Holy sh*t didn't notice how much Doug's channel is blowing up. Consistent 80k+ views recently, wp wp

It's all from people who somehow find the videos who don't know who Doug is or what the channel is all about and are annoyed that there's some guy interrupting the action to talk about the hands.

How about top 5 people who quit while at the top?

Thinking contenders could be people like the Dang brothers, Jay Rosenkrantz, Jerry Yang and other players who got out not because they were broke but for other reasons

You are funny for a poker guy, but you would be competing against pro's with a comedy channel.

You should do some amateur stand up and see how it goes.

I can't wait 6 months for some comedy vids Doug.., but genuinely thrilled at the prospect.

Gl in aria 25k and happy new year


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Crushing so hard

Sick work

So here is what is happening on my channel lately.

I have been slowly trying to perfect as much as possible to get casual viewers in, and keeping them there by changing video format/titling/thumbnail/video length. I think I have the process down tight now, the last 10 videos on my channel (not counting todays) have been averaging about 100k views a video.

The problem is, a lot of these people are so casual they don't even know who I am or that you can even use strategy in poker. I have gotten a flurry of "Who do you think you are to comment on this high stakes hand", which is obviously frustrating, as often times they are talking about a tournament that I actually played in myself lol.

The thing is, as you get better at bringing these people in, you are going to through asteroid fields of people who just want to see the hand and don't want analysis. I can't see a good way around that. But what does happen, is that while there is a vocal minority that is very upset with the video, many new casual people are brought into the channel and videos to learn more about poker. That is absolutely great for my channel and also for the game of poker itself.

I am going to do some experimenting with different posting schedules over the next couple months. My channel really started blowing up when I moved over to posting every 2-3 days, so I am going to expirment with that some more. I think I will probably alternate doing weeks of daily content, and weeks of doing M-W-F. A combination of this might end up being the best play, we will see what happens.

Also as a note, I am not planning on doing soley poker hands episodes on my channel. I will continue to do funny one off videos when I have a good idea, the occasional top X pots videos, and maybe bust out a polkernews or something from time to time. But Poker Hands is the lifeblood of the channel, and at the end of the day what I am most known for is my poker ability. I have been working to perfect that format, and it has been by far the biggest draw to my channel.

I think you can do it
I am a professional poker player and my wife casual, we both watch your videos together and laugh more than anything else

Absolutely crushing, just carry on on the video grind!

Doug is so good, he already had a cameo appearance in one of Jnandez87 PLO hand analysis videos.

Start each video with a 10 second montage of your success in poker (Perhaps a flipping of images/headlines like the start of a Marvel Movie). It ain't bragging if you did it (hat tip to the President-Elect) and it would add more credibility to your commentary for the casuals.

P.S -- The horribly played and unrealistic final poker hand in "Casino Royale" is certainly worth a video commentary, while also giving you some comedic opportunities [A bleeding eye is usually a tell, but not as much as a bleeding ...] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9fyOFefirQ

well said.

congrats, doug. great news; thanks for the update.

Hear hear. Well worth consideration Doug, of course with your own unique twist as well but it certainly would be the way to strengthen your cred to the randoms who happen across your channel.

tbf I don't blame the randoms. If I didn't know who Doug was and one of the Poker Hands titles popped up in my feed I'd really expect it to just be the hand with no interruption.
Maybe if the title format was something like
"Poker Analysis: *clickbait title*"
or
"*clickbait title* (Poker Analysis)"

Sounds like you should open a channel then.


P.S. Brah, i think Doug's hair is his own signature,Don King has his trademark Crown and is Universally known for it.
Tobias had his own unique style too before he opted for the faux bald look.
Doug's got a solid head of hair and i hope he continues to do whatever he wants to do with it, even do a Phil Laak with it if he sees it fit to do so.

Happy Newbie to all.

Why don't we put a GPS tracker in a $25k Aria chip for said runner to blog on it's whereabouts!?

Lol - "classic cooler" comment from today's video was straight gold!

Doug, not sure if you're aware but recently YouTube made quite a big change to how they display videos.

there are some great videos out there explaining the new changes YouTube has made and how it's showing videos in related at front page results. (On phone, can't link sorry)

Daily return viewers is one of the new ways YouTube rewards channels and is just as if not more valuable than interactions such as likes subs and comments.

With all due respect, your idea of leaving it a few days, posting a vid.. is just based on a whim and anomaly in some of your latest insights.

Are you talking about the game theorists video? I watched that and it had a lot of good information.

I'm not the kind of guy to just decide to do something for no reason and go with it. I am going to do some split testing on different posting schedules. But if you look at the result on the channel, over the couple weeks of less consistent posting, videos got much more love in the algorithim.

The problem with posting daily, is to some extent you compete with your own videos. If a video goes up on Monday and Tuesday, you in a way compete with yourself for someones view if they decide to only watch a single video. I think this plays a role in which videos youtube decides to boost.

With daily content, I tended to average around 65k views/vid
With a post every 2-3 days, it tended to be more around 100k views/vid

Both have merit, and I will continue to test things out. But if it makes sense to only post 2-4 times a week because it gets the best results, that is what I will go with.

I have a family of four, and each of us has a youtube account.

From now on, I'm going to log into each account and let each video run it's full length -- cuz I got your back Doug. ;-)

Off topic: Doug, what's your rank in CSGO?

Piediepie was out of the gates ragging on YouTube for the new changes as he can pick up changes pretty damn fast with 50 milly subs

Again the videos with joeingram1, I think it was clear for the start that they would not work.

Doug is a know high level player, respected from the community, with a lot to give and with story's to tell, joeingram1 have some nice podcast but he seems like some kind of a con man.

Sorry but after all the podcasts Joey has done, and how awesome it is for the community to have someone do something like that, don't see how you could call him a con man.

Merging your YouTube posting range. Sick.

Need to work in a bluff imo. Tweet out that ur posting a sick hand on Thursday. And then wait for it, don't tweet out the video until like Monday or some chit. Mass hysteria (and viewership) ensues imo.