Less than a month, a conclusion from something interesting which happened to me.
Couple years ago, I saw a video being pushed into my Youtube Home feed. I was baffled. Here is the situation:
- The video views count only tens like 30 something.
- The channel subs also only tens.
- The channel age and upload date was new (a month or so)
- Total video below 10, forgot how many exactly.
- It was the first time I saw a video from this channel.
- It was not a niche of videos I recently watched at that time.
From those facts above, we can eliminate some of main factors of Youtube Impression ranking like: cowatch, watch history, etc. How the hell do Youtube think that the video is something I might want to watch?
I tried to analyze to find out why, but failed to get something out of it. No SEO. Script, video, title and thumbnail suck.
Possible explanation is it was a glitch or what the so called new channel 'privilege' of being promoted (which my channels never experience or I missed it what it happened).
Youtube confirms that each video are treated INDIVIDUALLY. But, since the ranking deciding factors like cowatch, watch history, etc the algorithm still 'contaminated' with BIAS, hence the algorithm still favor big channels overly massively (Big channels means vast existing cowatch, watch history, etc). It is UNFAIR to new channels who just started with no any ranking factors.
I submitted feedback to Youtube about this several years ago. If more people complained about this massive unfair algorithm BIAS, maybe Youtube will add a little portion to the new channel fair chance to get exposure.
Let's go boys.