So you've got a website that's getting hits – here's how to build a YouTube channel from what you already have.
Youtube is an essential social pillar for gaming news, gameplay videos, and other longform video content in the scene. Growing the Clocked channel on Youtube (via Happy Mag) has been a huge priority, and developing the channel from a standpoint of Clocked’s best performing editorial content has proven effective.
What this means is that when deciding upon the games Clocked was to cover with video content, it was imperative to locate the articles that receive the strongest weekly hits on the channel. By embedding YouTube videos in these articles, and placing backlinks, each video would be given a leg-up over the competition (of which there is plenty in the world of gaming).
Guide contentArticles and videos such as Returnal: How to Beat the First Boss, Phrike or Outriders: Beating the First Boss, Gauss have seen extremely high conversions from web traffic to video hits, with up to one in three users playing these videos from the articles containing them.
Players are constantly searching up strategies to beat in-game bosses such as Phrike, Gauss, or the ultra-difficult Ophion, so priming them with both an explainer article and illustrative gameplay makes perfect sense.
…and the restYou can’t always rely on receiving exclusive content – as Clocked did with their best-performing video depicting pre-release DOOM Eternal gameplay – you must investigate your existing networks and examine how you can leverage them.
In preparation for the launch of Clocked’s video The Best Bit of Bloodborne, research was conducted and content was created around the topic at hand – FromSoftware’s award-winning video game Bloodborne. With multiple high-ranking articles on file, including Bloodborne 2 will never happen and here’s exactly why and Bloodborne PC: how to play it now, and is an official port even coming?, success of the video was not guaranteed, but far more likely.
Similarly when publishing footage of Supergiant Games’ Hades on the PS5 console, embeds and backlinks in articles such as Clocked’s Hades weapon guide or list of PS4 games with PS5 upgrades, the video will climb in views consistently.
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