What 4 videos and one month of data actually teaches you.
Last four films. Real numbers.
📹 Hundreds of Alligators — 61.5K views · 4.1% CTR · 8:42 AVD · 67% still watching at 0:30
📹 When the Swamp Said No Fire — 5.9K views · 5.7% CTR · 11:18 AVD · 73% still watching at 0:30
📹 Something Felt Wrong at This Camp — 13.3K views · 5.6% CTR · 6:19 AVD · 50% still watching at 0:30
📹 The Altamaha Had Other Plans… — 3.9K views · 6.2% CTR · 8:14 AVD · still processing
Here's what the data is actually saying.
Subject sets the ceiling — not CTR.
Hundreds of Alligators had the lowest CTR of the four. It also had 714,000 impressions — more than the other three combined. The gator spectacle opened a room 6x larger than any curiosity title can reach. You cannot get to 100K on a curiosity title alone. The impression pool isn't there. Spectacle subject opens the door. Everything else walks through it.
The cold open is the highest-leverage lever — and the data proves both sides.
When the Swamp Said No Fire held 73% of viewers at the 30-second mark. Something Felt Wrong at This Camp dropped to 50% at the same point. Same channel. Same month. Same formula. The only difference was what happened in the first 30 seconds. Something Felt Wrong had the best first-hour CTR on the channel. It also has the worst overall AVD. Great clicks. Leaking cold open. That's the exact cost — now visible in real numbers.
The catalog is a real distribution asset.
28.3% of When the Swamp Said No Fire traffic came from suggested — fed directly by Hundreds of Alligators. Every new upload doesn't just get its own pool. It re-warms the whole library. Wire every film into that loop deliberately.
The 100K formula — written in this data:
Hundreds of Alligators' subject scale. When the Swamp Said No Fire's cold-open retention. Something Felt Wrong at This Camp's CTR and packaging. No single video has all three yet.
That's the next film.
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