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	<title>Comments on: YouTube Dilemma: Put Best Foot Forward? Or Most Recent?</title>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-23045</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah- that&#039;s exactly why I hate when people organize videos. I always assume the recent ones will be on the channel page. What they need is a tab that shows most recent and most popular. That solves everything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah- that&#8217;s exactly why I hate when people organize videos. I always assume the recent ones will be on the channel page. What they need is a tab that shows most recent and most popular. That solves everything.</p>
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		<title>By: somecallmejim</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-23006</link>
		<dc:creator>somecallmejim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a precarious struggle, the battle between wanting to keep your current viewers happy and the desire to bring in new subscribers. And part of me asks why do either? I mean seriously, isn&#039;t YouTube about Broadcasting Yourself? Doing what YOU want? Making the sort of stuff that amuses YOU, even if everyone else shrugs their shoulders and heads for the &quot;Best of Fred&quot; playlists? Why do we cater to anyone at all, when it&#039;s supposed to be all about us?

Of course, about .03 seconds after saying all of that, one can realize that in a way, this is still doing what you want. If you want to have more fresh fans, the way to do that is through making your site appeal to them. Same thing if you want to appeal to the old fans.

Right now my subscription base is growing much faster than it has in a while, and I&#039;m doing the opposite of the advice above: my most recent videos are playing in the &quot;top nine&quot;. (Of course, one could argue that of the whole pile of festering crap that is my videos my most recent 9 are my best, but I digress). But on the flip side, I have been doing a lot of outreach and collab stuff lately. In fact, of all the videos I&#039;ve helped with in the last two weeks, not a single one was on my own channel. Go figure.

Alright, I&#039;m off to make another embarrassing mistake that will probably hinder my ability to find employment in the future. I&#039;ll let you know when it&#039;s uploaded so you can go watch it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a precarious struggle, the battle between wanting to keep your current viewers happy and the desire to bring in new subscribers. And part of me asks why do either? I mean seriously, isn&#8217;t YouTube about Broadcasting Yourself? Doing what YOU want? Making the sort of stuff that amuses YOU, even if everyone else shrugs their shoulders and heads for the &#8220;Best of Fred&#8221; playlists? Why do we cater to anyone at all, when it&#8217;s supposed to be all about us?</p>
<p>Of course, about .03 seconds after saying all of that, one can realize that in a way, this is still doing what you want. If you want to have more fresh fans, the way to do that is through making your site appeal to them. Same thing if you want to appeal to the old fans.</p>
<p>Right now my subscription base is growing much faster than it has in a while, and I&#8217;m doing the opposite of the advice above: my most recent videos are playing in the &#8220;top nine&#8221;. (Of course, one could argue that of the whole pile of festering crap that is my videos my most recent 9 are my best, but I digress). But on the flip side, I have been doing a lot of outreach and collab stuff lately. In fact, of all the videos I&#8217;ve helped with in the last two weeks, not a single one was on my own channel. Go figure.</p>
<p>Alright, I&#8217;m off to make another embarrassing mistake that will probably hinder my ability to find employment in the future. I&#8217;ll let you know when it&#8217;s uploaded so you can go watch it.</p>
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		<title>By: Marilyn</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22992</link>
		<dc:creator>Marilyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@4: I agree. If i miss a week or two on YouTube (like I have recently), I would like to be able to to just go to Nalts&#039; channel and see what I missed, not wade through all of the videos I have already seen (many more than once).  I love &quot;Mall Pranks&quot;; it&#039;s one of my favorites.  Which is why I have it in my favorites. Where I can see it any time I want.  It doesn&#039;t need to be on your front page, Nalts, unless you are whoring yourself out to noobs and neglecting your loyal followers.

But that&#039;s just MHO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@4: I agree. If i miss a week or two on YouTube (like I have recently), I would like to be able to to just go to Nalts&#8217; channel and see what I missed, not wade through all of the videos I have already seen (many more than once).  I love &#8220;Mall Pranks&#8221;; it&#8217;s one of my favorites.  Which is why I have it in my favorites. Where I can see it any time I want.  It doesn&#8217;t need to be on your front page, Nalts, unless you are whoring yourself out to noobs and neglecting your loyal followers.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s just MHO.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Coffin</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22989</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Coffin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I personally like having the most recent. I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s a good move, but the stuff I actually put up I feel has pretty even distribution of funny - meaning if they don&#039;t like my new stuff, they won&#039;t like my old stuff and vice versa.

Except the Daisy thing, that was thrown together in a matter of minutes. I just knew it would get to you, Naltsy. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I personally like having the most recent. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a good move, but the stuff I actually put up I feel has pretty even distribution of funny &#8211; meaning if they don&#8217;t like my new stuff, they won&#8217;t like my old stuff and vice versa.</p>
<p>Except the Daisy thing, that was thrown together in a matter of minutes. I just knew it would get to you, Naltsy. <img src='http://willvideoforfood.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: sukatra</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22988</link>
		<dc:creator>sukatra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>whatthebuck reads this blog? I&#039;m going to start insulting him in every comment, just to make you squirm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>whatthebuck reads this blog? I&#8217;m going to start insulting him in every comment, just to make you squirm.</p>
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		<title>By: Buck</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22972</link>
		<dc:creator>Buck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i dont feel the need to make a best of reel because every video is so effing good.

have you seen my Two Girls One Cup reaction? Its a classic!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i dont feel the need to make a best of reel because every video is so effing good.</p>
<p>have you seen my Two Girls One Cup reaction? Its a classic!</p>
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		<title>By: sukatra</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22958</link>
		<dc:creator>sukatra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>14 comments on the yahoo version and most of them accusing you of abusing the kitten. That&#039;s impressive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>14 comments on the yahoo version and most of them accusing you of abusing the kitten. That&#8217;s impressive.</p>
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		<title>By: brindle16</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22957</link>
		<dc:creator>brindle16</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wow nalts, I never thought of it that way. I have learned something new today. Now to go to school where I might learn another thing today... probably not, seeing as how I live in CA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wow nalts, I never thought of it that way. I have learned something new today. Now to go to school where I might learn another thing today&#8230; probably not, seeing as how I live in CA.</p>
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		<title>By: Slater</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22954</link>
		<dc:creator>Slater</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s all about how you wanna network.  For semi-noob creators without a lot of established fan base who are still in &quot;showcase mode,&quot; it may behoove us to make our personal 9 Hollywood Squares filled with our best stuff... 

For episodic content (Rhett &amp; Link&#039;s Road Trip, ferinstance), or for established &quot;What&#039;s he gonna do next&quot; creators such as yourself, you probably ought to leave &#039;em up in chronological order.

Then, of course, there are those videos that creators make which are sponsored, and are contingent on curiosity click-throughs (link).  I&#039;d not let those get buried too deep in the archive, either.  Keep &#039;em near the top, fo&#039; sho&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s all about how you wanna network.  For semi-noob creators without a lot of established fan base who are still in &#8220;showcase mode,&#8221; it may behoove us to make our personal 9 Hollywood Squares filled with our best stuff&#8230; </p>
<p>For episodic content (Rhett &amp; Link&#8217;s Road Trip, ferinstance), or for established &#8220;What&#8217;s he gonna do next&#8221; creators such as yourself, you probably ought to leave &#8216;em up in chronological order.</p>
<p>Then, of course, there are those videos that creators make which are sponsored, and are contingent on curiosity click-throughs (link).  I&#8217;d not let those get buried too deep in the archive, either.  Keep &#8216;em near the top, fo&#8217; sho&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: Candy</title>
		<link>http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/09/16/youtube-dilemma-put-best-foot-forward-or-most-recent/#comment-22949</link>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I may not think about these things so deeply on my own, but I&#039;m glad you do it for us!  I had no idea that&#039;s how it worked, with the nine hand-picked videos. 

I don&#039;t hang around channel pages much past initially finding a user, but I always thought I was odd for that.  But maybe people just continue to hang around the channels of their favorite people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I may not think about these things so deeply on my own, but I&#8217;m glad you do it for us!  I had no idea that&#8217;s how it worked, with the nine hand-picked videos. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t hang around channel pages much past initially finding a user, but I always thought I was odd for that.  But maybe people just continue to hang around the channels of their favorite people.</p>
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