Deleted 30 Million YouTube Views for a Fresh Start
After watching @jerrybanfield video yesterday he was talking about how the YouTube algorithm has changed in a way where it now encourages variety of content and then later he explained in the video that he deleted all of his other YouTube channels except his main one and the live streaming one. Jerry Banfield even deleted his best performing Crypto YouTube channel as well.
Now I have been following Jerry Banfield's content creation journey from over a decade now and I know he specifically segregated different YouTube channels, which all came under one niche. What ever Jerry Banfield did in the past on his YouTube journey I followed in his foot steps.
Now my Medium related YouTube channel was stagnant and not getting views anyways. With almost 90 videos this included long form, shorts and saved live streams as well.
Yesterday I talked about the how YouTube expanded the Auto-dubbing to YouTube partner program (YPP) Partners and my main channel luckily also made the cut. So after testing with a good performing YouTube short video I decided to once again do what Jerry Banfield did but with my own twist.
Now I went and asked the YouTube official staff via their chat support whether I can merge channels or not they told me I could not do that as YouTube does not have this feature. So I had to sit down and select all of my long-form, shorts, and saved live stream videos and set them to private in bulk. Then I copied all the important data, like:
- YouTube video titles
- YouTube descriptions
- YouTube custom thumbnails by opening images in new tabs via chrome desktop browser and fixing them in mspaint to 1280x720
- Download videos one by one through the YouTube Studio download feature.
I manually decided which videos I would not like to import to my main YouTube channel which is monetized and then going through the above process I successfully imported 90 percent of my Medium related YouTube channel to my main YouTube channel successfully without getting any flags from the YouTube algorithm this meant I strictly followed their policies and guidelines through the manual import process.
Then I deleted my Medium-related YouTube channel and continued deleting all the rest of my YouTube channels, which had little content.
I invited the community to subscribe to my main YouTube channel, and the link is below so you can check my successful import.
https://www.youtube.com/@revolverocelotmgs2?sub_confirmation=1
The bad side of this YouTube manual channel import is that all of the views, subscribers, posts, subscriptions, and the important data has all now been deleted. The good news is that the old content on the previous deleted YouTube channel, which I imported to the main one is that the content has found new life with the auto-dubbing feature.
Author YouTube studio real time analytics data show growth from 550 to 1150 views in last 48 hours time period
I think I am really happy with my decision and hope that my main YouTube channel can bring me some solid earnings in this current month of April, 2025.
What do you think about my decision to delete my YouTube channels? I would love to see your reaction to this in the comments section below.
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