By now you’ve realized that uploading a YouTube video with the best content is not gonna get you maximum views. The big secret all famous youtubers know to getting maximum views on YouTube lies in knowing the best time to upload to YouTube. Instead of creating a ritual of posting your video same day of the week, publish your videos when your viewers are online.
Prime time In YouTube
In this race to get the maximum views and subscribers, you need to first recognize the prime time. Prime time is the best hour of the day that gets the most views on your videos. After that you need to know that you have to upload your video few hours before the prime time. why?
Because youtube’s indexing algorithm isn’t instant. You have to post it a few hours before prime time because you want to allow YouTube to analyze it, figure out what kind of content it is, index it to subscribers feed and recommend it to other people. By the moment prime time comes your video would have already been indexed and would be getting more views than the people uploading the videos at the prime time.
Looks easy doesn’t it? Not so much. Recognizing prime time is the difficult part. Back in the day, YouTube would also allow us to view which countries our viewers belonged to which would help us determine viewers yearly schedule. But now YouTube’s new update has removed that feature for us but worry not we are still here to make your youtube channel grow and to spread your content to the furthest parts of the globe.
The comprehensive data collected by frederators has made it easy for us to know what time is the best to upload our videos. Frederator Networks compiled the data across their network of over 1,300 channels and 120 million monthly views and answered the question.
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Best Hours To Upload On YouTube
Frederators gave us these hours in a day to upload a video that would increase our views by a great number. All times are EST.
- On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2 pm – 4 pm.
- On Thursdays and Fridays 12 pm – 3 pm.
- On Saturdays and Sundays 9 am – 11 am.
According to How Sociable highest traffic is between 7 pm and 10 pm. It is when most viewers are online on YouTube.
Best Days To Upload On YouTube
Just like knowing the prime time in a day, it’s also equally important to know the prime time of a week. According to frederators best days to post on YouTube are on Thursdays and Fridays of a week. Viewer count tends to increase on Thursday, reaches its peak on Saturday and gradually decreases on Sundays.
That is because competition is higher on Sundays, so can start to build your views and start making it relevant to the YouTube algorithm to make it recommendable to other viewers by the time prime day (Sunday) comes around.
Another Way To Find Prime Time
Another great way to find prime time that is more personal and suitable to you is by going directly to your YouTube studio. Go to Youtube Studio > Analytics > Overview tab > Realtime Activity card on the right side of the screen. This will show you a wave of views in the last 48 hours. The highest ‘view wave’ will be your peak time, basically it will show you the time your views were online. So, upload your video 2 hours before prime time.
Worst months
According to Youtube statistics 18 to 34 year olds adults watch YouTube. Knowing the age group of viewers also helps in determining months the viewers will be most active in. Worst months would be May and September as teens do more outdoor activities in these months.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, best time to upload to YouTube is a fundamental factor to keep in mind but that isn’t the only one. Good titles, good thumbnails, video SEO, proper tagging, consistency all contribute to getting utmost views, subscribers and more ad revenue if your channel is already monetized. Above all else, improve your quality in delivering the message.