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Top 5 Inside WM: ​Level Up on the Suggest Page! ​- Ep. 22


hey mojo Hollis welcome to inside
watchmojo episode 22 so to King keeping
with our new top five format we have
number five which involves new t-shirts
correct so we’ll be doing new t-shirts I
know we’ve had many the logos the Keep
Calm one that everybody else in the
world uses VI tu as well and then the
top 10 signs are in muldrow holic I
think the next one I’d like to do and
we’re open to any ideas you guys have is
that I like a god module like a god mail
? with like the logo in the back or
second I thought I love this car
actually made in silk screening class in
high school I made a got milk t-shirt
it’s pretty impressive so if you have
any ideas suggestions for cool t-shirt
or cool other merchandize you’d like us
to come up with let us know and if we
pick your idea you’ll get at least a
free t-shirt maybe even more oh alright
number four so if that has to do with
topics and watchmojo news videos and
tweaks to hour format which we had fleet
this format to so so for one you’ve seen
the top five disgusting dinosaur facts
and brutal gunshot facts those are doing
pretty well so we may experiment with
more top five sometimes we feel like you
know it’s good to have shorter clips so
we may do some top fives doesn’t mean we
won’t do many more top tens but also
topics and watch 1 jul news they’re
maturing as shows so one thing we may do
is four topics instead of basing a
countdown on channels listing videos so
top 10 skateboarding videos because
don’t forget oftentimes a channel
successful because it’s got a great
regular frequent publishing schedule but
that means that we kind of overlook a
lot of great single videos and this is
what opportunity to do that and what i
was thinking i don’t even think i’ve ran
this by you but what I was thinking is
Dan could keep hosting the channels and
then you could start hosting the video
specific one so if you guys like that
idea let us know in the comment section
below as well don’t I don’t want to hear
I think I think they want more Rebecca
and that we may also start doing we
don’t know if we’ll do this the watch
won’t own uses interest
if you want to know more about Isis
Keystone pipeline Greek currency
meltdown or whatever will not be
currency Greek economy meltdown when it
but we may also do like lighter you know
we may do lighter news like if it’s all
the sudden illegal to own a cat if you
own a dog already in some state we make
kind of touch base on that we’ll see but
the point is ever the the guys who
escaped from prison and that’s it you
know what is that I mean that’s like 20
miles away from Montreal where we’re
based it’s right next to the Canadian
border i’m i’m reading this going i
think this is payback for justin bieber
i think america even do that that’s true
okay so that’s true that’s true america
made in popular so the point is if you
guys like watch bones on news & topics
and you have ideas for ways to keep
doing those but adding to those
franchises by all means lifestyle
alright so number three which is
probably gonna be the longest for a
portion of the show today has to do with
the suggest page and modifications and
changes that we have made on the
suggester yes so it’s pretty impressive
do you have any guess as to how many
users are actively engaging with the
suggestible ah ok so we have like a
million subs we have eight million subs
on you to use if so i don’t know let’s
say a million i wish we had a million
thank you for making me look bad now no
actually no we don’t have a million we
actually have a hundred sixty-two
thousand users of it that’s so a lot of
people and a hundred thousand are
actually very active meaning that
they’re voting adding entries which is
pretty good so a couple numbers stood
out for me we have over one we have had
218,000 suggestions made for ideas so
again you know what my one of my pet
peeves is when people say you’re running
out of ideas guys there’s almost a
quarter million suggestions for videos
on the suggestion and those have
received 1.1 million votes yes they’re
bad they’re your sis your fault your
fault and yeah you guys sometimes
complain in the comments saying I can’t
believe you guys did this video and you
don’t do this other great idea and I go
okay what is that great idea half the
time guys those are bad and that’s kind
of you know look I’m just a ring leader
at watch muldrow I’m not necessarily the
one that always determines the recipe or
what’s uh what’s for me what’s on
what’s for dinner but look there’s good
ideas bad ideas we try to keep it varied
and then the other thing that’s really
really interesting i find is there’s
been a million list items and those are
received 3.4 million volts so just
staggering and we added comments i think
a year ago we received 64,000 comments
you have any idea what we did before we
had the suggestion tool no there’s that
dart board basically we used to just put
up ideas on the dartboard and I’m just
kidding me we didn’t do that cuz we
couldn’t even afford darkness haha we
would put it on the ground and do spin
the bottle if the hate is not kidding
alright so we’ve made now there is some
news regarding to suggest to why are we
bringing it up um so we made a number of
changes and altercations do you want to
go through a couple that’s stood up for
you sure well uh we can we’ll get to the
Mojo scale in a minute okay that is
probably I I don’t want to be the one to
talk okay but I I like the fact that we
added avatars because as mentioned in a
previous show you asked me what I would
make my avatar and I did in fact make it
Miss Piggy oh yeah you know I my avatar
right now is still my pic so that’s
pretty lame so i will change it to
something and oh my god am I you welcome
to suggest something go on this is your
yeah I’m opening myself a lot of
Encarnacion right there um the one I
like a lot is I actually really like the
my top ten we’ve brought we launched at
some time ago but it’s funny because so
I’m in a perfect segue so there’s
basically this scale and everybody
starts off as a mojo holic then they you
know the more activity that they do more
video ideas suggested more votes more
comments you then become a monomaniac a
mojo major a mojo boss mojo master mojo
guru and then the top dog is the mojo
overlord interestingly we have zero mojo
gurus or mojo overlords but there are
two module masters and those are users I
hope this doesn’t actually pronounced
into something but basically Mac 121 mr.
zero I guess and the other one is Jacob
oh yeah so Jake Ellis will have always
seen very very proficient one of our
first users so you two guys are mojo
masters and there’s only two you’re at
the top of the
I love how the employees yeah that’s but
that’s that’s just goes to show that we
do make we do use it a lot and we do
make suggestions but if we are we’re
basically your employees that’s what
we’re saying right so if you guys are
using it and you’re you’re giving us the
lead and we’re all so busy we’re editing
fact-checking believe it or not okay so
the point is one thing I notice is Jake
Ellis you didn’t put your my top ten so
we’re going to give you guys some free
stuff but you should do that before we
send you some t-shirts and what not will
contact you to get your mailing address
but it’s great yeah lots of other cool
features we’re going to put all of the
new features in a comment below this
video make sure you guys start using it
it’s pretty cool I mean you know I don’t
know who’s a lot more of a kind of a
social network almost you know look I
hate don’t want to say that but yeah I
would call a social network yet I mean
there’s things where you you are
starting to add more of a social
component in the community we’re really
not trying to get you guys to leave
YouTube but I mean you are using the
suggest to a lot so it there are some
more bells and whistles I would say it
is it does introduce the gamification as
much as I hate that word aspect where I
mean eventually these badges and levels
will get you something I don’t know what
will invite you to Montreal we’ll get
drunk together hopefully your ovary to
you all right oh no FB 18 here that’s
one reason why the criminals are coming
here and I’m kidding so one one thing
that I’m working on suggestion wise is
outrageous statements by Business
Leaders there’s been a few and this is
getting uploaded a bit what’s a crazy
thing you’ve heard a business leader
safe well I I’m big Elton John fan so
that dolce and gabbana thing where they
said something about basically the test
tube babies aren’t real lures and it was
not that stark but it was pretty bad and
yeah the I think Dolce & Gabbana called
Elton John’s kids synthetic yeah it was
something like that i know i was just
like you guys are done yeah that’s like
Caitlyn Jenner objecting to Elton John’s
dress at a concert it’s just something
off with that okay sorry my crazy one
the one that’s gotten the most amount of
wolves is the the CEO of Nestle said
that access to water is not like a basic
right and people lost her marbles and
then I remember once I mentioned
something about our
t-shirts and just t-shirts and
merchandise in general being crap and a
mojo holla called me out on that and
said you should look up Gerald Ratner so
he actually said that his jewelry was
crap and it actually led to a massive
loss of revenue or market share there’s
a few CEO philip morris & gummi bears
are addictive like cigarettes um I think
the one that kind of really stands out
is the one by former microsoft CEO steve
ballmer yeah said the iphone won’t get
any significant market share yeah okay
so anyway that’s we’re working on that
if you have some other ones please
please let us know so do I ever say
anything that makes you think I’m like
losing my mind or do anything feel like
this is a trick question question it’s
just bonus since your question yes I
don’t have an expensive we don’t have to
go there okay so look have you ever
cooked another question another
rhetorical question have you ever cooked
for eight people yes okay how hard is
that we have there’s a lot of planning
okay is it is it easy to please eight
people No now imagine trying to please
eight million freaking people that’s
what I’m getting at so look I’ve always
said I’m a sadist I actually like to
inflict pain upon myself I guess but the
point I’m getting at is we talked about
a suggest to land this is like a theme
that comes up because there’s always new
mojo holics watching the show so we come
up with a lot of ideas but really we we
kind of I mean the dart board I think
was a joke the first time that I kind of
got the concept that the suggestion was
I think end of 2012 I don’t think in the
end of 2013 it was like September and it
was we were getting close to November
which is the anniversary of Freddie
Mercury’s at death and somebody in the
comments section said you know what’s
the anniversary of his death soon
because we used to do things based on a
calendar so around Halloween we did you
know top 10 halloween movies or costumes
and so people figure that out that if it
was the anniversary of a birth or death
of someone we would do a list around
that person thing object whatever and
then the people said hey what about top
ten Queens song so I kind of scramble to
like I don’t know what same like to got
my phone wherever and I set the team
saying yeah let’s do this it would be
great and then it kind of like dawned on
me that we should just build
suggestions yeah so the point is um that
was one of your better ideas it was I
don’t saying I have a lot of bad ideas
that was one of the better ones so the
point is we really really want to focus
on you guys telling us what is what are
the things that can make the suggestion
tool better but the only thing we want a
caveat is by saying look it’s impossible
to please everyone and it’s impossible
to do five videos per day that please
everyone so provided we could be all
reasonable and like I don’t only green
light ideas that I like that would be
bastardly but I think if you guys kind
of like play along and give us
suggestions to make the suggestion tool
better to discover and bring to the
surface the best ideas which I know it’s
a subjective concept then we can come up
with the videos that you guys want just
knowing that well we’re not going to be
able to do five videos that you love but
you may like two or three and you’ll
discover a fourth thing and maybe the
fifth one is in your cup of tea but
that’s just so happened so like this
weekend we did characters named John
Jack Jack did you see that I did so okay
the thing I wanna what’s the example
there so we actually did characters
named John as well yeah well don’t know
what that one is like top 10 John’s and
movies and we thought it was topped in
like guys who hired bras no I don’t
think we did was character’s name it was
but I thought that’s what it but so
here’s a crazy part we wouldn’t we come
across that idea which is suggested by
one of you guys we kind of look at it
and sometimes we ourselves go this
doesn’t really make sense for them after
many levels of research we kind of gate
different steps and then we say we’re
going to do it but so we did Jack and
John we kind of hesitated to publish
John even though most of you guys liked
it will do that in like a week or a
couple weeks but the point is you guys
are driving the ship if you like ideas
suggest them but if you see an idea that
you don’t like just bear in mind it was
probably somebody else that one of us to
do that and Toph I know don’t blame us
but no I mean you can’t blame us but
it’s just unfair to only blame us type
of thing generally speaking though the
feedback is overwhelmingly people like
the videos but I think when you just go
through the comments I’m not saying
we’re PewDiePie and we’re going to shut
down the comment section but I think it
does get a bit tiresome one you kind of
want to see people engage and discuss
the topic and all you see is the whole
running out of ID
is because it is noise and in the end
we’re obviously not running out of ideas
we have a quarter million of them on the
suggestion okay last one that was number
two by the way this is number one errors
and videos ok so again just a quick note
on this up look you know what we are not
and we there’s a lot of misconceptions
about watchmojo and this show is about
addressing that and also giving guys a
direct access to tell us if we’re good
or bad or ugly but we don’t pretend to
be experts at everything there’s a lot
of things that we know about but even
within those topics we don’t know
everything about that so that’s why
we’ve developed the system I think what
we’re probably better than most frankly
is to come up with really good videos
that our countdown based that do a very
good job of presenting you the best on a
given topic but errors will happen I
think we’ve we’ve included a lot of
systems and checks in place to prevent
errors from happening but if they happen
I mean honestly it’s not because we’re a
bunch of slackers who don’t work or just
are done it’s just that you know there’s
going to be the odd error when you cover
1500 to 2500 topics across 150 top 10
lists and a given month so if mistakes
happen I think it would be cool just
email us and let us know that way we
learn and we improve and we don’t make
it in the future and we can put an
amendment to an annotation to the video
it’s not a bigger deal than that last
point this is I guess a point zero the
Spanish clips we’ve got a lot of people
interested in reviewing them pretties
what is out and so we will actually got
a couple of the translated versions in
so we’re going to think of a system to
be able to share those with some of the
people that were interested in reviewing
them and hopefully they’re going to
start rolling out sooner than later cool
i wish i had looked up how to say see
you next time in spanish hasta luego dad
dad yose hasta la vista baby
you
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