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Why shorts can crush your YouTube longform performance, People who say there is no such thing as bad press is wrong, and Why business acquisitions CRUSH paid media

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2825, Eric Siu and Neil Patel discuss the potential downsides of YouTube shorts, the importance of long-form content for better engagement and revenue, the challenges faced by Bolt.com as it navigates a messy situation with investors and a decline in performance, and the advantages of business acquisitions over paid media. Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Check out more of Eric’s content (Leveling UP YT) and Neil’s videos (Neil Patel YT) TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: (00:00) Why shorts can crush your YouTube longform performance (07:24) People who say there is no such thing as bad press is wrong (11:03) Why business acquisitions CRUSH paid media (14:25) That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe!  Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us: Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel X @ericosiu

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0:00.0

Here's how shorts can crush your YouTube long-form performance.

0:03.8

So there's a guy over him.

0:05.4

His name's Jack Settlement, sports creator.

0:08.5

He abandoned a YouTube count that had nearly 600,000 subscribers and he started over from scratch. So now he's got a new channel.

0:16.1

It has 20,000 subscribers, but it's all long-form videos only. And so it's a fraction of the old

0:20.9

one, right? But his videos are getting way more views from

0:24.4

tens of thousands to more than 100,000 on the rivalry between India and Pakistan and

0:28.1

cricket right he used to have like a bunch of short form stuff talking about attending or like mascot getting like beer

0:36.3

pulled up poured on them or whatever but the main thing now is just like dude

0:39.8

there's a lot of people saying that shorts actually harm me your channel and I was talking to a YouTube guy the other day and

0:47.4

Josh Josh is amazing so Josh works with George Gammie or so Ken McGuroy

0:51.5

He's like dude your YouTube channel's pathetic and like what do you mean? he's like, dude, your YouTube channel is pathetic.

0:54.0

I'm like, what do you mean?

0:55.0

He's like, do you do all the short form stuff?

0:55.9

You do like these long form, like interviews with people where you talk about like dating or

1:00.5

whatever.

1:01.5

And I'm like, tell me more, right right and he's giving it to me hard and

1:04.2

this guy's like 21 years old and he's like no man like do you do so much

1:09.4

interesting stuff in business I was like okay tell me how you do it with your

1:11.7

clients he's like first of all the short form kills the channel. I don't care about short form at all. He's like,

1:16.8

you should be getting at least two to three million views per month on long form. Like, tell me more, right? And then he then he's like look all I do with my clients is I sit with them and I

1:27.2

understand I listen to their sound bites so you and I were doing let's hear on calls for five days

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