these videos generally are here for a purpose, to learn…

To gain knowledge in regards to whatever topic the video is about. Therefore more

people will stay longer to get all of the information a video has.

Because the video is generally a training video or instructional video, there is a

greater commitment to watching the video. Therefore, these videos can afford to be

longer without having the same fear of disinterest that the entertaining video have.

An informative video can be in upwards

of 10 minutes long and still hold

relative interest. However, I would say,

at 5 minutes, you may notice a slight

drop in that interest.

NOW Wrap your mind around this idea…Are there parameters that can define the

PERFECT VIDEO?

The goal for a video like this would be to represent high interest from beginning to

end above the average line in the Hot

Spot Graph.

To start high and end higher…is that

possible?

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Yes it is…What about

combining both Entertaining

and Instructional ideals…?

The screenshot represents a video that is approximately 2 minutes long, that is

instructional all the way through. But also Entertaining.

Here is the recipe for the parameters around the perfect blend of video:

• Grab the audiences attention in the first 5 seconds-(use animation and music and

see if you can choose a crazy cool thumbnail to represent the video…build the

interest right away…even before someone watches the video. This will guarantee

that you will have high interest right in the beginning of the video.

• Keep the video, if you can to under 3 minutes. A good entertainment video is short

and sweet. An entertaining instructional video is even sweeter…

• Capitalize on your audience’s commitment to wanting the value of the video. That

will ensure their longevity in watching the full length of the video.

• If you can do the audience the service of offering great value in an entertaining

way, your interest will be higher and your margin of interest will be less and less.

• Offer ‘call to actions’ as a source of interaction. With ‘call to actions’ you can

manipulate the Hot Spot Graph by deciding where you want your audience

members to respond to your ‘call to action’. (You can request that they click through

to another video at that 1 minute mark based on your desired goals for the viewer.

Therefore the Hot Spot Graphic would dip based on that call to action)

• Call to action techniques can also keep the person WATCHING the video. Here is

an example: If the video is 2 minutes long-at 1:oo minute i could have an annotation

pop up requesting that the audience keep an eye out for the girl in the blue shirt

because a surprise will happens at 1:55 seconds. (eluding to her maybe tripping or

crying or slamming into the mirror. The suspense of the unknown can keep the

person watching.

A great example of Both Informative and

Entertaining-The ever popular OraBrush

Guys!

Notice the Thumbnail…Disgusting…yet

boom you have my attention…

This Video is a perfect example of the correct blend of both informative and

entertaining…Look -it even says “How to tell when your breath is bad.”

So for all of you Video enthusiasts, especially those who have products of your own,

realize that by examining the Hot Spot Graph, you can begin to see how interest is

measured and how you can tap into using those analytics to find…the perfect video.

And sometimes that perfect video might just have brown shiny sludge oozing from a

sponge…yuck!

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We do hope you have enjoyed our foray into YouTube this week.

Get those videos out there & have some fun!

Speak again soon!

Jo :) (& Casey)

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