YouTube growth
YouTube SEO services
Most agencies selling YouTube SEO services have never had to grow a channel of their own. We grew ours to 371,000 subscribers and 192 million views across more than 2,000 published videos, and the method we sell is the one we used. If you are shopping for a YouTube SEO agency or an independent YouTube SEO expert, the first thing to ask any of us for is proof of our own ranking results — ours is a public channel you can open right now. Channel audit, keyword map, packaging, and edits cut for the retention graph.
371K
Subscribers
192M+
Views across our channels
2019
Overwatch League partner since
Vancouver
Studio, BC
Channel figures per YouTube, August 2026.
What YouTube SEO services include
Audit
Channel audit & keyword map
Every published video scored on search demand, click-through rate and audience retention. You get a ranked list of what to fix, what to re-package, and the search terms your next twelve videos should target.
Package
Titles, thumbnails & packaging
The two things that decide whether a ranked video actually gets watched. We write and design both, test them against each other, and keep the winners.
Retain
Retention editing
Search visibility follows watch time. We cut for the retention graph: the first thirty seconds, the mid-video drop, and the pacing that earns the next minute.
Report
Reporting that names the next move
Monthly, in plain language: what ranked, what did not, and the specific change we are making because of it. No dashboard you have to interpret yourself.
How a YouTube SEO engagement runs
The same four stages whether you are optimising an existing library or starting a channel from nothing.
01
Audit & keyword research
We score every published video on search demand, click-through rate and audience retention, then build the keyword map: the terms worth ranking for and the ones already conceded to bigger channels.
02
Re-package the back catalogue
The fastest wins are videos already indexed. New titles, new thumbnails, rewritten descriptions and chapters on the videos with demand but weak packaging.
03
Build the forward slate
Every new video gets its search term decided before it is filmed, not after. This is the part an SEO agency cannot do and a production company usually skips.
04
Measure and adjust monthly
Impressions, click-through rate, average view duration and where each video sits for its target term — with the specific change we are making because of it.
How YouTube search actually works
There are two ranking surfaces, not one. Search matches a query to a video's title, description and transcript. Suggested serves your video to someone who just watched something adjacent. The first is what you optimize deliberately; the second is what pays you back for months afterwards. A YouTube SEO agency that only talks about tags is working on the smallest lever on the board.
Video thumbnails and video titles are one unit
A ranked video with a weak thumbnail loses to a lower-ranked one with a strong thumbnail, and YouTube then demotes the loser for its poor click-through rate. Title and thumbnail should never repeat each other: one sets the question, the other sets the stakes. We design them together and test them against each other.
Video length is an output, not a target
There is no correct runtime. There is only the length the subject earns. A padded twelve-minute video loses to a tight six, because average view duration rather than raw length is what carries the ranking. We cut to the story and let the number fall where it falls.
Why us and not a search agency
An SEO agency optimizes metadata. A production company shoots video and leaves. Growing a channel needs both at once, because the keyword decision has to change what gets filmed and the edit has to serve the retention graph. We do the strategy and the production in the same room, which is why the two do not fight each other.
Brands we have produced for
Official league content, branded series, and event coverage for some of the biggest names in gaming and beyond.
A Vancouver team behind the channel work
YouTube SEO is remote work, so we do it for clients anywhere — but the production behind it runs out of Vancouver, which is what lets us shoot and optimise in one engagement. Meet the Vancouver video production team.
YouTube SEO questions
What do YouTube SEO services cost?
It depends on whether you need the library re-packaged once or a channel run continuously, and on how much of the production we handle. Tell us the channel and the goal and we will price the scope before anything starts, with a fixed monthly figure rather than an hourly rate.
Can you prove your own YouTube results?
Yes, and you should insist on this from anyone selling YouTube SEO. Our channels hold 371,000 subscribers and 192 million lifetime views across more than 2,000 published videos, all of it public and checkable. Most agencies in this category can only show you client screenshots.
Can I hire someone to manage my YouTube channel?
Yes, and it is the more common engagement. Channel management covers everything on this page plus the content calendar, uploads, packaging and community moderation. YouTube SEO on its own suits teams who already produce video and only need it found.
How long before we see results from YouTube SEO?
Re-packaging an existing library can move impressions within weeks, because the videos are already indexed. New videos ranking for competitive search terms is a three to six month arc. Anyone promising faster is selling you something else.
What is included in a YouTube SEO audit?
Every published video scored on search demand, click-through rate and audience retention; a keyword map of the terms worth targeting; a ranked list of which existing videos to re-package first; and the packaging problems costing you the most impressions.
Do you work with channels outside gaming?
Yes. Our own channels are gaming, which is where the 192 million views came from, but the method is about search demand, packaging and retention rather than subject matter. We apply the same process to corporate, B2B and founder-led channels.
Do you need to make the videos, or can you work with ours?
Either. We can optimize a library you already have, or produce and optimize together. The second is stronger, because the keyword research changes what we film rather than being applied afterwards.
Is YouTube SEO still worth it now that AI answers everything?
More so. AI answers compress text search, but they do not replace watching someone explain or demonstrate a thing. YouTube is still the second largest search engine and the videos ranked there increasingly feed the AI answers themselves.