EXTENDED CUT UPDATE (A-Z & OVERNIGHT) (Patreon)

Hey all! Wanted to give a formal update on the release of A-Z Extended Cuts here on Patreon! They are going to be on about a 48 hour delay to the Youtube videos. Reason being! & I'm going to be completely honest with you on this. Ensuring every upload on the TFIL channel gets maximum views is extremely important to getting this series to keep growing. So if we give early access to videos or drop extended cuts very close to Youtube edit - a lot of Patreon members just watch the extended & then never look at the Youtube cut. It's a weird Catch 22 for us because obviously you're our top supporters and we want to give you everything as early as we can but you're also our top supporters and more than likely watch a mass majority of the video.

So having a viewership drop of even a thousand people in first 24 hours & also the folks that I believe are watching the entire videos, start to finish, would hurt the channel & each video quite a lot.

This isn't speculation - I've actually noticed this with OVERNIGHT whenever we release episodes early on Patreon - a few thousand less people watch the Youtube episode the day it releases and then the Youtube algorithm goes "well, looks like a lot of the subscribers don't want to watch this, so we won't show it to anyone else".

I'm hoping in a few months the A-Z series starts to grow and the views are solid enough in first 24 hours where everything I just wrote won't even matter but since it's a new series - every little decision does make a huge impact.

So with all that being said, extended cuts will probably release 24-48 hours after the Youtube cuts are up. Also extended cuts are only the "vlog style" footage. It doesn't have the historical VO pieces or montages, etc - so the Youtube videos are different, albeit much shorter, than the Patreon edits =)

That's it for my ted talk! Appreciate everyone who supports us here on Patreon & I always want to give you the best I can but I have a team of 14 that rely on me between TFIL & OVERNIGHT so these microdecisions can be very important. Hope you're enjoying the series! TFIL will have a ghost hunt video on Thursday & then OVERNIGHT on Saturday =)