Blasting videos does not seem to have an impact on their rankings. We have been testing that the past 3 or 4 weeks and have not seen any significant movement.
No offense man but blasting videos is how I've been ranking them for the last 18 months.
I make a full time income just from blasting YT videos with GSA.
This is the method I use -
1) [Most Important Step] I use a custom keyword app that finds ONLY video keywords. So basically, it will scrape through thousands of keywords, but it only pulls out keywords that have videos in the top 5 of Google. If a keyword does not have a video, it filters OUT those keywords. This way, 100% of the keywords I go after ALREADY have a video ranking in the top 5. Then the bot also extracts views, likes, searches, backlinks and other shit.
2) Once I have my list, I go after video keywords with the most searches and least amount of competition. Depending on the criteria I set, the app highlights all the best keywords in green, and those are the ones I go after.
3) I make the videos and upload them.
4) I start boosting them with retention views and likes. I also get subs and comments.
5) I set up a campaign in GSA for each video. Low competition keywords get 1 tier high competition get 5 tier and really high competition I mix in high pr web2.0 links from blackhatlinks. All links get send to indexification and I regularly send the same batch of links multiple times. These helps increase my index rate.
I have 114 campaigns right now running on my server. More than 60 of those campaigns are just maintenance campaigns to maintain videos that are already on page 1.
The other campaigns are newer.
It typically takes me between 4-12 weeks to rank a video on page 1. Some videos have taken more than 4 months just to hit page 1.
With all that said, I only have about 10 campaigns set up after the May 15th update. And those campaigns were only started about 12 days ago. 1 video has already moved up to #6 on Google. The rest are still being boosted / blasted.
What I can say for a fact, I was ranking videos
VERY consistently with this method for the last 18 months. The only thing I can't say is what if any effect this last update has had. But previous to that spam was working GREAT to rank videos. You just have to target video keywords. And I'll see in 4-6 weeks whether spam is still working (which I expect it will). You just have to target video keywords.
-BB