Up until now, we've run a campaign per episode, with all videos (long-form and short-form) under one campaign. That established a baseline of viewers and subscribers we can now retarget. Moving forward, we're running three perpetual campaigns, Shorts, bite-size, and long-form, with the videos under each updated weekly based on performance and as new episodes launch.
The campaigns run at $14/day in total ($5 Shorts, $4 bite-size, $5 long-form), reviewed at the start of each week before our team call. As views grow, the audience compounds month over month and the algorithm gathers more data to optimise delivery, so the cost per subscriber should keep falling over time.
| Campaign | Type | Status | Impressions | Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Automation Journey | 01 | Awareness | Shorts | Video | Live | 87,636 | 4,592 |
| The Automation Journey | 03 | Conversion | Long-form | Demand Gen | Live | 80,081 | 2,714 |
| The Automation Journey | 02 | Consideration | Bite-size | Video | Live | 47,277 | 15,097 |
| The Automation Journey | 04 | Views | Ep4 Long-form | Video | Paused | 22,929 | 4,032 |
| The Automation Journey | 04 | Views | Ep 5 Long-form | Video | Live | 16,615 | 2,676 |
| Campaign | Spend to date | Views | View rate | CPV | Subscriptions | Last 7 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Automation Journey | 01 | Awareness | Shorts | $231.44 | 4,592 | 5.2% | $0.050 | 0 | $35.20 |
| The Automation Journey | 03 | Conversion | Long-form | $231.38 | 2,714 | 3.4% | $0.085 | 626 | $35.01 |
| The Automation Journey | 02 | Consideration | Bite-size | $185.26 | 15,097 | 31.9% | $0.012 | 2 | $28.18 |
| The Automation Journey | 04 | Views | Ep4 Long-form | $41.91 | 4,032 | 17.6% | $0.010 | 1 | $5.76 |
| The Automation Journey | 04 | Views | Ep 5 Long-form | $31.39 | 2,676 | 16.1% | $0.012 | 1 | $31.39 |
| Total | $721.38 | 29,111 | 11.4% | $0.025 | 630 | $135.55 |
Of 41,986 Shorts views, only 149 reached the full episode (0.4%). The cold-reach layer is doing its job; the click-through to the full episode is where this episode is leaking.
| Video | Stage | YouTube views |
|---|---|---|
| The Automation Standards Breakdown You'll Wish You'd Seen Sooner | Long-form | 149 |
| Why Most Automation Risk Assessments Fall Short - and How to Fix Yours | Bite-size | 581 |
| The Automation Standards Landscape Decoded - What Every Buyer Needs to Know | Bite-size | 724 |
| How to Get Ahead of Automation Standards Before They're Published | Short | 8,079 |
| Where People Beat Machines - and Where They Don't | Short | 8,920 |
| The AMR Market Has Grown 10x - But Is It Inevitable? | Short | 8,509 |
| Beyond the Standard - What a Well-Run Automated Facility Actually Requires | Short | 8,089 |
| Compliance Alone Isn't Enough - Here's Why | Short | 8,389 |
Bite-size is the breakout performer. The "02 | Consideration | Bite-size" campaign is running way ahead of the account benchmarks (blended CPV $0.0248, blended view rate 11.4%): lifetime view rate of 31.9% at a CPV of just $0.0123, roughly half the account's average cost and nearly 3x the average view rate. It actually accelerated last week (view rate 41.5%, CPV $0.0112 on $28.18 spend), suggesting the creative is still finding fresh, receptive audience rather than fatiguing.
The two "Views" long-form campaigns are healthy too. Ep4 Long-form (46 days... actually 14 days live) posted a lifetime view rate of 17.6% at $0.0104 CPV, the cheapest CPV in the whole account, and was trending even better in its final week (19.8% view rate, $0.0093 CPV) before being paused. Ep5 Long-form, only 6 days old, is already tracking almost identically (16.1% view rate, $0.0117 CPV), a strong early signal that this format/approach travels well across episodes.
Conversion campaign looks weak on view metrics but is actually doing its job. "03 | Conversion | Long-form" has the lowest view rate in the account (3.4% lifetime, 4.6% last week) and the highest CPV ($0.085 lifetime, $0.076 last week), on the surface this looks like the worst performer. But it's the only campaign generating meaningful conversions: 626 lifetime (98 in the last 7 days). Cost per conversion is roughly $0.37, both lifetime and last week, which is efficient. View rate is the wrong lens for this campaign, it's built to convert, not rack up cheap views, and by that measure it's performing consistently.
Awareness Shorts is the clear laggard. Lifetime view rate is just 5.2%, less than half the account average, at a CPV of $0.050, roughly 2x the account blend. It's also moving in the wrong direction: last week's view rate dropped to 4.2% and CPV rose to $0.073, nearly 3x the blended average, on $35.20 of spend for only 482 views. This is the one campaign spending real money without earning proportionate views.
Odd flag: Ep4 was paused despite being one of the two best-performing campaigns in the account on both CPV and view rate. Worth confirming whether that was intentional (e.g., swapped for Ep5) or accidental, since the underlying creative/format was clearly working.
Yes, Episode 4 is promoted across all three funnel stages: the full episode runs in the Long-form campaign, its five Shorts in the Shorts campaign, and two bite-size clips in the Bite-size campaign. The episode is being actively pushed, not sitting unsupported.
Top of funnel, yes, the Shorts have pulled ~42,000 YouTube views in roughly three weeks, among our strongest cold-reach to date. The full episode (149 views) is tracking below where we'd want at this stage, which is the click-through issue covered above. A precise day-14 benchmark against earlier episodes needs a per-video over-time pull, which we're getting.
Spend per episode isn't directly comparable anymore: we moved from one-campaign-per-episode to three perpetual funnel campaigns, so budget now sits at the funnel level ($14/day total: $5 Shorts, $4 bite-size, $5 long-form), not the episode level. The daily budgets haven't been cut; we're pulling a weekly-segmented history to confirm the trend.
Likely yes. All three campaigns are flagged "limited by budget" (a combined $14/day across the three), and the library is now 45+ videos and growing weekly, so $14/day total competes across the whole back catalogue, diluting impact on the newest episode. Concentrating budget on the current episode is the fix.
Yes, all three are live and doing their funnel jobs: Shorts driving strong reach (42k+ YouTube views on Ep 4), Bite-size the most efficient paid view-driver (25.7% view rate, ~$0.011/view), and the Conversion campaign generating subscriptions at $0.39 each. That said, we are making targeted changes to lift the long-form episode's views and put the Shorts reach to work: concentrating budget on the newest episode, adding a dedicated views-optimised campaign, and adding Shorts-to-episode CTAs. The structure is working; these tweaks sharpen the bottom of the funnel.
The gap is clear: of ~42,000 Short views, only 149 reached the full episode (0.35%). The exact click-through rate needs the YouTube Reach export, which we're pulling. To improve it: end screens and a pinned comment linking the episode on every Short, a "watch the full episode" on-screen and verbal CTA, the episode link in each description, and a Shorts→episode playlist so the platform chains them.
Yes on both. Because the campaigns are capped ("limited by budget"), extra spend converts straight into reach. We'd recommend increasing the daily budget and weighting Episode 4's videos higher in the weekly rotation, rather than spreading evenly across older content, the newest episode is where added budget compounds most.
We'd suggest 2-3 posts a week from Brian and key sales team members, reshared by the Rocrich company page, with at least one tied to the week's episode. Consistency compounds organic reach and feeds the warm audience our paid funnel retargets.
We monitor these figures every week ahead of the team call and proactively flag anything that needs attention. Rocrich doesn't need to surface concerns, we'll bring them to you, with recommendations.