"We noticed that the most popular videos at YouTube
showed people making things. - Steve Chen”
Like so many others, this was a complete surprise. I have many videos that I got excited to publish that I thought would be my next video to hit 100K views, but only to fade to a whimper. It is true, you really have no idea which video will be watched by many. As of today, I had a few that reached 1M. Not one of them has a concrete formula as to why it attracted attention. Yet I can only surmise a few reasons.
- Novelty and timeliness - it is new or there is not a lot of similar videos at the time.
- Fun - certainly we had fun during the process of making the video and that gets across to the audience.
- Popularity of the product - it is what people are looking for at that time.
I had the idea when my kids went to Chuck e Cheese. They have a UV stamp that they put on your arm so you can come back in and out as you wish. Then we bought a spy pen. My kids had fun with it for days but I thought it would be fun to make our own. Most of the spy pen also uses a tiny tip and we wanted a good size tip like a marker.
I did search online and came up with the Noodler’s ultraviolet ink I paid $13.11 back in May 2011. For the pen, I chose a yellow marker because of all the colors, I thought this would be the easiest to get rid off and dilute in water. The procedure is on the video below.
In terms of analytics, 68% came from suggested videos and 20% from YouTube search. It was uploaded on March 3, 2015, and had its peak on September 27, 2016, when it was viewed 7,754 on that day, which is about a year and a half from when it was posted. After more than 4 years, it still gets viewed about 100 times a day.
Other things and household products that glow on UV:
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