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2016 Year in Review Channel Update

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Channel: Avoiding Chores · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Here's the notes I was looking at during recording of the video.

Year in review 2016

Intro
happy holidays and thanks
meant for building channels
numbers are public
more failures this year than successes

10 years on youtube

AC is an outdoor recreation content creation business

Numbers
2.6M views in 2016 (37% increase)
but is a drop from 2015
not sure what growth will be in 2016

website traffic tripled in 2016

where the views are coming from?
75% is from search & recommended

on the flip side
1% change for subscribers growth

Where are the views coming from?
74% is US and canada

50% mobile

Stuff that worked / didn’t work
stopped doing the hangouts - didn’t work anymore
added closed captioning in 5 languages - worked
launched/closed  a forum - didn’t work
plans to diversify AC - didn’t work
producing videos on iPhone 6s - worked 
end screens - worked
cards - didn’t work
adding amazon affiliate to website - worked

overall I felt a time management crunch
projects to diversify AC fell behind
 ebook
 iPhone app

Social Media
Facebook is main focus
twitter is used to revive old web site posts
move older videos to FB page

Plans for 2017
adding kayaking to the hiking content
focus on current subscriber habits
adding product reviews (not knives)
figure out the sauce for the dutch oven videos, get more of them
focus on garmin fenix 3, inreach & popular running GPS for tutorials
start attending trade shows and get out here in front of vendors

tentative monthly rotation to include:
 GPS / outdoor tutorial
 dutch oven
 product reviews 
 outdoor recreation (hiking/paddling)


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*** POPULAR PLAYLISTS ***
Garmin Tutorials
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Delorme inReach Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoASYysvzldY6Qyih4hO4tlFJrFY5uiT

Outdoor Skills Bushcraft
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3BECE680F4A510C

Cast Iron Dutch Oven Outdoor Cooking
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoASYysvzlfQDVRu2ciDKGQuSxt4ZWaY


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What better way to avoid chores than to watch videos from an array of related topics based in Nova Scotia. Starting from the outdoors with hiking, product reviews, bushcraft, outdoor cooking, outdoor skills & GPS tutorials. We even include Garmin GPS tutorials for runners. And after all that activity, you'll probably want a cool beer to quench your thirst.

*** UPLOAD SCHEDULE ***
Sunday = New upload

*** AD POLICY ***
Ads are NOT enabled for new videos published on Sunday during the month it appears. For example, During the month of September, videos published during that month do not have ads enabled. However once the calendar turns to October, those September videos are ad enabled. GPS tutorials that are published during the week are ad ENABLED.
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