TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide How to REALLY Get Views and Subs: The YouTube Formula
Sep 1, 2025
Derral Eves, a YouTube sensation with 34 million subscribers and founder of VidSummit, shares his secrets to YouTube success. He emphasizes the importance of understanding your viewers and avoiding vanity metrics like subscriber counts. Derral reveals how the shift to viewer-based algorithms necessitates new strategies for creators. He discusses the power of community in boosting success and highlights the transformative experience of attending VidSummit. Get ready to rethink your content approach with Derral's innovative insights!
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Utah Basement Seeded YouTube Community
- Early Utah creators formed a basement community called UTubers to share gear and strategies.
- That local collaboration produced many early YouTube successes and a tight creator ecosystem.
Live Stream Experiments Changed YouTube
- Derral live-streamed continuously to prove live content affected conversion and platform behavior.
- His experiments compelled YouTube teams to investigate and eventually address livestream conversion issues.
Viewer-Based Algorithm Is The Core
- YouTube's algorithm shifted from view-based to viewer-based, focusing on who the viewer is and their response to content.
- Derral argues this change makes understanding viewer intent the replicable core of channel growth.
