YouTube analytics page showing my 2024 stats for TRIZE and It’s TRIZE Here!
As we enter the new year of 2025, I want to publicly reflect on how my YouTube channel performed in 2024. Overall, things had gotten WAY better compared to last year on my main channel. Viewership, subscriptions, and ad revenue have reached all-time highs throughout the year. I’ve also created a new IRL/Automotive Vlogging channel, which is still in the works. In this article, I will go over both of my channel’s analytics, as well as any future plans to further grow my brand!
Highlighting last year’s statistics on the TRIZE channel. I averaged around 3,500–5,000 views a day when I didn’t post a video or had an underwhelming video. There were some spikes in viewership with my Automation & BeamNG builds, Mon Bazou, and the Most Powerful Engine Series in Automation. One of my most popular videos that exploded last year was when ChatGPT helped me design a turbocharged car. The video stands at over 255K views and is the 3rd most viewed video of all time. It all started when I posted my first chatbot AI design video on April 22nd, 2023, where I put ChatGPT and Automation’s AI head-to-head to see which AI car was better. I followed along with the Google Bard (now Gemini), Bing Chat (now Microsoft CoPilot), and X’s GrokAI.
Another new series of videos that helped was the BeamNG Career videos. I started my first video in this series on February 24th, 2024 when it was a “hidden feature” in the 0.26 update back in late 2022. I started with the vanilla version of BeamNG’s Career Mode progressing through the game. In my 3rd video of the series, I tried out an exploit in the game to earn money by running a “chop shop.” That video is the 2nd most popular video of all time with over 260K views. A couple of videos later, I tried out a mod that expanded the game’s career mode drastically called the RLS Career Overhaul Mod. This mod adds freeroam police cars, more AI races, solo drag runs, hotlapping, and allows you to become a cop or a repoman. After installing this mod, I’ve never looked back on the vanilla career mode version of the game as this mod added more versatility and opportunities to progress in the game!
On the 2nd channel, It’s TRIZE Here!, The only 4 videos published in 2024 were; the Nürburgring vlog, the speed limit experiment video, a YT Shorts video highlighting using turn signals in roundabouts, and the drastic changes to Maumee, Ohio’s streets, which won the 2024 Strong Town Award. The most popular video is the Nürburgring vlog at 39K views. In that video, I rented a VW Golf GTI from Ringfreaks and drove it for 5 laps around the Nürburgring Nordschleife during the Touristenfahrten (Tourist Drive) event. It was my first time driving around an actual race track after driving it in racing simulators for years. The other 3 videos had modest views and engagement, except for the Maumee, Ohio documentary-esque video. It has received about 1,000 views within 2 months from its publish date. Despite having a few videos on the new channel, I managed to get over 90 subscribers. It would be a lot more if I managed to balance out both channels and my life.
By the time I was hired to a full-time job, things had slowed down considerably. I was publishing videos less often, roughly once a week, maybe every other week. This put a ding to my viewership as YouTube’s algorithm recommended fewer of my videos due to the lack of activity. This was noticeable throughout the second half of 2024 when I was hired at my new job. It also gave me an excuse to further research and improve my content as I’m currently employed. With the drop in activity, viewership remained consistent, even when I wasn’t uploading for a long period of time. This is probably due to some of my more popular videos of 2024 and before maintaining my channel’s views and subscribers. If I didn’t have an actual job, I would’ve been more active than I was when I was in college. Back then, I published videos about 2 times a week. Now, I upload about once a week because of having a job.
About my 2nd channel, I haven’t posted a lot of content on there. The reason why there has been a lack of video on the new channel is due to a lack of executing my plans. That’s because I’m a fresh college graduate looking for my own place to live and easily thrive on the new channel. Another factor is because I work throughout the week as I’ve explained. Next week, I’ll be attending the NAIAS Detroit Auto Show for the 3rd time. I plan to record my entire experience being at the auto show at the Huntington Place in Detroit, MI. However, it will be condensed down, rather than publishing a raw 6-8 hour video being up there. This will be my 5th video on the new channel. I also plan on creating a handful of YT Shorts regarding driving behavior and best practices. I don’t want to turn this channel into a gimmicky, Shorts only channel. Where everyone will expect short-form content, instead of my long-form content.
So this concludes this blog post about the previous year of my YouTube channel and my future endeavors. I would like to thank everyone who has been supporting me throughout the past 4 years! Whether you’ve been around since the MrJacon000 days or the current TRIZE Media family. I’ve got another 365 days of the year to make further improvements on the channel. No matter the size of my impact, I will continue to create and pursue my passion for being an automotive/racing sim YouTuber.
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