u/Joker_Cat_

I've gone down the metrics rabbit hole after posting a video and I'm wondering if any of you have experience with retention improving once you believe YouTube has found your audience?

I've had a thought building in my head that a lot of smaller YouTubers don't make bad videos, YouTube just hasn't found the audience yet. I see this when I come across small YouTube channels that have videos on the level of or better than larger YouTubers within their niche. But their numbers overall are "low".

I'm pretty sure Youtube is on the cusp of figuring out my audience but I'm not seeing the retention increase I thought I would with the increased popularity.