Sorry it took so long...
Channel page and Trailer:
Your channel trailer has a good 3/4 to the end, though 1/4 of it is an intro. Even though you have a nice intro, it takes up a ton of time for a 3D image with a logo that doesn't add to the video at all. Yes, I hate intros from a retention standpoint, deal with it. As of the rest of the railer, it's an amazing wrapup of your channel, just please, cut the intro a bit. The rest of your channel page the banner and picture really work and match up well. You also have a good amount of links which is great. As to what's above the trailer, oh god I have a ton to talk about. So you have your Uploads, your Created playlists and a ton of other channel's playlists and then your Popular Uploads. While you can do some Playlist4Playlist and it's a good way of cross-promotion your channel can't come after it. The primary focus of your channel page should be your channel, not the promotion of someone else's. Think of a storefront. They will sell their own products and not tell you on a large sign how much better the products from the store next to it are, right? Try showcasing some of your own videos or playlists above the other ones.
Videos / Thumbnails
You have some nice thumbnails though some of your more recent ones are not that great anymore. I see your most viewed videos are FIFA 17 videos. These videos have amazingly outstanding thumbnails when you look at them. They are similar but still different. If you have a ton of similar Thumbnails people are more likely to click on another video if they see it in their recommendations. Trust me. Your more recent thumbnails are a bit of an issue. For one it's for a game with a darker theme and feel and on the other hand you want to use the text color that resembles it well. So you end up with this:
This thumbnail uses an image from the game, which is good, and uses text in almost the same color as the Background. Also some of the text is way too small. Just in the makign of this post after inserting the image I've seen the "Not my best Day" text. I really couldn't see that before. So my suggestion here is: Try making the text different from the Background. Here's a few things I would see working maybe:
- Blur the background (a bit)
- Add something around the letters to make them stand out from the background
- Put less text in the Thumbnail than in the title (Titles are there for text, Thumbnails not really)
When making a thumbnail, here's a few important things to check:
- Can I read the text on there if it's scaled down? (Zoom out in your image editing Software a ton) - People won't look at things they can't see right away!
- Does it fit the other videos in the series? - It's important for a viewer to be able to see a video in the recommendations is part of the series they're watching and interested in. Our brain loves similar shapes.
- Does it fit my channel theme? - Most good channels have kind of similar Thumbnails. Many have found a bar on a side of the Thumbnail to be working out.
I've just noticed on what a streak I'm going with these thumbnails...
Playlists
My first impression of your playlists was "Hey, he has playlists!". my second one was "There's a ton of one-video playlists...".
I'd recommend you take your smaller playlists (Namely Steep, Dishonored 2, VR Sea Odyssey, VR London Heist, CASE: Animatronics and Mount your friends) and compile them into a large one or make more videos on that game. Nothing on YouTube is more useless than a 1-video playlist...
About Section
Love it. There's not a single link in there... You describe your channel in the few lines that matter and then have an upload schedule and it's over. EPIC.
Social Media
I've decided to incorporate this now. I'll be going over the linked Social media pages you have now. Your Twitter is a link dump. How should people find your Twitter by just posting your videos? Why should they follow you for just videos? If they want notifications for new videos, you know where they'll go? I do.
What I'm trying to convey is that people can just get notifications from YouTube and don't need to follow ya on Twitter for that. Make some other Tweets and if they are
just random stuff going through your head. Trust me, it'll help in the long run.
So that's it. I hope I was able to give you some advice!
