10 views channel-wide this week, up from 3 — but a three-month export shows 72% of every view the channel has ever had arrived in a single burst in early September.
The baseline since that burst is about one view a day, a 1.13% click-through rate, and zero subscribers. This week's job was working out what the data actually says.
Two new long-form uploads, plus last week's "Why You Trust First Impressions Blindly" (published Oct 5, right at Week 7's cutoff) carried here so its view count gets tracked. [CONFIRM the publish dates and fill in current views from Studio.]
| Video | Type | Views (as of Oct 12) | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why "Just One More Episode" Happens Every Single Time | Long-form | [ ] | [ ] |
| Why You Look Away When Someone Makes Eye Contact | Long-form | [ ] | [ ] |
| Why You Trust First Impressions Blindly | Long-form | [ ] | Oct 5 |
Pulling a full 90-day export (Jul 14 – Oct 12) made the shape of the channel visible for the first time. Sep 3, 4 and 5 brought 20, 37 and 48 views. That is 105 of the channel's 159 views, and the week of Sep 1 alone is 115, or 72% of the total. Every day since has been 0–2 views, with the occasional 5 or 6.
The audience chart looks like growth until you read it as a rolling 28-day window: it peaked around 56 on Sep 12 and has slid to 19 because the burst is aging out, not because anyone left. The export doesn't say which video caused the burst. That's the first thing to find in Studio (Content, Sep 3–5, sort by views).
Week 7 flagged a Content table saying 233 lifetime views against a Traffic source table saying 148. This week's Content-type export reports 159 views and 3,089 impressions for the whole window. That lines up with the Traffic table (148 views, plus about 10 this week) and with a cumulative impressions counter that finally moves in the right direction (2,985 logged in Week 6, 3,089 now).
That makes 233 the likely outlier, but I haven't proven why it was higher, so 159 is the working total and the old figure stays flagged rather than quietly deleted.
3,089 impressions at 1.13% is about 35 clicks. YouTube is showing the videos; people aren't choosing them. Average view duration is 1:13 and no one has subscribed. At a 4% click-through rate the same impressions would have produced roughly 120 clicks, so thumbnails and titles are the first thing to change, ahead of posting more.
Three small psychology channels were reviewed this week. On two of them the best-performing video is a gaze or staring topic: 81K views for "Why People Look Away the Second You Make Eye Contact" and 127K for "Why People Stare At You (But Never Tell You Why)". Their other videos mostly sit between 100 and 10K views, and sequels to the hits did not inherit the traffic. Two new Behaverly videos came out of this (eye contact, and why waiting in line feels long), both with a new character-based thumbnail style.