If Your Video Is Doing This, No One Will Watch It (Video ROAST)

i'm a nice guy most of the time you see change is better than being nice and you all need to get better on youtube howdy howdy everyone nate here okay a little bit of the story going on here you see a few weeks ago i did a video roast i thought hey this is an interesting idea let's do a video roast and see how people like it you really liked it but the main feedback i got was wow that was the calmest roast i have ever seen in my life and i saw that and i thought challenge accepted you see the main reason i don't often get really up in people's faces is because i care about people a lot and i never want it to feel like an attack on the person rather on the piece of content so i'm always very cautious about that so with this video i am going to roast the heck out of this video because there are a lot of things that need to change asap and there is a really strong possibility that you yes you watching this are doing a lot of the things that i'm about to roast so here's what happened a little while ago as a recording i asked you for the video that you wanted to have absolutely roasted by nate and so going into it you knew it was going to be a video roast uh the person who i'm roasting their video knew this was going to be a video roast so i have full permission and as i started looking through this list of videos i actually didn't have to go far to find this one you see this video the blink mini security camera best affordable security cameras from the channel jason mazarek jason's an awesome guy i've watched several of your videos but this video is mostly awful and i gotta show you why so you don't make these same mistakes in your own videos all right with all of that behind us let us get to the roasting let's start at the very beginning a very good place to start the intro we'll be looking at the blink mini indoor security camera [Music] yeah kind of cool kind of catchy welcome to the channel my name's jason here on this channel i do a lot of food and product reviews if you're new here hit that subscribe button down no no stop it stop it was previously shared a lot to invite people to subscribe in the first 45 seconds of the video because you know the drop-off rate you know people are leaving your video therefore invite them to subscribe at the very beginning that's absolutely archaic and outdated it's useless to do that because there's no reason it is literally feeling space where you could be showing them how valuable the video is that you're just inviting people to do something that they are not going to do and even if they did it may not be a high quality subscribe so don't do that stop it like i said today we're checking out the blink mini indoor security camera okay i just discovered these devices a few weeks ago a friend had mentioned that he had a couple security cameras in his apartment and that they were super cheap so i immediately looked him up and the biggest disappointment i have with this device is that i waited so long to get it all right that was actually pretty good hook there my my issue is we're 41 seconds in you could have started with that the biggest complaint i have is i didn't actually get this sooner ah that would have been great start with that and and not 41 seconds in now as you can see blink has different devices these is that middle one there the blink mini wait why why why why why would you go to the website of all things so we've got it we've got the box in our hand but if i'm look if i'm here for a review and all of you doing reviews take note here why would someone want to see the website if they're looking up a review they want to see someone who actually has the device and who's actually used it why would they want to see the website they can already go to the website there's no reason to go to the website right at the beginning much less than the first minute of the video then you have like the you have the blink outdoor and then let's see okay i i can't i can't here's why it's so awkward you're pausing like at the you those little intakes of breath you know and and then we see your eyes looking up at the screen past past the camera you're not even looking at us right here you're looking up here because you're looking up at your screen but what's the problem with that it feels like you don't even know what you're talking about meaning you're you're not only are you looking at the website but you don't even know what to look for on the website that's immediately a big cringe factor and in fact what follows i pre-watched all of this from about minute 110 we're just if you look here we are just showing information from the website and from amazon up until about two two minutes and 10 seconds in when this finally happens so here is the camera itself finally you finally showed me the camera this is a product review and we're two and a half minutes in of a 22 minute video that's already a long video that should have happened a lot sooner and all the information before this showing amazon showing the website completely useless think about this logically why are people there for a product review they want to know things that they can't know from looking at the freaking website and amazon so showing the website and amazon absolutely useless information you finally pull out the device here has a usb plug with an adapter you you don't say you know this is nothing against jason i think jason's awesome but from a content perspective the product has a usb plug-in like and actually what follows is the most basic stuff for an entire another minute all information that is a given if someone really an audience if they're looking and they're looking up a review for a security camera they're at least mildly tech savvy and of course they know there's a freaking usb plugin it sounds like i'm being a little harsh here but i'm trying to nail in a point here if you are sharing information that is so stupidly obvious that anybody watching is already knows that and you're sharing that in your video people are going to leave like why on earth would i want to watch this when i'm three minutes in and i've had maybe 20 seconds of actually useful information out of a three over three minutes into the video i've had maybe 20 seconds why would i want to sit here and watch another 22 minutes of the same stuff now having said that right here it gets in to start to show the actual app which is a bit more non-obvious stuff because what you can't get from a promotional video like on their website is this is a real person actually walking through the app so obviously you download the app the blink app right here i'll click on that the app and i'm just showing the app and so there are my four cameras see and that is non-obvious information that is stuff that if i were to go to review yeah i want to see that like that that's interesting to me but i will say that's really small i mean we've got the entire frame going on here why don't we make it bigger so it's more visual just something so it's not just a small thing an entire sea of desktop and then if we jump ahead a full three minutes to minute six of four why are people coming to this i have a buyer intent i'm looking to actually buy this i'm curious about it i want to see what it actually looks like the actual footage laying in there on the living room floor see so there's this camera playing on the floor and we actually get to see what it looks like he just got his toy off there all right let's jump ahead to minute 844 here there's something that happens here that just needs to be addressed asap like i said i have the one on the door so i know if anyone comes in and out and also you know there's times where i leave i'm like oh did i shut the door did i lock it well i can just go ahead okay you see i did i didn't even realize i was making this face here it's because you just did you catch on i i did you see what i'm saying that type of thing it's not that i'm nate never makes those mistakes or you never make those mistakes of just stuttering i trying to figure out what you're saying it's not that we never make those mistakes it's that two things one of two things needs to happen here either we need to practice more so that we're able to speak more clearly and get a message across more succinctly or we need to cut it out in editing because that's the type of thing that's going to undermine your authority as a review video if it feels like you're making up stuff in the moment as you were saying it then it kind of feels like you don't know what you're talking about all right in minute 956 we've got a pause while you're finding something down here uh blink subscription plan and then showing obvious information the issue here is not that you don't want to give a summary of of important key information for this you can mention those things but then elaborate add something that they didn't already find when they were researching that product in the first place okay at this point we are almost halfway through the video and i haven't had a call to action in this video i'd love it if you would boop the like button so it can spread to more people and i would also like to see jason doing that all right let's get on to the subject of the preparation of this video now this video is taken thus far very much an approach of i'm gonna sit down and just talk about this product not necessarily that i prepared key things to share about this product and it is very conversational which there are good things to be said about that but let me show you a clip and show you why that would not be a good idea for i paid i i'm trying to think did i i think i got this from best buy and it was like 24 25 keep an eye on all these go on sale so again if it isn't 34 is not that bad so let's just say it's not on sale right now you're gonna get it for 34. here's what it feels like to me it feels like you did not prepare to make this video at all aside from you you have the product that's great you set up the product but as far as what you're actually going to say in this video very little preparation and it's coming across because we didn't do the work in the post editing to eliminate the ums and oz and and in the pre-preparation to make sure that we're sharing those juicy details that they can't get from the product page and elsewhere saying things like uh yeah i think i got it for this price uh but i'm not sure it's undermining you it's undermining your authority that is not a good thing if you're sharing a product review here's the reasons why people want to watch product reviews on youtube one they just love that category of products they're just fascinated by it and they just binge watch a whole bunch of those products even if they're not going to buy it that's the one the two is they're actually having a buyer intent an action intent meaning they want to see a real person reviewing a real product that's not polished put together by the company or an amazon review they want to actually experience that thing from a real person and this video is doing neither of those things if we go to minute 15 to about minute 15 and a half something happens at this point in the video i wanted you guys to see again like i said super cheap really good and let me see if i have any and this is like this right here when it's in black and white so it's completely dark right there what does it feel like right there it feels like jason doesn't have anything else to say in the video we still have a full several minutes in the video but the feeling is uh like i said great comparison uh let me come up with something else to say in this video that's what it feels like that will never work in any video as soon as you get that feeling people are out of there they're gone they they want to know they want to feel the confidence that you prepared and you are not at a loss for words ever let me play you this other part here it picks up the motion it records that but it's i don't know the brains of it somehow it starts before the motion even happens so like it it's always filming maybe always recording but not saving it's like oh here's motion see see that's that's wrong it it can still be included but we need to take a few different directions here neither needs to be played up as the entertainment up i don't know how this thing is this thing is crazy or you need to find an answer to that before you record the video because this is a weird in-between space that's not serving now right here you actually get into some more useful information you're showing some night footage what does it actually look like at night it's black and white because it's got the infrared camera turned on and so this is what actually looks like this is some good information so this is definitely something i would include so at this point we're almost at the end of this 22 minute video and something happens right here super cool devices again you know either pay the 10 a month for multiple cameras or just get one of these and i will do an updated video like i said my subscription goes to what was it like this is all information that was already shared in the video it is repeating the same stuff i am going to continue to roast this until this point gets in for you guys watching this and especially for jason also which by the way jason you're awesome if you're watching this thank you for submitting this but on youtube people value their time especially it's happening all over the world people are valuing their time more and more in repeating yourself there's almost no space for it unless you're adding to what was already said then we get to an interesting final point where it feels like the video should end watch this that subscribe button down there hit that bell notification notified every time i upload new video and i will see you guys next time i'm gonna pause it because the screen hit the subscribe the music was playing the screen faded to black and yet we still have a minute left of the video no end screen is that long what the heck and one thing i forgot to mention is how quickly you set these up take them plug it in i forgot to mention something in my review that's fine what you do is you take that clip and you put it earlier in the video because what happens is it felt like the end of the video why would anybody keep watching when there's a minute left if you look at the audience retention right here it happens boom everybody drops off so the only thing you needed to do in that case is take that clip cut it put it earlier on in the video let me tell you the broad take on this the ultimate roast on this video one the whole video has less than five minutes worth of information i watched through the whole thing several times and if i had pulled up a timer maybe i should have pulled up a timer to the stuff that was actually new information or useful to a buyer intend audience or most of the audience that would watch that type of video five minutes or less man so there's two ways this needed to happen either cut it down like edit the heck out of that thing to only make it five minutes or add more stuff that's actually useful and stop repeating yourself and another thing was very interesting about this that was not immediately obvious and that is i looked at this video and several videos on the channel and in fact if i show you the channel there's a lot of like food reviews a lot of bringing back old videos in a few tech items but the problem i realized this channel is positioned like hey jason's like your everyday friend like hey we're just friends let's hang out i'm gonna review random stuff because i feel like reviewing it but if i look at the footage itself the lighting is actually very professional there's a dissonance so there's two ways we need to go here we either need to go the more casual this is jason just hanging out reviewing and do more entertainment style stuff like guys i'm experiencing these brand new halloween cupcakes that that are at walmart because there are videos similar to that on this channel and just make play up the entertainment side or we need to go the professional side because right now we're at a weird in between spot that's not super helpful from the information side but it's also not super entertaining all right that was crazy i'm gonna get a drink of water because that was really roasty it's really warm in here i've got the lights on and everything anyway thank you guys for watching and nate out

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Id: I1kd3yU4R3o

Length: 15min 44sec (944 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 30 2021