B-32 video vs. B-26 video

Strictly because so little is known about the B32. Many people have never heard of the B32, and want to know. BTW, while you’re here, please continue your muscle car videos, especially for 1968, 1969 and 1970. Love them!

"this video isn't avaliable anymore" Perhaps something to do with this?

I have a hypothesis: Speaking as a heavy, heavy consumer of youtube content - I'm a disabled person who has a lot of time and space to fill - I really suspect the prominent "Unsafe at any speed?" of the preview youtube shows users for the B-26 video might be pushingyour more usual viewers away. It subconsciously evokes the type of bad titling, bad hyping, bad invective the bad YouTubers use to drive up clicks and views from the ill informed to come be ill informed by the ill informed looking to fleece their viewers. Conversely a title of The Other Super Heavy Bomber on the other video is home run ball titling by someone who is offering genuine knowledge in a useful invective. Can;t say if it's spot on analysis, I have an anecdotal dataset of one - me, to work off of.

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First of all, congrats on all your productions. Your efforts to provide accurate information l think is your greatest strength. Well done in delivering a magnificent body of work! To answer your question. I think it’s because you’ve shone a bright light on a aircraft that has, to my memory, evaded previous exposition. Thank you and keep up the great work

Perhaps B-32 sounds interesting simply because it has a higher number than B-26, B-17 or B-29 and people into American military planes thus assume it was developed after the more familiar planes and is therefore more advanced.

No idea - I watched both. I did find the discussion of aircraft electrical systems very interesting in the Dominator video, how very

I’d say it’s the novelty. I’d never heard of the B-32 Dominator prior to this video. The automated retractable turrets are also captivating.

I am very excited for you to create the video that you teased about: addressing the myths about what bombers could actually do in regards to range, payload, and defensive firepower. Keep up the great work! All of your videos are amazing, and I cannot imagine how many hours go into researching and producing each one of them.

There's already many videos on the B-26, even full documentaries, which isn't the case for the B-32, and I also think the thumbnail doesn't really grab people's attention, a somewhat weird angle of the aircraft, soft colors, and very small unreadable writing, whereas the Dominator thumbnail is more eye-catching, bright blue, with an appealing angle of the aircraft, showing off the giant rudder, and reminding one of the B-29, but different, Something that might also have an effect is that the B-26 is available in War Thunder, which I personally play occasionally and from what I've seen allot of players watch your videos, so some of the mystery and intrigue of the Marauder is gone. The Dominator is not available in War Thunder yet, but I've seen quite a few people who look forward to its addition, and this, at least for me, makes me more exited to learn about it, since I can't play it yet, the best I can do is learn about it. Either way they're both excellent videos, the quality has nothing to do with it.

I really appreciate the B-26 video, but it simply came out right when the weather got nice here and so it took me a month to sit down & get back to it. So honestly blame it on weather?

Personally speaking YouTube seemed to do a better job of recommending the B-32 video to me, I would suspect that Dominator and WW2 in the title, thumbnail and the lesser known aircraft probably drew new viewers in. I have no doubt they stuck around for what was a fascinating chat on aircraft systems, a lesser covered topic in general. Both videos were excellent in my opinion, I think the oddities of the YT algorithm have more to do with views than the content of either.

I guess B-32 is a much less known aircraft so it might draw more attention. But both videos are excellent in my opinion.

I honestly have no idea, but then again I've seen all your videos many times over and enjoy them every time, the information is unique for the most part, the technical analysis is great, and I like the longer videos, perhaps it's because the B 32 is more obscure? Therefore more interesting to some?

I think curiosity was the reason for the B32 to get more views. Many have not heard of it. I knew about it, but not much. BTW, when are you going to finish the Muscle car videos. Love them, and would love to see 1968, 69 and 70. Love your videos. Top notch content and quality.

Greg, Two things come to mind. The first is title and thumbnail picture selection. The second is the organization of topics discussed. I think Benjamin here had a good point regarding title selection. The title "Unsafe at any speed?" means something to us because you often provide forewarning about upcoming videos and also some context about them prior to publishing them. Thus, we have an idea what the topic is about. To the average YouTuber, that title just may not get them motivated to click on it. I tend to think something like "B-26 Marauder: Widowmaker or War Winner? An indepth analysis"....but that's just me. That's probably too dry for most. I don't recall what the thumbnail photo was for the B-26 video, but often a really good photo can entice folks to click on a video. Perhaps with the aforementioned title that I suggested a thumbnail might have a photo of a crashed B-26 on one side, depicting the "Widowmaker" reputation and on the other side a photo of a crew standing proudly in front of their B-26 adorned with many mission markings and cool nose art, thus depicting a war winner. Anyway, as to the number of minutes actually viewed. All I can say is you might want to see if you are presenting things in manner that gets people hooked early. You often discuss many topics thru the course of a video. Perhaps leading in with a quick summary of what will be discussed and what questions will be answered will entice people to stick around longer. I find it all interesting so I'm probably not the guy to get an opinion on that. As to the length of the videos. Well, frankly, I don't like catering to people with short attention spans. Ha! I love the long format videos. Besides, as Don Williams said, you're "living on Tulsa time".

I watched both end to end but The B32 was always an “end Note” in my reading off paper days so this much detail on an “unknown “ plane was more interesting aka All New were as the B26 was “Mainstream “

My first thought was "someone linked to it", but googling the tags (zGYsy2s1iYQ [B-32] vs syL8xXEQTW4 [B-26]) I find only one person linking to the Marauder and non linking to the Dominator. What do your analytics say? Certainly neither is a particularly "popular" a/c but certainly the B-26 is vastly better known. Unless your analytics show people coming over from transient links on the YT home page or the like, I'd assume it's just a demand thing from among your existing subscribers. No airplane buff can resist hearing about a superheavy aircraft that actually entered production, saw combat, and had almost nothing said about it. The B-26 is a cool airplane with a great war record, but it isn't quite as startling as being told "oh, there was another plane comparable to the B-29 that you never hear about".

What tends to work with these kinds of topics is either short form videos about well known topics (i.e. a 5-10 minute video on the P-51) or, as others have brought up, long form videos about truly niche topics that basically nobody has covered in depth before. The B-26 isn't well known enough to do a short form video and isn't obscure enough to do a long form video on.

I really liked the B-26 video. First I was a bit disappointed your next video wasn’t a continuation in that series. I think both videos are of the same, great quality that is so special for you. Maybe many, like me, was fascinated that there were a very heavy US bomber in WWII that they never heard about before.

I watched both but I had already done some reading on both planes so I was interested in what your in depth research would find. I think also many people already had a negative impression of the B-26 so they might have not been as interested in it.

My hypothesis is that the B-26 video got less views in part because of the negative title: "unsafe at any speed?" It might grab more attention if something like "the BEST medium bomber of WWII?" I'm no expert on the YouTube algorithm, but my observation of the titles of videos that do well is that they tend to emphasize superlatives.

My guess is the B-32 is not known in your (uTube) circles so more people tuning in?

Watched the B26 video end to end. No idea what the issue is?

Without knowing any better, it might just be an algorithm anomaly. Every day I suspect more people find out about you. I thought the B26 video was actually more interesting but they were both good. It was not a huge surprise to know there was essentially a B52 hedge program going on at the same time. All good stuff.

The B-32 is a very unique airplane with I dare say, some mystery around it since there's so little information about it available. I must say Greg that once again you've hit it out of the park with this one. I've learned more about the Dominator from your video than I learned from decades of trying to learn about it! Thank you for all you do!

I like the B-26 more!

I was very interested in the B-32 because I had never seen much info about it. I actually knew almost nothing about it. As compared to the B-26. Of course I watched both!

Let me hasten to add that I found the B-32 video very interesting and that I prefer the longer videos, but I’m a long way from a typical YouTube viewer.

That makes no sense to me at all. I know by now that I’ll learn a great deal from one of your videos, but had I received a recommendation for an hour long video on the B-32 out of the blue, I wouldn’t have been likely to give it a try.

I am more interested in the B-26 personally, but I have been in absolute awe of every video you've made and watched them all.

I definitely agree with the others. Compared to the Marauder the B-32 is def more obscure when it comes to more common knowledge even among aviation enthusiasts. Most have heard of it but that’s about it and with the depth and knowledge you present with all of your projects they would be hard pressed to jump at the opportunity to learn more about it for sure.

What others have said but also, I just haven't had the time, as much as I'd love to watch hours of plane nerdery

I Would go with what Eugene said.

The YouTube algorithm is a fickle thing.

Jumping on the relatively unknown plane bandwagon. I enjoyed both, just as I do all your videos but I know I scratched my head when you posted the b32 teaser and couldn’t wait to find out more.

My guess is also that the B-32 is relatively unknown. I hadn’t really heard of it myself.

I watched the B-26 video twice and thought it was one of your best videos. The explanation about takeoff dynamics, critical engine, accident rate were some of your best.

I agree with the other comments. I think it is just because a lot of people don't know about the B-32 and are interested in learning more. Also, I think people are curious because it is a heavy bomber which, I am guessing, people are surprised that they have never heard about. ......but if I was a multi millionaire, I would much rather have a B-26 to putter around in. ;-)

Not as many people have heard of this airplane. That is probably the main reason

Maybe because the B-32 is so much less known? Everyone knows the B-29, but how many regular people (ie, non-buffs) knew the US had a *second* very heavy bomber in WW2? And then you covered it in your usual thorough fashion.

Both videos were really good. However like others I knew very little about the B-32 so I was keen to watch it all in one go.

Greg, it comes down to the algorithm, click through rate, and thumbnail. I thought both videos were equal in quality.

I suspect it's because the B-32 is a fairly obscure aircraft many people are unaware of and that draws more interest.

I had never heard of the B-32.... I had to look it up when I saw the title of the video. So... for me, it is interesting to find out about things that I didn't know anything about. Not that I knew much about the B-26 either, but I at least knew a bit about that plane compared to nothing on the 32. I am still in the middle of the B-32 video, so not even finished at this point either (I keep getting pulled onto other things). Very interesting so far - Thanks....