In 2022, I uploaded a total of 50 videos to my YouTube channel, ranging in length from 2 minutes to over 2 hours. I've arranged the list of them below according to how many views that they have received so far (as of December 29, 2022), from highest number of views to lowest.
There's really no formula or reason that I can figure out as to why one video will receive more views than another. I hadn't even bothered noticing my video's viewing numbers until May when I had uploaded "My romance novel collection (Part 41)" and discovered that the video was racking up a larger-than-normal number of views. Evidently the video got shared somewhere which resulted in a lot of people clicking on it, but I don't know where or why.
Some videos that I subsequently uploaded I thought were certain to get larger viewing numbers than they did. For example, I uploaded two videos showing "How to Draw Batman" that I did purely as an attempt to get a large number of viewers that would then perhaps watch other videos on my channel. But the two "How to Draw" videos got low viewing numbers, and so I haven't bothered with doing more of them.
Some of the videos I uploaded this year were done on the spur-of-the-moment, with little thought behind them, such as the video I did of the Southgate Shopping Center sign when I happened to be walking past it this summer. I shared it on a local history Facebook group, and was surprised when the simple video got over 300 views, which is better than average for my channel.
Conversely, some videos I felt ought to have received more views than they did. An example would be the video I uploaded in July of the 1940s issues of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine that I have in my collection. I intended to upload more videos showing the rest of the EQMM issues I have, with a video devoted to each decade, but the low viewing numbers (less than 50 views) for the 1940s video has discouraged me from doing more of them. Why bother?
Two of the videos that I uploaded this year were attempts to re-do past videos that I hadn't done properly before. In 2019, I had uploaded a video about the 1970s Marvel Comics series Weird Wonder Tales, but my phone's video camera cut off after showing only one issue. I left the old video up, but did a new proper one this year showing all the issues that I have of the series. Similarly, in 2012 I had uploaded a video showing my issues of the New York Review of Science Fiction zine, but back then the picture quality was so bad that the text on the printed pages was too blurry to be read on the screen. I re-did the video this year and deleted the old, unwatchable video. (The old video had received only 21 views during the ten years that it was on YouTube anyway; the new version has received 30 views already.)
The biggest project that I did on my YouTube channel this year was a series called "An overview of Steve Ditko's comics career." Originally I intended to do this as one big long video, but it soon became apparent that I would have to split it into smaller parts, with each video taking a look at the comics Ditko drew during a particular time period. I wanted to upload them in chronological order, and so far there are five videos in the series, covering the years from 1953 to 1978. I made these videos in August and at the same time had shot video looking at Ditko comics from 1979 to 1981, as well as his final work from 2008 to 2018. But there are still more comics to be looked at post-1978, so I've held off on uploading any more videos in the series until I'm able to do it right, not wanting to neglect important parts of Ditko's career during those years that are being covered. I also want to be able to speak intelligently about the comics being shown, which means reading or re-reading a lot of them in order to be able to talk engagingly about them. The Ditko-career videos are a huge amount of work, but they do tend to receive a larger-than-normal number of views, which is an incentive for me to continue doing them.
So, with all of that preamble out of the way, here's the list...
My 2022 videos (arranged in order of popularity):
1.) "My romance novel collection (Part 41): vintage Historical & Category Romance book haul" (May 12): 1,253 views
2.) "I bought a box of comic books for 25 bucks! (Part One): DC Comics" (November 30): 638 views
3.) "An unboxing & review of The Beatles GET BACK Blu-ray 3-disc box set 2022" (July 14): 590 views
4.) "I bought a box of comic books for 25 bucks! (Part Two): Marvel Comics" (November 30): 492 views
5.) "My romance novel collection (Part 42): Unboxing vintage Harlequin eBay book haul" (June 6): 489 views
6.) "My romance novel collection (Part 43): More category & historical romance book haul" (June 15): 449 views
7.) "An overview of STEVE DITKO's comics career (Part 2): 1960-1965" (August 7): 392 views
8.) "An overview of STEVE DITKO's comics career (Part 1): The 1950s" (August 4): 363 views
9.) "Riding the bus Downriver (Riverview & Trenton, MI) in 2007 & 2008" (August 22): 343 views
10.) "An overview of STEVE DITKO's comics career (Part 3): 1966-1969" (August 12): 325 views
11.) "Southgate Shopping Center sign (Eureka Road entrance)" (August 2): 325 views
12.) "My romance novel collection (Part 44): vintage 1980s YA teen romance novels" (July 20): 312 views
13.) "An overview of STEVE DITKO's comics career (Part 5): 1970-1978" (August 18): 305 views
14.) "My romance novel collection (Part 45): Huge book haul & How to Remove Stickers from Book Covers" (July 28): 278 views
15.) "A look at DITKOMANIA from the 1980s to now" (December 3): 277 views
16.) "An overview of STEVE DITKO's comics career (Part 4): 1970s CHARLTON ghost comics" (August 14): 271 views
17.) "I got a mail subscription to ARCHIE COMICS!" (July 12): 257 views
18.) "My romance novel collection Part 39: Unboxing old books!" (March 22): 248 views
19.) "New Books, Magazines and DVD movies at department store in Michigan" (May 24): 240 views
20.) "My romance novel collection (Part 49): Huge historical romance library sale book haul" (September 19): 220 views
21.) "I bought a box of comic books for 25 bucks! (Part Three): Other publishers" (December 1): 217 views
22.) "My romance novel collection (Part 48): Unboxing more 1980s SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE books" (September 6): 203 views
23.) "My day of shopping at thrift stores, library used-book sales & a comics shop" (June 2): 188 views
24.) "Unboxing new Harlequin Romance novels -- one June 2022 book out of stock!" (June 8): 182 views
25.) "My romance novel collection (Part 47): Johanna Lindsey, Brenda Joyce & more historicals" (August 31): 181 views
26.) "My romance novel collection (Part 46): Unboxing huge 1980s SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE book haul" (August 27): 176 views
27.) "How to Draw BATMAN (lesson 1)" (June 1): 161 views
28.) "My bookshelves" (March 20): 149 views
29.) "My latest comic book haul from the local comics shop" (October 18): 140 views
30.) "My romance novel collection (Part 40): Daisy Thomson & Len Goldberg" (April 28): 121 views
31.) "My romance novel collection (Part 38): My latest book haul" (March 9): 117 views
32.) "A look at TV GUIDE magazines in the 1980s and 1990s" (December 5): 114 views
33.) "My romance novel collection (Part 37): Latest book haul" (March 1): 114 views
34.) "WEIRD WONDER TALES: An Appreciation (updated video, 2022)" (June 29): 112 views
35.) "How To Draw BATMAN (lesson 2)" (June 13): 108 views
36.) "New books for sale at my local Kroger supermarket" (January 11): 89 views
37.) "Looking thru the dollar boxes at a local comics shop" (February 10): 84 views
38.) "My ROMANTIC TIMES collection (Part Two): Affaire de Coeur, etc." (May 16): 75 views
39.) "New magazine special about SPIDER-MAN" (October 3): 72 views
40.) "My ROMANTIC TIMES collection (Part Four): 1999-2004" (May 16): 69 views
41.) "My ROMANTIC TIMES collection (Part Three): 1995-1998" (May 16): 65 views
42.) "My ROMANTIC TIMES collection (Part Five): 2004-2016" (May 16): 61 views
43.) "New issues of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE (# 576 & 577) + a look inside Barnes & Noble bookstore" (July 28): 49 views
44.) "Harlequin Books is shutting down their Rewards program!" (October 28): 47 views
45.) "My latest comics haul from the dollar bins" (March 1): 45 views
46.) "My 1940s issues of ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE" (July 11): 44 views
47.) "Vintage hardcover O. Henry books found at a local thrift store" (August 2): 37 views
48.) "Looking at "The New York Review of Science Fiction" (NYRSF) back issues (1989-1997)" (July 5): 32 views
49.) "A few more comics I bought for a dollar today" (March 3): 24 views
50.) "A look at recent issues of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE" (February 22): 24 views
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