A Minor Attempt At Teasing The YouTube Algorithm (Sailing 9 LIVES)

You may have noticed that the last few videos we've published have been of fairly low quality, but they have been published steadily at one per week. You may be wondering what we are doing, and why. Well, we have a mountain of content awaiting attention, and we haven't been able to spend any time lately editing that content into videos. During the very trip we are currently publishing, Virginia managed to get pregnant again, and we eventually introduced yet another "Sailing Channel Baby", a.k.a. "Viewer Repellant" into the world. We've been chasing two of them around since, and that just takes up TOO MUCH TIME. In the meantime, while taking a break from editing and publishing (and sailing, to some extent), we have watched our views slow down and our subscribers disappear. That sucks. I mean, it is not the end of the world, it is not IMPORTANT. It just kinda' sucks. We'd like to share this part of our lives, and so we'd like to grow our audience (or at least get some of them back). So, we are attempting ONE little tweak to try to game the YouTube algorithm just a tiny little bit. Since we know that publishing consistency is reasonably important, we have taken a reasonable pile of our content backlog and we are now publishing it with the most minimal of edits just to get it in a state where we can publish it... and we are rolling them out weekly. This is an experiment in toying with the algorithm, but also a means of just getting more caught up with present day. The low-effort videos will be revisited, and Duke will eventually take whatever steps he usually does to clean things up and make them at least 2% interesting... this stuff all takes time, but I know Duke can't live with these videos being "out there" unfinished for too long. So, enjoy our little experiment and look out for additional content to follow (lots of it), as well as better versions of these episodes (the publishing of which will likely upset some viewers, just as the low quality of the experimental ones will upset others... isn't being a content provider fun?)... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We can't produce quality inspirational content indefinitely without the support of our fans. Please, consider becoming a patron today and help us to create art and spread positive messages about living life to the fullest! https://www.patreon.com/9LIVES Thank you! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/DukeAndVirginiaSteel Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/sailing9lives --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out a legend in the YouTube Sailing genre, our friend and an inspiration, Captain Rick Moore! http://youtube.com/cstaguy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************** #sailing #sailingchannel #sailingfamily