{"id":91081,"date":"2026-03-22T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91081"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:56:06","slug":"rethinking-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/22\/rethinking-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/18\/youtube-is-changing-the-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I talked about the problem<\/a> we have had with the YouTube algorithm and that we would need to make some changes. The response to some of those changes has been quite dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>These are the view numbers for videos over the last three days:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-91082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-22-at-09.47.52-550x350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-22-at-09.47.52-550x350.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-22-at-09.47.52-471x300.png 471w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-22-at-09.47.52-600x382.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-22-at-09.47.52.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By any standards, those are good. 435,000 views in three days is something most YouTubers dream of.<\/p>\n<p>There are more issues to reflect on as a result, partly around content, though\u00a0I also think Thomas's new approach to thumbnails has helped a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching, if you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I talked about the problem we have had with the YouTube algorithm and that we would need to make some changes. The response<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/22\/rethinking-youtube\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91083,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91081\/revisions\/91083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}