Hi, this is Dan Lockett.

Welcome.

Dan has been educating and inspiring individuals, entrepreneurs and leaders for decades.

He's helped millions of people to move past the mental barriers that were holding them back

from stepping into their power to become a better version of themselves and live a kick-ass life.

I know this firsthand as I'm Jenny, Dan's wife.

And here's your host, Dan Loc. Contrary to popular belief,

growing a YouTube channel is not about how many subscribers and views you have, let alone how many clicks on your videos. There's one secret that will boost your YouTube channel

fast if you pay attention to it. So listen to this episode with Dan and Gabe, his director

of YouTube, to discover the number one most important secret to grow your YouTube channel

fast. So watch time. This is the thing you'll see everywhere and pretty much everyone is hounding watch time because it is, I would argue, the most relevant to your growth on YouTube. There are a few other secrets that we're going to arm you with to stack on top of that success to propel your channel even more.

But watch time, essentially, every time a user clicks into YouTube watches any piece of your

content as well as how long they are retained watching your content, how much they come back.

YouTube is tracking everything. If you look at the back end of

your YouTube studio beta analytics, and we have a special partnership with YouTube as well,

where they give us a little more insight. We have regular conversations with them, and they tell us

how important keeping people on the platform is in every type of way, whether that's community.

Yeah, part of the insights what we bring to you because once you hit certain numbers of subscribers,

YouTube would actually give you like some more love, not just love, but attention.

Yeah, individual attention where we will have access to you to like

beta features that no one has access to right. We just have a lot more access to things and insights.

And part of what I'm bringing to you as a mentor is what does YouTube want, right? That you

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